Player(s)
Ice
Jimmy Si
Mike Mitc
First to last for me.
1. David Robinson (the man was my ultra role model and had gifts I had never seen before)
2. Dominic Williams (Played almost every game with fire and passion,was a pure joy to watch)
3. Larry Johnson (Played with alot of heart and had very entertaining charisma)
I also loved the honrets back when they had mugsey, Morning, and Larry. Now that was a fun team to watch.
dennis rodman was the first jersey i ever owned. all the good christian boys followed 5-0, who is awesome, but i loved the fact that someone was bringing showmanship and entertainment (while still providing defense and rebounding) to the team that i loved. too bad things didn't work out. i think about 10 years ago i ended up getting like 15 bucks for that jersey, i wish i would have kept it, now it would actually fit me.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
- Jordan
- John Starks
- David Robinson
- Clyde Drexler
- Cliff Robinson
- Sam Cassell during the back2back
- Barkley
- Penny Hardaway
- Tim Hardaway
- Latrell Spreewell
- Chris Mullin
- Magic
- James Worthy
- Isiah THomas
- Dominique Wilkins
- Mark Price
- Brad Daugherty
- Joe Dumars
- Dennis Rodman
- Scot Pippen
Pretty much everyone lol
Last edited by lefty; 02-04-2010 at 12:23 PM.
There's an oldie.
And from the comments of that video,
Larry Nance
Best passing big man of his era.
Thanks
Yep; and he was very humble too
Nance, Price Daugherty were once proclaimed by Magic as a "future dynasty" ...
unfortunately MJ's greatness and Daugherty's injuries never let that happen ...
But they could pass and run offense like nobody's business ...underrated great team.
I would rank them up with the 90's Jazz, Blazers and Mavs as truly great teams that just fell short ...
Last edited by Killakobe81; 02-04-2010 at 01:23 PM.
Good post
Price's injuries too. After the Cavs traded KJ to Phoenix they never had adequate PG depth behind Price. They drafted Terrell Brandon in '91 but he was more of a combo guard early in his career. Price would just get beat up, that was the only way to really stop him. Chicago not only had MJ, they were deeper, stronger and more athletic. They would beat the out of the Cavs on the offensive boards.
Agreed.
Price though was able to have some good years after his injuries ... Brad seem to fall-off quicker.
Of course it was not ALL MJ despite what some of his devoted have stated he did not win those 6 by his lonesome.
In fact I would argue that Tim, Hakeem and kobe last year were one of the few that won a le without a sure-fire HOF'er at their side ...
And I would say that argument would be wrong. Shaq won a le without a sure-fire Hall of Famer because no one was calling Kobe a hall of famer in 2000...especially with his inconsistent play in the playoffs.
Jordan won a le in 1991 without a sure-fire Hall of Famer. Pippen put on a great display in the playoffs but he didn't even make the all-star team the year the Bulls won the championship.
Kobe and Pippen built their resumes as they got better and their success continued but they weren't thought of as HOF caliber teammates during that first le run. Jordan and Shaq were the ones cementing their HOF legacies with les in 1991 and 2000 respectively.
Right now Pau Gasol is in the exact position Pippen and Kobe were in back then. He was an all-star caliber player that was an important piece to a championship team. So, like Shaq and Jordan, Kobe won a championship with an all-star caliber player at his side. If the Lakers keep winning les and Gasol remains an important piece of the puzzle and builds his resume with a few rings and some All-NBA teams he'll be thought of as a HOF'er when it's all said and done.
Duncan and Hakeem are the only players that won a le without a true all-star caliber player at their sides.
reggie miller and tim duncan
Tim Duncan. He's the reason I've started playing and watching basketball.
That's a really good point. There's a tendency to look back at the past through the lens of hindsight. It's easy to look at Chicago's run of championships, for example- especially the 1991-93 run- and say, "It was inevitable the Bulls would win those les, after all they had Jordan and Pippen." But at the time it wasn't certain.
And in Pippen's case, he had a reputation at that time as a guy who wasn't quite tough enough to come through in the really big games, a rap he'd picked up when he was knocked out early in Game 6 of the '89 ECF and was completely ineffective with a migraine in Game 7 of the '90 ECF.
You are forgetting the entire 2004 Pistons starting team.
Duncan, Ginobili,...
Dragič will join them if he will have a succesul career longterm.
I will agree that Pippen was no sure fire HOF'er in the first le run ditto for Kobe.
But many thought Kobe had the potential to get there by the next season ...
and Pippen probaly by the third.
Even if your premise rings true IT DOES NOT matter history bears out that MJ had pippen Shaq had Kobe and Kobe Shaq ....so therefore unless Pau ends up in the HOF ...
Duncan did it (or so we think becuase Manu has a case) at least twice
Hakeem did it once
Kobe has done it once ...
This does not take anything away from MJ beacause shaq, Kobe David etc were all considered better players than Pip and there were times Pippen ed out when Mj needed him most ....
Great point but they have no player in this discussion ...
But they had a great run ...good call.
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