He has missed a total of 132 games during his career due to injury, eight games to NBA imposed suspensions and three games due to personal reasons…his teams have compiled a 561-248 record (.693) in the 809 games in which he has played and an 82-61 record (.573) in the 143 games he has missed…

Has earned All-NBA honors in each of his 12 seasons, six times (1997-98, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2002-03 and 2003-04) he captured First Team honors, twice (1994-95 and 1998-99) he received Second Team honors and on three occasions (1993-94, 1995-96 and 1996-97) he garnered Third Team honors…

Has been All-NBA First Team each of the last five seasons…is an 11-time NBA All-Star…was named the 1999-00 NBA MVP…was named NBA Finals MVP three times (2000, 2001 and 2002)…is a two-time All-Star Game MVP (2004, co-MVP in 2000)…is a three-time NBA All-Defensive Second Team member (1999-00, 2000-01 and 2002-03)…

Has captured NBA Player of the Month honors 11 times and Player of the Week accolades on 18 occasions…earned NBA Rookie of the Year and First Team All-Rookie honors in 1992-93…became the first player in NBA history to earn Player of the Week honors after the first week of his career after he averaged 25.8 points and 16.4 rebounds…was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA history, the youngest player to earn the honor…

Has scored in double figures in 799 of his 809 regular season career games (98.8 percent)…three times in his career he has gone over 140 consecutive games scoring in double figures…his longest stretch of consecutive games scoring in double figures is 245 and occurred from Feb. 28, 1995-Nov. 9, 1999…

Enters the 2004-05 season having scored in double figures in 39 straight games dating back to Jan. 30, 2004…only once in his career has he gone consecutive games without scoring in double figures (6 at Seattle on Jan. 2, 2004 and 7 vs. Seattle on Jan. 28, 2004)…has scored 20-or-more points in game on 687 occasions (84.9 percent of his games)…his longest stretch of consecutive games scoring at least 20 points is 37 and was accomplished from Mar. 2, 1998-Feb. 23, 1999…has scored at least 30 points in a game 292 times (36.1 percent of his games)…his longest stretch of consecutive 30-point games is 11 and occurred from Mar. 28, 2001-Apr. 17, 2001…has scored at least 40 points in a game 47 times…his longest streak of consecutive 40-point outings is two and occurred on three occasions…has also registered three games of at least 50 points and one 60-point game…

Has averaged over 21 points and shot at least 55 percent from the floor in each of his 12 NBA seasons…has grabbed double-figure rebounds on 595 occasions (73.5 percent of his games), including 33 games with 20-or-more rebounds…his longest streak of consecutive games grabbing double-figure rebounds is 18 and was accomplished twice (Nov. 27, 1993-Dec. 30, 1993 and Mar. 18, 2001-Oct. 30, 2001)…recorded double-figure blocked shots once…has recorded 591 double-doubles (73.1 percent of his games) and one triple-double…

Begins the 2004-05 season ranked among the NBA all-time leaders in points (20th-21,914), scoring average (4th-27.1 ppg), field goal percentage (3rd-.577), free throws attempted (9th-8,508) and blocked shots (9th-2,102)…among active players he ranks first in field goal percentage and scoring average, second in field goals made, free throws attempted and blocked shots, third in points and free throws made, fourth in defensive and total rebounds, and fifth in field goals attempted and offensive rebounds…enters the 2004-05 season needing 86 points for 22,000 in his career, 219 rebounds shy of 10,000 and 191 assists short of 2,500…has led the NBA in scoring average twice, in points scored three times, in field goal percentage on seven occasions, in field goals made five times, in field goals attempted twice, in free throws made once and free throws attempted on five occasions…

He is Orlando’s all-time leader in rebounds (3,691) and blocked shots (824)…has led his teams into postseason play in 11 of his 12 seasons, including five trips to the Finals and has captured three championships…the only year his team failed to qualify for the playoffs was his rookie year (1992-93)…has started each of the 158 postseason contests in which he has appeared and has averaged 27.2 points, 12.9 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 2.37 blocks and 40.4 minutes while shooting 56.2 percent from the floor and 51.8 percent from the foul line…

Ranks among the all-time NBA postseason leaders in scoring average (4th-27.2), field goals made (4th-1,658), field goal percentage (6th-.562), field goals attempted (9th-2,951), free throws made (6th-978), free throws attempted (1st-1,889), rebounds (5th-2,040), blocks (3rd-374) and personal fouls (10th-552)…his 32.6 scoring average in NBA Finals contests ranks third all-time in league history and his 60.1 percent field goal accuracy ranks first all-time…has scored in double figures in 157 of his 158 (99.4 percent) postseason contests…the lone exception was a seven-point outing against Houston on Apr. 19, 2004, snapping his streak of 137 consecutive games of scoring in double-digits…

Has registered at least 20 points in a postseason game on 131 occasions (82.9 percent of his games)…has scored at least 30 points in a postseason contests in 54 of his 158 games (34.2 percent)…had a career-best streak of 27 consecutive postseason games with at least 20 points from May 10, 2002-Apr. 17, 2004…scored 30-or-more points in a postseason career-high seven consecutive games from May 31, 2002-Apr. 20, 2003…grabbed double-figure rebounds on 125 occasions, including 15 games with at least 20 rebounds…has recorded 125 postseason double-doubles…

Has started six of the eight NBA All-Star Games in which he participated and averaged 18.3 points, 8.9 rebounds, 1.75 blocks, 1.13 steals, 1.0 assists and 24.8 minutes while shooting 52.6 percent from the floor and 48 percent from the foul line…three times he was selected to play in the All-Star Game and could not participate due to injury (1997, 2001 and 2002).