Draft Year | Draft Number (Overall) | Times In The Finals | Finals Wins | Finals MVPs | Regular Season Notables | First NBA Finals Team | NBA Player | % Correct |
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2012 | 35 | 6 | 4 | 0 | NBA Defensive Player Of The Year for 2017 | Warriors | Draymond Green | 88%
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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 | 88%
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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 | 88%
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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 | 88%
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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 | 88%
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1978 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | He won the NBA's Most Valuable Player three times in a row | Celtics | Larry Bird | 88%
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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 | 88%
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1987 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1994 NBA All-Star Game MVP | Bulls | Scottie Pippen | 88%
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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 | 88%
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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 | 82%
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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 | 82%
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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%
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1976 | 29 | 6 | 3 | 1 | This five time NBA All Star played 1,100 games in his 14 year career | SuperSonics | Dennis Johnson | 82%
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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 | 82%
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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%
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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 | 82%
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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%
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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 | 82%
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1999 | 57 | 5 | 4 | 0 | He was the NBA's Sixth Man Of The Year for 2008 | Spurs | Manu Ginobili | 82%
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1992 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | He was the 2000 NBA Most Valuable Player | Magic | Shaquille O'Neal | 82%
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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 | 82%
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1986 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 0 | Was the NBA Rebounding Leader for seven consecutive seasons | Pistons | Dennis Rodman | 76%
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1962 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 13 consecutive NBA All-Star selections | Celtics | John Havlicek | 76%
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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 | 76%
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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 | 76%
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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 | 76%
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1976 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | He holds the NBA record (1,611) in games played, during his 21 seasons | Celtics | Robert Parish | 71%
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1988 | 50 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1997 NBA All-Star 3-Point Champion | Bulls | Steve Kerr | 71%
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1996 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 0 | He played 10 full seasons during his 18 year career | Lakers | Derek Fisher | 65%
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N/A | N/A | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1953 NBA All-Star Game MVP | Lakers | George Mikan | 65%
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1987 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | This 1994 NBA All-Star only averaged double-digit rebounds twice in his 17 seasons played | Bulls | Horace Grant | 65%
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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 | 59%
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1956 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 0 | Never averaged 10+ points per game in any of his nine NBA seasons | Celtics | K.C. Jones | 59%
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1992 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 0 | Averaged over 10 points per game only three times in his 16 years in the NBA | Rockets | Robert Horry | 59%
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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 | 59%
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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 | 47%
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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 | 41%
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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 | 41%
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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 | 35%
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1986 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | Played 1,009 regular season games in his 15 year career | Bulls | Ron Harper | 35%
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1956 | N/A | 9 | 8 | 0 | He was the 1956/57 NBA Rookie Of The Year | Celtics | Tom Heinsohn | 35%
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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 | 29%
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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 | 29%
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1974 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | This 1975 NBA Rookie Of The Year also won his first NBA Championship that same year | Warriors | Jamaal Wilkes | 24%
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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 | 18%
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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 | 18%
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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 | 6%
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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 | 6%
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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 | 6%
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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 | 6%
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