All Time Players You Would Never Want On Your Team?

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  1. ThugginPaulyGAllen

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    That's it? Cmon, I know you got more!
     
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    Ummm, I did say that KG was a good version of LMA, did I not?
    I still wouldn't want either one on the Blazers - ever.
     
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  3. Stevenson

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    I understand hating Kobe, but I sure would love him if he was on my team.
     
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    I can think of a few but being a Blazer fan, do I have a right to be picky?
     
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    I accepted Pippen, so I guess I can pretty much accept anyone if he helps.
     
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    There are some really good lists/names here. Good job, good effort!

    However, my list starts with KG. Even over K*be. Easily over Melo. And it's not really close.

    I like Iverson. I would've liked Reggie (on our team). I don't like Harden much, same with Tyson Chandler (remember him trying to out-tough Przybilla for about 2 years straight?) I wouldn't take back #12.

    Basically, I hate fake-tough guys. I'm talking about guys who jabber-jaw, punch in nuts, talking about "being a soldier" and "going to war" and then running from an actual fight. I hate fake-tough guys that pick on little guys. Or guys that talk smack but know they'll never have to put up or shut up. (Ricky Davis, Lance Stevenson, Patrick Beverley, I'm looking at you). I also don't have a large spot in my heart for guys who refuse to do the dirty work to be good at their position. Big guy who doesn't rebound? PG who doesn't pass? Wing who doesn't play D? GTFOH.

    As for the game, if you have a transcendent one, you have one. MJ was/is a complete asshole, but he could play (obviously). Iverson was similar. I loved watching him play. KG? Not transcendent.
     
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    When I saw the title I thought you were asking about "all time players" - as in best players of all time - I would not want on "my" team. And the only one I'd put on that list is Kobe Bryant.

    Now I see people listing everyone they don't like, even marginal players who never amounted to much and of whom little was expected. Do you want a list of every jerk in the NBA? It would be a long list. Or just the jerks who can't play? Anyone who got in trouble with the law? Or only those who got in trouble for things we disapprove of (I disapprove of sexual assault and don't give a rat's ass about pot smoking; some feel the opposite, they hate Rasheed and make excuses for Bryant and Ruben Patterson).

    No wonder the lists are all over the place!

    But I'll stay with my first interpretation, and my first, last, and always answer is Kobe Bryant.
     
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    Yeah, I'd go along with that analysis. Kobe is undoubtedly an "all-time player" from a skills standpoint. He's also an arrogant me-first jerk who almost certainly committed rape in Colorado and got away with it. That puts him in a unique class of guys I want nothing to do with.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    Kobe Bryant because he's Kobe Bryant.
     
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    that's what comes to mind at the moment
     
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    The all time list is too long, so I'm gonna just cut it down to active players: Kobe, Turkoglu,Harden (I don't want to watch an hr of him falling and shooting FTs every game), Lance, and Felton.
     
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    Felton
    Sprewell
    Anthony Mason
    JR Rider
    Shaq
    Shawn Bradley
    Greg Oden
    Rondo
    Starbury
    Kobe
    Melo
    John Starks
    Boozer
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    Camby
    Greg Ostertag
    Rick Fox
    Christian Laetner
    Gilbert Arenas
    Aaron Brooks
    Kevin Love
    David Lee
    Kendrick Perkins
    Nolan Smith
     
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    Nobody has ever defended 5 positions like KG. He has the agility of a PG and the length of a center. He scored 20ppg and 13rpg leading the league in rebounding 4 straight years . He shot 50% FG and 80%FT along with 5 assists and 2 blocks. He lead the NBA in PER with 29.4 and 28.2 which are certainly hall of fame numbers. When he finally had great teammates and was healthy for that one season they won the title. Iverson was a better version of Nate Robinson from the Chicago Bulls, a small guard carrying an offense on a great defensive squad. Iverson was never half the player of KG in height or impact on his team.
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    And both are reprehensible scumbags.
     
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    Nope, never.
     
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    Man, that would be a long, long list, but I would say Dwight Howard, Carmelo Anthony and Allan Iverson.

    Man, they were ruthless, but I would take Isiah and Lambier any day of the week. As long as they came as a package. That's a ring right there if you surround them right. The others I listed I don't think would ever get a ring no matter who you put around them. Unless they ride the bench and let their team play without them.
     
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    It is a long list...how could I forget guys like Lamar Odom and Turkeyglue?
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    Because they're not worth remembering, lol...
     
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    Bryant and Pippen.
     
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