List of career achievements by Shaquille O'Neal

This page details the records, statistics, and other achievements pertaining to Shaquille O'Neal.

NBA career statistics

Regular Season

|- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Orlando | 81 || 81 || 37.9 || .562 || .000 || .592 || 13.9 || 1.9 || .7 || 3.5 || 23.4 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Orlando | 81 || 81 || 39.8 || .599 || .000 || .554 || 13.2 || 2.4 || .9 || 2.9 || 29.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Orlando | 79 || 79 || 37.0 || .583 || .000 || .533 || 11.4 || 2.7 || .9 || 2.4 || 29.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Orlando | 54 || 52 || 36.0 || .573 || .500 || .487 || 11.0 || 2.9 || .6 || 2.1 || 26.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 51 || 51 || 38.1 || .557 || .000 || .484 || 12.5 || 3.1 || .9 || 2.9 || 26.2 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 60 || 57 || 36.3 || .584 || .000 || .527 || 11.4 || 2.4 || .7 || 2.4 || 28.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 49 || 49 || 34.8 || .576 || .000 || .540 || 10.7 || 2.3 || .7 || 1.7 || 26.3 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| † | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 79 || 79 || 40.0 || .574 || .000 || .524 || 13.6 || 3.8 || .5 || 3.0 || 29.7 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| † | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 74 || 74 || 39.5 || .572 || .000 || .513 || 12.7 || 3.7 || .6 || 2.8 || 28.7 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| † | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 67 || 66 || 36.1 || .579 || .000 || .555 || 10.7 || 3.0 || .6 || 2.0 || 27.2 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 67 || 66 || 37.8 || .574 || .000 || .622 || 11.1 || 3.1 || .6 || 2.4 || 27.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 67 || 67 || 36.8 || .584 || .000 || .490 || 11.5 || 2.9 || .5 || 2.5 || 21.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Miami | 73 || 73 || 34.1 || .601 || .000 || .461 || 10.4 || 2.7 || .5 || 2.3 || 22.9 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| † | style="text-align:left;"| Miami | 59 || 58 || 30.6 || .600 || .000 || .469 || 9.2 || 1.9 || .4 || 1.8 || 20.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Miami | 40 || 39 || 28.4 || .591 || .000 || .422 || 7.4 || 2.0 || .2 || 1.4 || 17.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Miami | 33 || 33 || 28.6 || .581 || .000 || .494 || 7.8 || 1.4 || .6 || 1.6 || 14.2 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Phoenix | 28 || 28 || 28.7 || .611 || .000 || .513 || 10.6 || 1.7 || .5 || 1.2 || 12.9 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Phoenix | 75 || 75 || 30.0 || .609 || .000 || .595 || 8.4 || 1.7 || .6 || 1.4 || 17.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Cleveland | 53 || 53 || 23.4 || .566 || .000 || .496 || 6.7 || 1.5 || .3 || 1.2 || 12.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"| Boston | 37 || 36 || 20.3 || .667 || .000 || .557 || 4.8 || .7 || .4 || 1.1 || 9.2 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:left;"| Career | style="text-align:left;"| | 1,207 || 1,197 || 34.7 || .582 || .045 || .527 || 10.9 || 2.5 || .6 || 2.3 || 23.7 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:left;"| All-Star | style="text-align:left;"| | 12 || 9 || 22.8 || .551 || .000 || .452 || 8.1 || 1.4 || 1.1 || 1.6 || 16.8

Playoffs

|- | style="text-align:left;"| 1994 | style="text-align:left;"| Orlando | 3 || 3 || 42.0 || .511 || .000 || .471 || 13.3 || 2.3 || .7 || 3.0 || 20.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1995 | style="text-align:left;"| Orlando | 21 || 21 || 38.3 || .577 || .000 || .571 || 11.9 || 3.3 || .9 || 1.9 || 25.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1996 | style="text-align:left;"| Orlando | 12 || 12 || 38.3 || .606 || .000 || .393 || 10.0 || 4.6 || .8 || 1.3 || 25.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1997 | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 9 || 9 || 36.2 || .514 || .000 || .610 || 10.6 || 3.2 || .6 || 1.9 || 26.9 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1998 | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 13 || 13 || 38.5 || .612 || .000 || .503 || 10.2 || 2.9 || .5 || 2.6 || 30.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1999 | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 8 || 8 || 39.4 || .510 || .000 || .466 || 11.6 || 2.3 || .9 || 2.9 || 26.6 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2000† | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 23 || 23 || 43.5 || .566 || .000 || .456 || 15.4 || 3.1 || .6 || 2.4 || 30.7 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2001† | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 16 || 16 || 42.3 || .555 || .000 || .525 || 15.4 || 3.2 || .4 || 2.4 || 30.4 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2002† | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 19 || 19 || 40.8 || .529 || .000 || .649 || 12.6 || 2.8 || .5 || 2.5 || 28.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2003 | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 12 || 12 || 40.1 || .535 || .000 || .621 || 14.8 || 3.7 || .6 || 2.8 || 27.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2004 | style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Lakers | 22 || 22 || 41.7 || .593 || .000 || .429 || 13.2 || 2.5 || .3 || 2.8 || 21.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2005 | style="text-align:left;"| Miami | 13 || 13 || 33.2 || .558 || .000 || .472 || 7.8 || 1.9 || .4 || 1.5 || 19.4 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2006† | style="text-align:left;"| Miami | 23 || 23 || 33.0 || .612 || .000 || .374 || 9.8 || 1.7 || .5 || 1.5 || 18.4 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2007 | style="text-align:left;"| Miami | 4 || 4 || 30.3 || .559 || .000 || .333 || 8.5 || 1.3 || .3 || 1.5 || 18.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2008 | style="text-align:left;"| Phoenix | 5 || 5 || 30.0 || .440 || .000 || .500 || 9.2 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 2.6 || 15.2 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2010 | style="text-align:left;"| Cleveland | 11 || 11 || 22.1 || .516 || .000 || .660 || 5.5 || 1.4 || .2 || 1.2 || 11.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2011 | style="text-align:left;"| Boston | 2 || 0 || 6.0 || .500 || .000 || .000 || .0 || .5 || .5 || .0 || 1.0 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:left;"| Career | style="text-align:left;"| | 216 || 214 || 37.5 || .563 || .000 || .504 || 11.6 || 2.7 || .5 || 2.1 || 24.3

Career ranking

As of August 8, 2014

Career – season
  • Free throws made – 19th (5,935)
  • Points – 6th (28,596)
  • Field goal attempts – 21st (19,457)
  • Free throw attempts – 4th (11,252)
  • Field goals made – 5th (11330)
  • Points per game – 20th (23.69)
  • Minutes played – 22nd (41,918)
  • Minutes per game – 87th (34.73)
  • Games played – 30th (1,207)
  • Assists – 185th (3,026)
  • Personal fouls – 10th (4,146)
  • Turnovers – 14th (3,310)
  • Defensive rebounds – 8th (8,890)
  • Rebounds – 14th (13,099)
  • Blocks – 8th (2,732)
  • Rebounds per game – 27th (10.85)
  • Offensive rebounds – 6th (4,209)
  • Blocks per game – 14th (2.26)
Career – playoffs
  • Field goal attempts – 6th (3,627)
  • Free throws made – 6th (1,168)
  • Points – 4th (5,250)
  • Minutes played – 5th (8,098)
  • Turnovers – 2nd (649)
  • Free throw attempts – 1st (2,317)
  • Steals – 68th (117)
  • Games played – 6th (216)
  • Rebounds – 4th (2,508)
  • Personal fouls – 2nd (769)
  • Assists – 38th (582)
  • Points per game – 18th (24.31)
  • Defensive rebounds – 2nd (1,642)
  • Minutes per game – 70th (37.49)
  • Blocks per game – 12th (2.12)
  • Offensive rebounds – 1st (866)
  • Rebounds per game – 17th (11.61)
  • Blocks – 4th (459)
  • Field goals made – 3rd (2,041)
Only include statistics in which O'Neal is ranked in the top 250.

Awards and accomplishments

College

Cited from College Basketball Reference's Shaquille O'Neal page unless noted otherwise.

  • AP Player of the Year:1990-91
  • Consensus All-AmericaFirst Team: 1990-91
  • Rupp Trophy: 1990-91
  • UPI Player of the Year:1990-91
  • Consensus All-AmericaFirst Team: 1991-92
  • SEC Player of the Year: 1991-92

NBA

Cited from Basketball Reference's Shaquille O'Neal page unless noted otherwise.

  • 4× NBA champion: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006
  • 3× NBA Finals MVP: 2000, 2001, 2002
  • NBA Most Valuable Player: 2000
  • NBA Rookie of the Year: 1993
  • 2x NBA scoring champion: 1995, 2000
  • 3× NBA All-Star Game MVP: 2000, 2004, 2009
  • 15× NBA All-Star: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
  • 14× All-NBA:
    • First Team: 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
    • Second Team: 1995, 1999
    • Third Team: 1994, 1996, 1997, 2008
  • 3× NBA All-Defensive:
    • Second Team: 2000, 2001, 2003
  • NBA All-Rookie First Team: 1993
  • 12× NBA Player of the Month
  • 20× NBA Player of the Week
  • 4× NBA Rookie of the Month

United States National Team

  • Olympic medalist:
    • Gold: 1996
  • FIBA World Championship medalist
    • Gold: 1994
  • USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year: 1994

Other

  • McDonald's All-American MVP (1989)
  • Sports IllustratedNBA All-Decade First Team: 2000–2009
  • 2× Best NBA Player ESPY Award: 2001,2002

NBA records and former records

Career

Youngest player in NBA history to:

  • 1,000 rebounds
    • Surpassed by Dwight Howard
  • 2,000 rebounds
    • Surpassed by Dwight Howard
  • 3,000 rebounds
    • Surpassed by Dwight Howard
  • Record at least 40 points and 20 rebounds in a game.

Regular Season

Field goals

Most seasons leading NBA in field goal percentage: 10

Most consecutive seasons leading NBA in field goal percentage: 5, 1997-98–2001-02

  • Tied with Wilt Chamberlain

Free throws

Most free throws attempted in a game with none made: 11, December 8, 2000

Playoffs

Scoring

Games scoring 10 or more points, career: 206

  • Broken by Tim Duncan

Part of the only time in NBA playoff history when four players scored 30 or more points in the same game: Houston Rockets at Orlando Magic, June 9, 1995

  • Hakeem Olajuwon (Houston Rockets): 34 points
  • Sam Cassell (Houston Rockets): 31 points (off the bench)
  • Shaquille O'Neal (Orlando Magic): 33 points
  • Anfernee Hardaway (Orlando Magic): 32 points

Rebounds

Offensive rebounds, career: 866

Free throws

Free throw attempts, career: 2,317

Free throw attempts, one postseason: 296 (2000)

Free throw attempts, 4-game series: 68, vs. New Jersey Nets, 2002 NBA Finals

Free throw attempts, game (regulation): 39, vs. Indiana Pacers, June 9, 2000

Free throw attempts, quarter: 25, vs. Portland Trail Blazers, May 20, 2000

Free throw attempts, half: 27, vs. Portland Trail Blazers, May 20, 2000

Finals

Scoring

Points, 4-game series: 145, vs. New Jersey Nets, 2002

Free throws

Free throws made, 4-game series: 45, vs. New Jersey Nets, 2002

Free throw attempts, 4-game series: 68, vs. New Jersey Nets, 2002

Free throw attempts, 5-game series: 76, vs. Philadelphia 76ers, 2001

Free throw attempts, 6-game series: 93, vs. Indiana Pacers, 2000

Blocks

Blocked shots, game: 8, vs. Philadelphia 76ers, June 8, 2001

  • Tied with Bill Walton, Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing, and Tim Duncan

Blocked shots, 4-game series: 11, vs. New Jersey Nets, 2002

  • Tied with Elvin Hayes, George Johnson, Julius Erving, and John Salley,

Blocked shots, 5-game series: 17, vs. Philadelphia 76ers, 2001

NBA achievements

Regular Season

Career

  • Only player in NBA history to record at least40 points and 20 rebounds in a gameat least four times.
  • One of two players in NBA history to lead NBA Finals in scoring, but play on a different team the following season.
    • Includes Lebron James.
  • One of two players in NBA history to miss 5,000 free throws.
    • Includes Wilt Chamberlain.
  • One of three players in NBA history to record at least 20 points, 15 rebounds, and 8 blocks in a game by the age of 22.
    • Includes Tim Duncan and Anthony Davis.
  • One of five players in NBA history to change teams after averaging at least 25 points and 10 rebounds the prior season.
    • Includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elvin Hayes, Moses Malone, and Kevin Love.
  • One of fifteen players in NBA history to win multiple NBA scoring titles.
    • Includes George Mikan, Paul Arizin, Neil Johnston, Bob Pettit, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bob McAdoo, George Gervin, Adrian Dantley, Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson, Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Durant.

Season

  • One of two players in NBA history to receive all but one vote for the NBA Most Valuable Player Award in a single season.
    • Includes Lebron James.
  • One of two players in NBA history to be named Player of the Week in the first week of their rookie season.
    • Includes Michael Carter-Williams.
  • One of three players in NBA history to win NBA MVP, All-Star game MVP and Finals MVP awards in the same year (2000);
    • Includes Michael Jordan (achieved this twice) and Willis Reed
  • One of four players in NBA History to record at least 400 points during the first 15 games of a season at age 21 or younger.
    • Includes LeBron James (twice), Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant.
  • One of fifteen players in NBA history to record 30+ points in 10+ consecutive regular season games.
    • Includes Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Nate Archibald, Jerry West, Moses Malone, World B. Free, George Gervin, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, LeBron James and Kevin Durant.

Game

  • Only player in NBA history to record at least 60 points and 20 rebounds in a game.
  • One of four players in NBA history to record at least 25 points, 15 rebounds, 5 steals and 5 blocks in a game.

:* Includes Hakeem Olajuwon (four times), David Robinson and Dwight Howard.

  • One of four players in NBA history to record at least 17 points, 25 rebounds, and 7 blocks in a game.

:* Includes Hakeem Olajuwon, Dikembe Mutombo, and John Henson.

Playoffs

Career

  • Only player in NBA history to record at least40 points and 17 rebounds in a playoff gameat least seven times.

Series

Game

NBA Finals

Career

  • Only player in NBA history to score at least 30 points in all games in an NBA Finals series multiple times.
  • One of two players in NBA history to win three consecutive NBA Finals MVP Awards.
    • Includes Michael Jordan (achieved this twice).
  • One of four players in NBA history to win three NBA Finals MVP Awards.[40]
    • Includes Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Tim Duncan.

Series

Game

Orlando Magic franchise records

Regular Season

Field goals made, game: 22, April 20, 1994

Field goals made, season: 953 (1993–94)

Minutes played, season: 3,224 (1993–94)

Offensive rebounds, season: 384 (1993–94)

Blocks, season: 286 (1992–93)

Personal fouls, season: 321 (1992–93)

Blocks per game, season: 3.5 (1992–93)

Blocks per game, career: 2.8

Blocked shots, game: 15, at New Jersey Nets, November 20, 1993

Playoffs

Field goals made, game: 18, vs. Atlanta Hawks, May 8, 1996

Los Angeles Lakers franchise records

Regular Season

Offensive rebounds, season: 336, (1999-00)

Free throw attempts, half: 20, second half, at Golden State Warriors, March 14, 2002

:* tied with Dwight Howard (second half, at Orlando Magic, March 12, 2013)

Playoffs

Offensive rebounds, game: 11, vs. Sacramento, May 6, 2001

Offensive rebounds, career: 561.

Points, postseason: 707 points, (2000 Playoffs)

Blocks per game, career: 2.54

Blocked shots, postseason: 61, (2004 Playoffs)

Rebounds, game: 24, vs. Indiana Pacers, June 9, 2000

Miami Heat franchise records

Regular Season

Field goal percentage, season: .601 (2004–05)

Field goal percentage, career: .596

Playoffs

Rebounds, game: 20, May 4, 2006

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