As active T0-level superstars in the NBA, James and Curry have both led the team to championships four times, and they have also met in the Finals four times. And James has a record of entering the Finals for 8 consecutive years, and Curry also has a record of entering the Finals for 5 consecutive years, but now James and Curry have reached the end of their careers, and their teams are not as strong as before, often hovering on the edge of the playoffs, and need to rely on playing play-offs with young people to fight for a playoff spot.
However, judging from the results of the two stars participating in the playoff playoffs in recent years, James has never lost the playoff play-offs, while Curry has never won in the playoff play-offs, which seems to form two extremes.
The NBA playoffs began in 2020, when the purpose of setting up the play-offs was to allow teams affected by the epidemic to play more games and allow more teams to participate in the playoffs in the park. James and the Lakers have played three playoff games in those five seasons, in 2021, 2023 and this year.
In the 2020-21 season, the Lakers entered the playoffs with a seventh-place record in the West, where they defeated the Warriors, who finished eighth in the regular season, to enter the playoffs, and then lost to the Suns 2-4 in the first round of the playoffs, and in the 2022-23 season, the Lakers still have a seventh-place record in the West, beating the Timberwolves in the playoffs, defeating the Grizzlies, who finished second in the West in the regular season, in the first round of the playoffs, and then defeated the defending champion Warriors in the division semifinals, all the way to the division finals and the Nuggets, and this year, the Lakers finished eighth in the regular season and defeated the seventh-ranked Pelicans in the playoffs to advance to the main gameSo far, the Lakers and James have not lost any of the several playoff play-offs they have participated in, and they can be called the kings of the playoff play-offs.
The Warriors, on the other hand, have played in the playoffs twice, in 2021 and this year. In the 2020-21 season, the Warriors ranked 8th in the West in the regular season, and they lost to the Lakers in the first game of the playoffs, allowing the Lakers to advance easily, and the second game of the play-offs was against the Grizzlies, and they lost again, and the Warriors did not get the opportunity to qualify for the playoffs twice; this year, the Warriors ranked 10th in the West in the regular season, and lost to the Kings in the playoffs and missed the playoffs. In today's game, Warriors guard Klay Thompson shot 0 of 10, did not score, only 4 rebounds and 1 assist, who would have thought that Klay Thompson, who had scored 37 points in a single quarter and has always held the NBA single-quarter scoring record, would have such a performance?
Although the Lakers defeated the Pelicans to secure their seventh position in the West, they will face the defending champion Nuggets directly in the first round of the playoffs. The Nuggets swept the Lakers 4-0 in last year's playoffs, and the Nuggets swept the Lakers 3-0 in the regular season this year.
But to be able to make it all the way to the playoffs, no matter how it ends, James has done his best, and you can't ask a 39-year-old to do more.