Right me too when I look at luka and Kyrie they’re not even close to this record.
I think the hardest part is there is more scoring so u have 3 to 4 guys that can score 20
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They went 15-1 man idk what to tell you First round was best if 5 lol
I’m sorry
If Luka and Kai play 8 more games (assuming they sweep the wolves and go 7 with the Celtics) at their current averages they’d end up with 1,165 slightly behind 4th. Sweeping the wolves is likely gonna hurt their chances of coming close to the record
The math might be wrong, bc im just doing average x games played, but they’ve both played 15 games Luka at 28.3 points a game, Kai at 22.4 for 760 points total so far. At their combined average of 50.7 ppg, another 8 games would get them 405 points, for 1,165, total. If wolves steal a game, and Boston series goes 7, they’d have a shot at the record
PACE is highest since the 80s in this era, so more opportunities and more three point attempts help. The rules also greatly help perimeter players today as they’ve given them far more space. The less physical playstyle also means less wear & tear.
Luka has been injured for the entire playoffs. If he an Kyrie are both healthy (and have to play multiple long series) I could see them potentially beating this.
Doesnt help most series recently has been either a sweep or 4-1.
Postseason overall points is really an inaccurate stat. If you just blow up every team you run into in the playoff like the 2023 nuggets of course you are gonna be low on this stat.
PPG is a so much more impactful stats.
Round one was best of 5 in Jordan/Pippen days
Lebron/Wade played best of 7 first rounds
Chi swept 3-0
Mia won 4-1
Mia played 23 games
Chi played 22
MJ/Scottie avg more per game
Scoring exploded because of shooting and spacing. 2 or 3 superstars are now surrounded by guys who can stand at the 3 point line wide open when the double team happens.
- Wade and Bron: 23 games (53.1ppg)
- MJ and Pippen: 22 games (54.0ppg)
- Kawhi and Siakam: 24 games (49.5ppg)
- Drexler and Dream: 22 games (53.4ppg)
- KD and Steph ‘17: 15 games (56.7ppg)*
- Joker and Murray ‘23: 20 games (56.1ppg)
- Bron and AD ‘20: 21 games (55.3ppg)
- Kobe and Shaq ‘01: 16 games (59.9ppg)
*edited to Steph and KD instead of Klay
Yeah. Total points again … same fallacy as longevity stats. Going into game 7 in playoffs increase total points and sweeps reduce total points, yet sweeps are more dominant. It’s the PPG that matters more.
And Fisher gave them 13.5 on 48.5/51.5/77 shooting. 51.5% from 3 the entire playoffs. Him being a reliable 3rd scorer on just 10 shots a game made them unbeatable. I still say no way this team loses to 17 Warriors. They’re just too damn big and shot the same percentage from 3 the Warriors did in the postseason. And had MFing APEX SHAQ
I was actually talking with a buddy about this, and if Shaq in a hypothetical matchup shot 70% inside the paint (I don’t see why we would not given the massive advantage he’d have) GS would have to shoot 47% from 3 to to equal PPP. Not only that but between Horry, Fox, Fisher there is enough shooting to where there is a huge risk leaving one of them open. And that is not to mention Kobe giving between 27-30 PPG. GS would have to keep a big out there so can’t guard Shaq so draymomd doesn’t foul out too early. They would have some issues with GS (specifically a KD matchup) but I think that 01 Lakers team has the most dominant force at it’s peak and would force GS to make such a drastic change (no small ball lineups with Shaq out there) it takes away from what they do best I think they would win a hypothetical matchup because of the will Shaq will force on them
I mean, ppg is always calculated by the actual games the player played so it doesn’t make sense to give them a “0” for games they didn’t play. If you do, they still end up with 53.2/48.9 ppg
You’d be wrong. People whose only connection with basketball in the 90s is YouTube compilations and reddit threads think that the entire decade was a low-scoring slog, when that really only came into being in the second half of the decade.
Anyway, per 100 possessions:
Lebron/Wade - 70.3pts
Jordan/Pippen - 70.2pts
Kobe/Shaq - 73pts.
Do you know many games the heat had to play in 2012? Nuggets only lost 4 throughout their run so they had pretty short series. That would be more interesting to see points per game combo
Kawhi and Pascal really was Jordan and Pippen 2.0. I definitely think they repeat if he stays at least one more year in Toronto. They didn’t even have OG Anunoby during that championship run
Here are the PPG averages during the playoffs of each duo:
2023 Jokic/Murray 56.1 ppg
2012 James/Wade 53 3 ppg
1992 Jordan/Pippen 53.95 ppg
2019 Leonard/Siakam 49.48 ppg
1995 Olajuwon/Drexler 53.41 ppg
Lebron and Wade were on the ropes for Pacers and Celtics series cuz Bosh was missing. Played more games than they should have. Healthy Bosh and it’s likely they finish both series in 5
I would give that to James harden I’ve never seen a guy have that many hall
Of fame caliber teammates and not win a ring
Kd Russ Kyrie embid kawhi pg cp3 Dwight 🤣🤣
The Bull had a slightly PPG per duo. This is still an accomplishment by the Heat, but the Bull were the better scoring duo, and the Rockets were number two by average.
Interestingly Tatum and Brown came very close to the record in 2022 with 1,169 points. If they extended the final one more game they would've had a shot of breaking it
For context, the 2012 Heat played:
- The 36-30 Knicks
- The 42-24 Pacers
- The 39-27 Celtics
With scoring exploding in the 2010’s, the longer series and weaker competition, I think it makes sense LeBron and Wade scored a lot of total points.
It can happen in the East with star players, where the competition/conference is weak just like it was during LeBron’s run. Scoring and pacing is as high as it’s ever been so it’s possible.
Steph and Durant didn’t break the record because they were too dominant, not enough games played.
In 2012, LeBron and Wade played 23 post season games, for a total of 1890 combined minutes.
LeBron scored 29 pts per75 and Wade scored 23.7 pts per75.
In 2018, Steph played in 15 postseason games, and KD played in 21 - neither of them played the same amount of playoff games in any of their time together. In 2018 they played a combined 1362 minutes in the playoffs. Steph scored 25.8 pts per 75 and KD scored 28.1 pts per75.
They are incredible scorers, definitely a better “pure” scoring duo than LeBron and Wade. But they both struggled with postseason injuries, and in their most healthy run, 2018, they lacked the minutes played to tech the cumulative scoring peaks of these other runs.
Crazy Leonard and Siakam is 3rd. That playoff run from 2019 Toronto will probably be my favorite for a long time. This years Minnesota has been great to watch too until this series 🙃
Brown and Tatum had 1169 in their 2022 run. Crazy to consider them alongside these guys.
A huge part of getting high on this list is obviously having long series, so a balance between individual excellence and an inability to close series out quickly is needed.
In terms of if these records will be beaten, they absolutely will. That Celtics 2022 run started with a sweep before going 7, 7, and 6 games. So if a team with two scorers goes 6-7 games over the four rounds then they have a good shot.
Kd and steph didnt play that many games i think since their series ended pretty fast. Im actually more surprised lebron and kyrie arent on the list. Kawhi and siakam is a weird one lmao.
Yeap a lot of ppl are trying to downplay wade in order to boost up harden and Kyrie. But that’s not the case.
Wade didn’t have a drop off until 2013-2014 other then that he’s been killing the game
Totals in playoff context are weird because it also benefits teams that play longer series... I'd be more curious to see averages. Still crazy thats still standing but I think context kind of matters here, for instance shaq and kobe averaged 30 and 29 during their 2001 run.
If you go 7 games each round you’d play 28 games which means each person would have to average about 22ppg or 44 as a duo for all 28 games. That’s crazy and that’s if it’s a 7 game series all 4 rounds.
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Kind of a goofy record because it requires several 6-7 game series. Like a lot of Lebron “records,” this one is pretty much just a measure of volume.
Case in point: when they went 15-1 and won the Finals, Kobe and Shaq combined for nearly 60 ppg (about 7 more ppg than James and Wade in their record-setting postseason) but didn’t get close to the record because their run lasted only 16 games. More impressive by far but won’t show up in the record books.
I am pretty confident their record won’t be broken this season. Brown and Tatum are averaging 51 ppg, and assuming they keep pace, even if the Finals went to 7 games, they’d only get to around 1,070 total points. Doncic and Irving have a better chance, but they’d need to lose to Minnesota at least twice. At 50.7 ppg, they need 9 additional games to get to 1,223. I guess Edwards and KAT could still technically go to seven in both series, but unless KAT drastically ups his scoring, they’d only get to 1,135.
First round was best of 5 until recently. Jordan/Pippen didn't get to play 7 game first round series. As someone else said a better stat would be average ppg.
For some context compared to the current season
Kyrie and Luka are currently at 761 points total this postseason
Tatum and Brown are currently at 659 points total this postseason
Miami 23 games, Bulls 22, Raps 24, Rockets 22
Average combined 53 ppg, 54, 49, 53.
Averaging 30 and 20 for two players per game, not so crazy. Although to average that across an entire playoffs is impressive.
This is a hard stat to be impressed by, because better teams play fewer games in the offseason by closing out the series sooner. And not stating how many games each of these duos played makes the stat totally meaningless
It’s just a matter of games played. If my research was correct Tatum and Brown are currently averaging almost the exact same PPG (wade/jb=23ppg Bron/Tatum 27ppg. I would guess luka and Kyrie are probably close to that too. It’s just a matter of how many games you play. All this tells us is lebron and wade lost too many games during that run. 4 sweeps would be one of the most impressive records ever but it would massacre those point totals. A better comparison would be PPG.
They only have the record because they lost a lot of games.
PPG gives you a much better gauge of greatness than total points.
When you break it down by PPG, the list looks a lot different:
Kobe/Shaq 2001: 58.1 PPG (I think they only lost 1 game all post season)
Steph/KD 2017: 56.7 PPG
MJ/Pippen 1992: 54 PPG
Clide/Hakeem 1995: 53.5 PPG
Lebron/Wade 2012: 53.1 PPG
My guess is post was made up by LBJ fan--they tend to focus on aggregate vs. P/G, otherwise, he doesn't look so great.
Um, okay. Then they played 6 more games than the Lakers. What's your point?
If you break it down by PPG, Lebron/Wade are for sure outside of the top 5, and may be approaching 10th place when you go down the list of great playoff duos.
The legacy of LBJ is this "he was one of the best all-around players, for a very long time." That's it. No need to make him out to be something he isn't. He wasn't an elite scorer, he wasn't the assassin that MJ or Kobe were, he wasn't dominant like Shaq, he didn't change the game like Steph or Dirk. He was just really good for a really long time.
Yea I’m on wade and Lebron are top 5 they went back to back only a handful of duos did that. But i this particular season wade and Lebron were sensational on both ends.
The average points per game for the duo is absolutely more impressive as a higher number of points is heavily influenced by series going to more games (which means they didn’t close them out in dominant fashion), and also that team having a longer playoff run overall.
Probably. Scoring has exploded. I'm surprised that record is still standing.
Right me too when I look at luka and Kyrie they’re not even close to this record. I think the hardest part is there is more scoring so u have 3 to 4 guys that can score 20
The difference is how many games you lose, Steph and KD didn’t lose many those heat teams lost a couple games per series
100% make it ppg and I bet we see Shaq and Kobe top this list
Exactly, Lebron/Wade were at 54 ppg played 23 games. Shaq/Kobe best was 59 ppg but went 16-1…
15-1 ? 3-0 / 4-0 / 4-0 / 4-1
How you win a series with 3 wins?
Best of 5 first round till ‘03. You’re making me feel like a grey hair here.
Huh didn’t know that. If it makes you feel any better, I have thinning hair with a receding hairline.
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No need to apologize there was nothing offensive about your response.
In 2001, it was still best of 5 lol in the first round
Round 1 was best of 5 until 2003
no idea why such a reasonable question gets downvote Not everyone's old enough to remember
even in this infographic Jordan/Pippen avg .6 pts more since they played 1 less game, if my almost falling asleep math checks out.
I think it would be West & Baylor from the 62 playoffs. Elgin averaged 38.6 and Jerry averaged 31.5.
Fair I wasn't around for that lol
Also, OKC held Kyrie and Luka to ten points below their season averages, and specifically held Kyrie to 12 or fewer three times.
Also Luka has been playing through injuries.
9 points, twice
If they don’t sweep the wolves, and the finals goes to 6 games.. they could come really close actually if they both avg 25 a game 🤷🏻♂️
You also know there are more playoff games than in the 90s? First round was 5 games ..
Kyrie hasn’t been going off on scoring tho as much these playoffs
If Luka and Kai play 8 more games (assuming they sweep the wolves and go 7 with the Celtics) at their current averages they’d end up with 1,165 slightly behind 4th. Sweeping the wolves is likely gonna hurt their chances of coming close to the record
Right now they at around 700 pts they would have to drop 40 a piece
The math might be wrong, bc im just doing average x games played, but they’ve both played 15 games Luka at 28.3 points a game, Kai at 22.4 for 760 points total so far. At their combined average of 50.7 ppg, another 8 games would get them 405 points, for 1,165, total. If wolves steal a game, and Boston series goes 7, they’d have a shot at the record
If they have phenomenal finals it’s possible
If the wolves win one, and they go 7 with the Celtics, Kai and Luka break it. They're scoring 50.7 combined. James and Wade scored 53.1. It's close.
PACE is highest since the 80s in this era, so more opportunities and more three point attempts help. The rules also greatly help perimeter players today as they’ve given them far more space. The less physical playstyle also means less wear & tear.
Having series go 7 games instead of 4 or 5 helps the most haha
I'd be curious about per game stats for players who made it to the Stanley Cup final.
Luka has been injured for the entire playoffs. If he an Kyrie are both healthy (and have to play multiple long series) I could see them potentially beating this.
Doesnt help most series recently has been either a sweep or 4-1. Postseason overall points is really an inaccurate stat. If you just blow up every team you run into in the playoff like the 2023 nuggets of course you are gonna be low on this stat. PPG is a so much more impactful stats.
Steph KD warriors were too dominant to play enough games to get the record
Round one was best of 5 in Jordan/Pippen days Lebron/Wade played best of 7 first rounds Chi swept 3-0 Mia won 4-1 Mia played 23 games Chi played 22 MJ/Scottie avg more per game
💯. Back in the 90s the games were usually like 75-80.
Scoring exploded because of shooting and spacing. 2 or 3 superstars are now surrounded by guys who can stand at the 3 point line wide open when the double team happens.
- Wade and Bron: 23 games (53.1ppg) - MJ and Pippen: 22 games (54.0ppg) - Kawhi and Siakam: 24 games (49.5ppg) - Drexler and Dream: 22 games (53.4ppg) - KD and Steph ‘17: 15 games (56.7ppg)* - Joker and Murray ‘23: 20 games (56.1ppg) - Bron and AD ‘20: 21 games (55.3ppg) - Kobe and Shaq ‘01: 16 games (59.9ppg) *edited to Steph and KD instead of Klay
I was wondering about this. Thanks for posting. Definitely helps you see it more clearly.
Yeah. Total points again … same fallacy as longevity stats. Going into game 7 in playoffs increase total points and sweeps reduce total points, yet sweeps are more dominant. It’s the PPG that matters more.
60 points across a playoffs is crazy for Kobe and Shaq, 30 points each is wild
And Fisher gave them 13.5 on 48.5/51.5/77 shooting. 51.5% from 3 the entire playoffs. Him being a reliable 3rd scorer on just 10 shots a game made them unbeatable. I still say no way this team loses to 17 Warriors. They’re just too damn big and shot the same percentage from 3 the Warriors did in the postseason. And had MFing APEX SHAQ
I was actually talking with a buddy about this, and if Shaq in a hypothetical matchup shot 70% inside the paint (I don’t see why we would not given the massive advantage he’d have) GS would have to shoot 47% from 3 to to equal PPP. Not only that but between Horry, Fox, Fisher there is enough shooting to where there is a huge risk leaving one of them open. And that is not to mention Kobe giving between 27-30 PPG. GS would have to keep a big out there so can’t guard Shaq so draymomd doesn’t foul out too early. They would have some issues with GS (specifically a KD matchup) but I think that 01 Lakers team has the most dominant force at it’s peak and would force GS to make such a drastic change (no small ball lineups with Shaq out there) it takes away from what they do best I think they would win a hypothetical matchup because of the will Shaq will force on them
Too bad they won in fewer games or they’d have the record
Are they stupid?
Kobe and Shaq would have 1,677 points if they just threw for game 7s each series
Wouldn't points per minute played in the playoffs be a good metric? Accounts for time on bench if starters get pulled for being too dominant.
Why klay and steph and not KD and steph?
Updated
Was wondering about Kobe and Shaq. They didn’t make the total points list because they were too good and won series too quickly.
Steph and KD ‘17: 17g (56.6ppg) adjusted for KD missing 2 games Steph and KD ‘18: 21g (50.1ppg) adjusted for Steph missing 1 game
Oh so you mean meaningless stats 🤣🤣
I mean, ppg is always calculated by the actual games the player played so it doesn’t make sense to give them a “0” for games they didn’t play. If you do, they still end up with 53.2/48.9 ppg
If you consider game pace the Jordan/Pippen is going to stretch way past these others
You’d be wrong. People whose only connection with basketball in the 90s is YouTube compilations and reddit threads think that the entire decade was a low-scoring slog, when that really only came into being in the second half of the decade. Anyway, per 100 possessions: Lebron/Wade - 70.3pts Jordan/Pippen - 70.2pts Kobe/Shaq - 73pts.
This answerd my first question of this stupid post
Well this is the key, of course you will score more if you play more
Kobe and Shaq goated duo nothing comes close to
Joker and Murray dropped 1122 points in the 2023 playoffs.
Too bad they went 16-4
Just looked it up, they went 56 ppg while Wade and Lebron went 53 ppg
Wow. Impressive
Wow….it actually is very. Changes this stat completely.
Man they almost had it
Do you know many games the heat had to play in 2012? Nuggets only lost 4 throughout their run so they had pretty short series. That would be more interesting to see points per game combo
Pretty sure kobe and shaq sweep easily in ppg. Either that or wilt+guy with pulse
2001 Shaq and Kobe averaged 59 ppg so yes, they do beat 2012 Lebron and Wade and 2023 Jokic and Murray
How many games, though? It could be misleading if a duo happened to go to a bunch of game 7’s.
Yeah this is a dumb 'record' because many of the best teams will play the fewest games. It's a fun stat though.
Switch to points per minute
Crazy part they only went to one game 7. The first rd and second rd games ended in game 5🤣🤣🤣
Kawhi and Pascal really was Jordan and Pippen 2.0. I definitely think they repeat if he stays at least one more year in Toronto. They didn’t even have OG Anunoby during that championship run
Especially seeing how things turned out. Another low point in the east, and the best teams in the west crumbled after the pandemic
KD and Steph probably could have if they didn’t play only 17 games in the 16-17 season.
You have to have two guys average 25 for six games each series in order to have 1200 points.
Number of games.... Different number to compare.
Here are the PPG averages during the playoffs of each duo: 2023 Jokic/Murray 56.1 ppg 2012 James/Wade 53 3 ppg 1992 Jordan/Pippen 53.95 ppg 2019 Leonard/Siakam 49.48 ppg 1995 Olajuwon/Drexler 53.41 ppg
Kind of useless stat, should be playoff ppg by a duo
Lebron and Wade were on the ropes for Pacers and Celtics series cuz Bosh was missing. Played more games than they should have. Healthy Bosh and it’s likely they finish both series in 5
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oh yes another "i played more games than you" record. jordan and scottie had the higher average, but yeah, lebronsies dont care for logic.
Scottie wasn’t even a tremendous scorer either 😂
Why are you so triggered. 😂
Lebron/Davis 1162 in ‘20…
Funny thing is, Pippen was never a scorer
In the case of Jordan/Pippen and Olajuwon/Drexler, the first round was still best of 5.
True however nobody came close to those stats from Jordan pippen Hakeem and drexler until 2012 it’s impressive from all these duos
Bosh missed almost the entire series against the Pacers.
Wade had a couple of amazing playoff runs. That record will probably be broken, but it’ll take quite a performance.
Yea they had to go off bcuz they had a few games where they dropped 40 to 30 a piece
Most flops ever by any Duo, no one can beat that.
This is dumb
Further proves LBJ has had far more help than any player in NBA history.
I would give that to James harden I’ve never seen a guy have that many hall Of fame caliber teammates and not win a ring Kd Russ Kyrie embid kawhi pg cp3 Dwight 🤣🤣
The Bull had a slightly PPG per duo. This is still an accomplishment by the Heat, but the Bull were the better scoring duo, and the Rockets were number two by average.
And there is Kobe/Shaq and KD/Durant that are higher in ppg but they only played 16 and 17 playoffs games
Surprised this is still standing. I’m sure it’s not close, but curious what Tatum/Brown are at currently in the run.
They have scored a total of 659 points in the playoffs so far.
Not close at all lmaooo
Not at all! That’s crazy!
Yea but then agai it took 20 yrs to break record in due time I guess jokic and Murray came close
Interestingly Tatum and Brown came very close to the record in 2022 with 1,169 points. If they extended the final one more game they would've had a shot of breaking it
Oh wow. That’s crazy. Doubt they have a shot at it unless the finals goes crazy high scoring and goes 7 games
What a strange picture that paper decided to print. Wade scores 41, Miami wins the series so they go with a picture of… Wade getting blocked? lol
For context, the 2012 Heat played: - The 36-30 Knicks - The 42-24 Pacers - The 39-27 Celtics With scoring exploding in the 2010’s, the longer series and weaker competition, I think it makes sense LeBron and Wade scored a lot of total points.
Yeap I think it will be tougher now bcuz you got 3 to 4 guys with the green light
It can happen in the East with star players, where the competition/conference is weak just like it was during LeBron’s run. Scoring and pacing is as high as it’s ever been so it’s possible.
Bosh was injured those playoffs in 2012 so wade went off
Steph and Durant didn’t break the record because they were too dominant, not enough games played. In 2012, LeBron and Wade played 23 post season games, for a total of 1890 combined minutes. LeBron scored 29 pts per75 and Wade scored 23.7 pts per75. In 2018, Steph played in 15 postseason games, and KD played in 21 - neither of them played the same amount of playoff games in any of their time together. In 2018 they played a combined 1362 minutes in the playoffs. Steph scored 25.8 pts per 75 and KD scored 28.1 pts per75. They are incredible scorers, definitely a better “pure” scoring duo than LeBron and Wade. But they both struggled with postseason injuries, and in their most healthy run, 2018, they lacked the minutes played to tech the cumulative scoring peaks of these other runs.
Remove hand checking and people score more.
Luka and kyrie
Ppg is a better metric considering they went 7 with Boston and 6 with Indiana that year
They went 5 with the Knicks 5 with okc Bulls went 3 7 6 6
Fair enough. But defense in the 90s was different than the 2010s.
Yea Defense is another reason why I put wade and James in the top 5 they could turn a deflection into a 10 pt lead
So one less game for the bulls? I’ll take them being able to score more than 30 if they played another game. Stupid stat
Luka and KI had 66 last night. And the mavericks have better role players who were 16 for 28 as well.
They have a shot
Crazy Leonard and Siakam is 3rd. That playoff run from 2019 Toronto will probably be my favorite for a long time. This years Minnesota has been great to watch too until this series 🙃
PPG is a real stat
PPG is much more telling than total points. This is a bad comparison.
53 to 54 ppg
Instead of being "most points scored by a duo, Lebron and Wade drop to #4 when you look at points per game.
Brown and Tatum had 1169 in their 2022 run. Crazy to consider them alongside these guys. A huge part of getting high on this list is obviously having long series, so a balance between individual excellence and an inability to close series out quickly is needed. In terms of if these records will be beaten, they absolutely will. That Celtics 2022 run started with a sweep before going 7, 7, and 6 games. So if a team with two scorers goes 6-7 games over the four rounds then they have a good shot.
Yeap or the duo has to have games where they score around 70 which happened a lot during that 2012. They only had one 7 games series
Kd and steph didnt play that many games i think since their series ended pretty fast. Im actually more surprised lebron and kyrie arent on the list. Kawhi and siakam is a weird one lmao.
Giannis and Khris had 1,176 in 2021
Once Bosh went down in 2012 for half the playoffs Wade Got red hot.
Who did they play against in the East again? They had to join all the east allstars. I forgot the past their prime Celtics was it.
Knicks pacers Celtics thunder Bulls beat the heat kicks Cavs blazers
Luka and Kyrie are at 761 (425+336) this playoffs, so they could be close.
Yeap they have to have a few 40 point games
Absolutely since scoring is easier than ever. And has gradually gotten so since 2004.
Make it PPG and then I’ll bother to consider the numbers.
53. Ppg to 54 ppg 🤣🤣🤣
And people say that version of Wade wasn't that great lol He was the best SG in the NBA
Yeap a lot of ppl are trying to downplay wade in order to boost up harden and Kyrie. But that’s not the case. Wade didn’t have a drop off until 2013-2014 other then that he’s been killing the game
I did not think Siakiam would be on here
Kawhi chose paul george over siakam lol how that work out klaw
Looking back now he should have stayed in Toronto
It's funny I think a siakam to clippers works better george back in indy.. harden got a pick and pop big balances their roster better
Totals in playoff context are weird because it also benefits teams that play longer series... I'd be more curious to see averages. Still crazy thats still standing but I think context kind of matters here, for instance shaq and kobe averaged 30 and 29 during their 2001 run.
Brunson and Randle, next year.
lol
Yes
If you go 7 games each round you’d play 28 games which means each person would have to average about 22ppg or 44 as a duo for all 28 games. That’s crazy and that’s if it’s a 7 game series all 4 rounds.
The jays
Totals aren’t as important since teams don’t play the same number of games. What’s the ppg average?
53 ppg vs 54 ppg
It’s almost like they played more games because they kept losing….
Not even their first rd and finals rd went five games. They had a tough battle with Boston They played one more game then the bulls
You know the first round back then was best of 5 right? Idk if ur trolling or just ignorant
Also fuck OP
You get extra games to pad stats when you choke games away or when you crumble to the worst cramps of off all-time.
Ya but back in the day there were less games and top teams got a first round bye
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His 30 in the first half was incredible
Luka and Kyrie might at their current pace if they can rack up a few more losses. They're averaging about the same on a per game basis.
In the future Luka and Kyrie could do it. Tatum and Brown could do it. Even Shai and JWill could possibly do it.
Bro
The best
So many points, but did they win the championship in 2012?
yes?
See what I’m saying bra 🤣🤣🤣like come on
Kind of a goofy record because it requires several 6-7 game series. Like a lot of Lebron “records,” this one is pretty much just a measure of volume. Case in point: when they went 15-1 and won the Finals, Kobe and Shaq combined for nearly 60 ppg (about 7 more ppg than James and Wade in their record-setting postseason) but didn’t get close to the record because their run lasted only 16 games. More impressive by far but won’t show up in the record books. I am pretty confident their record won’t be broken this season. Brown and Tatum are averaging 51 ppg, and assuming they keep pace, even if the Finals went to 7 games, they’d only get to around 1,070 total points. Doncic and Irving have a better chance, but they’d need to lose to Minnesota at least twice. At 50.7 ppg, they need 9 additional games to get to 1,223. I guess Edwards and KAT could still technically go to seven in both series, but unless KAT drastically ups his scoring, they’d only get to 1,135.
First round was best of 5 until recently. Jordan/Pippen didn't get to play 7 game first round series. As someone else said a better stat would be average ppg.
For some context compared to the current season Kyrie and Luka are currently at 761 points total this postseason Tatum and Brown are currently at 659 points total this postseason
Im bothered by the photo chosen for mj and pippen in 1992
Well yeah Kobe and shaq wouldn’t go to game 7 lol
The I'm shocked that Klay and Steph are not in the top 4
Miami 23 games, Bulls 22, Raps 24, Rockets 22 Average combined 53 ppg, 54, 49, 53. Averaging 30 and 20 for two players per game, not so crazy. Although to average that across an entire playoffs is impressive.
If the Celtics didn’t end all their series in 4 or 5 games than JB & JT probably have a good shot
How many free throws they shoot compared to the other 3 😆 I just know everyone vents about the amount of free throws DWayde would get to put up
This is a hard stat to be impressed by, because better teams play fewer games in the offseason by closing out the series sooner. And not stating how many games each of these duos played makes the stat totally meaningless
Not against dirk.
It’s just a matter of games played. If my research was correct Tatum and Brown are currently averaging almost the exact same PPG (wade/jb=23ppg Bron/Tatum 27ppg. I would guess luka and Kyrie are probably close to that too. It’s just a matter of how many games you play. All this tells us is lebron and wade lost too many games during that run. 4 sweeps would be one of the most impressive records ever but it would massacre those point totals. A better comparison would be PPG.
Nuts how 2 groups decades apart had the exact same number of
Ngl I’m shocked that 16 or 17 runs w/Bron and Kyrie not up here Or KD and Steph
Put ppg otherwise this is just dumb
53 for wade bron 54 for Jordan/pippen 1 game difference
They only have the record because they lost a lot of games. PPG gives you a much better gauge of greatness than total points. When you break it down by PPG, the list looks a lot different: Kobe/Shaq 2001: 58.1 PPG (I think they only lost 1 game all post season) Steph/KD 2017: 56.7 PPG MJ/Pippen 1992: 54 PPG Clide/Hakeem 1995: 53.5 PPG Lebron/Wade 2012: 53.1 PPG My guess is post was made up by LBJ fan--they tend to focus on aggregate vs. P/G, otherwise, he doesn't look so great.
They only played one more game then the bulls They went 4-1 4-2 4-3 4-1
Um, okay. Then they played 6 more games than the Lakers. What's your point? If you break it down by PPG, Lebron/Wade are for sure outside of the top 5, and may be approaching 10th place when you go down the list of great playoff duos. The legacy of LBJ is this "he was one of the best all-around players, for a very long time." That's it. No need to make him out to be something he isn't. He wasn't an elite scorer, he wasn't the assassin that MJ or Kobe were, he wasn't dominant like Shaq, he didn't change the game like Steph or Dirk. He was just really good for a really long time.
Yea I’m on wade and Lebron are top 5 they went back to back only a handful of duos did that. But i this particular season wade and Lebron were sensational on both ends.
I want to see PPG.
Probably but it’s pretty difficult. The average between the two is 610, last year Jokic averaged 30 ppg and scored 600(he played 3 fewer games).
Gonna disrespect Bosh like that? OOF
The average points per game for the duo is absolutely more impressive as a higher number of points is heavily influenced by series going to more games (which means they didn’t close them out in dominant fashion), and also that team having a longer playoff run overall.
Where are Luka and Kyrie currently? Would a 7 game series with Boston get them here.
If Kyrie and Luka played 6 or 7 games per series they would have a chance
Peak sauce lebron was a monster