Hey Everyone,

I posted this in the Celtics sub yesterday and a friend suggested I repost here. I had some downtime at work the last few weeks and decided to put together a spreadsheet of players who won championships and were also all-stars. I have a working list of players in my personal NBA hall of fame and since many of the guys on my list got there by winning championships I was curious as to whether there were any forgotten all-star seasons that led to championships we don’t talk about.

You can find the link here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12FNEDnRyF561BpIfXqG2LOBypLY4NDDQHE7kFcAw2hI/edit?usp=sharing

Key Takeaways:

  1. There have been 177 different players to be an all-star and win a championship at some point in their career. This is ~39% of the total unique all-stars in history which is 454 (does not include ABA)
  2. There have been 81 players to be an all-star the same year that they won a championship
  3. 38 have done it twice, 22 three times, 13 four times, 9 five times, 5 six times, and 1 ten times
  4. Of players to do it at least twice, only 3 are not in my personal hall of fame (Mark Aguirre, Slater Martin, and Jim Pollard)

Most Interesting One-Timers (1955-current and not yet in my personal Hall of Fame)

  1. Andrew Wiggins (2022 - 17/5/2 on 47% and 39%3)
  2. Manu Ginobili (2005 - 16/4/4 on 47% and 38%3)
  3. Andrew Toney (1983 - 20/3/4.5 on 50% and 29%3)
  4. Mo Cheeks (1983 - 12.5/3/7 on 54%)
  5. Norm Nixon (1985 - 17/3/9 on 46.5% and 33%3)
  6. Maurice Lucas (1977 - 20/11/3 on 47%)
  7. Bill Bradley (1973 - 16/4/4.5 on 46%)
  8. Chet Walker (1967 - 19/8/2 on 49%)
  9. Jack George (1956 - 14/4/6 on 37%)
  10. Neil Johnston (1956 - 22/12.5/3 on 46%)
  11. Paul Seymour (1955 - 14.5/4/7 on 36%)

Notable players who did not meet the criteria
1-2) Horace Grant, Andre Iguodala (4 championships, 1 all-star appearance)
3) David Robinson (2 championships, 10 all-stars)
4-5) Clyde Drexler, Jason Kidd (1 championship, 10 all-stars)
6-7) Dwight Howard, Kyrie Irving (1 championship, 8 all-stars)
8-10) Ed Macauley, Jerry Lucas, Alonzo Mourning (1 championship, 7 all-stars)
11) Bob McAdoo (1xMVP 2x Champ, 5x All-Star)
12) Gary Payton (1x champ, 9x All-Star)

Note: All data taken as of the 2024 season.
I did notice some errors as I was editing the post so please let me know if anything here is incorrect.

  • newaccountBEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    He did? He had an outlier and regressed to the mean