The 2020’s got off to a pretty good start in the National Basketball Association (NBA) before the COVID-19 pandemic brought that and the rest of the sports world to a holt for now. This is on the heels of one of the best decades in NBA history where we saw championship dynasties form; we had record setting performances that will be talked about for years to come as well as the special moments that took place in the 2010s. Here is a look back at a memorable decade in NBA.
Individual Records and Team Runs That Defined the Decade
-The New Three-Point King of NBA
In the Feb. 10, 2011 loss by the Boston Celtics versus the arch-rival Los Angeles Lakers (92-86) on TNT, Hall of Fame guard and two-time NBA champion Ray Allen at the 4:14 mark of the first quarter tied fellow Hall of Fame guard and current NBA on TNT color analyst for the most made three-point field goals in NBA history. Moments later he broke that tie, finishing the night with a total of 2,562 made threes, surpassing Miller’s record of 2,560.
Upon breaking the mark and being recognized for making NBA history, Allen took a moment to go over and hug Miller, who was broadcasting the game for TNT alongside legendary play-by-play commentator Marv Albert.
Allen currently leads the league all-time in threes made at 2,973, with Miller as mentioned right behind at 2,560. Right behind Allen and Miller is two-time Kia MVP and perennial All-Star Stephen Curry of Golden State Warriors at 2,495 threes, with current Milwaukee Bucks’ sharp-shooter Kyle Korver right behind at 2,437 made triples.
-Rise of Kidd on All-time Assists and Steals List
When current Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Jason Kidd came into the league as the No. 2 overall pick by the Dallas Mavericks in 1994 NBA Draft, he came in with the uncanny ability to find open people and the ability to create turnovers with his active hands.
Those two great skills rose him up the all-time charts as he moved into second place on the all-time assists list in the Mavericks 130-99 win at the Houston Rockets on Nov. 25, 2009.
Three years later Kidd moved into second place on the all-time steals list on Feb. 20, 2012 in the Mavericks 89-73 win versus the Boston Celtics on Feb. 20, 2012 passing the great Michael Jordan.
Currently, Kidd is second all-time on the NBA’s assists and steals list at 12,091 and 2,684 respectively behind fellow Hall of Fame guard of Utah Jazz John Stockton at 15,806 (assists) and 3,265 (steals) respectively.
While Kidd came into the NBA with the great ability to find open people and steal the ball, his major weakness was his ability to make perimeter shots. That weakness he turned into a strength as his career progressed as he finished his career No. 10 on the all-time three-pointers made list at 1,988.
Heat’s Record Setting Streak
The 2012-13 NBA season would be the best in the history of the Miami Heat as they set the franchise record for wins in a season with 66 and repeated as NBA champions, but record a major NBA milestone.
With their 100-85 win at the Toronto Raptors on Feb. 3, 2013, the Heat began the second longest winning streak in not just franchise history, but in NBA history as their 27 straight wins from Feb. 3-Mar. 27, 2013 are second only to the 33 straight victories by the 1971-72 NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers.
“It’s a special. It’s a special ride that were on right now,” current Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James said then. “Every team is gonna give us a good shot, no matter the record, no matter whose out on the floor.”
-Warriors Record Setting Start and Historic Win Total
The 2015-16 NBA season for the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors ended on a sour note as they lost in seven games in the 2016 NBA Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers and four-time Kia MVP LeBron James. They did start of this season really strong and had a historic start and history making finish.
Their 24-0 start to the 2015-16 NBA season was not only the best in NBA history, but the best in start in the four major North American pro sports (NBA, NFL, NHL, and NFL).
The Warriors finished that season with 73 wins, breaking the all-time mark for most victories, previously held by the 1995-96 NBA champion Chicago Bulls of 72 wins.
-Triple-Double Dominance by Russell Westbrook
When now Brooklyn Nets perennial All-Star forward and two-time Finals MVP with the Golden State Warriors Kevin Durant left the Oklahoma City Thunder in free agency the summer of 2016, the fate and playoff hopes of the franchise fell on the shoulders of fellow perennial All-Star Russell Westbrook. He proved that his shoulders were big enough to carry the Thunder as he did something for three straight seasons that had only been done once in NBA history by Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson.
The now Houston Rockets’ lead guard for three straight seasons averaged a triple-double from 2016-2019.
To put that into perspective, that feet had only been accomplished once by Robertson in the 1961-62 NBA campaign.
Westbrook led the league in points per game (31.6) in the 2015-16 season on his way to winning Kia MVP in the first of those three straight seasons that he averaged a triple-double.
“I’m trying to bring some joy to the game, put smiles on people’s faces,” Westbrook said of what he has tried to accomplish in what would be his final three seasons with the Thunder. “I’ve been blessed to play this game and every night I try to leave it (all) on the floor.”
In his first of three straight seasons where he averaged a triple-double, Westbrook joined Robertson (five times) and the late great Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlin (twice) as the only three players in league history to record 20 triple-doubles in a single-season. Westbrook would finish that season with 42 triple-doubles, breaking the tie with Robertson’s 41, the most in a single-season.
“While Russell was on this journey, I felt that I just had to be here. I think what he has done has been historic in nature,” Robertson said at a Thunder home game before tip-off to the fans at Chesapeake Arena in early April 2017.
The next two years that he averaged a triple-double, Westbrook led the NBA in assists per game at 10.3 and 10.7 respectably, while also averaging a career-best of 11.1 rebounds in 2018-19.
In the last of his three straight seasons averaging a triple-double Westbrook set a new NBA record with 11 straight games averaging a triple-double.
In the Thunder’s 119-103 win on Apr. 2, 2019 versus the Los Angeles Lakers on TNT, Westbrook had 20 points, 21 assists and 20 rebounds, joining Wilt Chamberlin (1958) as the only two players in NBA history to record a 20/20/20 (points/assists/rebounds) in a single game. Westbrook also matched Chamberlin with his eighth game of at least 15 points, 15 assists and 15 rebounds. Westbrook would finish the 2018-19 season with 138 triple-doubles, tying Hall of Famer, five-time NBA champion and Lakers legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson for the second most triple-doubles in NBA history. Westbrook broke that tie with “Magic” Johnson posting his 139th career triple-double in the Rockets 126-123 win versus the New Orleans Pelicans on Oct. 26, 2019.
Westbrook with eight triple-double so far this season has 146 in total for his career, trailing only the 181 by Robertson.
-Love Joins 30/30 Club
Before joining the Cleveland Cavaliers as a part of their championship chasing teams in the teen part of the past decade, All-Star and now NBA champion Kevin Love began his NBA journey with the Minnesota Timberwolves, who drafted him No. 5 overall in 2008. During that time, he was known for putting up big numbers for a losing team. That also included his history making back in his second season.
In the Timberwolves 112-103 win versus the New York Knicks, Love had 31 points and a career-high and franchise record-setting high 31 rebounds. Love had the second most rebounds in a game since Hall of Famer and current NBATV/NBA on TNT analyst Charles Barkley had 33 rebounds (career-high) to along with 20 points in helping the Houston Rockets to a 110-95 win at his former team the Phoenix Suns on Nov. 2, 1996. Love also became the first player since Moses Malone in 1982 to post a 30/30 (point/rebound) performance.
“I just got into a great rhythm on the offensive and defensive glass,” Love said of his performance that night. “That was definitely a special night for me and probably the best game I’ve had in my career, and it was kind of my welcome to the NBA moment.”
-Stephen Curry’s Three-Point Party at MSG
Over the past few seasons, the Golden State Warriors All-Star backcourt of two-time Kia MVP Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson have made a reputation for lighting up scoreboards with their ability to strike a match from the perimeter, especially from three-point range. That has helped the Warriors to reach The Finals five straight seasons and win three Larry O’Brien trophies. That reputation, especially for Curry was on full display to the national audience at the “Worlds Most Famous Arena” seven years ago.
It was on this night at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY that the oldest son of former Charlotte Hornet and current color analyst for them in Dell Curry scored a career-high 54 points on 18 for 28 shooting, including going 11 for 13 from three-point range.
As the play-by-play commentator for ESPN that night Mark Jones colorfully said on the broadcast when Curry’s hot night from distance, “Making it rain in New York.”
-Record Setting Night at MSG By Anthony
There were many things that current Portland Trail Blazers Carmelo Anthony did not do in his 6 ½ years with the New York Knicks. Not leading them beyond the Semifinals of the postseason. Not really being more than a prolific scorer or raising the level of play of his teammates. What he always did though was be front and center for the rare good moments and take responsibility for all the rough ones. One of those rare good moments happened on Jan. 24, 2014.
On that night in the Knicks 125-96 win versus the then Charlotte Bobcats, now Charlotte Hornets, Anthony scored a career-high 62 points and grabbed 13 rebounds on 23 for 35 shooting, including 6 for 11 from three-point range and a perfect 10 for 10 from the free throw line.
Anthony, who set the single-game scoring record and single-game scoring record at MSG was rocking right from the beginning with 20 points in the opening period. That was followed by 17 points in the second quarter; 19 in the third quarter and seven points in the fourth period.
He closed out his 37-point first half with a buzzer-beating one-legged three-pointer from half-court.
“It’s just a zone you get that you get in sometimes. Only a certain group of people know that zone feels like, and tonight was one of those zones,” Anthony told then MSG sideline reporter and now WNYW FOX 5 Sports anchor Tina Cervasio.
-Historic Triple-Double by “The Beard”
Over the course of the last two seasons, Houston Rockets perennial All-Star and 2018 Kia MVP James Harden has put up some very prolific numbers, especially in the scoring department. That also includes reaching the 60-point mark a few times.
The first team to fall victim to a 60-point performance was the Orlando Magic on Jan. 30, 2018, a 114-107 win by the Rockets where Harden had career-high and Rockets franchise record 60 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, becoming the first player in NBA history to register a 60-point triple-double.
That was the first of four occasions where Harden scored 60-plus. He scored a career-high and set a new Rockets single-game scoring record with 61 points along with 15 rebounds and five steals on 17 for 38 shooting, including 5 for 20 from three-point range and 22 for 25 from the free throw line in the team’s 114-110 win at the Knicks on Jan. 23, 2019.
Three months later, Harden matched that 61-point performance in the Rockets 111-105 win versus the five-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs on Mar. 22, 2019.
Harden on that night joined the late great Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, and the late great Wilt Chamberlin as the only players in league history to register 60 points or more in multiple games in a single season.
-Suns Guard Scores Big in “Beantown”
There has not been a lot of winning done by the Phoenix Suns during the 2010s. That has masked the stellar growth of their top offensive player in five-year guard, who was named a first-time earlier this season in Devin Booker. On Mar. 24, 2017 Booker put on a performance to remember at the Boston Celtics, despite another loss by the Suns.
In the Suns 130-120 loss at the Celtics, Booker scored a career-high 70 points, joining Wilt Chamberlin, fellow Hall of Famer David Robinson; Hall of Famers David Thompson and Elgin Baylor and the late great Kobe Bryant to score 70-plus in a single-game in league history.
Booker, who went 21 for 40 from the field, including 4 for 11 from three-point range and 24 from 26 from the charity stripe on his way to scoring 70 at the Celtics.
He surpassed the previous single-game scoring mark in Suns history, which was previously held by current Suns studio analyst for FOX Sports Arizona Tom Chambers, who scored 60 on Mar. 24, 1990. Booker also recorded the highest scoring game since Bryant 81-point performance in Jan. 2006.
“I know that you can’t take nothing for granted in this league, and that your opportunity can be gone in one day,” Booker said once of the approach he takes entering every game. “So, every time I get out there, I try to play my hardest.”
-Thompson’s Prolific Scoring Nights
During the Golden State Warriors’ stellar run the last five seasons, which has seen them add three more Larry O’Brien trophies to their case, the other half of their “Splash Brothers” perennial All-Star tandem in Klay Thompson has shown the ability to light up defensives with his prolific and beautiful right-handed stroke.
In the Warriors 126-101 win versus their Norther California rivals the Sacramento Kings, Thompson scored a then career-high 52 points on 16 for 25 shooting, including 11 for 15 from three-point range and 9 for 10 from the free throw line. Thompson scored an NBA-record with 37 of those 52 points in the third quarter. He also had enough time in the game to register five assists, four steals and two block shots.
“You always dream of it. Being a big-time scorer, big time player. When I ever be putting up shots in the park, in my back yard I be dreaming about it,” Thompson said once about being in that zone where the basket looks like an ocean to where everything you shoot is going in the hoop.
Thompson would have that same feeling one year later when in the Warriors 142-106 win versus the Pacers on Dec. 5, 2016, Thompson scored a new career-high 60 points in 29 minutes going 21 for 33 shooting, including 8 for 14 from three-point range and 10 for 11 from the free throw line.
To put into context how great of a performance Thomson had versus the Pacers, the only time he cooled off is when Stephen Curry dumped a bucket of ice on him during a postgame interview with then NBC Sports Bay Area’s Ros Gold-Onwude.
When Gold-Onwude asked if Curry cooled him off, Thompson said, “No. I’m still hot.”
The one great attribute about Thompson is his ability to never let a rough shooting night or a string of rough shooting games dim his confidence to keep shooting and that was on full display on Oct. 29, 2018.
In the Warriors 149-124 win at the Chicago Bulls Thompson scored 52 points, going 18 for 29 from the field, including hitting an NBA-record 14 three-pointers on 24 attempts. Thompson surpassed the previous mark of 13 threes made by his teammate Curry in the Warriors 116-106 win versus the New Orleans Pelicans on Nov. 7, 2016.
“I just knew I was due for a big night. I just knew it,” Thompson said about his big night after a rough shooting start to that season scoring no more than 19 points and hitting just 5 for his first 36 from three-point range last season.
To put into context how good Thompson was on this night at the Bulls, he scored 36 points hitting 10 triples in the opening half as the Warriors registered 92 first half points, second only to the 107 by the Suns in opening half of their 173-143 win over the Denver Nuggets in 1990 for most points in a half in NBA history.
All-Star Moments in 2010s
The 2010s in the NBA saw perennial All-Stars joining forces to make a run at a championship(s) together. A number of those stars would meet up in the middle of February for the NBA’s annual mid-season weekend to bring us unforgettable moments during All-Star Saturday Night and at the league’s unofficial mid-season classic.
The decade began with the 2010 NBA All-Star Game at AT&T Stadium, also known as Jerry’s World-in reference to Dallas Cowboys long-time owner Jerry Jones.
The game, which was held on Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14, 2010 set a new Guinness World record for the most fans to attend a basketball at 108,713, beating the previous mark of the 78,129 that attended an NCAA contest between the University of Kentucky Wildcats against the Michigan State University Spartans.
“To be a witness of the largest crowd to ever watch a game and play in it is an honor for all of us,” 2010 All-Star Game MVP and the recently retired Dwyane Wade said.
The most talked about even at the 2011 All-Star weekend in Los Angeles, CA was the Slam Dunk Contest, which was where six-time All-Star then with the Los Angeles Clippers, now with the Detroit Pistons Blake Griffin announced his arrival on the NBA scene.
Griffin highlighted his stellar performance in the exhibition by performing a dunk where he jumped over a Kia, which sealed his win in the contest.
The 2015 All-Star Weekend at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY was highlighted first by the Three-Point contest where two-time Kia MVP of the Warriors Stephen Curry stood out amongst the pack great shooters in that contest taking home the trophy thanks to a display of marksmanship and precision that would have made past champions of that contest like Larry Bird, Mark Price, and Jeff Hornacek proud.
The 2016 All-Star Weekend at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto is where the Slam Dunk Contest took centerstage as then Minnesota Timberwolves, now Chicago Bulls highflyer Zach LaVine and Orlando Magic highflyer Aaron Gordon put on a one-one-one duel in the contest that brought us back to the famed duels between Hall of Famers Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins of the late 1980s.
Both LaVine and Gordon were performing dunks that had everyone in the arena from current NBA players to the fans dropping their jaws and out of there seats.
It all came to one final dunk as Gordon performed a between the legs double-pump two-handed reverse throw down was out done by LaVine’s take off from the foul line between the legs one-handed finish that won it.
“We did some crazy stuff, man. It came down to it, man. This was ridiculous,” LaVine said after the contest.
Gordon added by saying afterwards, “It was really fun. You had two of the most athletic people in the league. Zach just closed it out with that last dunk. It was crazy, man.”
-Davis Shines at All-Star Game in “Big Easy”
One of the best moments an NBA player can have in their career is to play and start an All-Star Game in front of their home fans. That is what former New Orleans Pelican, now Los Angeles Lakers perennial All-Star forward Anthony Davis had just three seasons back.
Davis put on a show scoring an All-Star Game record 52 points and taking home MVP honors.
New All-Star Game Format, Brings More Exciting Game
Two years back in an effort, the NBA decided to change the All-Star format up where the two leading vote getters would be chosen as captains and they would pick their teammates and hopefully will lead to a more exciting and closer game than in season’s past. We got that and then some in the 2018 unofficial mid-season classic in the “City of Angels.”
Through the first three quarters the game was nip-and-tuck as there were the accustomed highlight dunks, no-look passes, open threes and transition buckets.
As the game progressed from late in the third quarter and throughout the fourth quarter the game got serious to where both Team LeBron and Team Steph locked in on both ends to where precision offense needed to be run and all 10 players needed to have a plan of how they were going to execute.
A perfect example of this on the last play of the game as Team LeBron was on the high side of the scoreboard, Curry with a chance to tie the score with a three was swarmed by James and Durant, having to pass to then Raptors’ All-Star, now with the San Antonio Spurs DeMar DeRozan whose three attempt was after the final buzzer, giving Team LeBron the 148-145 win.
Durant said after the game, “Since I’ve been playing in All-Star Games, this is the best one because, you know? It’s because of the format. All the guys came out and played hard.”
James, who had 29 points, 10 rebounds, and eight assists in route to his third All-Star Game MVP award said postgame, “Team LeBron, Team Steph this is for the fans.”
MVPs in the 2010s
Over the course of NBA history, there are two things that make an NBA player standout amongst the plethora of players that have come and gone. How many titles did you lead your team to and did you win league MVP along the way? This past decade provided some of the most transformative MVPs in the history of “The Association” seemingly took turns in passing the most prestigious honor, which featured players still thriving as this next decade is underway.
“The teamwork. The intensity. The passion for the game that has been demonstrated by this superstar has been a joy to behold,” is what the former late great NBA Commissioner David Stern of LeBron James when kicked of the past decade winning his second consecutive Kia MVP.
He would go on to win two more consecutive MVPs with the Miami Heat in 2012 and 2013 in helping the them captured back-to-back titles in their four straight appearances in The Finals.
Before injuries began piling up for former Bulls guard, now member of the Pistons Derrick Rose beginning the playoffs in 2012, the Chicago native and former No. 1 overall pick out of the University of Memphis used his superior athleticism and ability to dominate the offensive action interrupted James reign winning Kia MVP in 2011 becoming the youngest ever to win that honor at 22 years and six months old, surpassing the previous record holder of former Washington Wizard Wes Unseld at 23 years, two months in the 1968-69 season. The Bulls that season made it to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since the spring of 1998 but lost to James and the Heat 4-1.
Three years later Kevin Durant of the then Oklahoma City Thunder, now of the Brooklyn Nets won MVP honors in 2014 to go alongside his four league scoring titles.
As great of a players he was on the floor that season and has been throughout his career, Durant, whose on the shelf right now recovering from a ruptured Achilles sustained in Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals gave perhaps the most memorable acceptance speech thanking who he called “The Real MVP” of his life in his mother Wanda.
In a speech that brought Ms. Durant, and those who watched in person and on television to tears, the now two-time Finals MVP said, “We weren’t supposed to be here. You made us believe. You went to sleep hungry. You sacrificed for us. You’re the real MVP.”
The player who would bring his opponent’s and opposing coaches to tears with his ability to make shots from near half court to go along with his ability to raise the level of play of his teammates was Stephen Curry of Warriors, who moto in recent years was “Strength In Numbers” won back-to-back Kia MVP for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, where he became the first unanimous MVP in league history on the back end of that run.
“I just want to say thank you to the fans. All ‘Dubnation’ for your support all year long,” Curry said in one of his MVP acceptant speeches.
Then Thunder guard, now with the Rockets Russell Westbrook joined the MVP party in 2017, as he became the first player since the great Oscar Robertson in the 1961-62 season to average a triple-double as he registered averages of 31.6 points (Led NBA), 10.4 assists and 10.7 rebounds, and 1.6 steals.
Westbrook would average a triple-double the next two seasons showing that what he did in the 2016-17 season was not a fluke as he would lead the Thunder to the playoffs those three seasons in the departure of Durant in free agency the summer of 2016 joining the Warriors.
Westbrook’s reign of being league MVP would end to his now teammate with the Rockets in James Harden in 2018 in one of the closet MVP races in recent history.
Harden in the 2017-18 season led the league in scoring a second straight season with an average of 30.4 points to go along with 8.8 assists, 5.4 rebounds and 1.8 steals, as he captured the league’s highest individual honor after finishing a close second the two seasons prior.
Harden’s has displayed over the past few seasons an ability to score at the rim, from three-point range and at the free throw line is how he led the league in scoring again the next season with an average of 36.1 points, with 7.5 assists, 6.6 rebounds and two steals but he finished second in that race to “The Greek Freak,” and future face of the NBA in Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks.
The relative unknown No. 13 overall pick from Greece in the 2013 draft, who been an All-Star selection for four consecutive seasons increased his numbers for a sixth consecutive season, averaging 27.7 points, 12.5 rebounds, and 5.9 assists on 57.8 percent shooting, authoring as season that Bucks nation had not seen since Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was piling up one of his NBA record six MVP awards.
Antetokounmpo led the Bucks past to the Semifinals for the first time since 2000-01 season and they came within two games of reaching The Finals for the first time since 1974 as they lost to the eventual NBA champion Toronto Raptors 4-2 in the Eastern Conference Finals.
“Two years ago, I had the goal in my head that I going to be the best player in the league,” Antetokounmpo said at “The NBA Awards Show” in Los Angeles, CA last June. “I’m going to do whatever it takes to help my team win, and I’m going to win MVP.”
Here is the thing about Antetokounmpo, he won MVP and became the player that he did last year without having a consistent jump shot, and a consistent free throw stroke. What he does have in his offensive arsenal is the uncanny ability to handle the basketball for a forward, the ability to get to the basket and score over the top of anyone; a ferocity to defend on the perimeter or at the rim; rebound the ball on both ends and makes plays for his teammates.
With the likes of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Stephen Curry, James Harden and even LeBron James still in the prime of their NBA journeys it is fair to imagine what they will bring to the table this decade, and considering what they were bringing before the NBA had to shut itself down because of the pandemic of COVID-19 these players have a lot left to bring to the forefront of the NBA hardwood.
NBA Greats Who Said Goodbye
The arrival of the likes of perennial All-Stars in Anthony Davis, Paul George, Kyrie Irving, Jimmy Butler, Blake Griffin, Klay Thompson, Nikola Jokic, Kawhi Leonard, Damian Lillard, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid, and Ben Simmons just to name a few who lead the NBA this decade. Their arrival also meant the greats that defined the past decade passed the so-called torch them as they took their final bows.
In 2011, we said goodbye to the charismatic, fun, and dominant Shaquille O’Neal who played 19 seasons in the NBA with the Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Boston Celtics. The 2000 Kia MVP helped lead the Lakers to three straight Larr O’Brien trophies (2000-02) and added one more with the Heat in 2006. He was selected as an NBA All-Star 15 times; was an All-NBA selection 14 times; made the All-Defensive Team three times; was a three-time Bill Russell award recipient as the Finals MVP; and has his number No. 34 retired by the Lakers and his No. 32 retired by the Heat. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2016.
Joining O’Neal in the 2016 Hall of Fame class was Yao Ming, who played nine seasons with the Houston Rockets after they took him No. 1 overall in 2002 NBA Draft.
Ming, who averaged 19.0 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.9 blocks in nearly a decade with Rockets brought to the table the ability to score down low while making jumpers consistently from the perimeter.
His career though was cut short due to a series of foot and ankle injuries that shelved one of the league’s first global stars from China for 250 games over his last six seasons.
Today, Ming serves as the 6th President of the Chinese Basketball Association.
Also, a part of that 2016 Hall of Fame class was No. 1 overall pick in 1996 draft Allen Iverson, who was a game changer on the court but off the court as well.
He was one of the first small guards of our era who could score with the best of them and was never afraid to take one anyone in front of him.
That was especially true in the 2000-01 season where he led them to their first appearance in The Finals since 1983, but they lost against the Lakers and O’Neal 4-1.
That is how Iverson led the league in scoring four times in his career and finished his 14-year career with a scoring average of 26.7 points, 6.2 assists and 2.2 steals.
The 2001 league MVP and 2001 All-Star Game MVP, who averaged made cornrows and having tattoos cool, which had been taboo to those saw sports athletes and even those in society have them years prior.
Perhaps Iverson greatest gift that he had was the ability to connect with fans, especially fans of the city of “Brotherly Love.” That came from the fact that win, lose or draw he brought an effort and energy level to the hardwood on a nightly basis that gained a level of respect and admiration from the fans that never waivered even after he was dealt to the Denver Nuggets on Dec. 19, 2006 after playing 10 ½ years with the 76ers.
“My relationship with the fans of Philadelphia is like no other,” Iverson said at his Hall of Fame acceptance speech in Springfield, MA four years ago.
Before becoming an NBA studio analyst for ESPN, Tracy McGrady was for an eight-year period in his time with the Orlando Magic and Rockets one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history, averaging between 24 and 32 points per game from 2000-08. McGrady led the league in scoring in 2002-03 (32.1-career-high) and 2003-04 (28.0).
“T-Mac wanted to be great. T-Mac wanted to dominate,” his cousin and former teammate in current Atlanta Hawk Vince Carter, who was playing in his 22nd NBA season said.
His ability to score at the rim and make shots from the perimeter made him truly one of the most special wings to ever play and that is how he became a Hall of Famer in 2017.
For McGrady who was drafted No. 9 overall in 1997 by the Toronto Raptors out of Mount Zion Christian Academy in Durham, NC, he had to earn his way on the court by making himself into a great defender. The scoring came later.
What also came were injuries, which cut a very promising career short, as he retired in 2013. Those injuries also kept him from making McGrady from etching his name where it really mattered, the playoffs.
In 2013, the basketball world said goodbye to Jason Kidd, who for 19 seasons was one of the best floor generals on the hardwood on both ends.
His ability to make plays for others; to his play at the defensive end and how he became an even better offensive player in terms of his shoot making is how he became an eventual Hall of Famer in 2018.
That work ethic and determination he brought to the floor nightly is how the he helped turn the Phoenix Suns in his 4 ½ seasons with them into a playoff perennial. How he made the then New Jersey, now Brooklyn Nets into a title contender as they made it to The Finals in 2002 and 2003, losing in four games to the Lakers and in six games versus Spurs the next year.
In his second stint with the Mavericks, he helped them get over the hump in 2011 as they defeated the LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh led Heat in The Finals 4-2.
If you look up the word perseverance, determination, and sheer will in the dictionary, you will find a picture of fellow 2018 Hall of Famer and Co-Kia Rookie of the Year in 1995 Grant Hill, who retired in 2013 after playing 19 seasons with the Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Clippers.
There was a time where being a small forward who was a triple-double threat in the league was a very rare thing, compared to today’s NBA where it seems like any wing player can register one at the drop of a hat.
Before the now co-owner of the Atlanta Hawks and NBATV/NBA on TNT analyst had a foot injury that cut short a very promising career in his six seasons with the Magic in the 2000s, Hill was putting up averages of 20-plus points, over seven rebounds and seven assists in the late 1990s with the Pistons.
This was on the heels of a terrific collegiate career with the Duke Blue Devils where he helped lead them to back-to-back NCAA titles.
This decade we also said goodbye to several players that were the key or played a major role in leading their respective teams to the NBA’s mountain top.
In 2014, Chauncey Billups, the 2004 Finals MVP of the World Champion Pistons who defeated the Lakers in five games retired after 17 seasons with the Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Pistons, Knicks, and Clippers. Billups No. 1 jersey no stands in the rafters of Little Caesars Arena alongside his teammates during that time Richard “Rip” Hamilton (No. 32) and Ben Wallace (No. 3); Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas (No. 11); Vinnie Johnson (No. 15); current head coach of the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces Bill Laimbeer (No. 40); Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman (No. 10) and head coach of the Pistons back-to-back titles in 1989 and 1990 and the head coach of the 1992 Dream Team in the late Hall of Famer Chuck Daly (No. 2).
The aforementioned Ray Allen, who helped the Celtics and Heat win championships in 2008 and 2013 respectively also retired in 2014 and was enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame four years later.
In 2015, Steve Nash, one of the best shooting and playmaking guards in NBA history retired after 18 seasons playing two stints with the Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers.
“I’m just gonna try to work as hard as I can everyday from now. The rest of my life,” Nash said after getting drafted by the Suns in 1996.
That hard work and dedication is how Nash became an eight-time All-Star, two-time league MVP (2005 and 2006) as the orchestrator of the seven seconds or less offense of the Suns in the middle of the 2000s. He led the league in assists five times (2005-07, 2010, and 2011) and on four occasions registered seasons of 50/40/90 (field goal percentage/three-point percentage/free throw percentage). Nash joined Allen, Hill, and Kidd in the 2018 Hall of Fame class.
In 2016, the league said goodbye to the third cog of the four-year run of the Miami Heat reaching The Finals from 2010-14 winning back-to-back titles in 2012 and 2013 in 11-time All-Star Chris Bosh, played his 13-year career first with the Raptors for six seasons and the last seven with the Heat.
During those 13 seasons, the No. 4 overall pick in the 2003 draft out of Georgia Tech University, who helped the 2008 “Redeem Team” capture Gold at the Beijing Olympics 19.2 points, 8.5 rebounds on 49.4 percent shooting.
Bosh’s career was cut short by a blood clotting condition that he tried to fight back from before announcing his retirement in Feb. 12, 2019.
One month later, the Heat retired his No. 1 jersey on Mar. 26, 2019 when the Heat played versus the Orlando Magic.
“It’s your determination. It’s your will. You have to keep fighting, that’s what being a rebounder is about,” Bosh said at his jersey retirement.
Another great power forward retired after a great NBA career in Tim Duncan, who spent his entire NBA career with the San Antonio Spurs.
When “The Big Fundamental,” who is now an assistant coach with the Spurs was drafted No. 1 overall in 1997, the Spurs missed the playoffs for the first time since the 1988-89 seasons. They had not missed the playoffs since and alongside first David Robinson and then Manu Ginobili, who retired in 2018 and Tony Parker, who retired in 2019 and head coach Gregg Popovich went on to win five NBA titles, making the playoffs 22 straight years and counting, which is tied with the Syracuse Nationals/76ers for the longest streak of postseason appearances in NBA history.
“Greatest player at his position, whose ever stepped on a court,” Coach Popovich said of Duncan.
Not too far behind Duncan as one of the best big men to every play is fellow future Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett, who also retired in 2016 after 21 seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves, who drafted him No. 5 overall out of Chicago’s Farragut Academy in 1995, the Celtics, who he helped lead to the their 17th title in franchise history in 2008 over the Lakers in six games, and the Nets.
Garnett was a 15-time All-Star selection in those 21 seasons, winning the game’s MVP in 2003. He was a seven-time All-NBA selection; 12-time All-Defensive team selection; 2004 Kia MVP; 2008 Kia Defensive Player of the Year.
Alongside Garnett for those five seasons with the Celtics, including their 2008 title team was the aforementioned Ray Allen, lead guard, who now plays for the Lakers in Rajon Rondo and fellow perennial All-Star Paul Pierce, who retired in 2017 after playing 19 seasons with the Celtics, Nets, Washington Wizards, and Clippers.
The current ESPN NBA analyst, who can be seen on “NBA Countdown” and “NBA: The Jump” was a 10-time All-Star (all with Celtics); three-time All-NBA Third Team selection and has his No. 34 retired in the rafters of the TD Garden alongside the likes of Larry Bird, Robert Parish, Dennis Johnson, Kevin McHale, Bill Russel and John Havlicek to name a few.
The conclusion to the 2018-19 season was also the swansong for the NBA careers of future Hall of Famers in three-time NBA champion Dwyane Wade, who spent 13 of his 16 seasons with the Miami Heat, while having a cup of coffee with the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers, and Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks, who spent his entire career in “Big D,” leading them to their only title in 2006 over Wade, LeBron James, Bosh and the Heat in six games.
Wade earned 13 All-Star selection in his 16 seasons in the league. Earned 8 All-NBA selections; three All-Defensive Second Team selections and won the scoring title in 2009.
Perhaps Wade’s biggest accomplishment was making the Heat relevant in a town that was mainly dominated by the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and Miami Hurricanes college football.
The same can be said for Dirk Nowitzki, who with the help of Steve Nash to start helped turn the Mavericks from the doormat they were throughout the 1990s into a playoff perennial and eventually a champion in 2011, earning the Bill Russell award for Finals MVP that season.
In his 21-year NBA career, all with the Mavericks, Nowitzki was named an All-Star 14 times and a was a 12-time All-NBA selection.
Above all else, Nowitzki gave all foreign players the vision and blueprint for how to have success in the best league in the world and showed you can be an effective big man by having a consistent jump shot, even all the way out to three-point range.
“I left Germany over 20 years ago and I became a Texan,” Nowitzki said after his final home game in 2019, “So, thank you guys for having me and I’ll see you soon.”
A Finale Game to Remember by A Late Great Laker
The 2010s were a very busy one for the late Kobe Bryant, who passed away in a helicopter crash outside of Los Angeles, CA on Jan. 26. The future Hall of Famer began the decade leading the Lakers to their 16th NBA title, his fifth overall over the archrival Boston Celtics in seven games in the 2010 Finals, winning Finals MVP. He surpassed Jerry West as the top scorer in the history of the Los Angeles Lakers. Battle back from a ruptured Achilles, which happened on Apr. 13, 2013 versus the Warriors to score enough points to finish his career third on the NBA’s all-time scoring list, passing Michael Jordan. After that plethora of great moments, Bryant had enough left for his final unforgettable act.
That final act in front of a national audience on ESPN on Apr. 13, 2016, Bryant in his final game scored 60 points, on 22 for 50 from the field, including 6 for 21 from three-point range and 10 for 12 from the free throw line in leading the Lakers to a 101-96 victory versus Utah Jazz on ESPN.
Bryant scored 23 of those 60 points in the fourth quarter as he registered his first game of 50-plus points since Feb. 2009.
“Excited, you know? I’m happy,” Bryant said pregame that night to Spectrum Sportsnet’s Mike Trudell about his feelings entering his last game. “I’ve had some great memories. Doing it one last is pretty cool.”
Everyone you could think of was in attendance to witness this special performance from regular fans to the most famous in entertainment from Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Jack Nicholson to name a few.
“He’s really one of the greats players you’ll ever see play the game. No doubt about that. Everyone knows it,” Nicholson said to ESPN’s Lisa Salters that night.
The best part about Bryant’s last game is the fact he got a chance to do it surrounded by those that were a big part of his life from his wife Vanessa and his daughters in the aforementioned Gianna, and Natalia; some of his former teammates in Shaquille O’Neal, Derek Fisher; Lakers legends in “Magic” Johnson, and James Worthy; former longtime trainer Gary Vitti and his then head coach and mentor who was there at the start of his career in Byron Scott.
“You know I grew up a diehard Laker fan. So, to spend 20 years here, I mean, you can’t write something better than this,” Bryant said postgame to the Laker faithful inside Staples Center. “What can I say, ‘Mamba out.’”
He added as he left the arena alongside his wife Vanessa and their two daughters then, “It’s a beautiful time. To be able to have this moment with my family and have the finish that we’ve had. It’s amazing how fast time goes, man. Just extremely blessed and extremely appreciative. A dream come true.”
That is what makes the passing of Kobe Bryant back in late January so painful is that he gave all of himself on the hardwood and was doing just as much off the floor with his storytelling and how he was raising his family.
While he may not be visibly in person when he is inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this September, he will surely be there in spirit.
Game-Tying/Winning Shots in the Playoffs in 2010s
NBA on TNT studio analyst and two-time NBA champion with the Houston Rockets in the middle of the 1990s Kenny Smith said that the NBA regular season is “where you make your name.” The NBA Playoffs is “where you make your fame.” It is in the NBA’s second season where show your best, especially in the clutch. The 2010s put that on full display.
Two-time Kia MVP Stephen Curry showed that at the start of the Warriors epic run in Game 3 of the Quarterfinals where he tied Game 3 up with a corner three-pointer in the closing seconds at the New Orleans Pelicans. The Warriors would go on to sweep the Pelicans 4-0.
Then Los Angeles Clippers perennial All-Star guard Chris Paul displayed his greatness in the final seconds of Game 7 of the opening-round versus the five-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs by hitting the eventual game-winning floater off the glass with 01.0 second left.
One player that always rose to the moment in the clutch during the 2010s was now Lakers perennial All-Star LeBron James, then with the Cleveland Cavaliers, whose buzzer beating corner jumper in Game 4 of the 2015 East Semifinals at the Chicago Bulls tied the series at 2-2. The Cavs would go on to win the series in six games.
In the opening-round of the 2018 playoffs, James came through for the three-time reigning East champion Cavaliers again with a buzzer-beating three-pointer to win Game 5 and put them up 3-2 in the series. The Cavaliers would hold the Pacers to win the series in seven games.
James would do it again in the Semis versus the Toronto Raptors by breaking the Top Seeded heart’s once again with a game-winning floating banker that won Game 3. The Cavs would sweep that series 4-0.
Entering the 2014 Playoffs, the Portland Trail Blazers had not made it passed the opening-round since reaching the Western Conference Finals at the start of the new century.
That all changed in Game 6 of the First-Round of the 2014 postseason versus the Houston Rockets where 2013 Kia Rookie of the Year hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to win the series.
Lillard would break the hearts of Oklahoma City Thunder and ended the Russell Westbrook era with his long three-pointer at the buzzer in Game 5 of the Opening-Round of 2019 Playoffs to win the series 4-1.
The decade of playoff game-winning shots concluded with the epic series-clinching five bounce drop by then Raptors All-Star Kawhi Leonard that took down the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2019 Semis and was the springboard to them winning it all back in June 2019.
The Epic Streak of Eight Straight Finals Appearances By “The King”
When Dirk Nowitzki led the Dallas Mavericks to the second title of the 2010s with their six-game win over the Miami Heat. Little did we all know that series was the start of an incredible streak of Finals appearances by the best player in “The Association.”
Starting with that Finals loss against the Mavericks while with the Heat, LeBron James would lead first the boys from South Florida to four straight Finals appearances (2010-14), winning it all in 2012 and 2013 and then four more straight appearances in The Finals in his second stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers (2015-18).
“You know that loss and that heartbreak was the best thing that ever happened to me,” James, 2012 and 2013 Finals MVP said back in 2011, “Because it refocused me. And I was able to regain who I am, you know, both on and off the floor.”
James and Chris Bosh and the Heat’s first of their back-to-back titles came against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and three eventual Kia MVPs in Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden, three eventual Kia MVPs in five games.
The Heat and James would make their way back to The Finals in 2013 facing a dynasty from the previous decade in the San Antonio Spurs.
Facing elimination with just seconds to go in Game 6, the Heat regained the moment as Bosh grabbed a key offensive rebound and kicked it out to Ray Allen who hit a corner three-pointer that tied the scored and etched himself into NBA lure with one of the most iconic shots in NBA Finals history. The Heat would win in overtime to tie the series and would prevail in Game 7 to capture back-to-back titles.
“For us, you know, it’s about doing what we came together to do. And that is to win championships, and we’ve been able to do that. And now, we’re a part of history,” Wade said.
James would return to the Cavaliers for his second stint in 2015 and would lead the Cavaliers to The Finals but fell in six games to the Golden State Warriors.
The two teams would meet again in The Finals one-year later and it seemed the same result would about to occur as the Warriors led the series 3-1 after four games.
The Cavs would win the next two games to tie the series at 3-3 setting up a winner take all Game 7.
That Game 7 would be defined by two epic plays by the Cavaliers. A game-changing block by James on 2015 Finals MVP Andre Iguodala late in the fourth quarter.
In the closing minutes, then All-Star Cavs guard Kyrie Irving hit what would be the game-winning three-pointer that won the Cavaliers their first NBA title and the first major sports championship in the city of Cleveland since the NFL”s Browns won it all in 1964.
“To be able to accomplish something like that with a group of guys that you genuinely care about and genuinely love, there’s no better feeling in the world,” James said of his team becoming the first team in NBA history to win The Finals after trailing 3-1.
The other iconic moment from that Game 7 came in his postgame interview with NBA on ESPN/ABC’s Doris Burke when he said, “Cleveland! This is for you!”
While many thought after the Cavaliers were down 3-1 against the Warriors, James had faith, and he gave a hint of what eventually happened to NBATV/NBA on TNT sideline reporter Kristen Ledlow when he told her after Game 4 in an interview that, “We’re still gonna win this series.”
Ledlow said about that moment on her podcast “Ledlow & Parker” back in late December that she laughed at that moment, thinking that he was kidding.
“One of my most vivid memories not just in the NBA, but the entirety of my career and now life is watching him (James) win that championship, walk off the court holding not only The Finals trophy but The Finals MVP trophy as well,” Ledlow said, adding, “As I am standing there, he walked by and really quickly said, ‘Told you.’ And I’ve never bet against him.”
“It was a moment that defined the history of the game. And to get the chance to witness it though firsthand, it’s still tough for me to wrap it into words.”
The Cavaliers would make it back to The Finals the next two springs but would fall to the Warriors in five games in 2017 and then a four-game sweep in 2018.
Spurs Win Fifth Title
One year after a devastating collapse in the 2013 NBA Finals against the Miami Heat, the San Antonio Spurs made it back to The Finals one year later and got their revenge.
After splitting the first two games in Texas, the Spurs simply took a part the Heat winning the next three games of the series, two of which on the Heat’s home floor to capture their fifth NBA title in 16 seasons.
Leading the way during in those five titles was future Hall of Famer Tim Duncan and the only coach he ever had in his 19-year career Gregg Popovich. It was the fourth title for Duncan’s teammates in fellow future Hall of Famers in Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker.
“To see the fortitude (that) you guys displayed in coming back from that horrific loss last year. You are to be honored for that,” Coach Popovich said to his team postgame after winning their fifth Larry O’Brien trophy.
Warriors “Strength in Numbers” Dynasty
In 2015, a new dynasty was rising in the West, whose unconventional approach on both ends of the floor ushered in a new era in the NBA.
Before this time, it was unthinkable that a team could shoot there way to a championship. That at team could win it all with the best defensive player being one that is 6-foot-7.
The Warriors had two of the best sharp shooters in the game in perennial All-Stars I Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson and one of the most versatile defenders in the league in Draymond Green.
Led by that trio, the Warriors took down the LeBron James led Cavaliers in six games of the 2015 Finals to capture their first title in four decades.
“When you finally can relax and just celebrate, it’s just a moment of pure joy,” Curry said of that moment of the Warriors winning it all five seasons back. “And nothing I would rather have than celebrate with my brothers on the court.”
The Warriors and Cavaliers would lock horns again in the 2016 Finals and the Warriors seemed all but certain to take them down again leading the series 3-1.
The Cavaliers mounted a historic comeback winning Games 5 and 6 to force a Game 7, that was highlighted by a James block of an Andre Igoudala fast break layup and a clutch three-pointer by now Brooklyn Nets All-Star guard Kyrie Irving that would be the game-winner as the Cavaliers on Game 7 on the Warriors then home floor of Oracle Arena.
The Warriors retooled themselves in 2017 with the addition of 2014 Kia MVP perennial All-Star and four-time scoring champion Kevin Durant in free agency.
That addition helped the Warriors reach The Finals the next two years and they took down the Cavaliers in five games in the 2017 Finals and in a four-game sweep in the 2018 Championship Round as Durant was named Finals MVP both times.
“We’ll be remembered as a team that did it together,” Durant said. “Not one man was bigger than the group. That’s the sign of a true team.”
The Last Champion of 2010s
The Golden State Warriors would appear in the last championship bout of the 2010s, but they would be on the wrong end of it as they were taken down by the first NBA champion from outside the U.S.A.
Led by Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard, who the Raptors acquired from the San Antonio Spurs in the summer of 2018 defeated the injury riddled Warriors in the 2018 Finals in six games.
The Raptors became the first team in NBA history to win the Larry O’Brien trophy from outside the United States.
This title also was the first one in the last five seasons not won by a LeBron James led squad or the Warriors.
As you can see, a lot took place in the NBA in the 2010s. We saw the rise of NBA championship dynasties. We saw players etch their name into the historic mantles of “The Association.” We saw the passing of the torch of one generation of NBA players to the next. What we also saw is the historic rise of players move up the historic charts in the NBA.
If this next decade is anything close to the last one, this league is going to be just as exciting to watch.
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