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Which superstars have been the most efficient clutch scorers in the playoffs? NBA.com has tracking data available going back to the 1997 season detailing this, with "clutch" defined as within 5 points in the last 5 minutes of a game. Here are the total career stats for some notable players.
Example source https://www.nba.com/stats/players/clutch-traditional?sort=FGA&dir=-1&Season=1996-97&SeasonType=Playoffs&PerMode=Totals&LastNGames=4
There's so much narrative about "clutchness" especially in the playoffs but you rarely see any of the actual stats given, so I thought this would be very interesting to look at
And it turns out the stats are pretty easily available as well on the nba.com http://nba.com website
Anyways.... (obviously this is only the last 2 years of Jordan)
If you're wondering why the extremely high FT rates it's intentional fouls but that only gets the TS% up to "normalish" range anyway given how much lower% clutch shots are
||FG%|3PT% |FT% |TS%|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Jordan |42/89 (47.2%)|2/10 (20.0%)|45/57 (78.9%) |57.4% |
|LeBron |148/362 (40.9%) |37/110 (33.6%) |164/215 (76.3%) |54.4% |
|Shaq |58/108 (53.7%) |0/0 |76/146 (52.1%) |55.7% |
|Steph|71/181 (39.1%) |34/91 (37.4%) |70/75 (93.3%) |57.5% |
|Durant |83/198 (41.9%) |16/64 (25.0%) |78/93 (83.9%) |54.4% |
|Kobe |107/271 (39.5%) |15/64 (23.4%)|149/181 (82.3%) |54.0% |
|Jokic |48/106 (45.3%)|9/30 (30.0%) |36/48 (75.0%) |55.5% |
|Giannis |37/67 (55.2%)|2/6 (33.3%) |23/49 (46.9%) |55.9% |
|SGA |24/51 (47.1%) |5/16 (31.3%) |22/23 (95.7%) |61.4% |
|Luka |18/44 (40.9%) |8/22 (36.4%) |7/11 (63.6%) |54.2% |
|Embiid |17/60 (28.3%) | 1/13 (7.7%) |26/30 (86.7%) |41.7% |
|Westbrook |49/180 (27.2%) |9/61 (14.8%) |61/73 (83.6%) |39.6% |
#sport
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Example source https://www.nba.com/stats/players/clutch-traditional?sort=FGA&dir=-1&Season=1996-97&SeasonType=Playoffs&PerMode=Totals&LastNGames=4
There's so much narrative about "clutchness" especially in the playoffs but you rarely see any of the actual stats given, so I thought this would be very interesting to look at
And it turns out the stats are pretty easily available as well on the nba.com http://nba.com website
Anyways.... (obviously this is only the last 2 years of Jordan)
If you're wondering why the extremely high FT rates it's intentional fouls but that only gets the TS% up to "normalish" range anyway given how much lower% clutch shots are
||FG%|3PT% |FT% |TS%|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Jordan |42/89 (47.2%)|2/10 (20.0%)|45/57 (78.9%) |57.4% |
|LeBron |148/362 (40.9%) |37/110 (33.6%) |164/215 (76.3%) |54.4% |
|Shaq |58/108 (53.7%) |0/0 |76/146 (52.1%) |55.7% |
|Steph|71/181 (39.1%) |34/91 (37.4%) |70/75 (93.3%) |57.5% |
|Durant |83/198 (41.9%) |16/64 (25.0%) |78/93 (83.9%) |54.4% |
|Kobe |107/271 (39.5%) |15/64 (23.4%)|149/181 (82.3%) |54.0% |
|Jokic |48/106 (45.3%)|9/30 (30.0%) |36/48 (75.0%) |55.5% |
|Giannis |37/67 (55.2%)|2/6 (33.3%) |23/49 (46.9%) |55.9% |
|SGA |24/51 (47.1%) |5/16 (31.3%) |22/23 (95.7%) |61.4% |
|Luka |18/44 (40.9%) |8/22 (36.4%) |7/11 (63.6%) |54.2% |
|Embiid |17/60 (28.3%) | 1/13 (7.7%) |26/30 (86.7%) |41.7% |
|Westbrook |49/180 (27.2%) |9/61 (14.8%) |61/73 (83.6%) |39.6% |
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