I looked at some of the all-time assist records for the playoffs and I was blown away by how much Magic Johnson dominated some of these statistical categories. Some of these records seem like they may last a looooong time.
Total playoff assists:
- Magic Johnson - 2346
- LeBron James - 2067
- John Stockton - 1839
- Jason Kidd - 1263
- Chris Paul - 1233
Total assists in a playoff run:
- Magic Johnson - 303 (1988)
- Magic Johnson - 289 (1985)
- Magic Johnson - 284 (1984)
- Magic Johnson - 240 (1991)
- Rajon Rondo - 227 (2012)
Highest career playoff assists per game average:
- Magic Johnson - 12.4
- John Stockton - 10.1
- John Wall - 9.8
- Trae Young - 9.0
- Oscar Robertson - 8.9
Highest assists per game in a playoff run:
- Magic Johnson - 15.2 (1985)
- Magic Johnson - 15.1 (1986)
- John Stockton - 15.0 (1990)
- John Stockton - 14.8 (1988)
- Johnny Moore - 14.6 (1983)
Most assists in a playoff game:
- Magic Johnson/John Stockton - 24
Two more post seasons isn’t the best case scenario for LeBron, it’s probably the median scenario. The best case scenario is like 4-5 more post seasons.
Call it 4 post seasons, 8 series total. Maybe he makes it to the conference finals one year and gets bounced in the first round the next. Okay, that’s probably 40 games. Assuming he averages close to 7 assists he’s there.
Unlikely, sure, but it could easily happen. Well within the realm of possibility.
4-5 more postseasons for Lebron is “well within the realm of possibility”? And not only that, but 40 postseason games meaning he is actually succeeding somewhat in all or most of these 4-5 postseason runs at ages 41-46? Despite getting swept in the most recent ones where he wasn’t 45 years old?
Dude, what strain is that? I need to hit that blunt.
The best case scenario is just making the postseason two more times