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list. Terrible, just terrible. Does Cohen even watch basketball? Dude doesn't know
Pippen and Wade shouldn't even be on the list. Kareem at #9 is proof that the author is a moron. I do agree that its tough to choose a player over Magic. Nice to see Zeke get some love. Shaq is boardeline top ten and Duncan has earned a top five... even though he's the owner of the biggest choke job in history. Its time we stop elevating guys like Wilt, Dr. J, Oscar, and Russell just because they were special during their time. Sorry Bird but Kobe and Duncan are better players and have greater legacies and careers.
MJ
Magic
Kareem
Kobe
Jim
Hakeem
Bird
Zeke
Lebron... yes... he's earned it.
Shaq
Shaq
list. Terrible, just terrible. Does Cohen even watch basketball? Dude doesn't know
Malone, the weak according to Isaiah Thomas.
Yeah because Kobe was in his prime in 1999....The list is historically bad, but the analysis took it one step further.
To wit:
What? O'Neal is probably on everyone's top ten list. How can he not be?
The NBA blew up in the 90s because of MJ.
Kobe wasn't even better than Shaq, by his own admission. And at this point, 3 of the top 4 were Lakers, I guess we don't have to wonder which team is his favourite team.
And if Shaq was #2 and Kobe #4, why could they only win 3 championships together when they played together in their prime? Why would they get beaten by Duncan and the Spurs twice, who was ranked much lower?
You've been living under a rock or something? Kobe, Lebron and Dwight seeked him out for tutoring. He was widely known to have the best post moves in the history of the league? How the was he not getting enough acclaim?
He then went on to talk about how Russell won more and Wilt was more dominant, so how in the world was Oscar greater?
I am SURE he knows the Big O at that point was no where close to his dominant self earlier in his career. He MUST know that KAJ was the clear best player on that Bucks team. He MUST know that KAJ didn't officially hand over the keys to the Lakers until 1986. This is unbelievable that NBA.com would publish an article this shoddily written and clearly by a person with no knowledge of the game.
And what is that something? You would have to back up your points, at the very least. Wilt certainly would have scored less, but where did he came in with the half estimate?
Grant Hill put up similar numbers for a few years as well, why wasn't Hill a top 10?
Wait, Wilt and Russell's accomplishments were diminished because they played in a different era, and Dr. J should be rewarded for playing in a league that was all scoring and no defense?
Then Jason Kidd over players like Robinson, Barkley, Payton, Stockton, Garnett, and probably a whole list of others.
This was just the worst list I have seen, not even people trying to troll on this site can have a list worse than this.
idiot
And Duncan was in his prime when he missed the layup in 6
idiot
damn, KUSH got this boy making craaaaaaazy lists. This is awful lol.
Duncan missed the layup in 7
My bad.Duncan missed the layup in 7
How many times you watched 6 and 7 son?Duncan missed the layup in 7
Never said he was
LOL this dude has three Lakers in the top 4, stopped reading there. If you make a list atleast make it somewhat unbiased. That list is a joke.Shaq ahead of MJ
Pip even on the list
So why is winning a losing in and out of prime a concern for Kobe when it isnt' for Duncan?
Listen, you said Kobe lost to Duncan twice in his prime. He didn't because he wasn't in his prime in '99. I didn't say anything about Duncan.
Shaq and Kobe. Shaq was in his prime in 99.
BTW, Kobe had a WS/48 of .130, not all that different from his ws/48 of .145 in 2005 (his prime).
WS/48 huh
Kobe in his prime: 4-1 vs Spurs
Let's not forget 08
Only one that gave me pause was Wade at #17. It's not the most ridiculous thing in the world but I feel like if you gave me an hour to think about it I could think of several players more deserving than Wade for top 20.
More times than I can think of.
an hour? seconds!
Lakers had a lot of good players. A normal list might have MJ at 1, then Kareem and Magic at 2/3, then a case can be made for either Shaq or Kobe at 4. Not that big of a stretch. The three lakers in the top 4 is not the problem. Pippen and Mchale making the top 20 is what's bad tbh.
Lol at least Wade has a case for top 20, a small one, but a case. Pippen and McHale have no reason to be close to their spot.
That list was more horrible than any other list I've ever seen, and I've seen plenty bad ones on this forum.
He needed desperately to explain why he was ranking people the way he was, but no, instead in his analysis, he made himself sound completely oblivious to the game of basketball.
You can say whatever excuses u want about Russell championships and Wilt stats, but facts are facts, Wilt is the only one to ever average 50 ppg and Russell won 11 championships, they were the best players of their generation and both should be ranked in the top 5 tbh
thats pretty narrowminded, and quite stupid to be frank
What about the great George Mikan?
Shaq was 3-2, Kobe's 1-0. We don't count 2nd bananas.
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