Kobe Bryant's legendary NBA career summed up in 8 eye-popping stats

Kobe Bryant's NBA career doubles as a list of some of basketball's most impressive accomplishments.

33,583 career regular-season points. 26,150 regular-season shot attempts. 16 All-NBA teams. A franchise-record 20 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers. Sadly, over 200 games missed due to injury. And, of course, those five shiny rings.

Those are some of the more heralded numbers from Kobe's playing time, but they're far from alone. To celebrate the future Hall of Famer, we dove deep and came up with some of the more absurd, off-the-wall numbers that we could come up with -- as well as a few that you probably already know.

Here, then, are the eight facts that define Kobe Bryant's NBA career.

1,056,976: Approximate number of miles Kobe has traveled via plane in his 20 seasons

We went through all 20 years of Bryant's game logs and traced his approximate travel route from one game to the next, including the All-Star break and playoffs (we did not include the preseason, because that would just be silly). We used the major metropolitan airport in each NBA city to measure the distance -- an imperfect measurement, admittedly, but a decent proxy given the sheer number of miles we're talking about.

And the result is astounding. Bryant has flown enough miles to make it to the moon and back twice with some room to spare. 2009-10 was the most jetlag-inducing season for Kobe, as the Lakers traveled approximately 80,000 miles during their championship season. In the seasons that weren't shortened by lockout or a Bryant injury, Kobe averaged approximately 60,000 miles in the air per year.

518: 30-point games in Kobe's career

Bryant topped 30 points in over one out of every three games he played during his career. Let that sink in, because it's absolutely ridiculous. That's 14 more than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had -- and still 153 fewer than Michael Jordan.

1,810: Total number of NBA players who played at least one minute over the past 20 seasons

There are only about 450 roster spots in the league in any given year, and each season brought an average of 90 new players into the fold. Most played fewer than 100 minutes.

36: Times Kobe hit a game-winner

The Lakers won 970 games in the regular season and playoffs with Kobe on the court. Almost 4 percent of those wins came courtesy of a last-second shot from the Black Mamba.

89.3: Percentage of Kobe's career spent with either Shaquille O'Neal, Phil Jackson, Pau Gasol

Kobe haters will always point to the vast amount of talent he was surrounded by with the Lakers. Whatever.

But it somehow feels like Bryant played a much larger portion of his career without his "Big Three" than this -- probably because that 2004-05 season lasted a damn lifetime.

72: Players in NBA history who have attempted as many shots as Kobe missed in the regular season

Shooters have to shoot. It's what they do. And headed into his final game on Wednesday, Bryant has missed 14,435 shots in the regular season.

Of the 72 players who have taken that many shots, Bryant ranks 56th in field goal percentage.

137: Number of Lakers teammates in Kobe's career

Deeeeeeeeep breath: Eddie Jones, Nick Van Exel, Elden Campbell, Shaquille O'Neal, Jerome Kersey, Byron Scott, Travis Knight, Corie Blount, Derek Fisher, Sean Rooks, Robert Horry, George McCloud, Cedric Ceballos, Rumeal Robinson, Joe Kleine, Larry Krystowiak, Rick Fox, Jon Barry, Mario Bennett, Shea Seals, Derek Harper, Sam Jacobson, Tyronn Lue, Ruben Patterson, J.R. Reid, Glen Rice, Dennis Rodman, John Clestand, Devean George, A.C. Green, Ron Harper, John Salley, Brian Shaw, Greg Foster, Horace Grant, Mark Madsen, Stanislav Medvedenko, Mike Penberthy, Isaiah Rider, Joe Crispin, Jelani McCoy, Mitch Richmond, Samaki Walker, Tracy Murray, Jannero Pargo, Kareem Rush, Soumaila Samake, Maurice Carter, Brian Cook, Karl Malone, Gary Payton, Byron Russell, Jamal Sampson, Ime Udoka, Chucky Atkins, Tony Bobbitt, Tierre Brown, Caron Butler, Vlade Divac, Jumaine Jones, Chris Mihm, Lamar Odom, Sasha Vujacic, Kwame Brown, Andrew Bynum, Devin Green, Jim Jackson, Aaron McKie, Smush Parker, Laron Profit, Ronny Turiaf, Von Wafer, Maurice Evans, Jordan Farmar, Vladimir Radmanovic, Shammond Williams, Trevor Ariza, Javaris Crittenton, D.J. Mbenga, Coby Karl, Ira Newble, Shannon Brown, Adam Morrison, Josh Powell, Sun Yue, Metta World Peace, Steve Blake, Derrick Caracter, Theo Ratliff, Joe Smith, Matt Barnes, Devin Ebanks, Christian Eyenga, Andrew Goudelock, Jordan Hill, Jason Kapono, Josh McRoberts, Darius Morris, Troy Murphy, Ramon Sessions, Earl Clark, Chris Duhon, Dwight Howard, Antawn Jamison, Darius Johnson-Odom, Jodie Meeks, Steve Nash, Robert Sacre, Kent Bazemore, MarShon Brooks, Elias Harris, Manny Harris, Xavier Henry, Wesley Johnson, Chris Kaman, Ryan Kelly, Kendall Marshall, Shawne Williams, Nick Young, Tarik Black, Vander Blue, Carlos Boozer, Jabari Brown, Dwight Buycks, Jordan Clarkson, Ed Davis, Wayne Ellington, Jeremy Lin, Ronnie Price, Julius Randle, Roy Hibbert, D'Angelo Russell, Larry Nance Jr., Lou Williams, Brandon Bass, Anthony Brown, Marcelo Huertas.

And exhale.

The number that will define Kobe forever -- to him, anyway.

One: How many more rings Michael Jordan has than Bryant. To be fair, it's also how many more rings Kobe has than Shaq. And that might be more important to Bryant.

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Dan Carson