0.5 || 15.7 |- | style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|† | style="text-align:left;"|Boston | 78 || 78 || 35.0 || .455 || .143 || .818 || 3.4 || 5.8 || 1.4 || 0.4 || 15.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|Boston | 79 || 78 || 37.1 || .444 || .113 || .833 || 3.3 || 7.5 || 1.1 || 0.5 || 13.4 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|Boston | 77 || 74 || 34.7 || .438 || .261 || .856 || 3.1 || 7.8 || 1.2 || 0.4 || 12.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|Boston | 72 || 72 || 32.1 || .434 || .140 || .821 || 2.6 || 6.6 || 1.3 || 0.3 || 10.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|Boston | 75 || 65 || 27.1 || .434 || .042 || .843 || 2.7 || 6.5 || 1.1 || 0.2 || 7.1 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career | 1,100 || 673 || 32.7 || .445 || .172 || .797 || 3.9 || 5.0 || 1.3 || 0.6 || 14.1 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| All-Star | 5 || 0 || 19.6 || .541 || – || .864 || 3.6 || 1.8 || 1.0 || 0.8 || 11.8 Playoffs |- |style="text-align:left;"|1978 |stye="text-align:left;"|Seattle |22||–||37.6||.412||–||.704||4.6||3.3||1.0||1.0||16.1 |- | style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|1979† |stye="text-align:left;"|Seattle |17||–||40.1||.450||–||.771||6.1||4.1||1.6||1.5||20.9 |- |style="text-align:left;"|1980 |stye="text-align:left;"|Seattle |15||–||38.8||.410||.333||.839||4.3||3.8||1.8||0.7||17.1 |- |style="text-align:left;"|1981 |stye="text-align:left;"|Phoenix |7||–||38.1||.473||.200||.762||4.7||2.9||1.3||1.3||19.6 |- |style="text-align:left;"|1982 |stye="text-align:left;"|Phoenix |7||–||38.7||.477||.000||.769||4.4||4.6||2.1||0.6||22.3 |- |style="text-align:left;"|1983 |stye="text-align:left;"|Phoenix |3||–||36.0||.458||.000||.833||7.7||5.7||1.7||0.7||18.0 |- | style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|1984† |stye="text-align:left;"|Boston |22||–||36.7||.404||.429||.867||3.6||4.4||1.1||0.3||16.6 |- |style="text-align:left;"|1985 |stye="text-align:left;"|Boston |21||21||40.4||.445||.000||.860||4.0||7.3||1.5||0.4||17.3 |- | style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|1986† |stye="text-align:left;"|Boston |18||18||39.7||.445||.375||.798||4.2||5.9||2.2||0.3||16.2 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1987 |stye="text-align:left;"|Boston |23||23||41.9||.465||.115||.850||4.0||8.9||0.7||0.3||18.9 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1988 |stye="text-align:left;"|Boston |17||17||41.3||.433||.375||.796||4.5||8.2||1.4||0.5||15.9 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1989 |stye="text-align:left;"|Boston |3||1||19.7||.267||–||–||1.3||3.0||1.0||0.0||2.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1990 |stye="text-align:left;"|Boston |5||5||32.4||.484||.333||1.000||2.8||5.6||0.4||0.4||13.8 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career | 180 || 85 || 38.9 || .439 || .239 || .802 || 4.3 || 5.6 || 1.4 || 0.6 || 17.3 Head coaching record |- | style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Clippers | style="text-align:left;"| |24||8||16|||| align="center"|7th in Pacific|||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:left;"|Career | ||24||8||16|||| ||—||—||—||—|| Legacy In 1,100 games, Johnson scored 15,535 points, grabbed 4,249 rebounds and gave 5,499 assists, translating to career averages of 14.1 points, 3.9 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game. Known as a defensive stalwart, he was elected into nine straight All-Defensive First or Second Teams. NBA legend George Gervin said in a podcast with journalist Bill Simmons that Johnson was the hardest defender he ever played against. Johnson is also acknowledged by the NBA as a "money player" who was clutch in decisive moments, such as scoring 32 points for his team in a Game