George Gervin

Four scoring titles — 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1982 — put Gervin behind only Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan, and he was the first guard to take three in a row. He averaged 26.2 points a game and totaled 26,595 across the ABA and NBA, playing for the Virginia Squires, the Spurs from 1974 to 1985, and finally Chicago. Twelve consecutive All-Star appearances, nine of them in the NBA, with at least 21 points a night in every one of those seasons. Hall of Fame in 1996, and named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team the same year. The finger roll is what gets remembered, and it was less a trick than a way to finish over length without ever changing speed.