Hakeem better than both Duncan and shaq!

[poop]

shut up Suns fan, you established yourselves as the WORST, biggest fans in league history in during your teams' short stint as a 'contender', i mean you pansies got your complaints in the national media, tried to press the league to 'do something', and got all your fans to WEAR HELMETS, ELBOW PADS, AND KNEE PADS to playoff games to protest the spurs 'playing too rough',

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAA oh brother you s have established a rep as the SOFTEST, WHINIEST franchise ever, good lord can anyone imagine the Nash-era Suns playing the '88-89 Pistons or the early '90's Knicks? hahahhahahaha there would be tears, bloodied tampons, and twisted panties all over the court. hahahhahahahah YOU SUCK SOFTER THAN COTTON CANDY WRAPPED IN TISSUE PAPER

haha this post is pure gold, it should be stored in the Spursreport archives in order to reference and post should the Buns ever become a 'threat' again

[Culburn369]

Dirk won a championship in 06

Please.

If only he had.

[DaDakota]

Hakeem was great on both ends of the floor....

DD

[ambchang]

Hakeem and Duncan are both clearly better than Shaq.

[sook]

Hakeem and Duncan are both clearly better than Shaq.

agreed.

[mavs>spurs2]

Dirk is also a big man and has a much wider array in offense, plus Dirk won a championship in 06 with a huddle of crappy surroundings which were not even belonging to the same world with those Hakeem got, like Cassell, Horry etc...

Obviously the best player in modern NBA, in your opinion presumably, shouldn't be anyone but Michael Jordan. And all of us agree with you that Jordan is unarguably THE best player in the recent 2 decades, even if he isn't the all-time best.

Probably you cut the modern NBA from the "classic" NBA at 1992, when the old legendary hall of famers all had joined history, engraved with the retirement of Elvin Magic Johnson. However, I argue that Hakeem isn't THE best player in his contemporary, though I have to admit he is one of the best ones. Except Jordan, anyone else would draw tons of arguements if he was listed as the 2nd guy behind the only man named Jordan. The truth is the discrepancy was very minimal among Jordan's collegues, like Pippen, Malone, Dream, Robinson, Ewing, Barkley, etc... None of them was outstanding over the rest, thus I'd name them co-"the 2nd best player" as a whole.

First off Dirk does NOT have a wider array on offense than Hakeem, 90% of the time he just pump fakes, one dribble, fadeaway. Simple yet effective. In his younger years he would drive and do alot of other things, but nothing that compares to Hakeem's neverending, vast amount of post moves. Not to mention Hakeem was money from 18ft in.

And when I say modern era, I mean since about the mid 70's or 80's, purposely excluding guys like Bill and Wilt because that was a totally different time. The truth is, Hakeem doesn't stand out much above those listed over the course of their careers, but none of them had a 2 year stretch where it seemed the spirit of MJ possessed a 7ft body and dominated everything in site on his way to back to back championships. That 2 year stretch was probably the most dominant, impressive stretch by any single player in NBA history.

[manufan10]

I would take Hakeem as my starting C any day.