I was recently thinking about the effect the 98-99 strike season had on players'
statistics. David Robinson would've gotten 3,000 blocks. Hakeem Olajuwon would've
cracked the top 10 in rebounding, and would've been the 5th highest scorer in 
history (the #1 non-30,000 point scorer). But the biggest impact losing those 32
games had were on John Stockton and Karl Malone. Stockton would've finished with
16,000 assists, and joined the 20,000 point club. Malone would have at least 760
more points, and would only have had to average 8.54 per game for one more season
to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record. This assumes, of course, that 
these players didn't sustain any career-altering injuries during those 32 games,
but...
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