On April 15, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs are about to start, Philadelphia will play against the "King of the North" Raptors in the first round, and whether Harden can lead the team to compete for the championship has become the focus of attention, after all, he is considered to be the most stressful player in this year's playoffs.
According to the statistics of the US media ESPN, among the total scores in the history of players who have never won the championship, Harden ranked first in the active duty with 3191 points. As for the "uncrowned king" in history, Harden's total playoff score is also the third highest in history, second only to the two Hall of Fame legends:
The NBA's Uncrowned King top three in total playoff scoring, as follows:
1. Postman Malone 4761 points (playing for Jazz and Lakers)
2. Elgin Baylor 3623 points (for the Lakers)
3. Harden 3191 points (for the Thunder, Rockets, Nets, Philadelphia, currently for Philadelphia)
Postman Malone led the team to the Finals twice during the Jazz era, but lost to Jordan's Bulls, and the short Lakers lost to the Pistons in the 2004 Finals, leaving Postman Malone without a championship. As for Elgin Baylor, who lost 8 Finals, he was never able to beat the Celtics, and after he retired, the Lakers won 33 consecutive games and won the championship that season.
Now the pressure comes to Harden, who played in the Finals once in his Thunder career, that is, in 2012, his partners Durant and Westbrook advanced to the Finals, but eventually lost to the Heat Big Three. In the future, Harden has had two Trips to the Western Conference Finals in his Rockets career, stopped in the Eastern Conference Semifinals at the Nets, and now joins Philadelphia to partner embiid, and it is expected that he can lead the team to win the championship this year.
(Text/Drunken Floating Life)