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Has any NBA superstar ever had as bad of a finals performance to potentially cost their team a championship as Breanna Stewart did in the WNBA tonight? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by srgntalpowell@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Down 2-1 in a five game series vs. the Aces, the Liberty had a huge chance to win a ring after a series of Aces injuries. In a one point loss, Stewart made just 3 of 17 shots from the field. Are there any comparable examples from history?

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[–] JohnBagley33@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dennis Johnson (Sonics) went 0-14 in Game 7 on the 1978 NBA Finals, losing to the Bullets by only 6 points. That’s pretty awful.

The next year he bounced back, Sonics beat the Bullets in the 1979 Finals and DJ was Finals MVP. He played a few seasons in Phoenix after that before finally getting traded to Celtics, and rest is history.

DJ was a warrior, by the way, just looked at his basketball reference. He never played fewer than 72 games in a season, and that was in his second to last year in the league.

[–] SomeRandom928Person@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He played a few seasons in Phoenix after that

DJ is the reason I'm a Suns fan.

[–] JohnBagley33@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Such an under-appreciated player. I know he is a HOF’er but if he hadn’t died so young he would still be coaching or broadcasting and I think more people would know how good he actually was.

[–] sugarray4three@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

and the Celtics robbed the Suns blind on that trade too.

ahhhh, good ol’ Red. sorry 928 haha