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In the NBA, winners get immortalized over anyone else, pretty much like in every other sport in existence. As such, we decided to look at the NBA players with the best winning percentage in league history amongst players with at least 250 games …
In the NBA, winners get immortalized over anyone else, pretty much like in every other sport in existence.
As such, we decided to look at the NBA players with the best winning percentage in league history amongst players with at least 250 games under their belts.
Magic Johnson reigns supreme while Sam Hauser has surprisingly jumped to the No. 2 spot thanks to the dominance of the Boston Celtics led by Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
Check out the full rankings below:
Hall of Fame basketball writer Jack McCallum started covering the NBA in 1981, just as the Magic Johnson, Larry Bird rivalry was taking shape. After authoring 12 books, including the bestseller Dream Team, and 30-plus years at Sports Illustrated, …
Hall of Fame basketball writer Jack McCallum started covering the NBA in 1981, just as the Magic Johnson, Larry Bird rivalry was taking shape. After authoring 12 books, including the bestseller Dream Team, and 30-plus years at Sports Illustrated, McCallum can be regarded as one of the most impactful basketball writers ever.
The renowned sportswriter spoke with HoopsHype about covering the league as its popularity was gaining steam, following the Mike D’Antoni Suns for an entire season, how David Stern had some similarities with Donald Trump, and more.
HoopsHype ranks 25 of the NBA’s GOATS in order of best five-year peaks, as judged by Global Rating and a panel of voters.
After LeBron James broke the NBA’s all-time scoring record, some naysayers started calling him the Longevity GOAT as a way to avoid calling him the actual GOAT.
Although James, according to us, has by now done enough to be considered the NBA’s GOAT, we still wanted to look at the best five-year peaks in NBA history. (Spoiler alert: James ranks very high in this exercise.)
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. After that, we asked a panel of our writers and editors to vote on which five-year peaks by NBA legends were the best.
No. 1 might be a surprise considering who we just said we have as our outlet’s GOAT, though maybe not a surprise to everyone.
Since Julius Erving won the first NBA Player of the Week award back in 1979, many basketball greats have collected a huge number of weekly accolades from the league. But really, it’s not that close at No. 1. In his 22 seasons as a pro, LeBron James …
Since Julius Erving won the first NBA Player of the Week award back in 1979, many basketball greats have collected a huge number of weekly accolades from the league. But really, it’s not that close at No. 1.
In his 22 seasons as a pro, LeBron James has won the award an NBA record 69 times – which is more than No. 2 and No. 3 in the list combined. The league started naming one Player of the Week for each conference in 2001-02, which helps LeBron here. Then again, his numbers are staggering.
You can check the full ranking below…
HoopsHype put together a list of players with the most game-winning buzzer beaters shots in NBA history, including Jordan, Kobe and LeBron.
5… 4… 3… 2… 1… BUZZZZZZ.
If you grew up a basketball fan, chances are that at some point, you have been in your driveway, local park or in the gym shooting around, dreaming about having the ball late in a close game and hitting a game-winning buzzer-beater.
Today, we put together a list ranking the players with the most buzzer-beaters in NBA history, a list featuring the likes of Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Larry Bird, Dwyane Wade and more all-time, memorable players.
Some players surprisingly not on the list include Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and James Harden.
Check out the full list below. (For the record, the average stats are for games where the player hit buzzer-beater game-winning shots).
There aren’t many stars who can boast about besting Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the greatest of all time by most basketball fans. Though MJ gave everybody the business, a bunch of NBA luminaries managed to beat him more often than not during …
There aren’t many stars who can boast about besting Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the greatest of all time by most basketball fans. Though MJ gave everybody the business, a bunch of NBA luminaries managed to beat him more often than not during his early days with the weak Chicago Bulls roster in the mid-80s or when he donned the Washington Wizards jersey.
Few accomplished that when MJ and his team were at the peak of their powers – most notably a towering center from the Western Conference.
Here’s a list of stars who retired with a winning record against the GOAT:
The Hick From French Lick was best known for his scoring, but Bird could find the open man like few have ever been able to.
Boston Celtics icon Larry Bird is perhaps best known for countless ways he could hang points on an opposing team. He would find ways to score that sometimes baffled his defenders, coupled with eviscerating trash talk that broke their spirits at the same time.
But the Hick From French Lick could also move the rock on an elite level and was not selfish when he saw an open man with an easier shot than he had at any given moment. All the way back to his days at Indiana State in college, Larry Legend was already using his crafty court vision to lift his teammates.
Renowned NBA draft analyst Ben Pfeiffer sat down and broke down some of Bird’s passing film for a recent short.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rnn-NOd8Y8M
Watch his clip for yourself to see why Bird was not just an otherworldly scorer but also a top-notch floor general when he needed to be.
Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi
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This interview had Bird reflecting on his entry into the NBA and his early years with the Celtics organization, among a number of topics.
Hall of Fame Boston Celtics small forward Larry Bird typically kept to himself as a player. And while he didn’t begrudge the press interviews on camera, there are not many of them floating around on video for us to see these days.
From the 1985-86 season, the last title campaign of The Hick From French Lick’s career, the folks over at the CLNS Media “History and Legends” YouTube channel have dusted off an especially interesting one. It has Bird reflecting on his entry into the NBA and his early years with the Celtics organization, among a number of topics.
Larry Legend managed to fill up almost six minutes of interview time in the clip embedded below; to get your fix of Boston basketball for the day, be sure to take a look at what Bird had to say for yourself.
If you enjoy this pod, check out the “How Bout Them Celtics,” “First to the Floor,” “Celtics Lab,” and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network.
Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi
YouTube: https://bit.ly/3F9DvjQ
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Scratch that Celtics basketball itch with a watch of the second clip in the series.
NBC Sports Boston once put together an excellent 10-part video series on the best highlights from Hall of Fame Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird that helped carry fans through the slowest part of the pandemic-inflected 2021-22 NBA regular season.
With that well behind us, the folks at NBC Sports have done it again. Except this time, they have put together a series of videos dedicated to highlighting the so-called Hick From French Lick’s best passes and assists of his storied career with Boston. Spanning Bird’s entire career with the Celtics, it is a great way to learn or revisit just how good the Boston icon was at moving the rock.
Scratch that Celtics basketball itch with a watch of the second clip in the series embedded below to help keep you busy until actual Boston basketball returns in the fall with training camp and preseason not far off.
Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi
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Scratch that Celtics basketball itch with a watch of the first clip in the series.
Earlier this year, the fine folks over at NBC Sports Boston put together an excellent 10-part video series on the best highlights from Hall of Fame Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird. The video series helped carry fans through the slowest part of the pandemic-inflected 2021-22 regular season.
With that well behind us, the folks at NBC Sports put together a classic for our viewing enjoyment. Except this time they have put together a series of videos dedicated to highlighting the so-called Hick From French Lick’s best passes and assists of his storied career with Boston. Spanning Bird’s entire career with the Celtics, it is a great way to learn or revisit just how good the Boston icon was at moving the rock.
Scratch that Celtics basketball itch with a watch of the first clip in the series embedded below to help keep you busy until actual Boston basketball returns in the fall, with training camp and preseason not far off.
Listen to the “Celtics Lab” podcast on:
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3zBKQY6
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3GfUPFi
YouTube: https://bit.ly/3F9DvjQ
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