Almost every Star Player, at least statistically, experiences a slight drop off in the playoffs.

I am not really concerned about whether they won the championship that year, although longer postseason runs are more impressive.

Avoid players that only played a single series since it is much easier to go nuclear over a smaller sample on a favorable matchup.

So 1986 Jordan / 1988 Hakeem / 2021 Luka are disqualified.

Some Candidates :

1970 Kareem - 29/15/4 on 55.2 TS% in RS to 35/17/4 on 60.8 TS% (10 games)

1977 Kareem - 26/13/4 on 60.8 TS% in RS to 35/18/4 on 64.6 TS% (11 games)

1984 Bernard - 26/5/2 on 61.9 TS% in RS to 35/6/3 on 62.0 TS% (12 games)

1987 Hakeem - 23/11/3 on 55.4 TS% in RS to 29/11/3 on 65.9 TS% (10 games)

1987 Worthy - 19/6/3 on 57.8 TS% in RS to 24/6/4 on 62.4 TS% (18 games)

2005 Ginobili - 16/4/4 on 60.9 TS% in RS to 21/6/4 on 65.2 TS% (23 games)

2006 Duncan - 19/11/3 on 52.3 TS% in RS to 26/11/3 on 62.5 TS% (13 games)

2009 LeBron - 28/8/7 on 59.1 TS% in RS to 35/9/7 on 61.8 TS% (14 games)

2016 Kyrie - 20/3/5 on 54.0 TS% in RS to 25/3/5 on 57.4 TS% (21 games)

2020 Murray - 19/4/5 on 55.9 TS% in RS to 27/5/7 on 62.6 TS% (19 games)

Observation - Quite interesting that none of the qualifying Jordan postseasons have vast improvements due to his insane regular seasons.

    • IrateMagician91B
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      3 months ago

      My vote as well. I know at least until this run, he had the highest scoring differential from regular season to playoffs in nba history, or something like that. Add in the clutch factor and he is a strong candidate.

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    3 months ago

    Steve Nash in 2005

    Regular season: 16/3/12 on 61 TS%

    Playoffs: 24/5/11 on 61 TS%