When Kevin Garnett finally got a ring with the Celtics, it made a lot of people happy, even if they weren't Celtics fans, or even Timberwolves fans. He had struggled in a bad franchise for years, carried it as far as it could be carried, but only could take it so far. When he finally won, his celebrations was one for the ages. Not everyone gets so lucky. There are plenty of great players who have never won an NBA Championship.
I decided to figure out objectively who the best of the ring-less wonders were. To determine who would be on the list and who was on it I started with ranking the PER, and then filtering out anyone with less than 50 games played and less than 1800 total minutes. If you ask me how I came up with those numbers, I don't have an an answer. It just felt right. It seemed like there should be some minimum though to prevent players who had merely been through one series from being considered for the list.
The next thing I did was take into consideration the two biggest criticisms of PER. First that it rewards bad field goal percentage. To compensate for that I made the "break even" point 48 percent. I call this Adjusted PER. ...
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