MVPs: 0. Finals MVPs: 0. All-NBA 1st Team: 0. 2nd Team: 1. 3rd Team: 1. All Star: 9. MVP: 0.
Defensive POY: 0. All-Defense Teams: 0.
Career Averages: 14 PPG/ 9 RPG/ 1 APG/ .8 SPG/ 1.5 BPG/ .537 eFG%/ .721 FT%.
Best Season: 19/ 9/ 2/ 1/ 2.6/ .545/ .710 (1980-81).
Postseason Averages: 15 PPG/ 10 RPG/ 1 APG/ .8 SPG/ 1.7 BPG/ .506 eFG%/ .722 FT%.
Best Postseason: 21/ 11/ 1/ .4/ 4/ .488/ .680 (1982).
Championships: 4 (#2 player on 1, #3 player on 2, #10 player on 1). Runner-ups: 2 (#3 player on both).
Why he's below Hal Greer: Parish is my highest ranked player who is only very good. There was never a time in his career that he was great, in my opinion. Even though he did finish 4th in MVP voting and make 2nd Team All-NBA in 1982, I rank him as only the 4th best center that season.
Why he's above the rest: He may have only been very good, but he was very good for a very long time. He averaged a double-double 10 times, made the Finals 6 times (5 as a contributor), and is top-10 in career rebounds and blocks. He was an above-average scorer and defender. In 1988-89, when Larry Bird was hurt, 35 year old Parish passed Kevin McHale and became the Celtics' best player for a season, perhaps giving us a small taste of what his career could have looked like if he hadn't taken a back seat to Bird for most of his career.
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