NBA: players you would love to see in their prime playing 2day

[Rogue]

I watched the prime MJ on TV and he was just incredible and unstoppable, dude could score at will and made the opponents seem about to cry. Nonetheless, if I could pick one player of his prime to play in today's league I'd choose the other MJ. I was too young at the time to watch how damn great the prime Magic was. Dude is always regarded as the #2 of all time and it'd be interesting to see him kicking asses in the current league. Magic would also be able to do everything on the court like Lebron so it would be fun to watch the Magic vs. Bron matchup imho

[Michael Jordan.]

McGrady was a fckin monster in his prime

[TXstbobcat]

Gervin (because I didn't get to see him play)
Wilt Chamberlain
David Robinson

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Gervin (because I didn't get to see him play)- check
Wilt Chamberlain- check
David Robinson- no. He was difficult and uncomfortable to watch. Everything came too hard-too difficult. I liken it to watching James now. Neither could figure it out.

[Leetonidas]

Prime players I've always wanted to see play with prime Timmy

KG
Dirk

and of course, prime Robinson with prime Duncan, since D-Rob was on the downswing when Timmy came to town

[Leetonidas]

As for players I've never seen who I'd like to see in today's league in their prime:

Julius Erving
Larry Bird
Isiah Thomas

[Koolaid_Man]

Tim Duncan..knowing what I know now..man I'd have a field day

[Rogue]

I didn't watch much of Dampier before he came to Dallas so I'd also like to see how great the prime Dampier was if possible. I just wanna see how great he was to earn that lucrative contract from Dallas and be our starting C for some 5yrs. We dumped his ass in 10' summer and we immediately won a ring the year after

[TDMVPDPOY]

wtf do you clowns always steal fkn threads from realgm and post that in here?

[#2!]

Russell to see if he is a glorified Ben Wallace or a franchise making defensive player.

Always been really curious about this.

As a Spurs fan I'd love to see a pre-prime Tim Duncan. I'd say his prime was during the MVP years, but I'd rather see him before his knee surgery in 2000 flying around the court.

I'd also like to see how Bird fares. His shooting would obviously hold up, but does the NBA have a level of athleticism at the 3 spot to negate some of his other skills. Or do his intangibles still win out?

[Arnold Toht]

Kobe Bryant

I'd love to see the 09 Lakers face the 13 Heat in an NBA Finals (I would have taken this yrs lakers vs heat instead of 6, tbh), Lebron would make Kirby shoot 20% for the series while avging a triple double on that punk Ariza.

Pathetic Spurs fan jumping on the Heat's jock because you couldn't put them out in 6. Simply pathetic. You should be bragging about how the 09 Lakers would be destroyed by the 13 Spurs, instead you have nothing.

[AchillesHeel]

Pathetic Spurs fan jumping on the Heat's jock because you couldn't put them out in 6. Simply pathetic. You should be bragging about how the 09 Lakers would be destroyed by the 13 Spurs, instead you have nothing.

Shut the up you pathetic troll. I know we lost and I can't undo the damage. I've learnt to live with it, you should too.

09 Lakers wouldn't have destroyed the 13 Spurs. It would be a close series because 09 Lakers are nowhere near as good as the 2013 Heat.

[Arnold Toht]

09 Lakers wouldn't have destroyed the 13 Spurs.

Then man the up and say that. You deferred to the Heat, period.

[AchillesHeel]

Then man the up and say that. You deferred to the Heat, period.

I was talkingi about a hypothetical finals mathcup between prime Kirby and prime Lebron, Lebron's team is obviously better and 2013 Spurs almost beat them, 09 Lakers would still be a good match-up with the Spurs because of prime Gasol but ultimately Kirby would up as he always does.

[JMarkJohns]

Love most of the answers already given, especially big men like Russell, Chamberlain, Walton, Olajuwon.

Some non-conventional answers include Manute Bol, Spud Webb and Mugsy Bogues, just cause. Webb specifically.

But my real answer is Sam Perkins and Larry Nance. I think both were players ahead of their time. Nobody knew what to do with Perkins, but this era of stretch fours might better use his skills, and Nance would all over the modern athleticism-based PF like Griffin, and was one of the original hybrid forwards.

But mostly I want to see Perkins' smooth shot, and Nance dunk again.

[Clipper Nation]

Duncan
Grant Hill
Hakeem
Yao

[Captivus]

Bynum
Rose

[SourCandy]

Wanted to see prime shaq play Howard. Or even prime Robinson or karl malone play Howard. Just to answer some questions.

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^Here's another question, :::do you know how to jump start a Vienna Sausage?

[ambchang]

Wanted to see prime shaq play Howard. Or even prime Robinson or karl malone play Howard. Just to answer some questions.

A prime Daughtery will destroy Howard.

[StrengthAndHonor]

A prime Daughtery will destroy Howard.

, I think Bill Cartwright would destroy Howard. Tom Chambers would annihilate Howard. Rik Smits would clown Howard all day.

[StrengthAndHonor]

A few more players I'd love to see in this era. Tim Hardaway, Webber and Sprewell.

[mudyez]

Of course I would bring back guys like Robinson or prime Manu, but let's go the no Spurs route

Bird because I want to know how he does against die LeBrons, Durants and Melos of the world.

and

Wilt as I'm curious if he also is a monster against guys like Andrew Bogut or David West.

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Webber

At prime he was near beautiful.

For a big man he could move.

[Sportcamper]

Magic Johnson and Larry Bird so that the NBA would have an entertaining rivalry once again, instead of chimpanzee circus shows.

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