Toughest player in NBA history?

[Thebesteva]

Who do you guys have as your 'toughest player' in NBA history? Answer it however which way you want.

For me it has to be the Mamba. Those freethrows after the achilles tear were as inspiring as Michael Sam winning the ESPY





























LOL jk its Karl Malone, 18 seasons with the Jazz and he only missed 6 games :wow

[Xylus]

Gotta be Channing Frye. Dude's heart tried to fuck him up, but he went to battle, came back healthy and played all 82 games last season.

Channing :cry

[ElNono]

Laimbeer, Oakley, Ron Ron...

[lefty]

Kevin Johnson








When he wasn't injured

[RsxPiimp]

Mentally, Rodman. Physically, Ben Wallace. Shaq.

[DPG21920]

Kobe. Toughest to play with.

[HI-FI]

Tony Parker

edit: non joking, I think Steve Nash is a tough mofo.

[RsxPiimp]

Before his flopping days, Pierce was also a one tough SOB. Stabbed 11 times and had a bottle smashed over his head. Needed lung surgery to repair damage. Dude came back 40 days later for the season opener.

:lolAny other players would probably miss at least half the season.

[spurraider21]

i dno. i heard AaronY likes Tyler Hansbrough tho

[Indazone]

Laimbeer, Oakley, Ron Ron...


^ This

[Infinite_limit]

http://www.rolandsmartin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/shaqmmafightlist.jpg



LOL @ Google "Oakley Fight"

[sendman]

A.C. Green and it's not even a competition. Dude was unbreakable.

[Splits]

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=237758&p=7524175

[ambchang]

Maurice Lucas, Oakley.

[JohnnyMax]

Javaris Crittenton

Resume: murdered someone, sold drugs, and was a gang member.

[Splits]

Kermit Washington

http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygv26QeIi1qcmnsoo1_r1_400.png

[Mr Bones]

Jordan. He put up ridiculous numbers and wins when playing injured, playing with the flu, etc. His toughness was almost psychopathic.

[lefty]

A.C. Green and it's not even a competition. Dude was unbreakable.
Until J.R Reid elbowed him in the teeth, and Green walked away like the virgin beta cuck phaggot that he is to pick up the missing teeth

[DMC]

Depends on what you mean by "tough". If you mean bad ass, there are a few. If you mean hard ass, there are a few. If you mean pine knot sealed in amber, there are a few.

[Ginobili3]

Kobe for the Achilles-free throws, Nash putting a broken nose back in place, and Manu going hard with either a broken arm or nose.

[RsxPiimp]

Javaris Crittenton

Resume: murdered someone, sold drugs, and was a gang member.

That's not tough, that's being a dumbass

[Sportstudi]

Kobe for the Achilles-free throws, Nash putting a broken nose back in place, and Manu going hard with either a broken arm or nose.

You could also add Caron Butler for putting his kneecap back into place after suffering a torn patella tendon in his right knee and then walking off the court.

[DAF86]

What do you mean by toughest? Malone may not missed many games but mentally was weak as fuck while a guy like Manu might be injury prone but his mental aspect and style of play is very tough.

[Sportstudi]

What do you mean by toughest? Malone may not missed many games but mentally was weak as fuck while a guy like Manu might be injury prone but his mental aspect and style of play is very tough.

Tougher than Malone for sure. Malone relied more on his body to send other players to hospital tbh.

[DAF86]

Usually the greatest of all-time are the toughest. MJ is the toughest, imho.

[tlongII]

Maurice Lucas

[TheGoldStandard]

Charles Oakley

[Shastafarian]

Ime Udoka


The next thing you know, there were three Algerian players on him. Everyone was engaged in combat save me, if you can believe it. And lo and ehold... Ime! He was taking people out like in Mortal Kombat. Finish him! Incredible. I was so out of it as I had five guys I was fighting (oh yeah, the crowd jumped in as the fight spilled over to the court of the championship game of Senegal and Angola).

In the middle of the whole thing I heard Ime, literally in mid-swing of another opponent say,"Watch back, Gabe" and he calmly, I mean calmly, smeared a guy who, as I turned to see his warning, jumped from the stands with a chair to probably kill me or knock me out to where the crowd would have. I mean, Ime caught the guy in mid air with a fist and calmly continued his dispacthing of oncoming people. He and other guys (yes, me too) were whoopin' so many people the crowd backed up. True to the letter! But Ime had the most notches by far.

[Mikeanaro]

Kevin Durant

[Malice]

Ime Udoka

Ah shit, I remember this story. Was this legit? Sounds like something out of the movie Gladiator lol

[Franklin]

MVPierce imho, dude came back in a wheelchair during the 08' finals and led his team to a championship, not to say dude once suffered 11 stabbing wounds yet only missed half the season, while "God" quit the season midway with a feigned injury after playing only 6 games :lol

[TampaDude]

J.J. Barea

[Arcadian]

This conversation is boring. I don't care who the "toughest" players were...I care who were the best and most skilled.

[Ginobili3]

You could also add Caron Butler for putting his kneecap back into place after suffering a torn patella tendon in his right knee and then walking off the court.
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[wanggi]

Cedric Ceballos

[resistanze]

Oakley was smacking niggas like it was his duty. So I'd go with him.

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

Usually the greatest of all-time are the toughest. MJ is the toughest, imho.

Bill Cartwright disagrees.

[Jenks]

I'm going with toughest as in who took the most punishment, and that's Allen Iverson.

[Sportcamper]

Malone- Just a mean player...Dick Butkus mean...
Shaq- Got hammered every play & brushed it off...
Kobe- Stubborn tough...
Wilt- Gentle Giant… If he threw his weight around like Shaq & Malone he would have been banned…

[Medvedenko]

Who ever put MJ as the toughest is a retard. You don't take 2 years off and play baseball and love golf is not tough in my book.
Regardless, I'd go with Buck Williams, Oakley, Iverson, Ron Ron, Laimbeer, Rodman, and AC Green. Lol

[Sportcamper]

I don't belive that Rodman should be on the list...When players like Malone kicked his ass Rodman would just quit...He would do something dirty to get kicked out of the game...

[Biernutz]

Bill Russell and Bill Lambier. When you go to the hoop you'll pay.

[disciple]

Easy……………………..Jim Loscutoff ………………….. the man cut Chamberlain in half

[LkrFan]

Kermit Washington

http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygv26QeIi1qcmnsoo1_r1_400.png:lmao

[Malik Hairston]

The most important criteria for a correct answer is that the players in question must be:

A) White American
B) Played in the early 90s or prior
C) Both

Many of these players were "tough" to negate their lack of talent/athleticism, tbh..their "hustle" and "grittiness" gave them value, or at least the perception of being valuable, despite not having skills and athleticism..

[callo1]

Just because the NBA allowed players to clothesline on defense and play "tougher" in the 80's and early 90's does not constitute toughness of those that took advantage of that rules set, or rather lack thereof.

[hater]

http://sportsnstats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Bruce-Bowen-face.jpg

[LkrFan]

http://sportsnstats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Bruce-Bowen-face.jpg
OP didn't say the dirtiest. He said toughest. -5 points son :lol

[lefty]

Isiah THomas was a tough mofo