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Draft Year
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Draft Number (Overall)
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Times In The Finals
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Finals Wins
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Finals MVPs
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Regular Season Notables
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First NBA Finals Team
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NBA Player
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N/A
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N/A
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5
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5
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0
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1953 NBA All-Star Game MVP
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Lakers
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George Mikan
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1947
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62
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5
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5
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0
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4 NBA All-Star Game selections (including two in years he did not make it to the Finals)
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Lakers
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Jim Pollard
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1950
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3
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7
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6
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0
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He was the 1957 NBA Most Valuable Player and was an NBA All-Star for each of his 13 full NBA seasons
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Celtics
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Bob Cousy
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1950
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17
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5
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4
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0
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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
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Celtics
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Bill Sharman
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1953
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5
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8
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7
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0
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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
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Celtics
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Frank Ramsey
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1956
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2
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12
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11
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0
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Averaged more rebounds per game than points per game for all 13 of his NBA seasons played
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Celtics
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Bill Russell
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1956
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13
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8
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8
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0
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Never averaged 10+ points per game in any of his nine NBA seasons
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Celtics
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K.C. Jones
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1956
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N/A
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9
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8
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0
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He was the 1956/57 NBA Rookie Of The Year
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Celtics
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Tom Heinsohn
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1957
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8
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11
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10
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0
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This shooting guard was selected to the NBA All-Star Game five times in his 12 year career
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Celtics
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Sam Jones
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1958
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1
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9
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1
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0
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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
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Lakers
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Elgin Baylor
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1959
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N/A
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6
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2
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1
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He averaged 30.1 points per game and 22.9 rebounds per game for his 14 year NBA career
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Warriors
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Wilt Chamberlain
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1960
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2
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9
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1
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1
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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
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Lakers
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Jerry West
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1960
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8
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8
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8
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0
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He played 916 NBA games as a role player for the same team during his 13 year NBA career
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Celtics
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Satch Sanders
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1962
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7
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8
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8
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1
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13 consecutive NBA All-Star selections
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Celtics
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John Havlicek
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1962
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17
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6
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5
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0
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Within the 1,053 NBA regular season games, he played in all 82 games of five consecutive seasons
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Lakers
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Don Nelson
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1969
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1
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10
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6
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2
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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
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Bucks
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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1974
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11
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5
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4
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0
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This 1975 NBA Rookie Of The Year also won his first NBA Championship that same year
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Warriors
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Jamaal Wilkes
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1976
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8
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6
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4
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0
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He holds the NBA record (1,611) in games played, during his 21 seasons
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Celtics
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Robert Parish
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1976
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29
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6
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3
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1
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This five time NBA All Star played 1,100 games in his 14 year career
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SuperSonics
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Dennis Johnson
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1978
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6
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5
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3
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2
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He won the NBA's Most Valuable Player three times in a row
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Celtics
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Larry Bird
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1978
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60
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8
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5
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0
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This 1987 NBA Defensive Player Of The Year never made an NBA All-Star team in his 12 year career (all with the Lakers)
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Lakers
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Michael Cooper
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1979
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1
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9
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5
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3
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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
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Lakers
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Earving Johnson
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1980
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3
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5
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3
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0
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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
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Celtics
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Kevin McHale
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1980
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58
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6
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4
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0
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In his 14 NBA seasons played, he averaged double digits in scoring just once (and it was not with the Lakers)
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Lakers
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Kurt Rambis
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1981
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31
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6
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2
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0
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He played 1,042 NBA games, but never played a full season during his 15 NBA season career
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Celtics
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Danny Ainge
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1982
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1
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7
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3
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1
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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
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Lakers
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James Worthy
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1983
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4
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6
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3
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0
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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
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Lakers
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Byron Scott
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1984
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3
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6
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6
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6
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He was a 3x NBA Steals Leader and 10x NBA Scoring Championship in his 15 NBA seasons
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Bulls
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Michael Jordan
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1985
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23
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5
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4
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0
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He played an entire NBA season 15 out of his 16 seasons... including 83 games in 1996/97, due to a trade
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Lakers
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A.C. Green
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1986
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8
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5
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5
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0
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Played 1,009 regular season games in his 15 year career
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Bulls
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Ron Harper
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1986
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11
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5
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4
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0
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He became the first player in NBA history to win an NBA championship with three different franchises and in three different decades
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Pistons
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John Salley
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1986
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27
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6
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5
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0
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Was the NBA Rebounding Leader for seven consecutive seasons
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Pistons
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Dennis Rodman
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1987
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5
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6
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6
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0
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1994 NBA All-Star Game MVP
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Bulls
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Scottie Pippen
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1987
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10
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5
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4
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0
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This 1994 NBA All-Star only averaged double-digit rebounds twice in his 17 seasons played
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Bulls
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Horace Grant
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1988
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50
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5
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5
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0
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1997 NBA All-Star 3-Point Champion
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Bulls
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Steve Kerr
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1992
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1
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6
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4
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3
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He was the 2000 NBA Most Valuable Player
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Magic
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Shaquille O'Neal
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1992
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11
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7
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7
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0
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Averaged over 10 points per game only three times in his 16 years in the NBA
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Rockets
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Robert Horry
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1996
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13
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7
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5
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2
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Before heading to the NBA Finals and the Summer Olympics in 2008, he was awarded the NBA Most Valuable Player trophy
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Lakers
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Kobe Bryant
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1996
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24
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8
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5
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0
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He played 10 full seasons during his 18 year career
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Lakers
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Derek Fisher
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1997
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1
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6
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5
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3
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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
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Spurs
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Tim Duncan
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1999
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57
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5
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4
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0
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He was the NBA's Sixth Man Of The Year for 2008
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Spurs
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Manu Ginobili
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2001
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28
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5
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4
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1
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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
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Spurs
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Tony Parker
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2002
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N/A
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7
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3
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0
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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)
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Heat
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Udonis Haslem
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2003
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1
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10
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4
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4
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He has been an NBA All Star for 20 consecutive seasons, but not during his rookie year
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Cavaliers
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LeBron James
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2003
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5
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5
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3
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1
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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
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Heat
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Dwyane Wade
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2004
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9
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7
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4
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1
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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
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Warriors
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Andre Iguodala
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2008
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5
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5
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1
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0
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He was the NBA's Rebounding leader and its Most Improved Player during the 2010/11 season
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Cavaliers
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Kevin Love
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2009
|
7
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6
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4
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1
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This 2022 NBA All-Star Game MVP also won the regular season MVPs for 2015 and 2016
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Warriors
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Stephen Curry
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2011
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11
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6
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4
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0
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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
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Warriors
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Klay Thompson
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2012
|
35
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6
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4
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0
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NBA Defensive Player Of The Year for 2017
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Warriors
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Draymond Green
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