Moses Malone, 1955-2015

[Mike G]

The only players with more points and rebounds: Kareem and Wilt.
http://bkref.com/tiny/77MwD

[fpliii]

Thanks to Harvey Pollack (RIP) who tracked it going way back, we have some plus minus numbers for Malone's prime in Philly, and some guys from RealGM calculated on/off:

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YEAR	MIN	ORTG	DRTG	NET
1982-83	2922	8,2	-7,4	15,6
1983-84	2613	10,4	7,1	3,3
1984-85	2957	18,8	-2,8	21,7
1985-86	2706	8,9	1,8	7,2

What a terrific offensive player. RIP Moses Malone.

[Mike G]

In a 14 year interval, only one other player had even half as many offensive rebounds as Moses.

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1977-1990      OReb    TReb
Moses Malone   5992   14483
Robert Parish  3497   11130
Jack Sikma     2434   10375
Artis Gilmore  2639    9161
Kareem A-J     2222    8896
Bill Laimbeer  2423    8737
Buck Williams  2838    8376
Larry Bird     1658    8031

Last season, Andre Drummond led the league with 437 OReb. Only one other player (D Jordan) had even 300.
Moses had 7 seasons with as many as 437, and 16 years he had >300.

Moses has the top 3 OReb seasons since 1977. Just 8 players have gotten 400 in a season since then.
These players' best OReb year:

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1977-2015       year   tm   OReb
Moses Malone    1979   Hou   587
Dennis Rodman   1992   Det   523
Jayson Williams 1998   NJN   443
Andre Drummond  2014   Det   440
Hakeem Olajuwon 1985   Hou   440
Larry Smith     1981   GSW   433
Kevin Willis    1992   Atl   418
Charles Barkley 1989   Phl   403

With 2000 points and 1000 rebounds in a year: Moses did it 4 times; Olajuwon, Robinson, and Shaq, twice each; Duncan once.

[Mike G]

In "standardized equivalents", Moses ranks 3rd all-time in NBA/ABA rebounds, RS+PO

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equivalent Rebounds   per36
21,378  Wilt          14.7
19,717  Russell       14.6
19,310  Moses         13.2 
18,926  Kareem        10.6
18,451  Duncan        12.7
18,243  Karl Malone   10.9
17,438  Garnett       11.6
16,935  Shaq          12.2
16,861  Parish        11.4
16,335  Gilmore       11.9

Moses played about 11% more minutes than Russell to get almost as many eReb.
By 'standardized' I mean per 44 rebounds per team, per game; both for eReb and per36.
In ePoints, he ranks 16th; and in equivalent everything, he ranks 12th.
He only got 7.5% of his career minutes in playoffs, which is lowest among the top 20 in eTotals.

[bchaikin]

this is a rockets/spurs game from 78-79 when he was just 24 years old:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ8lbWz1sBg

wow he looks thin, almost as thin as george gervin - was listed at 6-10 and just 220 lb then - but set the season record of 578 off rebs that year...

that season jabbar was listed at 7-2/235 lb, gilmore at 7-2/240, swen nater 6-11/250, rich kelley 7-0/230, robert parish 7-0/230, darryl dawkins 6-11/250, marvin webster 7-0/230...

in 86-87 (age 32) i see malone listed at 6-10/260...

was all-NBA 7 straight years from 78-79 to 84-85, again in 86-87, 4 times 1st team, and was as durable as any player - from 78-79 to 89-90 (12 years) played more total regular season minutes (35164) than any other player, scored the 2nd most total points (next to only alex english)...

[Mike G]

This is a good workout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0zSdN5ceXU

When Moses retired in 1995, he was 4th alltime in NBA regular season Win Shares -- behind only Kareem, Wilt, and Oscar --
http://bkref.com/tiny/fFNdG
-- ahead of Russell, West, Magic, Bird, and everyone else.

After 6 years in Houston (1977-82), he was #3 on the franchise list in Win Shares -- just behind Cal Murphy and Rudy T. He was also 3rd in points and 1st in rebounds.

His 4 seasons in Philly (1983-86) placed him 12th in WS; 10th in Reb, 13th in Pts.

Just 2 years in Washington, and he was 20th in WS and Pts, 14th in Reb

He was also 20th in Hawks' WS for 3 seasons there (1989-91); 18th in Reb, 22nd in Pts

That's 4 teams for which he was (arguably) among their top 20 franchise players when he left them.
Oh, he's 10th in WS for the ABA franchise LA/Anaheim/Utah Stars.