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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 4136224, member: 767"]
Kareem's 6 seasons in Milwaukee were pretty ridiculous.
All NBA first team 4x.  Second team once.  3 MVPs.  Finished second once.  Finished third once.  Finished 5th once.  So his worst season was fifth in MVP.  (weird he didnt even make 2nd team all NBA that season.  No third team back then)

For the first 5 seasons there, they never finished worse than 56 wins, which was his rookie year.  They did crater in the 6th season.

From an individual perspective, I'm not sure anyone has ever had a better first 5 seasons in the league?  4X first team, 3 MVPs, and 2 other top 3 finishes.  It kinda blows my mind Kareem spent the 4 years in college.  He was basically the best player in the league the minute he stepped on the floor; I wonder how early in his college career that would've been the case as well.  I would think for his final 2 seasons at UCLA he probably was basically a first team all NBA performer.

Russell is an interesting one, because by MVP voting he started his career 7, 1, 2, 2, 1 (plus another 1, 1 in the next 2 seasons) but he "only" had 1 All NBA first team and 3 second teams in the first 5 years.
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