Best Game 7 Performers, ranked by Game Score

[TheCorporation]

LeBron double up on Kawhit.

Greatest game 7 player of all time.
Greatest elimination game player of all time.
Greatest closeout game player of all time.
Greatest player of all time.

Kawhi is sniffing top 30 but LeBron is top 1

[8Ball]

The evidence is overwhelming.

Anyone that doubts LeBron #1 all time is basically a flat earther at this point. Anti science.

[TheCorporation]

The evidence is overwhelming.

Anyone that doubts LeBron #1 all time is basically a flat earther at this point. Anti science.

+1

It is what it is.

Kareem and MJ can fight for #2 and #3 at this point.

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I broke it down by looking at every playoff game 7 for top 20 ish players Incredible list with great information.

Top 3 Game 7 players: LBJ, Kareem, Durant
Top 3 Worst Game 7 Players: Kawhi, Garnett, Kobe

One thing I noticed was that LeBron had 3 game 7s with a 30+ Game Score whereas no other player in league history has more than one. The ones that do and they're top 20 ish are listed:



Enjoy LeFam

Ah hahahaha! Look at Kawhi and Curry!

[TheCorporation]

Ah hahahaha! Look at Kawhi and Curry!

Three worst game 7s in NBA history:

Curry, Kawhi, Kawhi

[goozeman]

The difference between #1 and #2 is greater than the difference between #2 and #6. That is insane.

Chuckster really was a top 10 talent in NBA history IMHO. Some of his numbers really don't make any sense, like a 6'6" guy leading the league in 2P% for 5 years straight. Shame he couldn't get a ring.

[TheGoatest]

How the hell can Barkley have the best single game 7 of all time by far, yet he is ranked 7th overall? His other game 7s must've been choke jobs of biblical proportions.

[TheCorporation]

How the hell can Barkley have the best single game 7 of all time by far, yet he is ranked 7th overall? His other game 7s must've been choke jobs of biblical proportions.

True, true. He had a lot of sub par Game 7 performances that really dragged his average down. For example:

1986, ECSF, 15.5
1994, WCSF, 21.8
1995, WCSF, 14.8
1997, WCSF, 16.4

1995 Barkley blew a 3-1 lead and had a horrific game 5 and game 7.

[goozeman]

True, true. He had a lot of sub par Game 7 performances that really dragged his average down. For example:

1986, ECSF, 15.5
1994, WCSF, 21.8
1995, WCSF, 14.8
1997, WCSF, 16.4

1995 Barkley blew a 3-1 lead and had a horrific game 5 and game 7.

Not really. Barkley's back injury in 1993-94 almost caused him to retire. Even though he was only 31, he had lost a lot of athleticism and explosiveness. Also Kevin Johnson and Barkley was a little bit of Westbrook-Durant situation in terms of Barkley clearly being the better player and Johnson never seeing a shot he didn't like in the playoffs. Barkley did have a poor game five, but he had monster 30.8 game score in Game 6, but the rest of the teams was awful. Barkley hardly touched the ball in game 7 because KJ took damn near 30 shots.

Barkley really only played one season on a great team in his prime in his career and that was in 1993 when he took MVP. After he hurt his back, Barkley was still an all-star level player mainly because he was just that big of a freak, but he wasn't nearly the same player with that could give you the kind offensive production and take over for long stretches. I guess you could say the Suns were still good team in 1994 and 1995, but Barkley was just past his athletic prime by that point. The difference in athleticism between 1988 Barkley and 1994-95 Barkley isn't even really close, and Barkley was a guy that relied on his athleticism probably more so than most superstars due to the nature of his game and his ability to use his combo crazy quickness and size to exploit different positional match-ups. I mean, the dude was a nightmare to guard. If you put a big man on him, he would just go around him, and he would wipe the floor with smaller defenders, but the common denominator that made it all work was Barkley's incredible quickness. After the back injury he never really had that kind of explosive quickness again, so Hakeem never really got a prime Barkley, and really the Suns had any decent scorer besides KJ they take both those series anyway, i.e. CC had managed to return to form after injury in 1994 or Manning not getting hurt in 1995.

Anyway, those Suns teams other than Charles and KJ were just meh in my book. I still say Majerle was so damn awful in the 1994 series he should have been investigated by the league office for point shaving. Majerle had a 143 minute on the court stretch against Houston in which he posted an average of 4 PPG....2 TRB....2 AST.......12 3P%.......15 FG% on 6 of 34 from the field. Nobody can win with that from your starting 2/3 guard. Nobody. In 1995 Barkley had a rookie Wesley Person and Marjele was still awful and Hakeem had teamed up with an elite player in Drexler, so 3-1 doesn't matter all that much in my book.

[And1AllDay]

mike is the 5th best game 7 player


not bad mike, your slipping tho

[TheCorporation]

Update:

Dwyane Wade and James Harden were added to the list. Wade had some real stinkers and is the new "worst" top 30 game 7 player, ever.

[warriorfan]

Update:

Dwyane Wade and James Harden were added to the list. Wade had some real stinkers and is the new "worst" top 30 game 7 player, ever.

Thanks Ching Chong.

[TheCorporation]

Thanks Ching Chong.

You're welcome TrumpTard

[hold this L]

That 2016 final is going to be a blemish for Steph's career unfortunately

[Axe]

Update:

Dwyane Wade and James Harden were added to the list. Wade had some real stinkers and is the new "worst" top 30 game 7 player, ever.

Curry was overwhelmed by matthew dellavedova during 2016 finals