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Top-Scoring White NBA Players

Can you name the highest-scoring white players in NBA history?
This is a cultural distinction. Biologically, there is no clear dividing line between races.
Through 2023–2024, active players in gold
Brook Lopez is not included because I'm not sure
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Last updated: April 15, 2024
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First submittedJune 19, 2012
Times taken58,164
Average score42.9%
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Points
Player
31,560
Dirk Nowitzki
26,395
John Havlicek
25,192
Jerry West
21,791
Larry Bird
20,894
Pau Gasol
20,880
Bob Pettit
20,049
Tom Chambers
19,711
John Stockton
19,181
Gail Goodrich
18,438
Dolph Schayes
18,395
Rick Barry
17,911
Chris Mullin
Points
Player
17,770
Bailey Howell
17,387
Steve Nash
17,335
Kevin McHale
17,287
Jack Sikma
16,960
Bob Cousy
16,266
Paul Arizin
15,980
Kiki Vandeweghe
15,948
Pete Maravich
15,840
Jack Twyman
15,761
Detlef Schrempf
15,659
Jeff Hornacek
15,370
Nikola Vučević
Points
Player
15,299
Kevin Love
15,079
Dick Van Arsdale
14,676
Richie Guerin
14,659
Dan Issel
14,232
Tom Van Arsdale
14,139
Nikola Jokić
14,053
Dave DeBusschere
14,053
Jerry Lucas
14,043
Manu Ginóbili
13,910
Alvan Adams
13,790
Bill Laimbeer
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Level 62
Nov 9, 2012
Really surprised "Thunder" Dan Majerle didn't make this list. Kurt Rambis either
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Level 53
Jan 18, 2013
He was the 2nd name I tried after Bird....
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Level 75
Sep 1, 2018
Kurt Rambis? On a quiz about glasses, yes. About scoring, no.
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Level 67
Apr 12, 2019
Pretty much every white guy who lasted more than five seasons is on here. The only ones I tried that didn't work were Majerle and Kukoc.
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Level 46
Aug 6, 2019
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Level 82
Mar 13, 2013
don't know much about sports, but I got Bill Laimbeer even when most missed him because he had his own video game way way back...
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Level 20
Apr 12, 2013
This was a lot harder than I thought it'd be.
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Level 54
Aug 5, 2013
This was crazy hard... I only managed 8.
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Level 66
Jun 9, 2014
Yeah, Jason Kidd is paler than I am, but he is half-black if I remember correctly
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Level 51
Jun 16, 2014
Been waiting too long for this one.
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Level 29
Nov 5, 2014
im actually proud that i sucked at this. and most of you. it shows that we see beyond skin color.
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Level 24
Nov 5, 2014
I like this
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Level 89
Dec 4, 2018
It shows you haven't ardently watched basketball actually.
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Level 84
Nov 5, 2014
Thought for sure that Bill Walton and Bill Bradley would be on here, but a quick look at basketball-reference proves me wrong. Both in the Hall of Fame, but only 6200 and 9200 points, respectively.
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Level 66
Nov 7, 2018
Great players/short careers
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Level 71
Apr 12, 2019
Walton played for 13 years but suffered a lot of injuries and had foot problems his entire career
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Level 79
Nov 5, 2014
That was harder than I thought it would be. Only got 11 but after reading the list I realize I probably wouldn't have gotten much more than 18.
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Level 66
Nov 5, 2014
I guessed only 2, but how could I miss Nash?
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Level 41
Nov 8, 2014
I was absolutely shocked that Toni Kukoc didnt make this list. I also didnt see Tim Duncan on it. Weird.
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Level 82
Nov 8, 2014
I think Kukoc was more about assists? At least when he was playing with Jordan, Rodman, and Pippen.
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Level 20
Apr 4, 2015
I believe Duncan is more of a light colored (black) person, not white.
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Level 20
Apr 4, 2015
Tim Duncan is not black nor white, his mom is white, his dad is black. So he's biracial.
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Level 82
Jul 12, 2015
Technically nobody is either White or Black. These distinctions are made-up fantasy with no basis in reality.
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Level ∞
Apr 14, 2016
Thus the disclaimer
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Level 46
May 21, 2015
Also surprised about Walton, Ainge, Majerle. I guess Kurt Rambis was more of a rebounder. I also tried Blake Griffin but it turns out that he is biracial.
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Level 84
Mar 20, 2017
Griffin is short of 10,000 points even, so wouldn't be on here anyway.
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Level 65
Jan 27, 2016
Well I got Dave DeBusschere and missed John Stockton...
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Level 90
May 30, 2016
It would be nice if Rudy T was accepted
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Level 66
Dec 19, 2019
I'm fairly sure I messed up a vowel or two and it took it. I'm wanting to say something clever about my username, but I'm not really sure how to pluralize Rudy, so I'm giving up...
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Level 73
Apr 10, 2017
I really should have gotten more on this quiz. Missed Schayes, Barry, Chambers, the Van Arsdale brothers...didn't really DeBusschere scored so many points though.
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Level 65
Nov 8, 2017
Biologically, race does exist.
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Level 62
Dec 29, 2017
Agreed, that note makes no sense. There are very significant genetic differences between races. Companies like 23andMe, AncestryDNA, etc have made billions of dollars off of discerning the differences in genetic loci between populations. If one wishes, he/she can still take the stance that all races are equal, while also acknowledging the empirical fact that genetic differences do indeed exist.
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Level 82
Mar 3, 2018
Elan: false

Pork: you are confused about what "race" means. Nobody disputes that there are genetic differences between different populations of humans (well, some people do. They're also confused). But this doesn't in any way refute the fact that "race" is a made up concept and social construct without any basis in science including and especially Biology.

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Level 67
Apr 12, 2019
Genetic distinctions carried among certain groups exist, but the actual "racial" lines we draw are arbitrary. Spaniards and Swedes are both considered "white" even though they have little in common genetically besides skin color (which is itself not the same, but is generally "white"-looking). We consider Italian people white even though they aren't white. There are a lot of "black" groups that are genetically as different from each other as they are from white people. A (horrible) example is in Rwanda, where the Tutsi and Hutu people (both "black") are considered so different than the it led to a bloody genocide. Different genetic traits are common among different groups, but the lines at which we separate races are not biological.
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Level 56
Nov 30, 2017
Wow... Just... wow...
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Level 37
Dec 1, 2017
Larry is not white. Larry is clear. (Name that movie)
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Level 82
Mar 3, 2018
If I put a cat in an oven that doesn't make it a biscuit.
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Level 61
Feb 10, 2019
Space Jam!...haha I was thinking the same thing
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Level 45
Jan 24, 2018
Ginobli is from Argentina, would be considered Hispanic per the US Census or “brown” if you need to use a color.
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Level 82
Mar 3, 2018
The US census bureau doesn't foist racial labels on anybody. All data that they collect on "race" is volunteered and a matter of self-reporting.

Currently the census bureau supplies these boxes for people to check under the category of "race":

"White"

"Black" or "African American"

"American Indian" or "Alaska Native"

"Asian"

and "Hawaiian" or "Pacific Islander"

There are some suggestions given on the census website about what these categories mean. For example they rope in "Middle Eastern" and "North African" with "White." But they also make it clear that this is strictly a matter of self-identification.

The census also allows for respondents to leave the "race" question blank, or to check multiple boxes.

In short, the US census would consider Ginobli to be whatever he considered himself to be, but "Hispanic" and "Brown" aren't among the available answers.

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Level 82
Apr 12, 2019
I think there was a comment here previously that I was responding to that has since been purged. Something about the census bureau foisting a label on Ginobli regardless of what he really was or considered himself to be.
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Level 39
Feb 27, 2018
I guessed quite less but still got 5 points
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Level 71
Mar 3, 2018
I do not agree with a quiz that has 'White' and 'Black' for comparison, it is racial no matter how 'Wishy Washy' people try to justify making a colour difference. This 'Cultural not Racial' is a load of 'Bull'.
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Level 82
Jul 11, 2018
Wow that was really "insightful." Also, excellent use of quotation marks. Do you tweet for the president, by any chance?
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Level 52
Aug 16, 2018
I knew somebody would make a comment like this... (anger)
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Level 73
Mar 22, 2018
Great quiz, I only got 23/40 and of the ones I've missed, I don't think I'd ever even heard of a few of them (Richie Guerin?). Really interesting some of the guys who missed the list who we think of as stars who didn't last (Walton) and some of the guys who made the list who were more just long-term journeymen.
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Level 84
Sep 1, 2018
I got 100% more players than expected. Next to Nowitzki I also remembered Gasol!
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Level 89
Dec 4, 2018
This is not "cultural" instead of "biological". You clearly mean biologically white people. You didn't research all the top scorers' "white culture" or "black culture". Steve Martin in The Jerk was a black man by culture, but had he score 30,000 points in the NBA, he'd be on this list.
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Level 82
Feb 4, 2019
You don't get it. I suggest reading the linked statement. No quiz based on biological race is possible, because biologically, race does not exist. The fact that these people are thought of as being "white" is a product of our culture. It has nothing to do with which culture these people were raised in. If our culture told us that there was a "tall" race and a "short" race or a "light haired" race and a "dark haired" race then you would place these people into different racial categories. Skin color is no more valid a reason to divide up homo sapiens than anything else. The only reason that you believe it is is because the culture you were raised in taught you that it was.
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Level 89
Dec 6, 2019
2 short black parents might have a tall kid, but not a Chinese one.
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Level 82
Dec 6, 2019
You still don't get it. Two dark-skinned parents could have a fair-skinned child. Two Spanish-speaking parents could have a child who grows up learning to speak French. Two parents from the continent of Asia could have and raise a child in Africa. Two Muslim parents could have a child who is raised Christian. These are among some of the many nonsensical and arbitrary traits that people use to divide people up in to "races." None of them are actually valid. And, for that matter, if 2 short "black" (whatever that means) parents COULD in fact have a Chinese child, if those parents had Chinese citizenship.

By the way: "black" Chinese people

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Level 82
Feb 16, 2020
Furthermore, if our culture taught us that "short" and "tall" were races and that the lived experience of both groups of people were somehow important and defined them as people, and spent hundreds of years passing laws discouraging mixed marriages between the "shorts" and the "talls"... then these groups would become, artificially, more and more distinct, and it would be less and less likely that you would see two "shorts" give birth to a "tall" child... though it would happen... just like it's possible for two dark-skinned parents to birth a lighter-skinned child.
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Level 71
Aug 24, 2020
A load of 'manufactured' nonsense.
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Level 66
Apr 12, 2019
Only got 17, but after seeing the list, should have gotten about 30. Have actually heard of everyone except Adams. Need to look him up.
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Level 85
Apr 12, 2019
From Season 3, Episode 1, of "Unforgotten":

Cassie: " . . . so I just spoke to Dr Balcombe. And her tests *suggest*, and she can't be any more certain than that, that the skull *is* European. Which narrows things down a bit." Imagine that! Determining the culture of a skull!

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Level 57
Apr 12, 2019
For the life of me I couldn't think of many names. Only managed to get 8. Then I saw the average score and was relatively surprised I was not alone.
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Level 61
Apr 12, 2019
7/40...It turns out, white basketball players is not my strong suit. Even looking at the answers afterwards, there's maybe 5 other guys I might have gotten.
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Level 43
Apr 12, 2019
i got 15 by guessing and looking at the comments. thanks for the assists.
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Level 65
Apr 12, 2019
Why is Pau Gasol below Bob Pettit if it says he has more points?
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Level 81
Apr 18, 2019
Because Pau is missing an "L" from his first name, and Bob has three "t"s in his last name. Obviously.
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Level 69
Apr 14, 2019
got nowitsky and smits, nr. one and nr. last. nothing to be proud of, i know.
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Level 81
Apr 18, 2019
I thought Tommy Heinsohn would be on here, he just misses at 12,194 points.
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Level 65
Jun 26, 2019
Not to be horrible, but think about the earlier 60's and 50's.
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Level 46
Aug 6, 2019
Guys. I have a new quiz "NBA Top 10 League Leaders of the 2010s" for all NBA fans out there. I have many unique quizzes in my profile you gotta try these hard quizzes. Thanks more power jetpunk!. https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/342321/nba-top-10-league-leaders-of-the-2010s
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Level 66
Dec 19, 2019
Forgot I had already put in Mullin; tried it again and was shocked he wasn't on here, then tried Mullins despite knowing that wasn't right - got me a 1%'er that you don't get inadvertently unless you also are a dingbat.
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Level 30
Mar 16, 2020
22 out of 40, forgot Havlicek but still5/5 points
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Level 81
Nov 4, 2020
I know that almost no one in the US calls him "Predrag Stojaković", but for Peja that should at least be an alternative option, since that's, you know, his actual name...
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Level 14
Dec 16, 2020
i only got 22/40
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Level 45
Apr 2, 2021
It is debatable but Brook Lopez, as well as Robin

are multiracial/Hispanic, so he shouldn't be on this list. It is up to yourself whether he should be included or not.

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Level 91
Jun 1, 2021
Saw that Mark Eaton passed away this week. Great and very kind man.
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Level 81
Aug 5, 2021
Toni Kukoc is close
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Level 24
Feb 7, 2023
Curry?
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Level 24
Sep 8, 2023
Curry is black
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Level 53
Apr 17, 2024
just as white as he is black ;)
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Level 79
Apr 16, 2024
So Vučević makes the list of foreign top scorers with 15370 points, but does not make this list?
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Level ∞
Apr 16, 2024
Fixed
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Level 68
Apr 16, 2024
Bizarre and inflammatory topic to make a quiz about.
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Level ∞
Apr 16, 2024
Bizarre that anyone would be inflamed.