Don’t discount this fact with any yeah-buts. We are witnessing the best 9-game postseason run in the NBA’s 76 year history, folks.
Through the first 9 games of the Phoenix Suns 2023 playoff run, 26-year old three-time All-Star Devin Booker has scored 331 points — the most by any player in this postseason so far, and the most by any NBA player since Michael Jordan in 1990 as the Bulls went on their first championship run.
The only players with more points in any 9-game stint in the playoff history are Jerry West (1965), Michael Jordan (1988, 1989, 1990), Wilt Chamberlain (1962) and Elgin Baylor (1961).