NBA Stats Leaders: Top 10 Rebounding Leaders in NBA history

#3 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul Jabbar is NBA's all-time leading scorer with 38,387 points

Kareem stood at 7 feet 2 inches tall and redefined the game of basketball for big men. Lew Alcindor(until 1971) helped lead UCLA to three NCAA Championships(1967, 1968, 1969) and was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks for the 1969-70 season. He won the 'Rookie of the Year' and the very next year, led the Bucks to an NBA Championship, also leading the league in scoring & points per game, as he did so.

Kareem has collected 17,440 career boards(3rd highest all-time in the league) out of which 9,394 rebounds (9th highest all-time in the league) were on the defensive end.

Along with 6 Championship rings on his fingers(1 with Milwaukee & 5 with the Lakers), he ended his career as a 19-time NBA All-star, having his #33 jersey retired by both the Milwaukee Bucks & the Los Angele Lakers franchise. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retired at the end of the 1988–89 season, having been voted NBA's Most Valuable Player a record six times.