NBA All-Time Top 10
238 sats \ 20 comments \ @Undisciplined 17 Aug Stacker_Sports
I was looking through some basketball stats and I came across a metric that yielded this top 10 list. What do people think about the ranking? It seems pretty good for a single metric.
  1. LeBron
  2. Jordan
  3. Duncan
  4. Kareem
  5. Magic
  6. Wilt
  7. Shaq
  8. Kobe
  9. Russell
  10. Dr. J
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1005 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby 17 Aug
Playoff win shares.
Pretty good list.
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6400 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Aug
Well done, sir. You've proven why you're the boss around these parts.
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40 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 17 Aug
I may have spent 10 minutes looking at basketball reference to try to find the answer. You didn't say it wasn't an open book exam.
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50 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Aug
Bonus Question
Which metric (value in second column) provides the following ranking?
https://m.stacker.news/46357
That's what I was looking into when I came across the other list.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 17 Aug
Hmmm tough one.
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36 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 17 Aug
Still stumped on this one.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Aug
That's the number of playoffs in which they had the most win shares.
Jordan's 7 are insane when you consider that he only made to the finals 6 times (and in one of those it was actually Barkley who had the most win shares).
In the two seasons before winning his first title, Jordan had the most playoff win shares, despite playing an entire series less than other guys.
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37 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 17 Aug
Nice. Good stat.
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59 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 17 Aug
What rank is Steph Curry? I think I'd put him in front of Dr. J
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Aug
Steph is 19th. Draymond and KD both earned a lot of win shares during those playoff runs.
Steph is really hard to assess well, imo. It's hard to account for someone whose value largely comes from making things easier for teammates and having the character to build a dynasty around.
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 17 Aug
Assists?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Aug
Nope. Thanks for playing.
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 17 Aug
List is fine. Jordan should be #1. Id also move Shaq up higher, in his prime there was no one in the history of the NBA that could contain him.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Aug
It's career playoff win shares, so I guess those guys needed be dominant in more playoff runs. That is something about LeBron that is completely absurd compared to everyone else.
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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 17 Aug
Congratulations @grayruby
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 17 Aug
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Aug
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 17 Aug
Wilt
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