MVPs: 1. Finals MVPs: 0. All-NBA 1st Team: 9. 2nd Team: 2. All Star: 12. MVP: 3.
Defensive POY: 0. All-Defense Team: 0.
Points Champ: 1. Assists Champ: 7.
Career Averages: 26 PPG/ 7 RPG/ 9 APG/ 1.1 SPG/ .1 BPG/ .485 eFG%/ .838 FT%.
Best Season: 31/ 10/ 11/ .483/ .853 (1963-64).
Postseason Averages: 22 PPG/ 7 RPG/ 9 APG/ .9 SPG/ .3 BPG/ .460 eFG%/ .855 FT%.
Best Postseason: 32/ 13/ 9/ .470/ .864 (1963).
Championships: 1 (#2 player). Runner-ups: 1 (#4 player).
Why he's below Jerry West: West’s peers agreed that West was better than Oscar. Players voted for the MVP in that era and gave West 5 top-2 finishes vs. only 2 for Oscar. Oscar is the *other* all-time great player with much lower scoring in the postseason than regular season, though unlike Wilt, it’s because Oscar played most of his playoff games later in his career when he didn’t score as much. But it’s because he had so many short postseasons in his prime that I can’t rank him above West, despite his eye-popping regular season stats.
Why he's above the rest: How’s this for eye-popping: Over his first five seasons, Oscar averaged 30.3/10.4/10.6, which nearly matches Russell Westbrook’s single MVP season averages. And he did that before triple doubles were a recognized stat, so no stat padding was involved. He was the best all-around player the league ever saw until Magic and Bird joined the league, winning the only MVP between 1960 and 1968 that didn't go to Russell or Chamberlain.
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