30 best NBA players to never win a championship

9. George Gervin

George Gervin played in the ABA for four seasons before the merger led him and the San Antonio Spurs to the NBA ranks. For however productive he was in the early stages of his professional career in the ABA, though, Gervin turned it up a notch for once he made his way to the NBA ranks. The player known as “Iceman” quickly established himself as an elite scoring force with the length and versatility that few defenders stood a chance at stopping or even containing.

The Iceman spent all but one of his NBA seasons with the Spurs and was fully dominant over the course of those nine seasons. Gervin averaged a stellar 27.3 points and 4.8 rebounds per game over that span while shooting a ridiculous 51.4 percent clip from the floor considering how much defenses knew to hone in on him. Over that nine-season span, he averaged over 32 points per game twice, and was an All-Star in each year.

What’s more, it’s impossible to ignore the longevity that Gervin displayed throughout his career. In his first eight NBA seasons, his low scoring average was 23.1 points per game and he averaged fewer than 21 points per contest in just one NBA season. That year just happened to be his final in the league, which he played with the Chicago Bulls. It’s hard to ignore that type of elite production over such a long timeframe.