MVPs: 0. Finals MVPs: 0. All-NBA 1st Team: 1. 2nd Team: 2. 3rd Team: 2. All Star: 10. MVP: 0.
Defensive POY: 0. All-Defense Teams: 0.
Career Averages: 20 PPG/ 6 RPG/ 6 APG/ 2 SPG/ .7 BPG/ .495 eFG%/ .788 FT%.
Best Season: 27/ 8/ 6/ 2.7/ .7/ .504/ .799 (1988-89).
Postseason Averages: 20 PPG/ 7 RPG/ 6 APG/ 1.9 SPG/ .7 BPG/ .476 eFG%/ .787 FT%.
Best Postseason: 26/ 7/ 7/ 1.5/ 1/ .488/ .807 (1992).
Championships: 1 (#2 player). Runner-ups: 2 (#1 player on both).
Why he's below Dave Cowens: Drexler finished in the top-5 of MVP voting twice and never won the award; Cowens was top-5 four times and won it once. Cowens won a championship as the best player, but Drexler could only get to the Finals. Drexler might have been the only hall of famer on those Portland Finals teams, but he had a lot of very good teammates. In 1990, they had 4 players with at least 8 win shares, and in 1992, they had 5 players with at least 6 win shares. Those teams would have been very good even without Drexler.
Why he's above the rest: Good teams or not, Drexler still took two teams to the Finals and was the 2nd best player on a championship team. He was the 2nd best shooting guard for a decade in which finishing 2nd was a big deal. Drexler was good at just about everything on the court. He could score and pass, is in the top-10 all time in steals, and was one of the best rebound and shot blocking guards of all time. He deserves to be remembered as more than a poor man's Jordan; he's a top-50 player of all-time.
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