104122, This is a bit of a stat juke Posted by Call It Anything, Thu May-28-15 09:33 PM
Cumulative totals for players whose careers are done/further along v. a guy who is still playing his age 30 season. It under counts the year he won a title in stoppage-shortened year, OKC would have been a 58 win team instead of 47-19. It over counts some of Kobe's early series because he didn't start in any of those games. The 50/49 cut-off helps Bird, who beat 3 50-32 teams in the playoffs. In an effort to take out some of the noise, I'm re-calibrating that list:
Series wins through Age 30 season against opponents with >.585 regular season winning percentage, in series which the player started every game:
Kobe Bryant - 18 Tim Duncan - 16 Magic Johnson - 11 Michael Jordan - 11 Larry Bird - 10 LeBron James - 10* (Pending 2015 Finals)
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