![]() Playoff stats: 20.6 ppg, 25.4 rpg, 5.2 apg, 54.7 FG%Īccolades: One NBA title, three MVPs, four All-Stars, three All-NBA 1st Team selections. Abdul-Jabbar truly is underrated in the GOAT debate. He did all of that in his early 20s, by the way. The fact that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is, along with LeBron James, the longevity GOAT (the guy won Finals MVP in 1971, his age-23 season, and in 1984-85, his age-37 season, for crying out loud) while still having the second-highest peak, according to us, says it all.Īctually, according to Global Rating, this 1970-1975 span actually qualifies as the best stretch of play in NBA history, and it’s not hard to see why, considering he led the league in scoring twice in that span, in blocks once (it could have been more but for three of those seasons, the NBA wasn’t tracking blocks yet), was a three-time league MVP, a Finals MVP and won a championship. Playoff stats: 28.5 ppg, 16.8 rpg, 4.0 apg, 2.4 bpg, 1.2 spg, 49.8 FG%Īccolades: One NBA title, five All-Stars, three MVPs, five All-Stars, four All-NBA 1st Team selections, one All-NBA 2nd Team selection, two All-Defensive 1st Teams, two All-Defensive 2nd Teams. We actually did research on which NBA players got snubbed most for MVP using our own Global Rating metric, and Jordan actually should have won nine MVPs, including in the five seasons of his five-year peak.įor the younger crowd, this is why many still consider Jordan the GOAT. Bu t the dominance was there before the championships. That year, Jordan was named league MVP and Defensive Player of the Year, along with being an All-Star and 1st Team All-NBAer in a campaign where he averaged 35.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 3.2 steals and 1.6 blocks while shooting 53.5 percent from the floor.Īs teammates got better and opponents got worse (i.e., the Celtics’ dynasty of the ’80s dying and the Bad Boys Pistons getting taken out by His Airness), Jordan’s dominance translated into rings. Just look at the accolades of the 1987-88 season for proof, the opening season of his five-year peak in this exercise. That’s because late 1980s Jordan was as good or maybe even better than the Jordan who won all those rings in the ’90s. What does it say about Michael Jordan that his five-year peak only features two of his six championships seasons? Playoff stats: 34.5 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 6.8 apg, 51.3 FG%,Īccolades: Two NBA titles, two Finals MVPs, three MVPs, five All-Stars, one All-Star Game MVP, five All-NBA 1st Team selections, one Defensive Player of the Year award, five All-Defensive 1st Team selections, two Slam Dunk titles, one Olympic gold.
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