Mahmoud Abdul-RaufDenver Nuggets · #1
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf is a retired guard best known with the Denver Nuggets. An electric scorer and free-throw savant. Career averages: 14.6 points, 1.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game.
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf — the report card
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Where Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf stands
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Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf — every number, three levels deep
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How the model sees Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
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Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf career stats, season by season
| Season | GP | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | FG% | 3P% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-91 (Denver) | 67 | 22.5 | 14.1 | 1.8 | 3.1 | .413 | .240 |
| 1991-92 (Denver) | 81 | 19.0 | 10.3 | 1.4 | 2.4 | .421 | .330 |
| 1992-93 (Denver) | 81 | 33.5 | 19.2 | 2.8 | 4.2 | .450 | .355 |
| 1993-94 (Denver) | 80 | 32.7 | 18.0 | 2.1 | 4.5 | .460 | .316 |
| 1994-95 (Denver) | 73 | 28.5 | 16.0 | 1.9 | 3.6 | .470 | .387 |
| 1995-96 (Denver) | 57 | 35.6 | 19.2 | 2.4 | 6.8 | .434 | .392 |
| 1996-97 (Sacramento) | 75 | 28.4 | 13.7 | 1.6 | 2.5 | .445 | .382 |
| 1997-98 (Sacramento) | 31 | 17.1 | 7.3 | 1.2 | 1.9 | .377 | .161 |
| 2000-01 (Vancouver) | 41 | 11.9 | 6.5 | 0.6 | 1.9 | .488 | .286 |
| Career | 586 | 26.7 | 14.6 | 1.9 | 3.5 |
The Lab
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Are the Denver Nuggets built to win?
Team projection rolled up from the roster + last-season baselines — and what it means for his role.
The Ballad of Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
Birth to now — the making of a legend, narrated and scored.
Turning pro
Drafted 1990 as a Guard.
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Twenty years before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, a slight, electric guard in Denver stayed seated during the anthem — and the mile-high air went silent around him.
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He was born Chris Jackson, arrived from LSU as one of the most electric scorers in the country, and played through Tourette syndrome — turning its relentless need for repetition into a shooting stroke so pure he became one of the greatest free-throw shooters who ever lived.
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In 1996 he refused to stand for the flag, calling it a symbol of oppression. The league suspended him; a compromise let him stand and pray. But the stand cost him — traded, then pushed out of the NBA in his prime, years before the world would decide he'd been early, not wrong.
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The numbers say elite scorer and all-time free-throw marksman. The story says something bigger: a man who paid full price for his conscience two decades before it was safe to.
Off the court
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 162 lbs
- College
- LSU
- NBA debut
- 1990
- Draft
- 1990
- Jersey
- #1
An electric scorer and free-throw savant.
A retired guard and Denver Nuggets name.
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf — frequently asked
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