NBA The league was established on June 6, 1946. It has a history of 75 years and has produced a total of 75 championships. If each championship team has 15 players, so far A total of 1,125 players have won NBA championships, of course, including "Lord of the Rings" Russell who won 11 championships, "Skyhook" Kareem who won 6 championships, "Flying Man" Jordan and "Bat". Pippen, the five-time champion " black Mamba" Kobe, "Stone Buddha" Duncan, "Magic" Johnson and other players who have won many NBA championships, if these players only If you calculate it once, there are about 1,000 players who have won championships so far in NBA history.
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These more than 1,000 players are scattered in the NBA’s 75-year history of development, with an average of more than 500 NBA players per season. Among them, only 15 or 18 players can win the NBA championship, and most of these more than a dozen players are ordinary players. At most one or two can be called first-class stars or superstars. So in the NBA There have been many first-class stars and superstars who have never won a championship in history. For example, Elgin Baylor of the "Russell era" made seven finals without winning a championship; the "Gorilla" Ewing of the "Jordan era", " "Utah Shuangsha" Malone and Stockton, "Jazz" Barkley, "Human Movie Essence" Wilkins, Miller, Camp, etc.; "Kobe era" Ai Ferson, McGrady, Carter, Nash, Hill, Hardaway, Stoudemire, Webber, etc.; and the "James Age" Paul, DeRozan, Lillard, Stars such as Paul George are also likely to suffer a lifetime without a championship!
O'Neal defends Iverson
Among these stars who have no crown for life, who is the greatest "uncrowned king"? Recently, "Big Shark" O'Neal was a guest on the radio show of reporter Brandon Robinson. O'Neal said: Iverson is the greatest among the guys who have not won the championship, because he is the hardest defender to defend, and also the hardest to defend. Players! "Big Shark" O'Neal chose the "answer" Iverson of the same period because Iverson scored 48 points in the first game of the 2001 NBA Finals and defeated the "OK combination" that was "sunshine" at the time. The myth that the Lakers won the NBA championship without losing a game in the playoffs at that time! At that time, the NBA dared to challenge and defeated the "OK combination" of O'Neal and Kobe of the Lakers, and Iverson was the only one! So O'Neal chooses Iverson as the "uncrowned king" in NBA history.
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Barkley
However, two of them can also become "Uncrowned Kings" among the many lifetime star players without a crown. The two of them may be more qualified to be the real "uncrowned kings". They are both Barkley and Malone in the "Jordan era". Compared with them, Malone may be a little better, because he is qualified to become the "second in NBA history." Power Forward",Second only to Duncan, the "first power forward" in the history of 5 NBA championships. Malone has reached the finals three times in his career. The first two losses were to the Bulls led by Jordan, and the last time he lost to the "civilian team" Pistons in 2004. Malone’s career averages are 25 points, 10.1 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.4 steals, of which 36,928 individual points rank second in the NBA historical personal scoring list, and 14968 total personal rebounds rank sixth in the historical personal rebound list.
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Malone
Although Malone did not win the NBA championship in his life, he almost won all the honors of the regular season except for the championship. In his career, he was selected to the NBA All-Star team for 14 times, including 2 All-Star MVP; 14 times to the league's best team, 4 times to the league's best defensive team, and Malone was also selected to the NBA 50 superstar in 1996, in 2006 he His No. 32 jersey was retired by the Jazz and was officially inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010. It can be said that in addition to the NBA championship, Malone has almost all other honors. This is the real "Uncrowned King"!
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