MVPs: 1. Finals MVPs: 0. All-NBA 1st Team: 3. 2nd Team: 3. 3rd Team: 1. All Star: 11. MVP: 2.
Defensive POY: 0. All-Defense Teams: 0.
Points Champ: 4. Steals Champ: 3.
Career Averages: 27 PPG/ 4 RPG/ 6 APG/ 2.2 SPG/ .2 BPG/ .452 eFG%/ .780 FT%.
Best Season: 31/ 4/ 5/ 2.5/ .3/ .447/ .814 (2000-01).
Postseason Averages: 30 PPG/ 4 RPG/ 6 APG/ 2.1 SPG/ .2 BPG/ .434 eFG%/ .764 FT%.
Best Postseason: 33/ 5/ 6/ 2.4/ .3/ .425/ .774 (2001).
Championships: 0. Runner-ups: 1 (Best player).
Why he's below Kevin McHale: Iverson averaged 41 minutes played for his entire career; he led the league 7 times. While there is some value from never coming out of the game, it does make Iverson's average statistics less impressive. Compare his per-36 minutes numbers with the shooting guards ranked above him, and Iverson looks like the worse player. Iverson is also rightly criticized for his shooting percentages. His era-adjusted shooting is worse than that of anyone higher than him on my list and is the second worst on my list overall.
Why he's above the rest: He has an MVP. No retired player ranked lower than Iverson has won an MVP. He also proved that when his shots were falling, he could turn a team into a contender. He's 1 of only 5 players to lead the league in PPG at least 4 times and 1 of only 5 players to lead the league in SPG at least 3 times. He and Michael Jordan are the only 2 players on both of those lists. Iverson's size could have been a disadvantage, but he used it to become one of the best ballhandlers of all time and to find angles to attack the basket that a bigger player could have never gotten to.
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