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[sleepisfortherich]

It’s #EatOrGetAte on that Nawf. 🏁 #LouisianaKings #CherokeeParksFinest #TheNawf #BigGameJames #SleepisForTheRichFamily #ThankYouGODForProtectingUSAllThoseTimes #KeepCoveringMeAndBigJames #Amen (at Nawfside Cherokee/Highand Park!) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRBxNDVhMzD/?utm_medium=tumblr

[robrockstarr]

Yes, we're on Spotify Ear2thastreetz Radio. #DICKDILLINGER #DJC4 #BIGGAMEJAMES #TURNTUP #PROFOUNDJEFF (at Dallas, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLNNNlKJBAb/?igshid=y6luqyyaticv

[yourrolemodelriclieb]

Thank You @jhharrison92 for being the man. #deebo #biggamejames #silverback #jamesharrison

[ceenario]

💜💛🏀👫 #LakerGang 🖖🏽 Opening day (Preseason) and you know we had to rock our Sunday Whites with the 🐍Mamba's ✌🏽 numbers 8 & 24. Since I'm wearing the 👑🐐's classic number, I had to bust out the classic 42 socks - for my favorite 80s player besides magic... the goggle man... Big Game James Worthy 🏆 @jazzyy_fayyy even got down with the #PurpleAndGold eye shadow lol. That's team spirit 💪🏽😎 #Lakers #BlackMamba #BigGameJames #StayWavy 🌊🏄🏽 (at Honda Center)

[hotshotslafam]

Of course, we will never forget this achievement of Kuya @jamesyap18 ! :) Majority of his scores was when he's still part of the team.. :) and many many of those points gave the team championships.. :) :) :) Congratulations kuya @jamesyap18 !!! May God continuously bless you and your career!!! #themanwithamillionmoves #biggamejames #jamesyap18 #10000points Cto. @ghedsgn

[purplebackpack89]

Purplebackpack89's 100 Greatest NBA Players: 100-96

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100. James Worthy, SF, 1982-94 (96.44)

Stats: 16320 PTS, 4708 REB, 2791 AST, 17.6 PPG, 5.1 RPG, 3 APG,  81.2 WS, 17.7 PER

Hardware: 3 Championships, 1 Finals MVP, 7 ASG, 2 All-NBA, 50th Anniversary Team

Most of you are probably shocked to see “Big Game James”, he of the clutch performances in the NBA Finals and phenomenal dunks, so low on this list.

True, he had a lot of phenomenal finishes and won a Finals MVP.  He also never finished in the top 10 in scoring over the course of the season, never made an All-NBA First or Second Team, and has a career scoring average below 20.

  99. Lenny Wilkens, PG, 1960-75 (96.46)

Stats: 17772 PTS, 5030 REB, 7211 AST, 16.5 PPG, 4.7 RPG, 6.7 APG, 95.5 WS, 16.8 PER

Hardware: 9 ASG, 1 ASG MVP, 35th Anniversary Team, 50th Anniversary Team

Lenny Wilkens is probably the best point guard to never make an All-NBA Team.  Certainly the only one who’s in the Naismith Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.

One of the 1960s best point guards, Wilkens’ best season was in 1967-68, where he averaged 20 points and 8.3 assists en route to a second-place MVP finish.  He finished in the top five in assists in eight different seasons.  He later served as player-coach of the Seattle Supersonics and Portland Trailblazers.  He retired in 1975 after having recorded more assists than anybody but Oscar Robertson (he’s currently 12th on the all-time assists list).

  98. Chauncey Billups, PG, 1997-2014 (96.48)

Stats: 15802 PTS, 2992 REB, 5636 AST, 15.2 PPG, 2.9 RPG, 5.4 APG, 120.8 WS, 18.8 PER

Hardware: 1 Championship, 1 Finals MVP, 5 ASG, 3 All-NBA, 2 All-Defense

The journeyman Billups doesn’t have particularly great numbers; they’re at little worse than his fellow point guard Wilkens, with the exception of the fact that he won an NBA title, and a Bill Russell Trophy to go along with it.

Billups never was a superstar; he never made the All-NBA First Team or started in the All-Star Game.  He only finished in the top five in MVP voting once, during the 2005-06 campaign, when he recorded more assists than anybody other than Steve Nash.

One of the other factors that gets Billups into the top 100 was  his defense, reflected in his value-added stats.  Billups is in the top 50 all-time in both total win shares and win shares per 48 minutes.  The fact that he was the fifth-most efficient player from behind the charity stripe in the history of the NBA doesn’t hurt either.

  97.  Dave DeBusschere, PF, 1962-74 (96.848)

Stats: 14053 PTS, 9618 REB, 2497 AST, 16.1 PPG, 11 RPG, 2.9 APG, 60.8 WS,  15.5 PER

Hardware: 2 Championships, 8 ASG, 1 All-NBA, 6 All-Defensive, 50th Anniversary Team

Dave DeBusschere makes this list for being one of the most tenacious defenders of the 1960s and 70s.  Originally drafted with the Detroit Pistons, he was later traded to Knicks, and subsequently made the first six All-Defensive Teams and started on two championship teams.  DeBusschere is 52nd all-time in career defensive shares, and finished in the top ten in rebounding thrice.

In his spare time, DeBusschere served as the player-coach of the Pistons and pitched for the Chicago White Sox.

  96.  Marques Johnson, SF, 1977-89 (97.171)

Stats: 13892 PTS, 4817 REB, 2502 AST, 20.1 PPG, 7 RPG, 3.6 APG,  79.8 WS, 20.1 PER

Hardware: 5 ASG, 3 All-NBA

People seem to forget that the Milwaukee Bucks were really good in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  One of the reasons they were was because of Marques Johnson, who has to be considered as one of the best players to not yet make into Springfield.

Johnson’s best season came in 1978-79 for the Bucks, when he was third in points per game, second in player efficiency rating, and made the All-NBA First Team.  In 1984, Johnson was traded to the Clippers, which didn’t really work out.  His career was cut short by a neck injury in 1987.

Johnson is one of 54 players to maintain a career scoring average of 20 points per game, one of 61 players with a career player efficiency rating better than 20, and one of 66 players with a career field goal percentage of 51.5% or better.