It's good to be a Spurs fan.
By stepping on the floor on Wednesday night during the game, Tim Duncan will move into a tie (with Shaquille O'Neal) in playoff appearances with 216.
By the way, when Derek Fisher appears once more for the Thunder this postseason, he will become the all-time NBA leader in playoff appearances, breaking the tie he's currently in with Robert Horry at 244 games.
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Assuming good health, Timmy will pass Kobe on the playoff appearances list in Game 3 of the Portland series. He'll also pass Karl Malone for 5th all-time in playoff scoring.
By the end of the Portland series, Tim should be in the top 6 all-time in most significant playoff statistics:
4th in Games
3rd in Minutes
5th in Field Goals
5th in Field Goal Attempts (27 to catch Shaq for 5th)
6th in Free Throws (38 made FT behind Shaq for 5th)
4th in Free Throw Attempts
3rd in Total Rebounds
1st in Blocks (since 1973-74)
5th in points (27 to catch Mailman for 5th)
Some crazy numbers about Tim Duncan through Game 1 of the 2014 WCSF v. Portland:
*He'll tie Kobe Bryant for 4th all-time in playoff games (220) with an appearance in Game 2; if he passes Kobe, he'll become the all-time leader in playoff appearances with a single team (only Kareem, Horry, and Fisher will have appeared in more games, but obviously, all of them did so with 2 or more teams).
*Having played in 219 playoff games in his career, Duncan has appeared in as many playoff games as the Portland Trail Blazers have played in their entire existence. He's single handedly appeared in more playoff games than 15 franchises.
*Duncan's teams have won 137 of his 219 playoff games. As organizations, only the Lakers, Celtics, Sixers, Spurs, Pistons, Knicks, Bulls, Hawks, and Thunder/Sonics have more playoff wins than Tim Duncan has. The Spurs had 53 all-time playoff wins when Duncan showed up; they now have 190.
*With 152 playoff double-doubles, Duncan is only 5 short of Magic Johnson's record in that category; there are only 34 other players in the history of American professional basketball who have appeared in at least 152 playoff games -- if Duncan's only playoff appearances that counted were his double-doubles, he'd still be 35th all-time in playoff appearances. There are 9 NBA franchises that haven't participated in 152 playoff games in their entire history (Cleveland (148), Brooklyn (132), Orlando (123), New Orleans (84), LA Clippers (72), Memphis (54), Minnesota (47), Toronto (38), Charlotte (8)).
Should happen Thurs. nite.......keep us posted!
Duncan passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in playoff win shares last night, and is now #2 behind Michael Jordan.
Updated as of June 1, 2014
Playoff Edition:
Double-Doubles:
1. Magic Johnson: 157
2. Tim Duncan: 155
3. Wilt Chamberlain: 143
4. Shaquille O'Neal: 142
5. Bill Russell: 137
6. Karl Malone: 124
7. Hakeem Olajuwon: 97
8. John Stockton: 87
9. Charles Barkley: 84
10. Kevin Garnett: 81
Games Played
1. Derek Fisher 259
2. Robert Horry 244
3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 237
4. Tim Duncan 229
5. Kobe Bryant 220
6. Shaquille O'Neal 216
7. Scottie Pippen 208
8. Karl Malone 193
Danny Ainge 193
9. Magic Johnson 190
Scoring:
1.) Micheal Jordan 5,987
2.) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 5,762
3.) Kobe Bryant 5,640
4.) Shaquille O'neal 5,250
5.) Tim Duncan 4,911
6.) Karl Malone 4,761
7.) Julius Erving 4,580
8.) Jerry West 4,457
9.) LeBron James 4,278
10.) Larry Bird 3,897
11.) John Havlicek 3,776
12.) Hakeem Olajuwon 3,755
13.) Magic Johnson 3,701
14.) Scottie Pippen 3,642
15.) Elgin Baylor 3,623
Rebounding:
1. Bill Russell 4104
2. Wilt Chamberlain 3913
3. Tim Duncan 2682
4. Shaquille O'Neal 2508
5. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2481
6. Karl Malone 2062
7. Wes Unseld 1777
8. Robert Parish 1765
9. Elgin Baylor 1724
10. Larry Bird 1683
11. Dennis Rodman 1676
12. Hakeem Olajuwon 1621
13. Scottie Pippen 1583
14. Charles Barkley 1582
15. Kevin Garnett 1534
Blocks: (1973-Present)
1. Tim Duncan 541
2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 476
3. Hakeem Olajuwon 472
4. Shaquille O'Neal 459
5. David Robinson 312
6. Robert Parish 309
7. Patrick Ewing 303
8. Julius Erving 293
9. Kevin McHale 281
10. Dikembe Mutombo 251
Legendary.
while he can't climb too much in the playoff scoring/rebounding categories, would be pretty cool to be #1 in double doubles as well as blocks
He can climb to #2 for games played next year, and #1 in two years. And Fisher and Horry are only role players, so surpassing Kareem is already a milestone by itself.
true. i specifically mentioned points/rebounds, although he will might surpass shaq in scoring to take the #4 spot if we get another LONG postseason run or if we get 2 more seasons of Tim.
as or the games played, its tricky. since a series can go anywhere from 4-7 games, the mean would be 5.5 games. considering series tend to be difficult after round 1, generally skewing towards more games, lets call the average series 6 games. by that projection, Duncan will be at 235 games played after the 2014 finals.
2 additional series would get him to 247 games (enough to pass Kareem and Horry). he would need an additional 2 series to tie fisher. so we'd basically need to make the finals again next year OR have Timmy play yet again in the 2015-2016 season.
I think its most likely he ends up:
#5 in scoring. he would probably need another 3 playoff runs after this season to get to Kobe/Kareem in scoring. i expect him to retire when his contract is up. if not, he'll move up to 4
#2 in games played (provided he comes back next year and we dont get KO'd in round 1)
#1 in double doubles and blocks
If Tim Duncan wins a championship, will he be the first to win a ring in 3 different decades? 98,03,05,07...14?
Corrected.
With a 5th ring, Duncan becomes one of only 5 MVPs to win 5 rings. Jordan, Kareem, Russell, Magic.
Top 5 GOAT if he gets the le.
And no I don't count Kobe since he didn't deserve his MVP and has 3 rings as the 2nd best player on his team.
Last edited by Kidd K; 06-02-2014 at 07:17 PM.
lol that would be nice! I hope he becomes the George Foreman/Bernard Hopkins of the NBA and plays till hes 50 haCorrected.
Amen to that.
To answer your original question I think John Salley won championships in 89, in 90, (with Detroit) and 96 (with the Bulls), and in 2000 as a scrub with the Lakers. It depends on your definition of a decade. Technically a decade runs from 1 to 10. So, the 80's is from 81 to 90, the 90's is from 91 to 2000, etc. That is how its supposed to be used. However, in common usage most people include the "0" year and drop the "10" year. In other words 0 to 9 is a decade (2000 to 2009 for example).
By the later definition, Salley won one in the 80's, two in the 90's, and one in the 00's. Three different decades.
Of course, for the Bulls he was a scrub and the Lakers even less, while Timmy could win Finals MVP...
TD needs 14 minutes tonight to pass Kareem for most career playoff minutes. He currently has 8838.
Somehow, it surprises me that TD has played more playoff minutes than Kareem in fewer games. I'd have figured with the mentality of the 70's and 80's that Kareem, as dominant as he was for such a long period of time, would have played substantially more minutes even if the total number of games had been exactly equal.
Wow, out of Magic's 193 playoff games, 157 were double-double. Beast.
Kareem did average substantially more minutes per game than Tim at the same age. Kareem turned 38 in April of 1985 just as Tim turned 38 this April. Kareem then played four more seasons which included 71 of his 237 playoff games. Of course, his minutes per game decreased substantially during those four seasons. Early in his career, when he averaged well over 40 mpg, there were fewer rounds in the playoffs and he played on two teams that missed the playoffs and three teams that lost in the first round.
Actually that's true for centuries or millenniums, but not decades. Decades start with 0 and end with 9.
The exact definition is the following: decade: (noun) a period of ten years beginning with a year ending with 0.
bad ass
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