Friday, August 25, 2017

Who Was the Best During the Seasons They Were First Team All-NBA?

Thanks to a glitch in the www.basketball-reference.com system, I was able to look at the stats of NBA players for ONLY the season where they were 1st Team All-NBA. 
Here is the link -- http://bkref.com/tiny/P2nPn  Hopefully the glitch will not be fixed. 


One thing about evaluating players' careers is that most guys stay a little (or a lot) too long or start at age 18, so they just aren't very good for 2-4 years of their career.  That gets tossed into the evaluation mix.


With data that ONLY identifies how the guys played during the years they were (subjectively) evaluated as an all-NBA guy, you can evaluate 1) how many years was the guy truly great; 2) how was he performing as a player during those years; and 3) how does he compare to other all-time greats.


At 14,700 minutes as a 1st Team All-NBA player, Charles Barkley has the 20th most minutes at that level.  So I cut it off at Charles so we could get a top 20.


From 20 to 6 in MP as a First Team all-NBAer -- Barkley, Durant, Barry, Schayes, Olajuwon, O'Neal, Magic, Wilt, Cousy, Duncan, Bird, West, Petit, Baylor, Oscar 


Most Minutes Played as an All-NBA player
Karl Malone
Kobe
Jordan
LeBron
Kareem


Most Minutes Per Game While 1st Team All-NBA
Wilt
Oscar
Baylor
West
Kareem


WS/48
Jordan
Wilt
Kareem and LeBron (tie)
Barkley


WS
Jordan
LeBron
Kareem
Karl Malone
Wilt


Rebounds
Wilt
Petit
Kareem
Baylor
Malone


Assists
Magic
Oscar
LeBron
Cousy
West


Steals
Jordan
Kobe
LeBron
Bird
Karl Malone


Blocks
Duncan
Kareem
Hakeem
Shaq
karl Malone


Points
Michael
Karl Malone
Kobe
LeBron
Kareem


Effective FG%
Barkley
Shaq
Kareem
LeBron
Durant


True Sh%
Barkley
Durant
Magic
LeBron
Kareem





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