Murray and Mitchell took the record away from Jerry West and John Havlicek, who, in fairness, had their own unbelievable shootout with slightly higher stakes at hand, in the 1969 Finals. The two Hall-of-Fame ball-handlers combined for 463 points in that series, 12 fewer than what Murray and Mitchell just put up. The other highest-scoring playoff series duos all likewise took place in the 1960s and ’70s – Bob McAdoo and Elvin Hayes in the 1975 conference semifinals (461 points), Elgin Baylor and Bob Pettit in the 1961 division finals (461 points) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Rick Barry in the 1977 conference finals (450 points).
Bob McAdoo Rumors
Justin Kubatko: The @Los Angeles Lakers Anthony Davis is the eighth-youngest player in NBA history to reach 12,000 career points (age in years-days): 24-035 LeBron James. 24-179 Kevin Durant. 25-220 Kobe Bryant. 25-268 Carmelo Anthony. 25-298 Tracy McGrady. 26-125 Bob McAdoo. 26-156 Wilt Chamberlain. 26-300 Davis.
Basketball-Reference: Luka Doncic isn’t the only 2nd year player having a big scoring season. Trae Young is averaging 28.7 PPG. In the last 50 years, the only players with more PPG in their first or second NBA season than Doncic or Young are Kareem, Bob McAdoo, and Shaq bkref.com/tiny/jzl7z pic.twitter.com/wUcJKNrfBi
Justin Kubatko: At 22 years, 31 days old, Ivica Zubac is the youngest player in @Los Angeles Clippers history to record a double-double in a playoff game. Bob McAdoo had been the youngest at 22 years, 189 days old.
At the end of the game, Whiteside had accumulated 29 points, 20 rebounds, two assists and nine blocks in 32 minutes, falling just a block short of recording his fifth-career triple-double. He’s the sixth different player to record at least 29 points, 20 rebounds and nine blocks in a game since blocks started being tracked in the 1973-74 season, joining Hakeem Olajuwon, Bob Lanier, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bob McAdoo and Elmore Smith. “The ball will find energy and he was a bundle of energy on both ends,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of Whiteside. “That’s the karma of the game. We ran probably less than a handful of direct plays to him, and he was making guys see him with his force. That’s what it’s all about.”
He’s still a scout with the Miami Heat at 67, after many years on the Heat bench as an assistant under Pat Riley, Stan Van Gundy and Erik Spoelstra. So he is precluded by league rules from discussing Anthony or his situation directly. But McAdoo didn’t hesitate to tell me, approaching 40 years since he joined the Lakers on Christmas Eve in 1981, that he had no advance warning he would not be a starter in Los Angeles — and that his three-plus seasons with the Lakers’ second unit were harder than he ever let on.
