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10 greatest basketball players ever #276238
05/10/06 09:21 PM
05/10/06 09:21 PM
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DonVitoCorleone Offline OP
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1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2. Wilt Chamberlain
3. Michael Jordan
4. Larry Bird
5. Magic Johnson
6. Bill Russell
7. Oscar Robertson
8. Isiah Thomas
9. Jerry West
10. Elgin Baylor

Kobe and Lebron will be up there in a few years.


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Re: 10 greatest basketball players ever #276239
05/11/06 12:01 AM
05/11/06 12:01 AM
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This came up just about ywo years ago, here:

http://www.gangsterbb.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=000231


Here's what I said then:

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Jordan
Chamberlin
Jabbar
Robertson
West
Magic
Bird
Russell
Erving
Bob Petit

Jordan hands down, was the best by far IMO.
Chamberlin is an easy second. Robertson & West were the Magic & Bird of their time, but it's hard to rank those four among themselves. Just about any order would be OK with me.

You could argue that Shaq belongs on the list above at about #8 maybe, and Malone is probably a better player than Petit if only because all of today's athletes are better than their counterparts of 40 years ago. (Hmmmm...If that's the case, maybe Magic & Bird should be ahead of Robertson & West)

I have Russell so low because he just couldn't score. True, he didn't have to, but still....
I also think the number of championships he won is somewhat over-rated. He had the best supporting cast, and the league only had 8 teams and two rounds of playoffs, so it was much easier to win.

Depending on how their careers play out, Garnett, Duncan, Kobe, and, of course, Shaq, have a chance to crack my top ten.

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And to that last gtoup of four I'd add Lebron James


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Re: 10 greatest basketball players ever #276240
05/12/06 07:16 AM
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Jordan is far and away the best ever.


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Re: 10 greatest basketball players ever #276241
05/22/06 02:48 PM
05/22/06 02:48 PM
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1. Michael Jordan
2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
3. Wilt Chamberlain
4. Karl Malone
5. John Stockton
6. Larry Bird
7. Magic Johnson
8. Bill Russell
9. Pete Maravich
10. Julius Erving

I agree with DVC that Kobe Bryant and LeBron James will be on the list one day.



Re: 10 greatest basketball players ever #276242
07/27/06 02:43 PM
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Re: 10 greatest basketball players ever #276243
07/27/06 02:57 PM
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1. Jordan
2. Chamberlain
3. Bird
4. Jabaar
5. Magic
6. Russell
7. Erving
8. Robertson
9. Duncan
10. Olajuwon

Re: 10 greatest basketball players ever #276244
08/02/06 08:58 PM
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1.michael jordan
2.ervin magic johnson
3.wilt chamberlain
4.lou alcindor
5.bill russell
6.oscar robertson
7.larry bird
8.pistol pete
9.hakeem olajuwon
10.tim duncan

magic could play any position to perfection gotta have him #2


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Re: 10 greatest basketball players ever #276245
08/03/06 12:53 PM
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In no particular order:

Wilt Chamberlain
Oscar Robertson
Bill Russell
Magic Johnson
Larry Bird
Jordan
Jerry West
Shaq
Kareem
Dr. J

Re: 10 greatest basketball players ever #276246
09/01/06 06:43 PM
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Los Angeles
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Alphabetically

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Larry Bird
Wilt Chamberlain
Magic Johnson
Michael Jordan
Karl Malone
Shaquille O'Neal
Oscar Robertson
Bill Russell
Jerry West


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