SPURS STARS ALL SCORE 20 OR MORE POINTS
Manu Ginobili scored 30 points, Tim Duncan scored 22 and Tony Parker had 20 in the Spurs win over the Lakers on Sunday. It’s the 14th time that those three have scored 20 or more points in the same playoff game, tying them for the second-highest total for any trio in NBA history. The Celtics’ Larry Bird, Dennis Johnson and Kevin McHale scored 20 in the same playoff game 15 times; the 76ers’ Wilt Chamberlain, Hal Greer and Chet Walker also did it 14 times.
Here’s the list of players who have won multiple Finals MVPs since they gave out the first one in 1969: Abdul-Jabbar, Johnson, Larry Bird, Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, O’Neal and Duncan.
Only Duncan and Abdul-Jabbar won the award with completely different support casts.