He faked to his right, toward the lane, and Eaton leaned just enough to take himself out of the play. The veteran fed off the rookie’s energy, and the result was a championship in 1980, the first of five the pair would share in the 1980s.Ībdul-Jabbar caught the entry pass with Utah’s 7-foot-4 Mark Eaton behind him. That was appropriate, since Johnson’s arrival in Los Angeles in 1979 provided a boost to Abdul-Jabbar’s career. Magic Johnson set up the basket, feeding the ball to Abdul-Jabbar in the low post. The setting for one of the NBA’s historic moments was unusual, indeed: the Thomas and Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, where the Utah Jazz played a few of their “home” games during the 1980s in an effort to attract new fans.īut if the setting was strange, the shot that made Kareem Abdul-Jabbar the NBA’s career scoring leader on April 5, 1984, was familiar indeed: a graceful, high-arching sky hook from the baseline, the shot that had become his trademark over a long and successful career. NBA.com takes a look back at the top moments that define the history of the NBA. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar becomes the NBA's career scoring leader in 1984.
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