The 90s didn't have dominant wing players besides Jordan

[Hey Yo]

Get off my nuts you clown. Just look at Bron's stats in the era of inflated perimeter stats compared to Kobe's. Both guys came out of high school, so you can cry all you want about 'skewed' numbers, but the facts look like this:

Kobe in his third year playing in the 90s: 19.9 PPG (46.5% FG)/5 RPG/4 APG

Lebron in his third year playing in the 00s: 31.4 PPG (48% FG)/7 RPG/7APG

^That was the season that several perimeter guys, including guys who were drafted in the mid 90s, suspiciously had career years where their scoring sky rocketed. Wonder what happened

'04-'05 Scoring Leaders
1) Allen Iverson 30.7
2) Kobe Bryant 27.6
3) LeBron James 27.2
4) Dirk Nowitzki 26.1
5) Amar'e Stoudemire 26

'05-'06 Scoring Leaders
1) Kobe Bryant 35.4
2) Allen Iverson 33
3) LeBron James 31.4
4) Gilbert Arenas 29.5
5) Dwyane Wade 27.2

Must've been something in the drinking water in the Summer of '05

Now compare that to 10+ years earlier

'94-'95 Scoring Leaders
1) Shaquille O'Neal 29.3
2) Hakeem Olajuwon 27.8
3) David Robinson 27.6
4) Karl Malone 26.7
5) Jamal Mashburn 24.1

'95-'96 Scoring Leaders
1) Michael Jordan 30.6
2) Hakeem Olajuwon 26.9
3) SHaquille O'Neal 26.6
4) Karl Malone 25.7
5) David Robinson 25

Notice how the smallest player in the top 5 from the 90s not named Jordan was the 6'8 250 lbs Mashburn. Meanwhile the 5'11" 165 lbs Iverson was putting up 33 PPG I shudder to think about the sort of destruction Jordan would've wrecked getting that sort of leg up from the league. Would've been disgusting to witness.

Go to sleep.

Look at the FGA from 2004 and then 2005. Kobe attempted 7 more FGA in 05-06 than 04-05. Iverson's FGA were up. So was James'. Plus Kobe and Iverson played more games in 05-06 than the previous year. That definitely had something to do it

http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/pl...5/seasontype/2

04-05 ^

http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/pl...6/seasontype/2

05-06 ^

[SamuraiSWISH]

MJ was a GUARD, not a wing. And even then OP's statement isn't accurate.

[Real14]

MJ was a GUARD, not a wing. And even then OP's statement isn't accurate.

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[Calabis]

So can someone please tell me who are these dominant 2's in today's era?

[SamuraiSWISH]

Wing's in MJ's 90's Era:

Magic (Wing / Guard)
Bird
G. Hill (Wing / Guard)
Penny (Wing / Guard)
Nique
Pippen
G. Rice
S. Smith (Wing / Guard)
Mullin
Spreewell (Wing / Guard)
Mashburn

Just to name some ...

[Rocketswin2013]

So can someone please tell me who are these dominant 2's in today's era?

Harden and Wade are the only All-NBA level 2's left(Kobe's done IMHO). Now the SF and PF positions are more stacked than ever. The PG position isn't stacked IMO and not really top-heavy. Just a little deeper than the rest.

[jzek]

It was full of dominant bigs though:

Shaq
Hakeem
Robinson
Ewing
Malone
Barkley
etc.

...and Jordan shat on all of them with Longley as his center.

[Sarcastic]

The only thing this era has over the previous era is dominant point guards.

[SamuraiSWISH]

The only thing this era has over the previous era is dominant point guards.

1990s Era PGs

Gary Payton
Isiah Thomas
John Stockton
Kevin Johnson
Tim Hardaway
Penny Hardaway
Mark Price
Jason Kidd
Terry Porter
Terrell Brandon
Joe Dumars
Rod Strickland

[ImKobe]

Pippen, Nique, Mullin, Drexler, Miller, Grant Hill, Glen Rice, Penny Hardaway were pretty decent wing players in the 90s and would all be top players in the league today

90s was dominated by elite big men like Shaq, Hakeem, Ewing, Zo, Barkley, Mutombo, David Robinson, Malone, Shawn Kemp, Vlade Divac, Chris Webber, Otis Thorpe, Sabonis

featured some great point guards like Kevin Johnson, John Stockton, Tim Hardaway, Gary Payton, Muggsy, Ron Harper(before joining Chicago), Mark Jackson, Mark Price

90s had a lot of stars, people here just weren't around and probably have only seen a few highlight clips of some of these players and have no idea how good they were