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What NBA player, past or present, had stats that surprised you either positively or negatively when you when you looked them up? (alien.top)

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

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For example I looked up Kenyon Martin today. I remember him being an all-star so I figured he must have had multiple 20/10 seasons. Turns out he never averaged more than 17 ppg and only got 10 rpg one season.

Muggsy Bogues surprised me positively. I thought he was just a role player like Early Boykins. Turns out he had several seasons averaging over 8 apg and a couple seasons averaging over 10 apg.

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

A lot of people are posting comments about players stats from decades and eras ago and comparing them to modern NBA. A lot of them are not remotely fair comparisons.

The NBA used to be much harder to score as you go progressively further back and much more difficult to score at high efficiency including from the 3. The defense used to be way more intensive with less spacing. I guarantee a lot of modern players including top tier players would've been way worse even like 15 years ago compared to 20 or 30. For the longest time very few players in the league would break 25+ ppg and nowadays multiple break 30+.

[–] Disastrous_Usual4886@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Less spacing would make it easier to score from three.