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Anthony Davis is on pace to match the peak playoff runs of the NBA's greatest big men

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1980. Shaquille O’Neal in 2000. Anthony Davis in 2020.

This is the company Davis is currently keeping in Los Angeles Lakers lore midway through the Western Conference finals. He still needs to win a championship to match Abdul-Jabbar and O’Neal, but he is on pace for a playoff run on par with the best statistical postseasons of the all-time great Lakers big men. And any conversation about great Lakers bigs is a conversation about the greatest bigs to ever play the game.

Davis is averaging 28.5 points with a true shooting percentage of 65.