NBA Best Players... at least 5 NBA Finals appearances - Statistics

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Draft Year Draft Number (Overall) Times In The Finals Finals Wins Finals MVPs Regular Season Notables First NBA Finals Team NBA Player % Correct
1984 3 6 6 6 He was a 3x NBA Steals Leader and 10x NBA Scoring Championship in his 15 NBA seasons Bulls Michael Jordan
93%
1987 5 6 6 0 1994 NBA All-Star Game MVP Bulls Scottie Pippen
93%
1956 2 12 11 0 Averaged more rebounds per game than points per game for all 13 of his NBA seasons played Celtics Bill Russell
89%
2012 35 6 4 0 NBA Defensive Player Of The Year for 2017 Warriors Draymond Green
89%
1960 2 9 1 1 He averaged at least 25 points per game for 11 consecutive years of his 14 NBA season career, and won just one NBA Scoring Champion award Lakers Jerry West
89%
2011 11 6 4 0 He holds the NBA record for points scored in one quarter (37) and the highest number of 3 pointers made in a game (14) and became the first player in NBA history to score 60 points in less than 30 minutes played Warriors Klay Thompson
89%
1978 6 5 3 2 He won the NBA's Most Valuable Player three times in a row Celtics Larry Bird
89%
1997 1 6 5 3 He was the 2002 & 2003 NBA Most Valuable Player and started in all but three of the 1,392 NBA games he played in his 19 seasons Spurs Tim Duncan
89%
1985 23 5 4 0 He played an entire NBA season 15 out of his 16 seasons... including 83 games in 1996/97, due to a trade Lakers A.C. Green
86%
2003 5 5 3 1 He won the NBA's Scoring Championship in 2009, for a season in which he and his team did not end up in the NBA Finals Heat Dwyane Wade
86%
1969 1 10 6 2 During his 20 year career, he has been the NBA's Rookie Of The Year, a 6 time NBA MVP, a 2 time NBA Scoring Champion, a NBA Rebounding leader, and a 4 time NBA Blocks leader Bucks Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
86%
1996 13 7 5 2 Before heading to the NBA Finals and the Summer Olympics in 2008, he was awarded the NBA Most Valuable Player trophy Lakers Kobe Bryant
86%
2003 1 10 4 4 He has been an NBA All Star for 20 consecutive seasons, but not during his rookie year Cavaliers LeBron James
86%
1999 57 5 4 0 He was the NBA's Sixth Man Of The Year for 2008 Spurs Manu Ginobili
86%
1992 1 6 4 3 He was the 2000 NBA Most Valuable Player Magic Shaquille O'Neal
86%
2009 7 6 4 1 This 2022 NBA All-Star Game MVP also won the regular season MVPs for 2015 and 2016 Warriors Stephen Curry
86%
1950 3 7 6 0 He was the 1957 NBA Most Valuable Player and was an NBA All-Star for each of his 13 full NBA seasons Celtics Bob Cousy
82%
1976 29 6 3 1 This five time NBA All Star played 1,100 games in his 14 year career SuperSonics Dennis Johnson
82%
1986 27 6 5 0 Was the NBA Rebounding Leader for seven consecutive seasons Pistons Dennis Rodman
82%
1979 1 9 5 3 He was one of only eight players in NBA history to win the NBA's Most Valuable Player at least three times, which he did three times Lakers Earving Johnson
82%
1982 1 7 3 1 During his 12 year NBA career (all with the Lakers), he played three complete seasons, despite not playing in his first possible NBA Finals, due to a broken leg Lakers James Worthy
82%
2001 28 5 4 1 In his 18 year NBA career, he played a full 82 game season just once... and it wasn't his last season, with the Charlotte Hornets Spurs Tony Parker
82%
1959 N/A 6 2 1 He averaged 30.1 points per game and 22.9 rebounds per game for his 14 year NBA career Warriors Wilt Chamberlain
82%
1958 1 9 1 0 This 1959 NBA Rookie Of The Year retired (during the season) just before his Lakers went on an historical 33 game winning streak (still a record), but was still awarded an NBA championship ring Lakers Elgin Baylor
79%
1988 50 5 5 0 1997 NBA All-Star 3-Point Champion Bulls Steve Kerr
79%
1962 7 8 8 1 13 consecutive NBA All-Star selections Celtics John Havlicek
75%
1980 3 5 3 0 He was the NBA's Sixth Man Of The Year twice, in back to back seasons, averaging almost 20 points per game those two years Celtics Kevin McHale
75%
1976 8 6 4 0 He holds the NBA record (1,611) in games played, during his 21 seasons Celtics Robert Parish
71%
N/A N/A 5 5 0 1953 NBA All-Star Game MVP Lakers George Mikan
68%
1987 10 5 4 0 This 1994 NBA All-Star only averaged double-digit rebounds twice in his 17 seasons played Bulls Horace Grant
68%
2004 9 7 4 1 This one time NBA All Star (2012) started out his 19 year NBA career by playing in all games in five of his first six seasons Warriors Andre Iguodala
64%
1996 24 8 5 0 He played 10 full seasons during his 18 year career Lakers Derek Fisher
64%
2008 5 5 1 0 He was the NBA's Rebounding leader and its Most Improved Player during the 2010/11 season Cavaliers Kevin Love
64%
1957 8 11 10 0 This shooting guard was selected to the NBA All-Star Game five times in his 12 year career Celtics Sam Jones
64%
1956 13 8 8 0 Never averaged 10+ points per game in any of his nine NBA seasons Celtics K.C. Jones
61%
1992 11 7 7 0 Averaged over 10 points per game only three times in his 16 years in the NBA Rockets Robert Horry
57%
1978 60 8 5 0 This 1987 NBA Defensive Player Of The Year never made an NBA All-Star team in his 12 year career (all with the Lakers) Lakers Michael Cooper
46%
2002 N/A 7 3 0 In his final regular season game (after 22 years in the NBA, with the same franchise), he scored 24 points in just 25 minutes, becoming the second 42 year old to score 24 points in a game (joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) Heat Udonis Haslem
46%
1950 17 5 4 0 This 1955 NBA All-Star Game MVP later went on to coach Jerry West and his L.A. Lakers for their first NBA Championship in 1972 Celtics Bill Sharman
43%
1986 8 5 5 0 Played 1,009 regular season games in his 15 year career Bulls Ron Harper
39%
1956 N/A 9 8 0 He was the 1956/57 NBA Rookie Of The Year Celtics Tom Heinsohn
39%
1983 4 6 3 0 He played 80 games during the first NBA season of the expansion Vancouver Grizzlies before returning to the Lakers the next season, for his last NBA season Lakers Byron Scott
36%
1981 31 6 2 0 He played 1,042 NBA games, but never played a full season during his 15 NBA season career Celtics Danny Ainge
36%
1974 11 5 4 0 This 1975 NBA Rookie Of The Year also won his first NBA Championship that same year Warriors Jamaal Wilkes
32%
1986 11 5 4 0 He became the first player in NBA history to win an NBA championship with three different franchises and in three different decades Pistons John Salley
25%
1980 58 6 4 0 In his 14 NBA seasons played, he averaged double digits in scoring just once (and it was not with the Lakers) Lakers Kurt Rambis
21%
1962 17 6 5 0 Within the 1,053 NBA regular season games, he played in all 82 games of five consecutive seasons Lakers Don Nelson
14%
1953 5 8 7 0 He missed what should have been his sophomore NBA season because he spent it in the military. After he rejoined the Celtics, he went to the NBA Finals each of his last eight seasons Celtics Frank Ramsey
14%
1947 62 5 5 0 4 NBA All-Star Game selections (including two in years he did not make it to the Finals) Lakers Jim Pollard
11%
1960 8 8 8 0 He played 916 NBA games as a role player for the same team during his 13 year NBA career Celtics Satch Sanders
11%
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