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Top 50 NBA Players all-time according to SLAM
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--- Quote from: Don Jacob on June 27, 2009, 04:52:55 PM ---laker, magic, heat, sun, cav, shaq is my all time favorite player but i'm not secure with him being number 4 on all time greatest players list...yeah i think he could have dominated bill and wilt, and for that matter kareem as well, he cut his teeth in the biggest big man era so i have no problem with people saying he's the #4 #1 option ever. but greatness is something different.....
jordan was jordan........that's your number one dude of all time
but magic should be number #2......9 finals appearances, dude played all 5 positions and excelled at them all. he was the greatest player ever until jordan can into his own. and that's all that really ever has to be said, in shaq's blurb it said that he always made everyone around him better....which has always been true, but the person that always did that the best was magic...magic was the ultimate player....like i said you have to look to jordan for a greater player
wilt should be number 3.....plain and simple he's the stuff of legend.....like i said i'm pretty sure shaq would make him look like greg ostertag , but he was the original and when you think about greatness and NBA it start and ends with wilt
Bill Russel should be Number 4 on that list, like wilt when you think of greatness and NBA it starts back in the day with wilt and you turn the page and you have Bill and his ring collection.
then i think once you get to number 5 that's when you start having problems and debate trying to rank players. the first four.....that's pretty much set in stone until either shaq breaks some rebounding or scoring records or kobe lebron, or timmy wins a significant amount of championship hardware before they retire.
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I agree with some of this. I agree that none of the current players should be in the top 5. But I have a hard time ranking Magic #2....and Larry not even in the top #5. To me, those two are on the same level. Magic had a little bit better teams during the 80's, but their individual accolades are definetely on par with eachother. Larrys maybe even slightly better as he made the All Defensive team 3 times also. The other problem though is, if you put Bird and Magic on the same level, and assume Magic is number 2...that means Bird is either number 3, or they switch places. Which would mean Wilt and Russell get pushed to 5 and 6...that cant happen either lol. The way I see the list...
1. Jordan
2.-6. Magic, Bird, Wilt, Russell, Kareem (no particular order)
7.-10. Oscar, Shaq, Duncan, West (no particular order)
Chamillitary Click:
Shaq could have dominated Bill, Wilt & Kareem if he played in their ERA.
but it was a different game back then; Shaq would have gotten called for offensive fouls & travels back in the day lol.
i wonder if Bill, Wilt & Kareem would even be the players they are remembered as if they played in today's game basketball.
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--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on June 27, 2009, 10:01:37 PM ---Shaq could have dominated Bill, Wilt & Kareem if he played in their ERA.
but it was a different game back then; Shaq would have gotten called for offensive fouls & travels back in the day lol.
i wonder if Bill, Wilt & Kareem would even be the players they are remembered as if they played in today's game basketball.
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Athletes typically always get better. Especially over that long of a period of time. Kareem was recent enough that he could probably still compete. But Wilt and Bill would get dominated by any quality big over the last 15 yrs. Like you said, the game changes...and players evolve. Just look when you watch OLD NBA clips from back in the day and the PG's could hardly use their left hand lol
Chamillitary Click:
^yeah, but PG's couldn't dribble the way they do now.
every possesion in AI's career would have been called a carry 30 years ago.
CP3, Nash & Deron Williams would absoutely OWN against teams from back in the day lol.
Antonio:
--- Quote from: .:DaYg0sTyLz:. on June 27, 2009, 03:29:04 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on June 27, 2009, 02:24:15 PM ---where would some people on this board put Shaq if he was still a Laker. ;D
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If it were Laker fans making the list it would go something like...
1. Kobe
2. Magic
3. Kareem
4. Shaq
5. Laker
6. Laker
7. Laker
8. Laker
9. Laker
10. Jordan....maybe...
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Don't be mad at us if Lakers is the best franchise in NBA history.
P.S. Add Chamberlain and West in that top-10 and maybe you got it right. ;D
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