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#8 Patrick Ewing - 139 playoff games, one NBA Finals appearance
Even though Patrick Ewing and the New York Knicks reached the Eastern Conference Finals on three occasions, the player only appeared in one NBA Finals series, doing so in 1994.
That series was extremely tight as both teams featured similar constructions (the Houston Rockets were built around Hakeem Olajuwon and the Knicks around Ewing).
Eventually, the Rockets and Hakeem The Dream were able to take the NBA title after a hard-fought seven-game series. Ewing had the most difficult task during the series as he had to guard Olajuwon who was the regular-season MVP and also the Defensive Player of the Year.
Ewing averaged 19 points and 12 rebounds per game in that series and shot 36% from the field as the Knicks fell to the Rockets. In his overall NBA Playoffs career, Ewing averaged 20 points and ten rebounds per game in 139 games.
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#7 Reggie Miller - 144 playoff games, one NBA Finals appearance
Reggie Miller fabulously commanded the Indiana Pacers franchise for 18 years. Even though he could not win an NBA championship with the team, he made his name as a superstar, clutch playoff-performer and a loyal player.
Miller's career was resplendent with numerous clutch moments in the NBA playoffs. Every time his team was within striking distance, he seemed to rise up to the occasion.
The player appeared in 144 playoff games in the 15 seasons he led the Indians Pacers, averaging 21 points per game on 45% shooting from the field, 39% from the three and 89% from the FT line.
He ranks sixth in the NBA Playoffs in three-pointers made. The closest he ever got to an NBA title was in 2000 when Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant's LA Lakers thwarted the Pacers.
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#6 Russell Westbrook - 106 playoffs games, one NBA Finals appearance
Russell Westbrook, the first active player in this list, made an NBA Finals appearance during his first five years in the NBA but has not been able to do so in his last eight seasons in the competition.
The nine-time All-Star and NBA MVP winner has had a stellar NBA career, but the title has remained elusive.
Westbrook's best chances to win the NBA title were in the years when Kevin Durant played alongside him in the Oklahoma City Thunder. The pair, with James Harden as the sixth man, advanced to the NBA Finals in 2012, but the Big-three Miami Heat proved too hot to handle for the young Thunder stars.
Westbrook averages 24.8 points, seven rebounds and eight assists per game in the NBA playoffs during his career.
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#5 James Harden - 128 playoff games, one NBA Finals appearance
Like Westbrook, James Harden also went deep in the NBA Playoffs early in his career. He made his only NBA Finals appearance in 2012, which was only his third season in the league.
At that time, Harden, who was the NBA Sixth Man of the Year, produced a lacklustre performance in the finals, something he has subsequently done so in many other determining series in the NBA Playoffs.
Though he is a superstar in the league and one of its most prolific scorers ever, Harden has had many mediocre playoff games that have blighted his legacy in the postseason.
Harden is a league MVP who has played in an extraordinary Houston Rockets team, but he has not been able to lead them to the NBA Finals yet.
In the playoffs, his points per game, field goals percentage and three-point shooting percentage are all below par. Still, he averages 23.5 points per game, six assists and five rebounds in the playoffs.
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