Post by eric on Apr 13, 2018 16:53:46 GMT
LeBron James (NBA player) is currently #1 in career playoff points, #7 in rebounds, #3 in assists, #2 in steals, and #21 in blocks. Where might he end up after these playoffs?
Over the past three years he has averaged 30 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals, and 1.2 blocks per game. Let's assume those averages and look at where he would stand after various numbers of games played:
4 - after being swept by an heroic Myles Turner, LeBron narrowly edges Scottie Pippen for #1 all time in steals and passes Mark Eaton for #20 in blocks. He plans to join Houston but after Philadelphia wins the title he Durants his way to the city of brotherly love.
10 - two hard but swiftly fought series leave the King mentally and physically exhausted and only add Alonzo Mourning to the above scalps, leaving him #19 in blocks. He announces his retirement before returning in January for the Los Angeles Clippers, rejoining new head coach David Blatt who resigns immediately only because he couldn't possibly do so any faster.
15 - a romp through the first two rounds puts to rest concerns about the Cavs middling regular season performance, but an all time classic Conference Finals goes to Philadelphia in a triple overtime game 7. Joel Embiid finishes with 63 minutes played, 50 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists, 900k likes and 20k retweets on a halftime post where he eats a cheese steak. The King passes Karl Malone for #6 in rebounds and a veritable who's who of shot blockers: Elvin Hayes, Caldwell Jones, Rasheed Wallace, and Robert Horry fall, leaving LeBron at #15.
28 - LeBron shatters the single season record for playoffs minutes played by going for 40 a night in the maximum possible 28 games, his 1120 crushing Richard "The Musical" Hamilton's 1079. He only improves his position on the block board, definitely passing Julius Erving and Dwight Howard, probably passing Pau Gasol, and probably not passing Serge Ibaka for a final position of #12. LeBron is fabulous in the Finals but loses the series and Finals MVP to an incandescent Andrew Wiggins. The shock of TMBSL poster eric being wrong for the first time ever is too much for LeBron, and he withdraws to a monastery in Tibet.
43 - space and time lose all meaning. The repeal of NAFTA requires the Cavaliers to play two legged best of 13.5 series against Canadian teams based in Toronto and Portland, multiple times going to sudden death extra innings. The Trailblazers win the coin flip but miss a two point conversion on their final penalty, giving the Intertotocontinental Larry O'Brien Cup to Cleveland.
LeBron still doesn't pass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for #5 in rebounds or John Stockton for #2 in assists.
Over the past three years he has averaged 30 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals, and 1.2 blocks per game. Let's assume those averages and look at where he would stand after various numbers of games played:
4 - after being swept by an heroic Myles Turner, LeBron narrowly edges Scottie Pippen for #1 all time in steals and passes Mark Eaton for #20 in blocks. He plans to join Houston but after Philadelphia wins the title he Durants his way to the city of brotherly love.
10 - two hard but swiftly fought series leave the King mentally and physically exhausted and only add Alonzo Mourning to the above scalps, leaving him #19 in blocks. He announces his retirement before returning in January for the Los Angeles Clippers, rejoining new head coach David Blatt who resigns immediately only because he couldn't possibly do so any faster.
15 - a romp through the first two rounds puts to rest concerns about the Cavs middling regular season performance, but an all time classic Conference Finals goes to Philadelphia in a triple overtime game 7. Joel Embiid finishes with 63 minutes played, 50 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists, 900k likes and 20k retweets on a halftime post where he eats a cheese steak. The King passes Karl Malone for #6 in rebounds and a veritable who's who of shot blockers: Elvin Hayes, Caldwell Jones, Rasheed Wallace, and Robert Horry fall, leaving LeBron at #15.
28 - LeBron shatters the single season record for playoffs minutes played by going for 40 a night in the maximum possible 28 games, his 1120 crushing Richard "The Musical" Hamilton's 1079. He only improves his position on the block board, definitely passing Julius Erving and Dwight Howard, probably passing Pau Gasol, and probably not passing Serge Ibaka for a final position of #12. LeBron is fabulous in the Finals but loses the series and Finals MVP to an incandescent Andrew Wiggins. The shock of TMBSL poster eric being wrong for the first time ever is too much for LeBron, and he withdraws to a monastery in Tibet.
43 - space and time lose all meaning. The repeal of NAFTA requires the Cavaliers to play two legged best of 13.5 series against Canadian teams based in Toronto and Portland, multiple times going to sudden death extra innings. The Trailblazers win the coin flip but miss a two point conversion on their final penalty, giving the Intertotocontinental Larry O'Brien Cup to Cleveland.
LeBron still doesn't pass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for #5 in rebounds or John Stockton for #2 in assists.
