Why is it that, across the board in pro sports (and college, if I’m not mistaken), postseason stats are kept in some different category than regular-season stats? That means the 38,387 number that stands as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time NBA scoring mark doesn’t include a single one of the buckets he got in more than 230 playoff games. It means that if Wilt had scored 100 points in a playoff game, Kobe would have the “official” record for single-game scoring. It means that if A.C. Green had gotten hurt and missed a playoff game, it wouldn’t have counted against his NBA-record consecutive-games-played streak.
I’ve never understood this. I get that the point is to have fairness and have everyone working on the same 82-game scale, but at the same time you’re punishing guys for playing on good teams.Shouldn’t this be rewarded? Wouldn’t Robert Parish’s record for career games played (1,611) be even more impressive if you tacked on his 184 postseason games?
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