Career Highlights
- Named the league's MVP in 1995
- NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 1992
- NBA Rookie of the Year in 1990
- Has won the IBM Award five times: 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995 and 1996
- Won the NBA Rebounding Title in 1991, the NBA Blocked Shots Title in 1992
and the NBA Scoring Title in 1994 (he and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are the only
two players in NBA history to win each of the three titles)
- Honored with the 2001 NBA Sportsmanship Award
- Named to the All-NBA First Team four times (1991, 1992, 1995 and 1996) the
All-NBA Second Team twice (1994 and 1998) and the All-NBA Third Team three
times (1990, 1993 and 2000)
- Named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team four times (1991, 1992, 1995 and
1996) and the All-Defensive Second Team four times (1990, 1993, 1994 and
1998)
- Is the only player in NBA history to be named to both an All-NBA Team and
an NBA All-Defensive Team in each of his first seven NBA seasons (since the
NBA started the All-Defensive Team in 1968-69)
- A 10-time All-Star
- In 1996 named one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players of All-Time
- The Spurs all-time NBA leader in games, rebounds, blocked shots, assists
and both FT made and attempted and is second in franchise history in points
and both FG made and attempted
- Has been named the NBA Player of the Week 15 times and NBA Player of the
Month 4 times
- The only male basketball player in U.S. history to appear in three
different Olympic Games: was the leading scorer on the 1996 Team which
captured gold in Atlanta, was a member of the 1992 Team that won the gold in
Barcelona and the 1988 Team that won the bronze in Seoul
- Is the United States' all-time leader in Olympic history in career points
(270), rebounds (124) and blocked shots (34)
- Played on the 1987 Pan American Team and the 1986 USA World Championship
Team
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