nba最厉害的3人组合（NBA史上最好的二人组合）
nba最厉害的3人组合（NBA史上最好的二人组合）With that prospect in mind we thought it a good time to look at the history of high-scoring NBA duos—who they were whether they coexisted and how their teams fared. So we identified the two highest-scoring players on every team in league history by points per game and sorted the teams by the average. (Players must have played 48 games to qualify; we’ll get to that later.)过去三个赛季的得分手排行榜These ne
The NBA is overrun with Big Twos or at least that’s how it seems after an offseason full of superstar team-ups. After a decade dominated by Big Threes and Fours the contenders have downsized and duos now shine in Houston in both locker rooms in the Staples Center and eventually in Brooklyn.
如今NBA里的双核球队随处可见，至少在一个巨星纷选择纷抱团的休赛季过后，这种现象更为常见。在被“三巨头”和“四巨头”统治了十年之后，现在竞争者的范围已经缩小了，休斯敦火箭，斯台普斯中心的快船和湖人，还有，等待欧文和杜兰特伤愈归来的布鲁克林篮网。
The league has changed; it’s trite but true. Just as interesting as the appearance of Big Twos though is their comcdth All eight players involved in forming a new star pairing—James Harden and Russell Westbrook; Kawhi Leonard and Paul George; LeBron James and Anthony Davis; Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant—are ball-dominant scorers. It is likely that all four situations will see the stars split scoring duties which is a departure from some of the most well-known duos of NBA eras past. John Stockton never averaged more than 17.2 points per game as he teamed up with Karl Malone for instance and Scottie Pippen’s two highest-scoring seasons came in the Michael Jordan interregnum.
联盟格局已经发生了翻天覆地的变化，虽说是老生常谈，但这的确发生了。然而，和双巨头的出现一样有趣的是，有八名球员抱团组成了新的双人组 — 詹姆斯-哈登和拉塞尔-威斯布鲁克；科怀-伦纳德和保罗-乔治；勒布朗-詹姆斯和安东尼-戴维斯；凯里-欧文和凯文-杜兰特 — 强力的得分手组合。这四对组合中可能会出现球权分配的问题，这是过去联盟中著名的双核组从未出现过的。举个例子，约翰-斯托克顿和卡尔-马龙搭档的时候，场均得分从未超过17.2分，而在斯科蒂-皮蓬得分最高的两个赛季，乔丹都没在。
These new duos should look different. Here is each involved player’s leaguewide rank in points per game during the last three seasons. Damian Lillard Steph Curry and Giannis Antetokounmpo are the only players in the top 11 who are not in new Big Twos.
这些新组合非同寻常。下面是过去三个赛季里，联盟中顶级得分手的场均得分排名。达米安-利拉德，斯蒂芬-库里和扬尼斯-阿德托昆博是前11名中没有组建新的二人组的球员。
NBA’s Leading Scorers Over the Last Three Seasons
过去三个赛季的得分手排行榜
With that prospect in mind we thought it a good time to look at the history of high-scoring NBA duos—who they were whether they coexisted and how their teams fared. So we identified the two highest-scoring players on every team in league history by points per game and sorted the teams by the average. (Players must have played 48 games to qualify; we’ll get to that later.)
考虑到双核球队增多这一前景，我们是时候回顾一下历史上那些拥有强大进攻火力的双人组了 — 让我们来看看他们的成员情况，兼容指数，以及球队战绩。综上所述，我们根据每场比赛的得分，确定了联盟史上每支球队得分最高的两名球员，并根据球队的平均得分进行了排序。（球员必须在那个赛季出战至少48场比赛；我们稍后再谈这个。）
First though we added two small tweaks. Instead of taking a straight scoring average we calculated the harmonic mean of each duo’s output to avoid overweighting an especially dominant top player. And we also adjusted for the era with the idea that scoring X points per game in 2003 (when teams averaged 95 points per game) is more impressive than scoring X points per game in 2019 (when teams averaged 111).
首先，我们对统计方法做了两个小调整。计算了每个双人组得分的调和平均值而不是直接取平均值，以此避免了出现一个得分上的BUG球员。我们还根据不同的时代背景对统计方法做了相应的改进，在不同时代背景下，场均得分相同的比赛，放在2003年（平均每场比赛得95分）会比放在2011年（平均每场比赛得111分）更令人震撼。
To be clear these are not necessarily the NBA’s best superstar duos just the highest-scoring ones in the regular season. Pippen and Jordan don’t appear on the list for instance and by Basketball-Reference’s win shares metric the best single-season duo in league history actually belonged to the 1971 Bucks who played a young Kareem Abdul-Jabbar—in his final season going by Lew Alcindor—and a veteran Oscar Robertson. But the Big Twos on this list are the most productive. Without further ado here are the top 20 single-season duos in league history.
说清楚一点，这些组合不一定是NBA最好的双人组，只是常规赛得分最高的组合。比如皮蓬和乔丹没有出现在名单上，根据BBR的衡量标准，联盟历史上最好的单赛季双人组出现在1971年的雄鹿队，这是年轻的卡里姆-阿卜杜尔-贾巴尔最后一个赛季使用卢-阿尔辛多这个名字，他和经验丰富的奥斯卡-罗伯特森搭档。但这对二人组在榜单上是效率最高的。话不多说，下面来盘点联盟历史上单赛季表现前二十的双人组。
20. 2006-07 Rockets
20. 2006-07 休斯顿火箭
Big Two: Yao Ming 25.0 ppg; Tracy McGrady 24.6 ppg
Adjusted Average: 25.15
Team Result: 52-30 lost in first round
双巨头：姚明，场均25.0分；特雷西-麦克格雷迪，场均24.6分
兼容指数：25.15
球队战绩：52胜30负，季后赛首轮被淘汰
Since 1977-78 (the first season for which Basketball-Reference has complete records for usage rate) Ming and McGrady are the only pair of teammates to each use at least a third of his team’s possessions while on the court. Ming missed all of January and February in this season because of injury but it was probably his best season while he was able to play. This wasn’t the best Rockets team of the Ming–McGrady era though. That would be 2007-08 when the team won 22 consecutive games—even as both star players scored less than they had the previous season.
自1977-78赛季（引进了完备的球员使用率统计体系以来）始，姚明和麦迪是唯一一对比赛使用率超过三分之一的搭档。姚明因为伤病缺席了那个赛季一月和二月的全部比赛，但这可能是他上场以来最棒的一个赛季。不过，这不是姚麦时期最好的火箭队。2007-08赛季，火箭豪取22连胜 — 即使两位球星的场均得分都比上赛季要低。
19. 2011-12 Heat
19. 2011-12 迈阿密热火
Big Two: LeBron James 27.1 ppg; Dwyane Wade 22.1 ppg
Adjusted Average: 25.29
Team Result: 46-20 won championship
双巨头：勒布朗-詹姆斯，场均27.1分；德维恩-韦德，场均22.1分
兼容指数：25.29
球队战绩：46胜20负，赢下总冠军
James and Wade won their first title in the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season. But there’s more James and Wade further down on the list so we’ll table their discussion for now.
詹姆斯和韦德在因停摆而缩水的2011-12赛季赢下了他们搭档以来的第一个总冠军。但这两位还将出现在这份榜单里，所以我们将这个赛季排在这里。
18. 1999-00 Pistons
18. 1999-00 底特律活塞
Big Two: Grant Hill 25.8 ppg; Jerry Stackhouse 23.6 ppg
Adjusted Average: 25.29
Team Result: 42-40 lost in first round
双巨头：格兰特希尔，场均25.8分；杰里-斯塔克豪斯
兼容得分：25.29
球队战绩：42胜40负，季后赛首轮被淘汰
The rest of Stackhouse’s 18-year career makes him look like a solid but unspectacular player; for a two-season stretch at the turn of the millennium though he played like an early version of Harden. During those two seasons only Shaquille O’Neal scored more points or attempted more free throws than Stackhouse. Only Allen Iverson attempted more field goals and nobody turned the ball over nearly as often. In the first of those two seasons 1999-00 he split lead duties in Detroit with Hill who received All-NBA honors in the final season of his six-year run in Detroit. Alas the Pistons had little depth and even less defensive ability which led to a mediocre record and the midseason firing of coach Alvin Gentry; toward the end of the season Hill sprained his ankle in the first of many ailments that would plague his career.
斯塔克豪斯职业生涯的后18个赛季让他看起来像是个稳扎稳打却又不吸睛的球员；然而，在世纪之交的两个赛季里，他表现得就像哈登的早期版本一样。那两个赛季里，说起场均得分和罚球次数，只有沙奎尔-奥尼尔能压过斯塔克豪斯一头。只有阿伦-艾弗森的出手次数比他更多，并且没有人能像他一样频繁地送出传球。1999-00赛季，在底特律他和希尔解决了球权分配的问题，后者也在他六年活塞生涯的最后一个赛季进入了NBA最佳阵容。唉，但是活塞的阵容没有深度，防守能力太差，这影响了球队的战绩，并使得球队在赛季中期解雇了教练阿尔文-金特里；赛季快结束时，希尔扭伤了脚踝，从此困扰他整个职业生涯的伤病接踵而来。
17. 1983-84 Nuggets
17. 1983-84 丹佛掘金
Big Two: Kiki Vandeweghe 29.4 ppg; Alex English 26.4 ppg
Adjusted Average: 25.29
Team Result: 38-44 lost in first round
双巨头：奇奇-范德维奇，场均29.4分；亚历克斯-英格利什，场均26.4分
兼容指数：25.29
球队战绩：38胜44负，季后赛首轮被淘汰
16. 1982-83 Nuggets
16. 1982-83 丹佛掘金
Big Two: Alex English 28.4 ppg; Kiki Vandeweghe 26.7 ppg
Adjusted Average: 25.33
Team Result: 45-37 lost in second round
双巨头：亚历克斯-英格利什，场均28.4分；奇奇-范德维奇，场均26.7分
兼容指数：25.33
球队战绩：45胜37负，季后赛第二轮被淘汰
Across two seasons in the mid-’80s the league’s top scorer was future Hall of Famer English. No. 2 on the scoring leaderboard: English’s teammate Vandeweghe. But the Nuggets weren’t a particularly impressive team beyond that duo and they traded Vandeweghe in June 1984 for a package of three players and two picks. It wasn’t Vandeweghe’s fault necessarily but the Nuggets were better immediately—they won 52 games in 1984-85 and reached the conference finals.
在这两个80年代中期的赛季里，联盟的头号得分手是未来的名人堂球员英格利什。得分榜上的第二位便是他的队友范德维奇。但掘金并不是一个令人印象深刻的球队，随后他们在1984年6月交易走了范德维奇，换来三名球员和两个选秀权。当然，这笔交易不是范德维奇的错，但掘金在随后的1984-85赛季赢了52场比赛，并打进了总决赛。
15. 2000-01 Celtics
15. 2000-01 波士顿凯尔特人
Big Two: Paul Pierce 25.3 ppg; Antoine Walker 23.4 ppg
Adjusted Average: 25.60
Team Result: 36-46 missed playoffs
双巨头：保罗-皮尔斯，场均25.5分；安托万-沃克，场均23.4分
兼容指数：25.60
球队战绩：36胜46负，未能进入季后赛
The early-aughts Celtics were ahead of their time; in 2000-01 Pierce and Walker combined to attempt 12.1 3s per game by themselves which nearly equaled the league average of 13.7 per team. The duo shot them well too canning their 3s at a 37 percent clip. No other Celtic averaged even 10 points per game however and Rick Pitino resigned as coach and team president midway through the season.
2000-01赛季，皮尔斯和沃克的组合每场会尝试出手12.1个三分球，差不多和联盟球队场均13.7次的三分尝试一样多了。这对双人组投篮效率也很高，三分命中率能达到37%。但独木难支，除了他们，凯尔特人没有一个人的场均得分能超过两位数，里克-皮蒂诺也在赛季中期辞去了球队教练和球队主席的职务。
14. 1961-62 Warriors
14. 1961-62 金州勇士
Big Two: Wilt Chamberlain 50.4 ppg; Paul Arizin 21.9 ppg
Adjusted Average: 25.67
Team Result: 49-31 lost in second round
双巨头：威尔特-张伯伦，场均50.4分；保罗-阿里金，场均21.9分
兼容指数：25.67
球队战绩：49胜31负，季后赛第二轮被淘汰
Without the era adjustment these Warriors would rank second on the list. But 1961-62 is the highest-scoring season in NBA history. Teams averaged more than 118 points per game so even Chamberlain’s record output can’t propel this duo any higher. Even with a 50-points-per-game scorer the Warriors were closer to a .500 record than first place and they eventually lost by two points in a Game 7 in Boston.
如果统计方法没有根据时代不同而调整，这对勇士球员将排到第二名。但1961-62赛季是NBA史上得分最高的一个赛季。联盟球队场均得到超过118分，所以张伯伦破纪录的得分输出也无法让这对双人组的排名更进一步了。即使拥有一位场均的“50分先生”，勇士还是比第一名更接近50%的胜率，最终在与波士顿凯尔特人的抢七大战中以2分的劣势惜败。
13. 2005-06 76ers
13. 2005-06 费城76人
Big Two: Allen Iverson 33.0 ppg; Chris Webber 20.2 ppg
Adjusted Average: 25.87
Team Result: 38-44 missed playoffs
双巨头：阿伦-艾弗森，场均33.0分；克里斯-韦伯，场均20.2分
兼容指数：25.87
球队战绩：38胜44负，未能进入季后赛
Iverson won four scoring titles in his career but not in 2005-06 his highest-scoring season as Kobe Bryant bested him with a 35-per-game effort. On talent alone this should have been a good 76ers team: the roster included Iverson Webber and young versions of Kyle Korver and Andre Iguodala. But the 76ers were a defensive disaster in coach Maurice Cheeks’s first season and missed the playoffs. It was Iverson’s last full season in Philly.
艾弗森总共拿下四次得分王，但在他生涯得分最高的2005-06赛季，科比以场均35分的数据击败了他拿到得分王。如果只讨论天赋，这个赛季的76人无疑是优秀的：看看他们的阵容名单吧，艾弗森，韦伯，年轻的凯尔-科沃尔和安德烈-伊格达拉。但在莫里斯-奇克斯执教76人的首个赛季里，他们的防守堪称是一场灾难，球队也因此没能打进季后赛。这是艾弗森在费城的最后一个完整的赛季。
12. 2012-13 Thunder
12. 2012-13 俄克拉荷马城雷霆
Big Two: Kevin Durant 28.1 ppg; Russell Westbrook 23.2 ppg
Adjusted Average: 25.93
Team Result: 60-22 lost in second round
双巨头：凯文-杜兰特，场均28.1分；拉塞尔-威斯布鲁克，场均23.2分
兼容指数：25.93
球队战绩：60胜22负，季后赛第二轮被淘汰
We’ll have more to say about the NBA’s most recent Big Two when Durant and Westbrook appear later on.
关于这对时间离我们最近的双巨头我们等会儿还有很多可以说的。
11. 2007-08 Nuggets
11. 2007-08 丹佛掘金
Big Two: Allen Iverson 26.4 ppg; Carmelo Anthony 25.7 ppg
Adjusted Average: 26.06
Team Result: 50-32 lost in first round
双巨头：阿伦-艾弗森，场均26.4分；卡梅罗-安东尼
兼容指数：26.06
球队战绩：50胜32负，季后赛首轮被淘汰
Iverson and Anthony stand out historically when contrasted with the rest of the fallow period that was the mid-aughts NBA. Between the dissolution of the Shaq–Kobe partnership in L.A. and the formation of the James–Wade titan in Miami the two Nuggets were the only pair of teammates to each average 25 points per game in a season. The veteran Iverson was enjoying his last good season while the younger Anthony was still ascending—he’d win his first Olympic gold later that summer. Together the duo ranked third and fourth respectively in per-game scoring that season. But with Iverson never an efficient scorer as the lead ball handler Denver didn’t run the best offense and ranked first in the NBA in pace but just ninth in points per 100 possessions. That inefficiency reared further in the playoffs when the Lakers held Denver to 43 percent shooting (including 25 percent from 3) across a four-game sweep in which three of the games were double-digit blowouts.
在洛杉矶的OK组合解体之后和迈阿密的詹韦组合形成之前，他们是单赛季唯一一对能各自场均砍下25分的双人组。经验丰富的艾弗森正在享受他生涯最后一个安逸的赛季，而年轻的安东尼正处于上升期 — 他还会在接下来的夏天里赢得他的第一枚奥运金牌。二人的场均得分分别排在了当赛季的第三和第四。但艾弗森从来都不是一个高效的得分手，作为首席持球人，他并没有帮助掘金打出最好的进攻表现，虽然球队的进攻速度排到联盟第一，但每百回合的得分掘金只能排到联盟第九。这种低效的进攻一直持续到季后赛，并进一步加剧，湖人在横扫掘金的四场比赛里将他们的投篮命中率限制在了43%以下（包括25%的三分命中率），其中三场比赛都打出了两位数的分差。
10. 1962-63 Lakers
10. 1962-63 洛杉矶湖人
Big Two: Elgin Baylor 34.0 ppg; Jerry West 27.1 ppg
Adjusted Average: 26.14
Team Result: 53-27 lost in Finals
双巨头：埃尔金-贝勒，场均34.0分；杰里-韦斯特，场均27.1分
兼容指数：26.14
球队战绩：53胜27负，总决赛落败
9. 1964-65 Lakers
9. 1964-65 洛杉矶湖人
Big Two: Jerry West 31.0 ppg; Elgin Baylor 27.1 ppg
Adjusted Average: 26.16
Team Result: 49-31 lost in Finals
双巨头：杰里-韦斯特，场均31.0分；埃尔金-贝勒，场均27.1分
兼容指数：26.16
球队战绩：49胜31负，总决赛落败
Even in the context of the high-scoring ’60s West and Baylor rate high on this list and they emerge as the NBA’s first great Big Two. Both Hall of Famers spent their entire career with the Lakers and that inertia—in large part due to different rules at the time such as a lack of free agency—gives the pairing some achievements sure to be unmatched by any modern Big Two. For instance for the first nine seasons they played together West and Baylor ranked first and second on the Lakers in points per game.
即使是在得分普遍很高的60年代，韦斯特和贝勒在这份榜单上依然能够获得一个较高的排名，同时他们也是NBA史上第一对伟大的双巨头。两位名人堂成员都在湖人度过了他们的整个职业生涯，固定的搭档 — 很大程度是因为当时规则的不同，比如缺少自由球员 — 让他们取得了任何一对现代双巨头都无法比拟的成就。举个例子，在他们一起打球的前九个赛季，韦斯特和贝勒的场均得分分别排在湖人的第一和第二。
West and Baylor also saw their playing peaks overlap in fairly neat order. When the former entered the league the latter was 26 years old and entering the best stretch of his career; by the time he began to age out of his prime West was ready to assume the lead role. This is an important factor in many of the best pairings on this list (and outside it like with Jordan and Pippen or Stockton and Malone): Generally the best superstar pairings see the two players meet at the height of their powers. Mid-20s Shaq was better suited to win a title with Bryant than 37-year-old Shaq was to win a title with LeBron. Ironically the one exception to this notion for the new Big Twos is LeBron himself who is entering his age-35 season while Davis at 26 has prime years still to come.
韦斯特和贝勒也很清楚他们的生涯巅峰期很好地重叠在了一起。韦斯特进入联盟时，贝勒26岁，正准备进入生涯的黄金期；当他的巅峰期过了以后，韦斯特已经准备好扮演球场指挥官的角色了。这也是这个榜单上许多黄金搭档成功的一个重要因素（除此之外，比如乔丹和皮蓬，或者斯托克顿和马龙）：这些成功的巨星组合一般由两个处于各自战力巅峰的球员组成。20多岁的奥尼尔更适合和科比一起夺冠，而不是在37岁时和勒布朗一起夺冠。更讽刺的是，对于这些新组的双巨头来说，只有一个特例，那就是即将35岁的勒布朗本人，而26岁的戴维斯正准备迎来他的巅峰期。
8. 2010-11 Heat
8. 2010-11 迈阿密热火
Big Two: LeBron James 26.7 ppg; Dwyane Wade 25.5 ppg
Adjusted Average: 26.22
Team Result: 58-24 lost in Finals
双巨头：勒布朗-詹姆斯，场均26.7分；德维恩-韦德，场均25.5分
兼容指数：26.22
球队战绩：58胜24负，总决赛落败
It might be a surprise that only two of the four star-laden teams in Miami this decade make this list but during that four-season stretch the Heat were at their least democratic early on; Wade in particular saw his scoring drop every year he played with James. The 2012-13 Heat probably the best version of that team—they won 66 games including 27 in a row and beat the Spurs in a legendary Finals—rank 50th on the list of high-scoring duos and the 2013-14 Heat rank 145th. The earliest most lopsided Heat team wasn’t as successful which underscores the broader trend of discovery in this piece: Supporting casts matter too. In this case Chris Bosh himself mattered. The Heat took a competitive leap in the 2011-12 playoffs when coach Erik Spoelstra nudged Bosh to center for most or all of his minutes thus fulfilling the promise of their Big Three roster construction.
迈阿密的四对明星双人组只有两对上榜，这也许令人惊讶，但在这四个赛季里，热火早期双核中的球员地位最不平等；尤其是韦德，他每年和詹姆斯一起比赛时得分都会下降。2012-13赛季的热火，可能就是他们的最佳形态了 — 他们在常规赛取得了66场胜利，包括一波27连胜，并在一轮充满传奇性的总决赛中击败了马刺队 — 在双核得分榜上排名第50名，2013-14赛季的热火排到了第145名。时间最早，双核地位最不平等的热火队也没有这么成功，这凸显了这篇文章中一个更广泛的认知趋势：阵容的匹配也很重要。在这种情况下，波什就显得更为重要。热火教练埃里克-斯波尔斯特拉在安排波什更多地出任中锋后，热火2011-12赛季的季后赛竞争力便完成了一次质的飞跃，从而实现了他们当初组建三巨头时夺冠的承诺。
Chris Bosh’s Percentage of Minutes at Center
波什出任中锋的使用率
With Bosh at center the Heat spaced the floor better and the offense flourished—even if the James and Wade combination wasn’t scoring quite as much. That’s another lesson for modern Big Twos and one that LeBron and the Lakers would do well to note given the shooting limitations that pervade L.A.’s roster.
波什打中锋的时候，热火队能为进攻球员拉开更大的空间并且让进攻更为顺畅 — 即使詹姆斯和韦德的双核组得分不高。这是现代双核组需要借鉴的，在湖人阵容的投射能力不强的情况下，这也是勒布朗和湖人队要借鉴的。
7. 1999-00 Lakers
7. 1999-00 洛杉矶湖人
Big Two: Shaquille O’Neal 29.7 ppg; Kobe Bryant 22.5 ppg
Adjusted Average: 26.25
Team Result: 67-15 won championship
双巨头：沙奎尔-奥尼尔，场均29.7分；科比-布莱恩特，场均22.5分
兼容指数：26.25
球队战绩：67胜15负，赢下总冠军
The first Shaq-Kobe title represents their first mutual appearance on this list but far from the last.
这是OK组合合作以来的首个总冠军，但还远远没结束呢。
6. 2011-12 Thunder
6. 2011-12 俄克拉荷马城雷霆
Big Two: Kevin Durant 28.0 ppg; Russell Westbrook 23.6 ppg
Adjusted Average: 26.61
Team Result: 47-19 lost in Finals
双巨头：凯文-杜兰特，场均28.0分；拉塞尔-威斯布鲁克，场均23.6分
兼容指数：26.61
球队战绩：47胜19负，总决赛落败
The Thunder qualified for this list for both 2011-12 and 2012-13 and they would have done so for 2013-14 and 2014-15 had Westbrook and Durant not suffered long-term injuries. No other recent duo comes close to that volume or longevity. The Thunder thrived with Westbrook and Durant dominating the offense.
2011-12赛季和2012-13赛季的雷霆都有资格进入这份榜单，而且如果威斯布鲁克和杜兰特没有遭遇长时间的伤病困扰的话，他们接下来的两个赛季也能被列入讨论。没有一对组合能达成接近他们的成就。雷霆在威斯布鲁克和杜兰特主导的进攻下充满了竞争力。
Westbrook first crossed a 30 percent usage rate in 2010-11. Over that season and the next five after which Durant left for Golden State the Thunder ranked second in the NBA in regular-season wins (behind only the Spurs) and third in playoff wins (behind the Heat and Spurs). Even after foolishly trading Harden they still could have won a title—and should have frankly if not for ill-timed injuries and Klay Thompson’s famous Game 6 explosion and yes the occasional awkwardness by which a “my turn your turn” offense hampered a late-game possession.
威斯布鲁克的使用率在2010-11赛季首次超过了30%。从2010-11赛季开始算起，直到杜兰特出走金州勇士之前的2015-16赛季，雷霆的常规赛胜场排在联盟第二（仅次于马刺），季后赛的胜场也排到了第三（仅次于热火和马刺）。即使在管理层促成了关于哈登的愚蠢交易后，他们仍然有实力夺得总冠军 — 坦白讲，要不是因为不合时宜的伤病，G6的克莱-汤普森的大爆发，当然，还有雷霆比赛后期“我先抡完你再抡”的进攻打法让球队常常失去对场上节奏的控制，他们真的值得一个总冠军。
The reunited Harden–Westbrook partnership in Houston might not work; most obviously Westbrook’s career-long shooting struggles might interfere with his fit in Houston’s offense. But as Westbrook and Durant displayed for years in Oklahoma City two high-volume scorers can coexist and prosper.
休斯顿重组哈登-威斯布鲁克组合可能行不通；最显而易见的是，威斯布鲁克在生涯里长期没有解决的投篮问题可能会影响他在火箭进攻中的配合。但是，正如威斯布鲁克和杜兰特在雷霆时所展示出来的那样，两个强力得分手是可以兼容并且相得益彰的。
5. 2006-07 Nuggets
5. 2006-07 丹佛掘金
Big Two: Carmelo Anthony 28.9 ppg; Allen Iverson: 24.8 ppg
Adjusted Average: 27.07
Team Result: 45-37 lost in first round
双巨头：卡梅罗-安东尼，场均28.9分；阿伦-艾弗森，场均24.8分
兼容指数：27.07
球队战绩：45胜37负，季后赛首轮淘汰
Iverson joined the Nuggets in a December 2006 trade and played 50 games for Denver that season just enough to qualify for this list. The same issues afflicted the Nuggets in the first season of his pairing with Anthony as they did in the second however and the Nuggets lost a first-round playoff series in a rout. Fittingly enough by 2008-09 they traded Iverson to Detroit for a more traditional point guard in Chauncey Billups—and promptly advanced to the conference finals their longest playoff journey since they traded Vandeweghe more than two decades earlier.
艾弗森在2006年12月被交易到了掘金，并在那个赛季出战了50场比赛，所以他刚好有资格排进这份榜单。然而他和安东尼搭档第一个赛季就暴露出来的问题在接下来也一直没有得到解决，最终掘金在季后赛首轮遭遇惨败。各得其所的是，到了2008-09赛季，掘金和底特律活塞达成了交易，用艾弗森换来昌西-比卢普斯这样一个更传统的控球后卫 — 并迅速打进分区决赛，这是自20多年前他们送走范德维奇以来走得最远的一次季后赛。
4. 2001-02 Lakers
4. 2001-02 洛杉矶湖人
Big Two: Shaquille O’Neal 27.2 ppg; Kobe Bryant 25.2 ppg
Adjusted Average: 27.41
Team Result: 58-24 won championship
双巨头：沙奎尔-奥尼尔，场均27.2分；科比-布莱恩特，场均25.2分
兼容指数：27.41
球队战绩：58胜24负，赢下总冠军
More Shaq and Kobe but there is yet more still to come.
OK再一次被提起，但还没说完呢。
3. 1961-62 Lakers
3. 1961-62 洛杉矶湖人
Big Two: Elgin Baylor 38.3 ppg; Jerry West 30.8 ppg
Adjusted Average: 28.72
Team Result: 54-26 lost in Finals
双巨头：埃尔金-贝勒，场均38.3分；杰里-韦斯特，场均30.8分
兼容指数：28.72
球队战绩：54胜26负，总决赛落败
This spectacular Baylor season is the reason for the 48-game cutoff. Baylor missed nearly half of the season in 1961-62 because he was on Army Reserve duty and could play only when making use of weekend passes. But in the 48 games he did play he averaged 38 points 19 rebounds and five assists per game—a combined threshold that no other NBA player has ever reached military duty or not.
埃尔金-贝勒只打了48场比赛，成就了这个伟大的贝勒赛季。由于在陆军预备役服役的原因，贝勒在1961-62赛季缺席了近一半的比赛，他只能在周末的时候才能上场打球。但在贝勒出战的48场比赛里，他能交出一份场均38分，19个篮板，5个助攻的数据 — 这是联盟其他任何一名职业球员都没能达到的成就，不管是不是军事任务。
Had Baylor played enough games to qualify his 1961-62 season would rank fourth all time on the points per game leaderboard and first among everyone not named Wilt Chamberlain. As Bill Simmons wrote in The Book of Basketball “I would argue that Elgin’s 38-19-5 was more implausible than Wilt’s 50 a game or Oscar’s triple-double. The guy didn’t practice! He was moonlighting as an NBA player on weekends! … Elgin’s 38-19-5 makes no sense. None. It’s inconceivable.”
如果贝勒打了足够多的比赛来获得排进榜单的资格，那么他1961-62赛季的场均得分将排到得分榜第四位，领先除威尔特-张伯伦外的所有球员。正如比尔-西蒙斯在《篮球之书》中所写，“我认为埃尔金的场均38分19篮板5助攻比威尔特的场均50分或是奥斯卡的场均三双要更难以置信。他没时间去练球！他只是用周末的时间兼职打球而已！...埃尔金的场均38分19篮板5助攻不科学。一点都不科学。简直是不可思议。”
Also inconceivable: Baylor and West are the only teammates in league history to each top the 30-ppg barrier. They’re not no. 1 on this list because of the aforementioned era adjustment. But any modern Big Two would be hard-pressed to equal this feat from more than half a century ago. Even Westbrook to accommodate Paul George at his side dropped his points per game from 32 the season before to just 25 and 23 in the two seasons with a new star teammate.
同样不可思议的是，贝勒和韦斯特是联盟历史上唯一一对分别突破场均30分的双核组。鉴于前面提到我们根据时代不同调整了统计方法，所以他们并不是榜单的第一名。但是任何一对双核组取得的成就都很难与半个多世纪前的这一壮举相提并论。即使是威斯布鲁克，为了留下保罗-乔治这位新的明星队友，他的场均得分从以前的32分掉到了这两个赛季的25分和23分。
2. 2002-03 Lakers
2. 2002-03 洛杉矶湖人
Big Two: Kobe Bryant 30.0 ppg; Shaquille O’Neal 27.5 ppg
Adjusted Average: 30.17
Team Result: 50-32 lost in second round
双巨头：科比-布莱恩特，场均30.0分；沙奎尔-奥尼尔，场均27.5分
兼容指数：30.17
球队战绩：50胜32负，季后赛第二轮被淘汰
1. 2000-01 Lakers
1. 2000-01 洛杉矶湖人
Big Two: Shaquille O’Neal 28.7 ppg; Kobe Bryant 28.5 ppg
Adjusted Average: 30.18
Team Result: 56-26 won championship
双巨头：沙奎尔-奥尼尔，场均28.7分；科比-布莱恩特，场均285分
兼容指数：30.18
球队战绩：56胜26负，赢下总冠军
Shaq and Kobe so thoroughly dominated this ranking that they finished with the top two spots—and three of the top four and four of the top seven. And nobody else is even close. Even before adjusting for era these two seasons would rank in the top 10 all time; accounting for the muted scoring environment of the early 2000s—besides the abbreviated lockout season of 1998-99 the early 2000s contained the NBA’s lowest-scoring seasons since the 1950s—boosts them way above any competitor.
奥尼尔和科比霸占了榜单的前二，前四中的三席，前七中的四席。没有人的成就能接近他们。就算没把时代的因素考虑进去，这两个伟大的赛季也能排到历史前十；考虑到21世纪初联盟低迷的得分环境 — 除了短暂停摆的1998-99赛季外，21世纪初出现了自20世纪50年代以来NBA得分最低的赛季 — 这使得OK组合的统治力远超其他竞争对手。
The four Shaq-Kobe Lakers squads on this list were incredibly successful moreover winning three titles and at times romping through the postseason in historic fashion. The top team here in 2000-01 won every playoff game but one en route to the trophy. Their triumphs both at the time and in this ranking provide some final lessons for the NBA’s new Big Twos.
湖人的OK组合四次上榜，这份成功是难以置信的，此外，他们还携手赢得三个总冠军，并以一种历史性的方式称霸了季后赛。2000-01赛季，回顾这支顶级球队的季后赛之旅，他们只输掉了一场总决赛，便顺利捧起了奥布莱恩杯。OK组合的成功，无论是在当时还是在这份榜单上，都为NBA中的双核组提供了很好的参考与借鉴。
The first takeaway from this broader study is that even teams that generate bushels of points from just two players can flop in the standings. Just four of the top 20 teams on this list won the title (and three of those four involved the same two players) while eight of the 20 either missed the playoffs or lost in the first round. Overall the correlation between a team’s regular-season winning percentage and its adjusted two-person scoring average was just 0.38 on a scale from 0 to 1. For reference the correlation for the league-adjusted scoring average of only the top scorer is 0.33—meaning that knowing the relative quality of the second scorer doesn’t add much value beyond knowing the relative quality of the leader.
这项广泛研究的第一个收获是，即使双核组能为球队贡献大量的得分，也不一定能获得一个很好的排名。榜单前20名的球队中只有4支最终获得了总冠军，（其中还有3支是同一对双核组），还有8支球队未能打进季后赛或是季后赛第一轮就被淘汰了。总的来说，在0到1的相关性范围内，一支球队的常规赛胜率和调整统计方法后两人平均得分的相关性只有0.38。作为参考，头号得分手联赛调整得分的平均值的相关性是0.33，这意味着了解二号得分手的相对贡献的价值并不比了解头号得分手的相对贡献要高出多少。
One of the four of Big Two teams to win a title—the 2011-12 Heat—really had a Big Three. Other high-scoring Big Twos ran into problems with inefficiency depth and defense. That’s a potential concern for a team like the current-day Lakers who stripped their roster to acquire Davis and potentially promising news for the Clippers who maintained their depth and improved their defense while acquiring George and Leonard.
2011-12赛季的热火队 — 这份双巨头榜单上四支获得总冠军的球队之一 — 实际上可以算作三巨头。其他得分高的双巨头会遭遇了低效，阵容深度和防守方面的问题。对像现在的湖人这样的球队来说，这是一个潜在的担忧，因为他们拆散了自己的原有阵容去招募戴维斯，对快船来说，这是一个充满希望的好消息，他们在签下乔治和伦纳德的同时保持了原有的阵容深度，还加强了球队的防守。
On the other hand every new Big Two may be encouraged by the success of the early-aughts Lakers. Shaq and Kobe were two of the elite players of their time. But it would have been hard to argue that say Stackhouse and Hill or Iverson and Webber were two of the league’s top dozen players. The Big Twos whose teams performed the best were those with extreme top-end talent and the new Big Twos in the NBA are stacked accordingly. That’s the good news.
另一方面，早期湖人队的成功也许会鼓舞每一对新组建的双巨头。奥尼尔和科比是他们那个年代的两名杰出球员。但你很难说斯塔克豪斯和希尔，或者艾弗森和韦伯是联盟顶级组合中的一员。拥有顶级天赋的双巨头往往能而带领球队打出骄人的战绩，如今联盟球队正根据这个标准来配置新的双巨头。这算是一个不错的消息。
The bad is that Shaq and Kobe succeeded in part because they were basically the lone notable Big Two of their time. The only other teams from the early aughts to appear on this list are the underperforming Celtics and Pistons and the best duo from the Western Conference during that time were the Kings who pushed the Lakers almost to a breaking point in the playoffs but didn’t make the top 20. The new Big Twos won’t have the luxury of automatically having the two best players in any given postseason series; the star talents might approximate each other and just even out across the field. When everyone has a Big Two then nobody does and it really might be the rest of the roster that determines which team has the advantage.
坏消息是，奥尼尔和科比的成功，部分原因是他们基本上是那个时代唯一值得大众目光聚焦的双巨头。出现在这份榜单更久远的球队是战绩不佳的凯尔特人和活塞，而那段时间西部表现最好的双巨头在国王，他们在季后赛中几乎把湖人击溃了，但没能进入这份榜单的前20名。对新组建的双巨头来说，没人能带领球队理所当然地登顶；球星的天赋只可能相互接近，或是在伯仲之间。当每支球队都组建起双巨头时，就更没有人敢打这个包票了，这时球队中的其他球员反倒可能成为决定球队优势的重要因素。
