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I hate how he put LeBron in a lakers uniform. His legacy won't be as a Laker.

But he must be doing post 1980 or something, because Wilt? Hello?
 
julius said:
I hate how he put LeBron in a lakers uniform. His legacy won't be as a Laker.

But he must be doing post 1980 or something, because Wilt? Hello?
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This list is kinda bad..

Kareem, MJ, Lebron, Wilt, Magic, Russell, Bird, Kobe, Hakeem, Elgin Baylor.
 
Kobe Bryant doesn't belong in the top-ten. There's no way I'd take him over Jordan, James, Abdul-Jabbar, Chamberlain, Magic, Bird, Robertson, Russell, Olajuwon or O'Neal at a minimum.
 
Minstrel said:
Kobe Bryant doesn't belong in the top-ten. There's no way I'd take him over Jordan, James, Abdul-Jabbar, Chamberlain, Magic, Bird, Robertson, Russell, Olajuwon or O'Neal at a minimum.
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I was with you til he won the last two rings. Those LAL teams weren't all that good, not knocking Pau but it was pretty impressive to me Kobe got to 5 and two without Shaq.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
I was with you til he won the last two rings. Those LAL teams weren't all that good, not knocking Pau but it was pretty impressive to me Kobe got to 5 and two without Shaq.
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Bro, those Laker teams had a ton of talent, Bynum at the time was arguably 1b to Howard’s 1a. They had prime Odom, Pau, and a still clutch Artest.
 
GhostOfPGA said:
Bro, those Laker teams had a ton of talent, Bynum at the time was arguably 1b to Howard’s 1a. They had prime Odom, Pau, and a still clutch Artest.
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In terms of Championship teams they werent that talented. Straight up talent, they were worse than all the 2010 champions except Dallas.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
In terms of Championship teams they werent that talented. Straight up talent, they were worse than all the 2010 champions except Dallas.
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That’s not a fair barometer though, as the nba totally has changed. The Mavs championship was the end of an era.
 
GhostOfPGA said:
That’s not a fair barometer though, as the nba totally has changed. The Mavs championship was the end of an era.
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I just dont think that team was all that. Bynum averaged like 15-8 for those teams and was a solid player but not a great one. Pau was a allstar level PF Odom was a good bench player, but that was Kobe’s team, and I think there are very few guys in the history of the NBA who you could sub out Kobe for on that team and they’d win championships.
 
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TorturedBlazerFan said:
I just dont think that team was all that. Bynum averaged like 15-8 for those teams and was a solid player but not a great one. Pau was a allstar level PF Odom was a good bench player, but that was Kobe’s team, and I think there are very few guys in the history of the NBA who you could sub out Kobe for on that team and they’d win championships.
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Odom was a good bench player?? That front line of Odom, Gasol, and Bynum was straight up dominant on both ends of the floor. That was a crazy amount of length and versatility.

You could have subbed guys in like Wade and Ray Allen in for Kobe, and that team likely doesn't miss a beat. I'm not suggesting that either of them are slouches, but they're also not being included in many top-10 all-time lists.

It's weird to me that Kobe was considered highly overrated much of his early career and most of his late career, but now everyone just accepts that he was the greatest Laker ever. Remember how many people thought he was sinking the franchise those last few years?
 
handiman said:
Odom was a good bench player?? That front line of Odom, Gasol, and Bynum was straight up dominant on both ends of the floor. That was a crazy amount of length and versatility.

You could have subbed guys in like Wade and Ray Allen in for Kobe, and that team likely doesn't miss a beat. I'm not suggesting that either of them are slouches, but they're also not being included in many top-10 all-time lists.

It's weird to me that Kobe was considered highly overrated much of his early career and most of his late career, but now everyone just accepts that he was the greatest Laker ever. Remember how many people thought he was sinking the franchise those last few years?
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Greatest laker ever...? Look at my list... Kareem, Magic, Wilt... So I have him as 4th....
 
Hobbesarable said:
I watched every player on his list play with the exception of Bill Russell. However, after watching some of his interviews, I think he would probably be one of my favorites if I had seen him play.
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Yeah, Russell comes across as a really smart, thinking person in interviews. It's no wonder he's arguably the greatest defensive player ever.
 
Chris Craig said:
Too many Lakers
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First thing I checked. 5 out of 10.

I think of Jabbar as a Buck, his greatest years, where he carried the team, something that overrated Magic Johnson never did because Kareem was the silent engine of the 80s Lakers.

Shaq has always said that in Shaq's early years, he was amazed at his main rival, Olajuwon. I thought he'd list him #1.

Maybe Shaq ignored Wilt because the two had similar tough guy talk. Chamberlain spoke roughly, but talked more intelligently than Shaq (who doesn't?).
 
I'm a little less famous than Shaq (but more famous than Travis Outlaw or anyone from the cast of Bones), but I'm bored and thought I'd do a ranked top ten.

1. LeBron James
2. Michael Jordan
3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
4. Wilt Chamberlain
5. Bill Russell
6. Hakeem Olajuwon
7. Magic Johnson
8. Larry Bird
9. Shaquille O'Neal
10. Oscar Robertson

The second-hardest call was James over Jordan. I find the two nearly impossible to separate in terms of greatness, but I didn't want to cop out and make them co-number-ones. I went with James because his size and physique gives him a physical dominance that Jordan didn't have. It gave him more styles of play he could adopt and made him far less capable of being battered into exhaustion the way Jordan sometimes was (most famously by the Pistons but also occasionally by Pat Riley's Knicks). James could play like Jordan did, or like the Shaq of perimeter players, playing bully-ball if he had to. James also had the superior passing skills (though Jordan was no slouch as a play-maker). James is probably the most well-rounded basketball player ever. The Jordan mystique is hard to pass up, but I think James is closest to the perfect basketball player the game has ever seen.

Separating Magic from Bird was the hardest call. They were easy comparables due to playing at the same time, but they were also incredibly close in ability level. I could go either way on them, I'll admit I put Magic over Bird because I liked Magic's style more.

Lots of other hard calls, but those were the ones that immediately jumped to mind as ones I had things to say about.
 
Minstrel said:
I'm a little less famous than Shaq (but more famous than Travis Outlaw or anyone from the cast of Bones), but I'm bored and thought I'd do a ranked top ten.

1. LeBron James
2. Michael Jordan
3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
4. Wilt Chamberlain
5. Bill Russell
6. Hakeem Olajuwon
7. Magic Johnson
8. Larry Bird
9. Shaquille O'Neal
10. Oscar Robertson

The second-hardest call was James over Jordan. I find the two nearly impossible to separate in terms of greatness, but I didn't want to cop out and make them co-number-ones. I went with James because his size and physique gives him a physical dominance that Jordan didn't have. It gave him more styles of play he could adopt and made him far less capable of being battered into exhaustion the way Jordan sometimes was (most famously by the Pistons but also occasionally by Pat Riley's Knicks). James could play like Jordan did, or like the Shaq of perimeter players, playing bully-ball if he had to. James also had the superior passing skills (though Jordan was no slouch as a play-maker). James is probably the most well-rounded basketball player ever. The Jordan mystique is hard to pass up, but I think James is closest to the perfect basketball player the game has ever seen.

Separating Magic from Bird was the hardest call. They were easy comparables due to playing at the same time, but they were also incredibly close in ability level. I could go either way on them, I'll admit I put Magic over Bird because I liked Magic's style more.

Lots of other hard calls, but those were the ones that immediately jumped to mind as ones I had things to say about.
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