"Chief" Robert Parrish, TA s rating of NBA 75 Big 74

When voters quarrel over the roster of NBA75 superstars, Robert Parish's name sparked a secret debate. Some people think that the four-time champion center "benefits from the Celtic dynasty" but ignores an essential fact: outside of Larry Bird, it is the "Chief" who used the steel will and data rule of 21 years of career to support the greatest team skeleton of the NBA in the 1980s. Those who questioned his ranking (45th place on a certain list) just forgot the cruelest truth in basketball history - after Bill Russell, no Celtic player can define the standard of "champion-level insider" with a stable output of 1,300 games like Parish.

On the 1980 NBA draft night, "Cardinal" Auerbach changed the league pattern with an unbalanced trade - when the Golden State Warriors sent 26-year-old Parish to Boston, they sent away not only an inside player who averaged 15.4 points and 10.3 rebounds per game, but also the defensive cornerstone of the Celtics' penalty area in the next ten years. Parrish has shown monster-level potential in the Warriors' final three seasons, but the chaos of team reconstruction has made him consider retirement for a time. It was not until he put on the Celtics jersey and formed an iron triangle with Bird and McHale that he truly released his underrated dominance.

In his first Celtic career season, he became the team's second scorer with 18.9 points and 9.5 rebounds. When he was behind 1-3 in the division final, he led the team to reverse the 76ers with an average of 21 points and 12 rebounds per game. In the 1981 Finals against Moses Malone, he built a no-fly zone with his body to help Boston win six games. This is just the beginning: in the first decade of the Celtics, he was selected into the All-Star eight times, twice in the All-Squad, three times in the O'Brien Cup, and used terrifying data of 17.1 points, 10.4 rebounds, 55.2% shooting percentage averaged, becoming one of the only six players in the 1980s in a decade averaged 17+10 players, and was the only one who maintained a 55% shooting percentage and 1.5 blocks at the same time.

When we extend our horizons to the entire career, Parish's continuity is even more terrifying: he averaged double-digit scores in 17 consecutive seasons, 1,611 games in 21 years of career (first in history), total score of 23,334 points (28 in history), 14,715 rebounds (8 in history), 2,361 blocks (10 in history), and a shooting percentage of 54.2% (40 in history). In NBA history, only four players averaged 16 points and 10 rebounds in the first 17 years of their careers - Kareem, Karl Malone, Erwin Hayes and Parrish, and only Kareem had a higher shooting percentage than him.

Behind these numbers are overlooked tactical sacrifices. When McHale became a low-post killer in the late 1980s, Parrish took the initiative to transform into a space-based center, using an accurate 15-foot jump shot to open up the space for Bird. From 1981 to 1987, he missed only 14 games, and the Celtics lost 6 wins and 8 losses when he was absent, which was priceless in the dynasty team. As his teammates during his time in the Cavaliers said: "He is not a data brush, but he can hand over 18+10 every night. "

In the 1997 Bulls Training Hall, 43-year-old Parish calmly responded: "I also have a championship ring." This detail reveals the core traits of his career - whether in Boston or Chicago, he has always been the embodiment of championship culture. The Celtics in the 1980s were considered "the team that saved the NBA", and Parish, as the second core of the first half of the dynasty, had a contribution far beyond the data: his cover quality created countless open space opportunities for Bird, his defensive predictions allowed McHale to focus on offense, and his appearance stability allowed the Celtics to maintain their championship strength for ten years.

Those doubts about "Parish relies on the team" just reversed the cause and effect-in 1979, the Celtics were still one of the worst teams in the league, and it was not until he and McHale arrived that the dynasty began. As a voter said: "We ranked him in the 40th place, not because of the Celtics, but because he was the most underrated all-around center of that era. "

When history finally remembers the greatness of the Celtics in the 1980s, it may be necessary to correct a cognition for Parrish: he was not a beneficiary of the dynasty, but wrote the most perfect definition of "team winner" in basketball history with 21 years of career. Data is just a part of his championship puzzle, and that heart that will always burn for victory is the real legacy left to the NBA by the Chiefs - just like every night at the Boston Garden Inn, he interprets a truth with a sweat-soaked jersey: the real champion cornerstone never needs to prove his weight with the spotlight.