66. "Duncan averaged 22 ppg his first 10 years in the league" In response to In response to 65 Sat Mar-26-16 01:34 PM by 40thStreetBlack
his rookie year he and Robinson were options 1 and 1a, then for the next 7 years the Spurs offense went directly through Tim. He carried the scoring load as the Spurs top scorer each of those seasons and put up 25.5 and 23.3 ppg in his back-to-back MVP years. Plus he stepped it up in the postseason averaging over 23 ppg his first 10 years in the playoffs and still has a career playoff average over 21 ppg. I wouldn't necessarily call Duncan a prolific scorer, but in his prime he was a really good and remarkably consistent scorer.
By contrast Russell was never a 20 ppg scorer and was never the Celtics #1 option. In fact for the most part he wasn't even the C's #2 option, Boston's top scorers were Sharman and Cousy then Heinson and Jones and Havlicek. Russell was not the focal point of Boston's offense and never shouldered the scoring load like Tim did in his prime. Once Parker and Ginobili came into their own and Pop handed the keys of the offense to them Tim settled into a complimentary role and deferred more somewhat akin to Russell, but in their respective primes their scoring roles were nothing alike.