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Dwight Howard led the NBA in rebounding for the 2012-13 Lakers. They offered him five years and $118 million. He took four years and $88 million to go to Houston.

The second Heat row and the Rockets row hide two seasons in China. He scored 59 in one CBA All-Star Game and 63 in the next.

Cedric Ceballos scored 50 on Minnesota in December 1994, his first season as a Laker, on 21 of 31 shooting. Not bad for a guy who lasted until pick 48. Eighth on mine.

Michael Jordan giving O.J. Mayo nothing easy 👀 Mayo pulled 16,202 fans to one of his high school games in Cincinnati, the biggest crowd ever for a high school game there. He went third in 2008, ahead of Russell Westbrook and Kevin Love, and made All-Rookie First Team, but he was out of the league at 28. The talent was never the question with him.

Dr. J's Rock the Baby dunk came in a regular season game against the Lakers in 1983, right over Michael Cooper, the best defender they had. Chick Hearn gave it the name. First clip on my reel.

Terry Cummings won Rookie of the Year for the San Diego Clippers in 1983 with 23.7 points and 10.4 rebounds. They traded him after his second season. Still the easiest Clippers call on the whole 80s card.

Two of Jordan's four playoff series wins over Cleveland ended on his own game-winner. The Shot over Craig Ehlo in 1989, then the jumper that won Game 4 and finished a sweep in 1993. That's why he's first.

Anthony Davis led the NBA in blocks three times in the 2010s, in 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2017-18, all with New Orleans. He's on my third tier with Giannis and Paul George, and I'd have a hard time moving any of those three.

Dirk Nowitzki was a ranked junior tennis player in Germany before he settled on basketball. At 15 he caught the eye of Holger Geschwindner, a former German national team player, and a year later they were training every day. Fourth on my power forwards.

Houston's lead at the top is 1,417 threes over Golden State. The 2018-19 Rockets made 1,323 all by themselves and took more threes than twos, 3,721 to 3,442.

Spud Webb is still the shortest player ever to win the dunk contest, and he did it in 1986 in Dallas, his hometown. The defending champ he beat in the final was his own Hawks teammate, Dominique Wilkins. That's who's No. 1 on this card.

OKC outscored teams by 12.9 a game in 2024-25, the best mark in NBA history and more than half a point clear of the 1971-72 Lakers. Then they won the title, so the number wasn't lying.

Detroit had 856 steals, 60 more than anybody else. Ausar Thompson had 146 of them, third in the league behind Cason Wallace and Dyson Daniels.

The Brooklyn row is where it turned. He started 54 games for the Nets in 2013-14, more than in any other season he played, and Golden State signed him that July.

Kobe, Derrick Rose and the rest weighing in on where LeBron should go in 2010 LeBron picked Miami, and Rose got his answer on the floor the next season. He became the youngest MVP ever at 22 and took the Bulls to 62 wins. Then the Heat beat Chicago in five in the East finals.

Wilt scored 70 or more six times in his career. I gave him one spot, the 100, or he'd have taken six of the ten.

Eight of the 15 names on my 2000s pyramid won a title in that decade. Dirk, LeBron, Kidd and Dwight all had to wait for theirs. Nash, Iverson and McGrady never got one.

The 1972-73 Celtics won 68, still the most in franchise history, and lost the East finals to the Knicks after Havlicek tore a muscle in his shoulder in Game 3. New York won the title. It didn't win another until this June.

Chris Paul's 21st season was 16 games off the Clippers bench. This card counts any season with at least one game, and that was enough to pull him level with Parish, Dirk, Garnett and Kevin Willis.

Hakeem was the first player born outside the US to win MVP, and he did it in 1993-94, the same year he won Defensive Player of the Year and the title. He starts over 2001 Shaq, and that's saying something.