How would you rank Robert Parish's best stretch of post-Bird era production?

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After Larry Bird retired at the conclusion of the '92 season, the Boston Celtics were now down to just Reggie Lewis, Robert Parish and Kevin McHale. During the '93 regular season, Parish averaged 12.6 points, 9.4 boards and 1.4 blocks in 27 minutes per game as the Celtics' starting C.

By the '93 playoffs in the first round vs. the Charlotte Hornets (who were making their very first playoff appearance), Parish upped his production to 17.0 points, 9.5 boards and 1.5 blocks in 36 minutes per game as Reggie Lewis went down, and so McHale, Parish, Kevin Gamble, Xavier McDaniel, Dee Brown and Sherman Douglas stepped up their production, even though they lost the series to the Hornets, who had better production from Alonzo Mourning, Larry Johnson, Kendall Gill and Dell Curry.

Heading into the '94 season, the Boston Celtics were now a rebuilding team as Lewis passed away in the '93 offseason, McHale retired after chronic injuries, and the Celtics were now revolving around Douglas, Brown, Rick Fox and Dino Radja, As a result, Parish (still the Celtics' starting C) averaged 11.7 points, 7.3 boards and 1.3 blocks in 26-27 minutes per game as the Celtics wound up missing the '94 playoffs, thus eventually ending Parish's long tenure with the Celtics which began all the back to 1980 after the C's acquired him from Golden State.

His two years with the Hornets ('95 and '96) and his one year with the Bulls ('97) don't count because he was never allowed to be given the same chance to produce similar stats, as he was mostly playing backup C behind Alonzo Mourning and Matt Geiger for Charlotte, and third-string backup C behind Luc Longley and Bill Wennington for Chicago.