The NBA is 75 years old this season. And throughout the history of the league there’s been dozens of great players that have solidified their status as superstars, but showing up in the postseason is what makes a superstar a […]
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The 23 NBA Players With Most Playoff Appearances (By # of Seasons)
When it comes to the NBA, a great career is most-often measured by two factors. The first being that player’s individual performance including stats, awards, and accomplishments. The second is how all of that player’s personal resume has translated to […]
The 15 NBA Players with Most MVP Awards in NBA History
When Nikola Jokic was officially crowned the NBA’s Most Valuable Player, the 7-0 center from Serbia became one of a handful of players that won the regular season MVP for the second season in a row. Getting the MVP award […]
NBA MVP Criteria: How The NBA Should Choose League MVP Based on Past Winners
Throughout NBA history, there have been 63 MVPs and only six times has the winner of the award lead a team with winning percentage less than .600. Looking at all 60+ MVP award winners since the league started handing out […]
Ranked: The 35 Best Seven-Footers to Play in NBA History (and top 10!)
The NBA continues to become a position-less game, with 7-footers looking and playing much different than they did 10, 20, and 40 years ago. Today’s seven-footers are more likely to shoot a three point shot than Size is also the one […]
The 51 Fastest Players to Score 20,000 NBA points (updated)
When LeBron James hit the 20,000 point milestone back in 2013, he became the youngest player to reach that milestone just 17 days after his 28th birthday. However “youngest” doesn’t mean that LeBron was also the fastest NBA player to score […]
The 43 NBA Players Who Battled, Survived or Died of Cancer
Getting the news of a cancer diagnosis is never a good one. Sometimes the biology of this illness will dictate the course of events that are often beyond one’s control. Still, no matter how difficult the circumstances may seem, one […]
The 25 NBA Players That Scored The Most Points in the 1980’s Golden Era
The 1980’s are hailed as the golden era of NBA basketball. Between the 1979-80 and 1988-89 NBA seasons, the NBA took a a huge leap forward in terms of popularity. Not only did the NBA marketing team play up the […]
The 26 Players with the Most NBA Championship Rings
With all the recent discussions about who ranks as the NBA’s greatest players of all time, the Mount Rushmore of players, and so on, the conversations can’t just be around individual awards and achievements, all-star games and all-NBA teams, but […]
This is every one of LeBron James’ NBA Finals records and career highs
LeBron James won his fourth NBA championship with his third franchise at he end of the 2019-20 NBA season. With an NBA career spanning three decades coming directly out of high school, LeBron has not only etched his […]
These 63 players are the all-time leading scorers with most points in NBA Finals history
No doubt, scoring is huge in basketball. for the most part, players make it into the NBA based on their advanced abilities and skill set to put the ball in the basket. For the special players that can really fill […]
The 25 oldest NBA players with the highest scoring averages (>20 ppg)
With our recent post about LeBron James‘ amazing season at the age of 33 and watching a 40-year old Vince Carter still dunking, we were curious as to whom were oldest players that had the highest scoring average in NBA history. […]
SLAM List: The 100 best NBA players of all-time (2018 full list)
In late February 2018, SLAM Magazine published out their top 100 NBA basketball players of all-time in their latest issue. Obviously, the list caused controversy, as most lists do, but this particular list seemed to rankle more than usual. The […]
These NBA players are the youngest and fastest to score 25,000 points
As we’ve discussed in previous scoring milestone posts, the youngest to score X amount of points doesn’t mean that they’re the fastest to that same point milestone. The youngest to 20,000, 25,000 or 30,000 points depends on so many different […]
LeBron James is youngest, but not fastest NBA player to score 30,000 points
At just 33 years old, LeBron James will become the youngest player to the 30,000 point plateau when he adds the 7 points against the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday. The milestone came after scoring 18 points in a historic 148-124 […]
The 7 NBA MVPs with worst regular season records shows what “most valuable” means
(Please keep in mind that this article was first published in 2017 and has been updated to include 2022 information) With Russell Westbrook winning the 2016-17 NBA MVP award on an above average Oklahoma City Thunder team, that brought […]
Legends to Busts: The 50 Best (and Worst) #1 Draft Picks in NBA History
Being selected with the #1 pick in the NBA draft is definitely an honor. How can a prospect not be excited to being crowned the cream of the crop of their class by the best basketball league in the world? […]
This postseason, LeBron James will become NBA’s playoff leader in total points
Unless he makes an unexpected early exit in the 2017 NBA playoffs — LeBron James will very likely surpass Michael Jordan as the all-time leader in career playoff points. With the 2017 playoffs starting today, the King comes in as […]
Best Triple Doubles: The 20 triple doubles with most points in NBA history
Russell Westbrook and James Harden are the leading candidates for the 2016-17 NBA MVP and it’s in no small part to the critical role they play for the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets. It helps that the two are […]
LeBron hits 28,000 points, will be youngest and fastest to 30,000
With 28,000 points in the bag at 32 years and 36 days, LeBron James became the youngest player in NBA history to reach that point plateau. James was also the youngest player to reach 20,000 career points in the regular season. […]
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