Greatest Basketball Players Of All Time
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The most dominating and revolutionary players ever. Don't agree with the list? Place your vote or if you are a logged in, add a new item for others to vote on.
“Argue with me, I dare you...”
“No duh mj at #1 why would kobe be #2, we made our list, and it’s way less bs than this one.”
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Michael Jordan Career Averages
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Regular Season
Points: 30.12
Field Goal: 49.7
Rebounds: 6.2
Assists: 5.3
Steals: 2.4
Blocks: 0.8
Playoffs:
Points: 33.4
Field Goal: 48.7
Rebounds: 6.4
Assists: 5.7
Steals: 2.1
Blocks: 0.9
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Kobe Bryant Career Averages
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Regular Season
Points: 25.1
Field Goal: 45.5
Rebounds: 5.3
Assists: 4.6
Steals: 1.5
Blocks: 0.5
Playoffs:
Points: 25.0
Field Goal: 44.7
Rebounds: 5.1
Assists: 4.7
Steals: 1.4
Blocks: 0.7
Sorry Kobe.”
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2)
Kobe Bryant
“best player ever he is so much better
than mj”
“KOBE HAS TO BE NO. 1! U CANT EVEN COMPARE MJ TO KOBE! MJ IS A LIL OVERRATED AND HES NOT AS GOOD AS KOBE AND MJ IS A HOG!”
“Kobe is a legend still playing B BALL he has won the 2009 championship and will win again next year
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3)
LeBron James
“1. lebron
2. jordan
3. bryant
4. magic
5. bird”
“youngest player ever to win mvp award”
“The rest of you are tellin lies, LeBron James is The Truth”
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4)
Larry Bird
“When magic johnson says he’s scared of a man
then that man is the best ever”
“Gotta love Larry Bird”
“Nobody can compete with bird with the game on the line.”
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“he is only 6’1" and 130 lb but is the 3rd best scorer of all time that means he just knows how to get it done”
“a lot things to say for this basketball player... but only one thing is important that he is and he will be the best of all time...”
“iverson is one of the best players of all time and he deservs top be the second player before jordan”
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“Simply the most dominating player of his era. Rules were changed because of his dominance. Whether he could dominate in todays game is in question, he simply may not be fast enough. Then again Mike Jordan wouldn’t dominate if he played 25 yrs ago simply because back then they actually "called" traveling, palming, and offensive fouls. Not that is his fault but, he played so fast that refs simply couldn’t see him take that 3 and sometimes fourth step, the hop/step, the "up and down" plays he so frequently committed. Then again, thats todays game in general. Back when Wilt played, the competion level was so much higher because of the fact that there weren’t so many teams thus so many players. One last thing. I don’t think LeBron should be on this list just yet (he may be one of the most talented players but that does not equate into "best" of all time) He needs to play for several more years and continue putting up numbers. Then he can be considered on of the best.”
“THe Big Dipper is 4 me the greatest and biggest and of course most dominant force in NBA history. He would be nr 1 but most people of this time don´t know him because he played in the 60´s. Chamberlain 100 points in one game, and he said he even get more than 100 but he wanted that lucky number 100 too stay. Best Player check out the season 1961-62, What stats you find. RIP Wilt The Stilt”
“He was simply amazing. When you look at guys like Michael Jordan and nowadays guys like Bryant and James they are breaking records and trying to set standards for themselves. It all started back with Chamberlain he was the man to make all this status and records that are held to be broken, his pro career was mid-length not as long as some basketball players but he made it is no doubt.”
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“No body came close to this dude when came to court vision except for maybe Stockton. Could have taken any team to the finals by himself, best passing/scoring guard in history.”
“in one game, he played all 5 positions... I seen him throw the ball from one end of the court to the other on a buzzer beater and make it.. I love to watch him play”
“Magic Johnson is the consummate team player and a leader on a team full of all-stars. Without Magic they are like the Mavericks... great team no real victories! Magic is the best point guard to touch a basketball and winning the championship that year without Jabbar should tell you Magic never needed the help that Jordan required... clutch shot take Jordan clutch game take Magic!”
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“#8?!?!?!?!? Holy crap! This guy scored the most points and is the coolest and most unique player ever. He invented the 1 arm hookshot!”
“Kareem vs jordan kareem creams jordan and jordan goes crying to his mama”
“No player represents the 70’s and 80’s as well as Jabbar. An amazing player. Will always remember is one arm hook shot, known as the Sky Hook, it made history.”
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“Amazing to watch! Should be:
1. Michael Jordan
2. Pistol Pete Maravich
3. Bill Russel
4. Larry Bird
5. Dr. J”
“he’s the best person I’ve ever know that played basketball”
“The Original Showtime!
He was Showtime before there was Showtime!”
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10)
Bill Russell
“Micheal Jordan was to scoring like Bill Russell was to defense. You won’t see this guy on any all-time scoring lists, but on every top ten list in NBA history. (Not to mention 5 MVPs and 11 rings, yikes!)”
“I would simply like to say that with all due respect to the names listed here, you must remember that this is a TEAM game. If you wanted to talk about who is the best 1 on 1 player based on his individual talents and all around skills, then that is a different subject all together. The overall skill level of the game has certainly changed over the last couple of decades, but, some good, and some maybe not so good. The game was first played with much more physical play, and in most cases the player had more rules that restricted much of the modern day displays of athleticism, no doubt. But back to the main quest for who was the most dominant individual player of the game. There are only two names that stand out above all others, Statistically that should go to Wilt Chamberlain, but when you look at the ultimate goal for playing the game, it was to win a championship, and no one, not even M. J. , nor Kobe, came even close to the overall domination of the entire sport itself. Also remember that No rules were ever changed for M. J. , or Kobe, that would slow them down in there pursuit of excellence. Both Wilt & Russell did just that, they were so dominant, that the entire game was revamped in order to take away there athletic abilities, and that did not even change what Bill accomplished as a winner of the ultimate prize.
M. J. & KOBE, and all other modern day greats have had the rules enhanced in order to show case and favor there great athletic abilities, and never did they have rules which would take away there already physical advantages. So there you have it, if you are playing Golf, then stick with the man who won the most trophies, and Tennis the person who won the most titles, but when talking about a 5 man team, who else contributed more and accomplished more at every level of the game, College, 2 championships, Olympic Gold, 11 NBA championship out of 13 years playing, and the 2 years he did not win, he was injured. THIS IS A TEAM GAME, and the comparisons are right there in full view, the stats don’t lie, you tell me how was it possible for someone to dominate to that level, and then there is the additional social and society issues that these black players had to endure, that were not as prevalent in the more modern era. Different times, different circumstances. A lot of hype in those modern showcases, I would never count this man out as the most dominant player who made the biggest impact at every level of this game we call basketball, Collegiate player, Professional Player, Coach, and so on, life experiences, and the continued respect of the people who surrounded him.
In RUSSELL’S AUTO-biography, he writes: It was at a Thanksgiving family setting when my Grandson had asked me a question? , Grandpa? "were ever as good as Michael Jordon? , Grandpa Russell looked down at his grandson, and said, "son, you’ve got that question backwards, you should be asking, "if whether or not M. J. was ever as good as your GRANDFATHER? "
And the footnote in a joking gesture bill said he was thinking of writing his grandson out of his will, lol.”
“As long as the Celtics had Russell, they kept winning. I remember Red Auerbach saying that the year after Russell left (1970) and the team went dowhill. Russell blocked shots and kept the ball in play. His defense won games. He played against WIlt Chamberlain and except for 1967, when WIlt’s team won, the Celtics won every year and beat out WIlt. Russell has a record nobody will ever achieve again- 11 championships in 13 years. Today, the game has changed. There are more big men and we now have essentially two centers. One is the traditional center and the other is the power forward. Kevin Garnett is a Russell-type shot blocker, but he plays power forward. It is much harder today for a center to dominate a game because there are two "centers" or big men per team. Russell made the Celtics world champions 11 of 13 seasons he played. I don’t believe Russell could be this dominant in today’s game. He was an intellectual player and basketball is an intellectual game. He was a student of the game. In 1970 in college I asked Bill how he could continually beat Chamberlain’s teams as Wilt was about 4 or 5 inches taller. My recollection is he said, "Young man, I can jump flat footed and grab the top of the backboard. " He was an incredible athlete, a fact not that many people recognize today because Bill didn’t lay the glamor position of a big time scorer. Guys like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant and Dwayne Wade are great players. They just could not have the impact of a big man like BIll Russell. Look at Wade. He needed Shaq to win. Look at Kobe. He needed Shaq and later Gasol. Jordan needed Cartwright and Pippen. These days one man on the team cannot make the impact Russell did in the 1950s and 1960s.”
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