Ironmen in the NBA for 2012-13

In a game where giant athletes are constantly moving, changing directions, and jumping, injuries are commonplace, and even in a league where players use private jets back-to-back games or four games in five nights cause a lot of distress on a body. Few players are able to play every single game consistently, season after season. A.C. Green famously played 1192 consecutive games (1336 including playoffs, which are strangely ignored), creating an impossible standard of durability. Consecutive game leaderboards are hard to find for the NBA, so I made one of my own.

A year removed from a compressed lockout season and a 2013 season where many ironmen like Tayshaun Prince, Brook Lopez, and Westbrook had injuries, few are left standing without a missed game in two years.

	Consecutive games	With playoffs	Last season of missed game
Andre Miller	843	895	2003 (1)
Tyler Hansbrough	186	220	2011
OJ Mayo	174	194	2011
DeAndre Jordan	158	175	2011
Omer Asik	230	160	2011/Never (3)
Klay Thompson	148	160	Never
Luis Scola	148	148	2011
Kemba Walker	148	148	Never
Russell Westbrook	394	0	2013/Never (2)

1) Technically missed a game in 2011, but this was a suspension, not an injury. If you count the suspension, then it's 228 in a row with playoffs and 209 without.
2) Received an injury in the 2013 playoffs and had never missed a game before that.

3) Missed a playoff game in 2011 after breaking his hand, but has never missed a regular season game.

Unfortunately, there's no clear-cut ironman. I don't think Andre Miller's suspension should count because in the spirit of the title it doesn't matter if the league decides to suspend you one game for knocking over Blake Griffin; you're still an ironman. In fact, Andre Miller played through a separated shoulder just so he didn't miss another game. If you count Andre Miller, he blows everyone out of the water.

Russell Westbrook was the heir apparent to Miller and reportedly hadn't missed a game since junior high, but after running into Patrick Beverley he suffered a torn meniscus. If you only count the regular season, he's still king, while Omer Asik has also never missed a regular season game (he had a fractured tibia in the 2011 playoffs.) And as yet another sidenote, Scola has never missed a game except for the 2011 season. He's one ironman people rarely think of, and like Andre Miller his ground-based game probably protects him from sustaining injuries.

Otherwise the official ironman of the NBA after the 2013 season is ... Tyler Hansbrough with 220 in a row.

Rookies who didn't miss a game:
Damian Lillard
Kyle Singler

Full list of players who didn't miss a regular season game:
Brandon Bass (1)
Andray Blatche
Corey Brewer
Jimmy Butler
DeMar DeRozan
Monta Ellis
Randy Foye
Alonzo Gee
Jeff Green (1)
Tyler Hansbrough (1)
Spencer Hawes
DeAndre Jordan
Damian Lillard
Jeremy Lin (2)
Robin Lopez
O.J. Mayo
Andre Miller
Markieff Morris
Lamar Odom
Tayshaun Prince
Luke Ridnour
Nate Robinson
Luis Scola
Kyle Singler
Jason Thompson
Klay Thompson
Tristan Thompson
Evan Turner
Kemba Walker
Russell Westbrook (2)

(1) Played only 81 games in the regular season, but one game was canceled due to the fallout of the Boston marathon shooting.
(2) Missed playoff game(s).