Top 20 winningest percentages in the NBA

[SpursFan86]

Where's Bill Russell? Surprised he's not anywhere on here.

[SpursFan86]

Also, any way you could list the top 10 playoff winning %s? I'd be curious to see that.

[Mel_13]

Where's Bill Russell? Surprised he's not anywhere on here.

If the OP used basketball-reference.com to compile his numbers, then a good portion of the Celtics dynasty is outside of the search parameters.

[Spursfanfromafar]

If the OP used basketball-reference.com to compile his numbers, then a good portion of the Celtics dynasty is outside of the search parameters.

Mel is right. The data is from 1963-64 (the earliest available) and in any case, I don't know if the Celtics dynasty played so many games to fit into the criteria.

[Spursfanfromafar]

Nevertheless, data from Elias Sports Bureau quoted by Bill Simmons some years ago allows us to calculate this -

No. of regular season Games played, Win % for Regular Season; No. of overall games played, Win % for Overall:

Sam Jones; 71.8%, 64.9%, 1025, 70.76%
Bill Russell; 963, 71.7%, 1128, 70.56%

That places the Celtics' maestros just below Manu Ginobili and above Tony Parker and Tim Duncan in the all time overall list.