Durant has a playoff win rate of 59.4% and Harden 52.4%, but what about James and Curry?

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2024-05-16 18:07Posted in Henan Sports Creators

In the second round of this season's playoffs, some of the league's top stars in the past have basically gone home on vacation, just like Harden, Durant, James, Curry, in the past, they all fought to the final chapter of the season, and Curry and James have met at the top of the Finals for four consecutive years.

The names of the league's stars have changed wave after wave, Jokic, Edwards, Alexander and others have also played wonderful games, and Harden, Durant, James, Curry have brought fans impressive and precious memories in their prime, and now they are facing the situation of the younger generation snatching the "scepter" in the later stages of their careers, just as they challenged their predecessors at the beginning, they have also become idols and role models for others in the past ten or twenty years.

What is the percentage of Harden, Durant, James, and Curry in their career playoff wins? Let's take a time machine and see their high spirits, ups and downs!

Harden

Playoff games: 166

Winrate: 52.4%

Averages per game: 22.7 points, 5.5 rebounds, 6.4 assists, 1.6 steals

Harden has been in the league for 15 years since he entered the NBA in 2009 and has never missed the playoffs, making him the player with the longest consecutive playoff appearances and ranking seventh in history.

Harden has undergone many transformations and achieved good results, early in his career as the sixth man in the Thunder, he helped the team reach the Finals in 2012, and then went to Space City, after becoming the absolute core of the team, Harden lived up to the trust of the management, released the league's top offensive energy, achieved the scoring title three times in a row, and scored 30+ points in 32 consecutive games, ranking second only to Chamberlain in NBA history for 30+ consecutive games.

During his time with the Rockets, Harden led the team to refresh the best regular season record in team history to 65-17, and twice helped the Rockets advance to the Western Conference finals, before which the Rockets entered the Western Conference finals back to the 90s when Olajuwon was the team's big leader.

In 2015, the Rockets averaged 25.4 points, 5.6 rebounds, 8.1 assists and 1.4 steals per game in the second round of the playoffs, helping the team achieve a comeback from a 1-3 deficit against the Clippers and finally reach the Western Conference finals. In 2018, he helped the Rockets advance to the Western Conference finals, and in the first two rounds of the series, Harden averaged 29 points, 4.8 rebounds, 7.4 assists, 2.4 steals and 1.2 blocks per game and 28 points, 5.2 rebounds, 7.4 assists and 2.2 steals respectively, allowing the Rockets to easily end the battle in five games and complete the promotion.

Harden's team has never suffered a sweep, even after being affected by injuries including hamstring injuries, and his explosiveness is not as good as before, and gradually increasing as a playmaker rather than a tackler, Harden can still have an impact on the game through his own play, to a certain extent, to keep the team's lower limit at a relatively high level, however, he sometimes drops the chain in key games, which is not less criticized by fans, and the playoff win rate is pulled down to 52.4% due to a considerable part of the reason.

Harden is a 15-year veteran of the NBA, he is still the best ball handler in the league, one of the playmakers, and it is often possible to build a playoff team around Harden, but as he gets older, it may be difficult to build a team with Harden as the core to compete for the championship.

Durant

Playoff games: 170

Winrate: 59.4%

Averages per game: 29.3 points, 7.8 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1 steal, 1.2 blocks

The former Durant is also known as a "talent monster" and an "epoch-making player", with a height of 2.08 meters, but he has an extremely soft feel, skillfully mastering the dribbling and breakthrough technical movements of a large number of outside players.

In 2010, Durant, who had just entered the NBA for the third year, won the first scoring title of his career and led the team to the playoffs. And just two years later, Durant led the Thunder to eliminate the Mavericks, Lakers, and Spurs, three veteran leagues, and only lost 3 games in the three-round series.

In 2012, there may have been a large number of fans who expected Durant and Thunder to reach the championship, but they failed to do so, and that hope may have been a bubble when Harden left. However, unlike the last two years of promotion in the Thunder, which seemed difficult and difficult, in 2017, Durant helped the Warriors successfully reach the top with a 16-1 record and win the championship, and he also won the FMVP, and the 16-5 record in 2018 was also quite good, which increased Durant's career playoff winning percentage.

After a forced comeback from injury in 2019, Durant seems to be drifting away from the championship, from 2021 to 2024, in 4 seasons, Durant has only played in the second round at the farthest, but twice suffered the embarrassment of being swept in the first round.

Durant's Suns salary space is almost "locked", and it is quite difficult for him to win the championship in Phoenix, so he has to change teams to chase the third championship of his career, which has to draw a question mark.

James

Playoff games: 287

Winrate: 63.8%

Averages per game: 28.4 points, 9 rebounds, 7.2 assists, 1.7 steals and 1 block

James once led the team to become the absolute "king" of the East, and reached the Finals for 8 consecutive years from the 2010-11 season to the 2017-18 season, with the Hawks, Bulls, Raptors, Celtics, Pacers and other teams taking turns to play, and even the main rotation lineup has changed several times over the years.

At the beginning of his career, James met the "Big Three" Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen's Celtics, the Celtics were like a mountain in front of them, and James also encountered the Spurs who swept it away one step away from the championship.

In 2013, James also helped the Heat defeat Duncan's Spurs in the Finals, completing two consecutive championships, avenging the revenge of one arrow in 2007, and reaching the Finals for 8 consecutive years, during which James's playoff winning rate was able to improve to a high level, so that he was swept later, and the total score of 1-4 can also have a career playoff win rate of more than 60%.

It is true that James continued his career in an incredible way, at the age of 35, he was still able to hit a triple-double in the playoffs, lead the team to win the championship, and in the 20th year of his career, he can still lead the team in his own way to counterattack in an unfavorable situation, enter the playoffs, and play all the way to the Western finals, but look at his white beard, I have to admit that James is no longer the super newcomer who "flew away" at the beginning.

It may be difficult for us to see James perform a thunderous dunk again, but it is still worth looking forward to seeing him wearing a capital jersey to win the 18th championship in team history for the Lakers.

Curry

Playoff games: 147

Winrate: 67.3%

Averages per game: 27 points, 5.3 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 1.5 steals

Curry rebounded from the trough of injuries at the beginning of his career and played explosive performances, which not only surprised the Warriors, after all, they have been exposed many times to want to trade Curry, and when they renewed Curry's contract in 2013, the Warriors gave only a 4-year $44 million contract, and from the later development, this 4-year $44 million contract can be said to be one of the most cost-effective contracts in NBA history.

Two years after signing, Curry became an All-Star, became the league's MVP and a guard, he grew into one of the league's most "feared" scorers, around Curry, the Warriors developed a variety of complex tactics, mercury and very ornamental offense swept the league, in the 2014-15 season, Curry led the team to complete the championship, the record is 16-5, two years later the team strengthened Durant, the playoff journey is even more difficult to meet, 16-1 record is the best in NBA history.

The rapid rise of Curry and the Warriors has caused the big heavy interior line that once held an important position in the league to "fall out of favor" and make the league enter the "small-ball era" - a strong stroke in the history of the NBA. However, after this point in 2019, the Warriors fell into a slump, they missed the playoffs for two consecutive years, and even Curry came out of injury and won the points title again in 2020-21 to prevent the team from being locked out of the playoffs.

In 2022, Curry will average 33.7 points per game in the first round series, and G7 will score 50 points, Curry will only be eliminated in the second round, and he will not even enter the playoffs in the 2023-24 season, but Curry also coincidentally did not make the high playoff win rate achieved by the Warriors dynasty at its peak, still 67.3%.

For the Warriors, Curry can be said to be a "team totem", he has a great probability of being able to "one person, one city" until the end of his career, but Klay and Dream Green, the two veterans who won 4 championships with Curry, can stay in the Warriors is unknown, and now the league has a number of high-quality point guards rising, Alexander, Doncic, Jamal Murray, Fox, etc., quite a "hundred flowers" momentum, I don't know if Curry will think of the "point guard boom" in the league when he was young.

Maybe it's not just that it's hard to have Curry's place for a while, but it's probably hard to see Curry in the center of the playoff stage later.

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