After LeBron James beat the scoring record, many started calling him the Longevity GOAT, some in a complimentary manner, others as a way to cop out from calling him the actual GOAT. (For what it’s worth, we still have Michael Jordan first in our own GOAT rankings, but it’s certainly not as easy of a decision as it once was.)
So that got us thinking about which of the NBA’s GOATs had the best five-year peak in NBA history, something we are going to take a look at today.
To determine when exactly each player’s peak took place, we used our own Global Rating Metric and went by each player’s best five continuous seasons.
Afterward, we used a panel of our writers and editors to vote on which five-year peaks by NBA legends were the best.
No. 1 might not come as a surprise but there are some very interesting results on the following list.