NBA: Ranking the 30 best players to win NBA Finals with 2 or more teams

Best NBA players to win NBA Finals with two or more teams: 22. Arnie Risen

From a present-day contributor, we hop back into the time machine, going all the way back to the 1950s. Arnie Risen’s career started in the National Basketball League and BAA and was part of the transition into the NBA. Before the renaming of the league, Risen would be named second-team All-NBL and second-team All-BAA.

As a rookie for the Rochester Royals (now the Sacramento Kings) Risen led the league in field goal percentage (42.3 percent) and averaged 16.6 points per game. Two years later he would average 19.5 points and 14.0 rebounds in the postseason for the Royals on the way to his first NBA championship.

Risen would be named an All-Star four times, from 1952 to 1955. Risen was a double-digit scorer in each of his first eight seasons, including his first year with the Boston Celtics. His role severely diminished in his second season in Boston but he won his second NBA title, a worthwhile trade indeed. Risen is a name that most of our parents and grandparents may not even remember but as one of the stars that helped bridge the gap between the days of the NBL and the NBA. He was the type of dynamic scorer (at least for his time) that only got better as the stakes were raised.

It is hard to say if his game would translate to the present day. It was a totally different world back then. Risen may have benefitted from the time that he played in more than any other player on this list but his resume is what it is.