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MJ, Duncan, and Wilt
i always want to see Duncan in his prime
if you can bring 3 players in any era in their prime to play in this era, who would it be and why? yeah, its the low point of the season so we might as well talk mo basketball.
i know most of y'all would pick Michael Jordan but personally, i'd like to see a prime ewing with the melo era knicks. i think that team would discombobulate a lot of pretenders mainly the heat
in the west, i obviously wanna see a prime robinson playing with the now tosb duncan and see how they hold up next year.
third player is kobe bryant. i wanna see 2006 kobe in d'antoni's system. i bet this guy averages 42 ppg next season, and be the #1 best player in the game again all while leading the lakers to 50+ wins and at least a wcf appearance.
MJ, Duncan, and Wilt
i always want to see Duncan in his prime
Bob McAdoo, he was unstoppable with Buffalo in the '70's. The slingshot jumper a thing of beauty.
Bernard King, a scoring machine with a powerful chest he used to get the separation needed to enable his height.
Cedric Ceballos, could use the baseline behind the window to get his shots better than anybody I've seen before or since. Just incredible.
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.
Just answer the ing question before I forget I'm old and give you a box with 5 handles.
Savvy?
Wilt, Pistol Pete, and I'm cheating here by picking 2 for that third spot Dr. J and the Iceman
Wilt
Jordan
Magic
Having these guys play in today's era would answer all the lingering questions.
Bend over. I'll answer a lingering in' question.
Is Wilt overrated? Can he really dominate in any era?
Is Jordan better than Lebron?
Can a prime Earvin turn this Lakers into a contender
Magic Johnson and Larry Bird so that the NBA would have an entertaining rivalry once again, instead of chimpanzee circus shows.
i wants it missionary Dale.
Tim Duncan, Bill Russell, and Wilt Chamberlain. Wanna see how TD would compare to his GOAT peers, and see how Russell would do in today's NBA.
Would've been nice to see Derrick Coleman not completely waste his prime, either.
Bill Walton also had an incredible, but abbreviated prime.
nice picks.
This but have them all in the mid 90s when dominant big men were the norm. That would have been something to see.
Kobe Bryant. I love watching top 10 player of all time missing the playoffs in his prime with o significant injuries. It happened only once in the modern nba, and is likely to never happen again.
Robinson with the spurs to see how he could do with a pg who can make more than one three pointer in his career.
Russell to see if he is a glorified Ben Wallace or a franchise making defensive player.
Wish I had caught on to sports when I was a bit younger then I could cross Dr J and Iceman off the list.
I would personally like to see GreatYachts Momma in her prime...
That's 6 talking.
Hakeem Olajuwon,just to see him make fun of today's centers.
Larry Bird,for obvious reasons.
And although I've seen some of his prime,I'd like to see him again at full speed,Tracy McGrady..
ive been lucky to see alot of the guys playing now in their prime. i would love to see..Dr J, Arvydas sabonis, heard he was awesome before he came over the NBA and ofcourse Iceman and Gilmore.
Some good names mentioned already. I like the Bernard King and Pete Maravich mentions. I'm old enough to have watched and remember watching guys like Jordan, Magic, Bird, Isiah, Hakeem, Barkley, Nique. Some of the mid 80s all star games were truly amazing.
The two guys I'd have love to watch live in their prime are Earl Monroe and Oscar Robertson. It would be interesting to see how magical Black Jesus was with the ball and how athletically dominating Oscar was against his compe ion.
I do think watching some of those older guys play might change the perception a little bit. Sometimes, time and legend have a way of skewing how good some players were. Michael Jordan is viewed as almost perfect and infallible, Bird a guy who would never ever miss a clutch shot, and Elgin Baylor a LeBron type before LeBron. But watching them even just a dozen or so times a year for a couple years in their prime, we'd get to see their share of flaws, weaknesses, and poor games. Legend has a way of making players we never watched into something of tall tale superheroes. And on the flipside, the guys we watch right now, we do get to see their every flaw, their every bad game, and maybe we don't appreciate them quite as much as people 20-30 years from now will. If Kobe and LeBron played in the 60s or 70s, they might be viewed now similarly to Magic and Bird in terms of not being talked about nearly as much for the negative things about their games but only the fact that they were great players who won a lot. But I don't know... just an opinion.
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