<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Hunter:</div><div class="quote_post">Lets also remember that Duncan has two rings and two MVPs not to mention numerous first and second all NBA team selections. Not to mention a career average of 22 ppg, 12 rbg, 3 apg and 2.5 bpg.. Amare over his career 20 ppg 9 rbg, 1.5 apg, and 1.5 blg. I will give Amare credit where credit is due and say that this year he has absolutely dominated the league and the fact that he averaged 38 ppg against the Spurs in the playoffs just goes to show how much potential he has. However lets remember that Tim Duncan was not even 100% and he still averaged 28 ppg amd 14 rbg. Amare did outperform Duncan this year as well as in this series however to say that Amare is a better overall basketball player than Tim Duncan is insane in my opinion. If Amare can keep his level of play up at this intensity for 5 more years then I will give in however as of right now I will take Tim Duncan over Amare Stoudamire any day of the week. One could argue that Tim Duncan is a PF however considering his height and how he plays he is a Center in my book. I think of him as a Center that just so happens to play the PF position. Don't think I was copying you. I think in most people's books those are the top five centers of all time. I beg anyone to differ. I think he is one of the top big men to play the game up to this point in his career however I agree with you in that I think a prime Hakeem would eat his lunch. YES, George Mikan did dominate the league and YES he is definetly a worthy icon to look up to in basketball, however like Rockfan06 said he isn't up to level as the five players that I listed. You mentioned how teams use to bring games to a halt to stop him, however the same applies for all the players I mentioned. As to your comment about teams focusing thier whole game on Mikan: Teams use to(and still do) have to concentrate their entire gameplans around the players listed above to prevent them from getting off. He was a great player however to say that he would have played well against Shaq, Hakeem, or Wilt is hard for me to imagine. I actually think that if Mikan played now he would get beat by the most NBA centers because of thier athleticism and conditioning.</div> Actually, I wasn't saying that you were copying me. I was simply saying that we both agree on our top 5, food for thought. Yes, Tim might be a very good big man but anybody who's 7'1 close to 300lbs and says,"I'm not a center" doesn't belong on any list. Just my opinion.
