What stands out with Havlicek was his 8-0 record in the finals. Better than Michael Jordan.
Prior to the 1969's final, there was not a finals MVP awarded. So I went back and awarded Finals MVPS posthumously – I think Havlicek would have won it in 1966 and 1968 – In the 1968 final he averaged 27.3/8.7/6.7 in points/rebounds/assists.
I know it could be argued that Bill Russell should have 10 finals MVP only losing to Jerry West in that 69 Finals.
The 1966 finals MVP is kind of a stretch but he was 23.3/10.0/4.0 in the series. Havlicek led Boston in scoring in 2 of the games that they won. He scored at least 20 points in six games of the seven games. His big game 4 - 32/7/5 put Boston up 3 games to 1. I realize that Bill Russell scored as many points (23.6) as Havlicek in the series and averaged over 20 rebounds and he did have a great game 7.
When John Havlicek retired in 1978 he was second all time in combined (reg season ad playoffs) points behind Wilt Chamberlain with 30171.
| Finals Record | Conference Finals Record | League MVP | Finals MVP | 1st team All-NBA |
John Havlicek | 8-0 | 8-4 | 0 | 3* | 4 |
Stephen Curry | 4-2 | 6-0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Hakeem Olajuwon | 2-1 | 3-1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
Jerry West | 1-8 | 9-1 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
Bob Pettit | 1-3 | 4-4 | 2 | 1* | 10 |
Julius Erving* | 3-3 | 6-3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
Rick Barry* | 2-2 | 4-2 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
Dirk Nowitzki | 1-1 | 2-1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Kevin Garnett | 1-1 | 2-2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Elgin Baylor | 0-7 | 7-2 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Charles Barkley | 0-1 | 1-2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Bob Cousy | 6-1 | 7-3 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
Moses Malone | 1-1 | 2-2 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
James Harden | 0-1 | 1-3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Giannis | 1-0 | 1-1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Nikola Jokic | 1-0 | 1-1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
John Stockton | 0-2 | 2-3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Allen Iverson | 0-1 | 1-0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Isiah Thomas | 2-1 | 3-2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Steve Nash | 0-0 | 0-4 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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