Playoff Minutes Leader Leaders (166 views)

[eric]

i think i've posted this before but looking at the player who's played the most minutes in the playoffs in a given season multiple times turns out to be a pretty solid group:

7 LeBron James
5 Bill Russell
4 Wilt Chamberlain
3 Magic Johnson
3 Michael Jordan
so i looked into it for sim league too:

3 Giannis Antetokounmpo
2 Dominique Wilkins
2 Kyrie Irving
here's the full list

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year name
3000 Moala Tautuaa
3001 Joshua Smith
3002 Antoine Carr
3003 Antonella Riva
3004 Bootsy Thornton
3005 Antonio Gates
3006 Marcin Gortat
3007 Gal Mekel
3008 Doug Wrenn
3009 Rodney McCray
3010 Kyrie Irving
3011 Serge Ibaka
3012 Clyde Drexler
3013 Kyrie Irving
3014 George Hill
3015 Dominique Wilkins
3016 Nigel Williams-Goss
3017 Tyus Jones
3018 Giannis Antetokounmpo
3019 Giannis Antetokounmpo
3020 Justise Winslow
3021 Dominique Wilkins
3022 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
3023 Harry Hough
3024 Giannis Antetokounmpo

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Gal Mekel and George Hill

[killiam bing]

Is this list 95% overlap with PMVP

[eric]

Apr 19, 2022 9:48:32 GMT -5 killiam bing said:

Is this list 95% overlap with PMVP

no, in either case!

russell and chamberlain irl mostly played before finals mvp, which makes this a useful cross era comparison

giannis and dominique in sim have one playoffs mvp between them, meanwhile theodoros and larry smith each have 2 pmvps and 0 mp leaders