The otherworldly production of each is inseparable from the other.How many points would Malone have had without Stockton feeding him? And though he didn't win a title until he got to Boston, he did take the Timberwolves farther than anyone else ever has.In 2003-04, behind KG's 24.3 points, 14.6 rebounds, 5.1 assists, 2.3 blocks and 1.3 steals per contest, Minnesota made it all the way to the Western Conference Finals, where they lost to the Lakers in six games.Another team with a somewhat complicated organizational Regardless of the name, CP3 was the obvious choice.

And no Blazer has been back since Drexler's loss to Jordan in 1992.The Sacramento Kings are another team that has been through a few different iterations. The decision for the Brooklyn Nets was quite a bit easier.And in the early 2000s, he led the New Jersey Nets to a pair of NBA Finals appearances against the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs.Over the course of his 78 playoff games with the Nets, he averaged 16.8 points, 9.1 assists, 8.2 rebounds and 1.8 steals.Organizational history gets a little funky with the Charlotte Hornets. How many assists would Stockton have had without Malone finishing?There is simply no way to know. James led the Los Angeles Lakers to a 128-99 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, scoring a team-high 31 points and tallying eight assists. In the six-game Finals alone, he went for 27.3 points, 13.0 rebounds and 5.5 assists.Over the course of his four postseasons with the Suns, Barkley's He's tied with Bill Walton for the Portland Trail Blazers' best career playoff His averages are every bit as impressive: 21.4 points, 7.1 rebounds, 6.8 assists, 2.0 steals and 0.8 blocks.Like plenty others who drew consideration for this slideshow, though, Drexler just happened to hit his peak around the same time as Jordan.He never won a championship, but he made two trips to the Finals. How can the Boston Celtics not be represented by Bill Russell, who won 11 NBA championships?Well, the size of the league during Russell's era has to be considered. James took hold of the No. His And oh, by the way, his 12.7 BPM in 2010-11, when LeBron disappeared against the Mavericks, is fifth all-time.There is certainly an argument for LeBron in this slot, but it just isn't quite as strong as Wade's. Even after the performance in which he scored 19 of the team's final 21 points, Pettit deferred praise in the locker room.For his career, the Hawks big man averaged 25.5 points and 14.8 rebounds in 88 playoff games.

He's the organization's all-time leader in postseason Two slides in and we're already getting controversial. He is the franchise's all-time leader in playoff points, assists, steals, free throws, And he secured an NBA title for the Heat long before LeBron ever showed up.

And he only needed a year to get it there.This is an impossible decision. In those four Finals series alone, he went for And of course, he brought the Cavs their only title in franchise history when he beat the 73-9 Golden State Warriors in 2016. His first and final titles were 15 years apart.Few players in league history were as good for as long as Duncan. All the questions that I had were answered. They held off all three of those organizations for two full years when they had plenty of talent.In the lead-up to his first title, Donnie Walsh, then the president of the Indiana Pacers From the Dream Shakes to the swats and everything in between, Olajuwon controlled games on both ends of the floor during multiple deep playoff runs, and he dominated a couple of high-profile individual matchups.A year earlier, he dispatched Patrick Ewing and the New York Knicks in the Finals, topping his opponent in points and assists per game while holding him to 36.3 percent shooting from the field.Olajuwon had a legendary career, thanks in large part to those postseason travails.In Games 3 through 6, all Miami wins, Wade averaged 39.3 points, 8.3 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 2.5 steals and 1.0 blocks. Denver went on to lose that contest by four points, and the Lakers wrapped things up in Game 5.Had that injury not struck English and the Nuggets at such a crucial moment, the selection here might've been much easier.Isiah Thomas led an era of Detroit Pistons basketball that resulted in multiple series wins over Michael Jordan and back-to-back NBA titles in 1989 and 1990.For his career, all with Detroit, Thomas averaged 20.4 points, 8.9 assists and 2.1 steals in the postseason. He also averaged 6.4 rebounds, 5.7 assists, 2.1 steals and 0.9 blocks across his 179 postseason games.The list of players he eliminated from the playoffs over the course of his career is a whopping From 1991 through 1998, the Chicago Bulls winning playoff series felt inevitable (though the Orlando Magic upended them in 1995 when Jordan returned from his baseball venture). Even Shaquille O'Neal, who is the team's all-time leader in playoff rebounds, may deserve some consideration for his dominance during the three-peat.But the answer is Magic Johnson, L.A.'s all-time leader in postseason If Kareem was the foundation, Magic was the architect of Showtime. Nowitzki is sixth on the league’s all-time scoring list and just one of three players in NBA history to record 30,000 points, 10,000 rebounds, 3,000 assists, 1,000 steals and 1,000 blocks. Together, Malone and Erving cruised to a 12-1 record on the way to the championship in 1983.It was the peak of a decade-plus run for Dr. J and the Sixers.This is another "peak vs. longevity" exercise, and though Charles Barkley played around half as many playoff minutes with the Phoenix Suns as Kevin Johnson, he gets the nod for how much better he was in those minutes.That's not to say KJ wouldn't have been a worthy selection. Notes: - These stats were updated on December 03, 2019. Elgin Baylor, Anthony Davis, Hakeem Olajuwon and Bob Pettit are the There was a real temptation to go with Nikola Jokic here. The extra scoring and playmaking helped push him into the The Indiana Pacers' career playoff leaderboard is dominated by Reggie Miller. With Shaquille O'Neal clearly moving into a less dominant phase of his career, Wade seized control of the 2006 Finals as a third-year player whose basketball wisdom belied his experience level.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the Milwaukee Bucks' all-time leader in playoff He was also the Finals MVP in 1971 when the Bucks won the only title in team history. Assists: 6,955 Cousy is one of the all-time greats in NBA and Boston Celtics history, having played on several of those Bill Russell-led teams and winning six NBA championships.

He was an All-Star every year in his 13 seasons in Boston, leading the league in assists per game …