>all these guys started their careers at different ages. so
>the 'age 30 season' stipulation is just as much of a stat
>juke.
>it's just a juke in the opposite direction, that makes
>lebron's
>totals look more favorable.
>
>what are the totals through each player's season 12?

I'm not particularly interested in that list. I think age is a more significant baseline as opposed to seasons because it matters most in the end. Anyway, everybody had different situations coming into the league too. Jordan didn't beat a 50 wins team until his 5th season at age 25. Magic beat 3 in his first season at age 20. Kobe beat two in his teenage years scoring single digits coming off the bench.

But if you compare the ESPN list with the list that I made, you can see that Jordan was awesome in his 30s, while Bird and Magic were basically done shortly after turning 30. Kobe won a title at 31 and hasn't won a 50+ win series since.

Duncan is really the one who gets screwed by that ESPN list because he had deep runs in 2 work stoppage years. Using my parameters but removing the Age 30 cap, he'd have 25, which would put him #1 on that list ahead of Kobe's 22 and Jordan's 20.