Jordan, Abdul-Jabbar, and other aging NBA stars are finding it difficult to lead their teams in playoff scoring as they battle to avoid the Western Conference play-in tournament.
Jordan was 35 years old when he led the Bulls in scoring in the last of their six championships. Since then, no player at that age has been the leading playoff scorer for a champion, and only one other NBA club has been led in postseason scoring by someone 35 or older: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the 1984-85, who celebrated his 35th birthday on Sept. 29, is slightly older now than Jordan was for his last championship.
And, who some could argue offers a bubble asterisk to this stat, would be the oldest leading scorer for a champion ever at 39. All three stars began the season with legitimate hope of turning back the clock and winning another title. Now, as they battle to avoid the Western Conference play-in tournament, they're looking like long shots of varying degrees.The distribution of ages for the leading playoff scorer on that year's NBA champion looks a lot like what you'd expect.The most common age is 28, about the typical peak for NBA players, with a fairly normal distribution around that point, and Abdul-Jabbar as the lone outlie
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