I was reading an ESPN article about Worthy going to the hall, and it explained why he was gamed "Big Game James": He was Big Game James. The bigger the game, the better he was. Worthy was the MVP in the NBA Finals when the Lakers won the championship in 1988. In 1989, when the Lakers repeated as champions, Worthy averaged almost 25 points per game, some five points per game in the playoff run more than anyone else on the Lakers. In 1985, when he won his only other title with the Lakers, he was second in scoring in the playoffs to Abdul-Jabbar by less than half point. One of the true gauges of greatness in the NBA is the difference between a player's regular season scoring average and his playoff scoring average. Worthy averaged 3.5 points per game more in the playoffs than he did in the regular season, the biggest differential among the players regarded as the best in the history of the game. I noticed that Dream's scoring average increased by 4.1 points a game during the playoffs (from 21.8 to 25.9). Should we refer to him as "Big Game Dream"?
i already do baby. look at his 37.5 ppg against dallas one year in the playoffs or his 49 pt game against seattle or 33 ppg average over the whole 95 playoffs. dream always turned it up for the big games, and that's why he was so great.
