I actually didn't notice Miller on julius' list haha. Or my eye skimmed over him. I'm surprised he wasn't in the original top-50. I assumed he was.
I worded my musing poorly. What if instead of a blanket "50 greatest" (in '97) or the 75 greatest in 22, the lists were the 10 (or 15) greatest by position? Essentially like "All NBA" teams, but 10 (or 15) of them, and looking at the entirety of NBA history.
Whoa! It's hard enough narrowing it down to 75 let alone categorizing them by 1st through 15th All-NBA style teams! I can't imagine how painstaking that process would be even if it is a good idea.
Hmm, interesting. Some players' positions have become more fluid of late--how strict is positional determination? Can one put Draymond, Giannis or Davis at the 4 or 5, or are they strictly 4s even if they upsize to 5s in various lineups?
How many people have been on an NBA roster since the league was started? I think we should rank-order them all. barfo
There's some flexibility, but I think most players have a pretty clear designation as to where they've played the majority of their career. There's always arguments of course (Tim Duncan's really a 5! Harden is a point guard!) but I think those are mostly the exception.
OK--I took the 50 greatest list, added the players mentioned in this thread, and sorted them by position. Oddly enough, there's exactly 15-17 of each position. Who wants to rank the top 15 in each position (or argue about certain players' positional placements)?
I feel like it's a victory that we've collectively only mentioned 32 new additions. I have a really tough time ranking the pre-80's players so I'd probably have a lot of bias but I'll probably give it a shot sometime.
Yeah, I think it makes it hard for me, I've watched a ton of old NBA games, and all that but seeing it "live" and not having the context of watching those games when they were still, "relevant" for lack of a better word makes it to where really pre-95ish I have a hard time knowing. Which is odd since I believe Kareem was the best player ever and all I've seen from him is "old footage" and rewatching games on NBA TV, or streams online.
Man, center is by far the toughest position to rank all-time players for. There are centers that I could make an argument for being #1 but could also agree that same center should be like #5 or #6.
