JD

All right, next one here.

We're going way back.

1977.

Before all of us were born.

Bill Walton's Trailblazers defeated the 76ers 4-2.

And as Ben Rohrbach wrote on Yahoo Sports, Walton's Blazers from 77 are actually the closest facsimile to the San Antonio Spurs.

They are, Walton's Blazers, the only team younger than the Spurs to reach the NBA Finals, which is pretty crazy.

They too fell into a 2-0 hole, albeit on the road, to the Sixers.

But then they won their next four games to take the crown.

Walton averaged 19-19-5 with 3.7 blocks per game, capturing Finals MVP.

And then the next season would go on to win regular season MVP at the age of 23.

So this was the best of Bill Walton, obviously the healthiest of Bill Walton.

Maybe you push back on this one and say, hold on, wasn't Dr. J, Julius Irving, the best player heading into that finals?

That was Dr. J's first NBA season.

He had obviously lit up the ABA, but this was his first year with Philadelphia.

Both Walton and Dr. J made all-NBA second team in 76-77.

I think Walton was, though, because he was the MVP runner-up to Kareem.

Dr. J finished fifth.

I think it checks out here.

Game two from this series, though.