Open Court: NBA 50 Greatest & The Next 10

[Real14]

Melos teams much better. Mac is better at everything over Melo.

Also Baron Davis made it past the 1st round a few times is he better than McGrady too?

Baron is no Melo bro plus baron was never 2nd place in Mvp voting and was never a scoring champ. T mac had good players too man like Yao.

[Real14]

What planet do you live on?

How are they better?

[SamuraiSWISH]

1) Duncan
2) Kobe
3) LeBron

4) KG
5) Iverson
6) Wade
7) Nique
8) Dirk
9) KD
10) McGrady

[TheNaturalWR]

1) Duncan
2) Kobe
3) LeBron

4) KG
5) Iverson
6) Wade
7) Nique
8) Dirk
9) KD
10) McGrady

Iverson over Wade and Dirk? Gotta say I strongly disagree bro.

[Just2McFly]

Wilkins got disrespected in 96... there is no way he should have been snubbed off the top 50

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

Iverson over Wade and Dirk? Gotta say I strongly disagree bro.

LOL @ Nique above Dirk, TMac and KD too

that nikka was as good as Melo is right now

[guy]

Wow no Kidd or Nash? This would never happen, but if they're basically doing top 60, then some of the original 50 should go off the list.

[TheNaturalWR]

Just watched the segment. They had to settle on Wade? He has a top 15 peak all time and they had to think hard and long about it?

[L.Kizzle]

Just watched the segment. They had to settle on Wade? He has a top 15 peak all time and they had to think hard and long about it?

Basically all the guys on the panel besides Thomas Barkley and Smith played against Wade. They know more than us.

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

Anyone have a link the youtube one i watched before got removed

[SamuraiSWISH]

Iverson over Wade and Dirk? Gotta say I strongly disagree bro.

After the first 3, it's really not numerical rank.

[tpols]

Shaq dissin and throwing nash under the bus.. salty AF some tiny canadian white dude has more MVPs than him.

Guy is hilariously insecure.

Barkley talking about cwebb winning everywhere he went as his case lmao.. wtf does barkley know about winning first off? Second off, you could say the same for guys like jkidd and nash.. what were the nets and suns before those guys? Jack shit. You could say that type of stuff for many many players..

[Real14]

LOL @ Nique above Dirk, TMac and KD too

that nikka was as good as Melo is right now

Nique and Tmac didn't deserve to be mentioned.

[PJR]

This idiot Shaq really threw Tmac and Penny's names out there.

Isiah, Reggie, and Kenny the only dudes on that panel with decent perspective.


And Isiah will forever have that soul burning hate in his heart for Jordan and Pippen. He wanted it known that he felt Pippen didn't belong in the first top 50..

[JimmyMcAdocious]

You can tell by the way they reacted that the true consensus was:
Duncan
Kobe
LeBron
Dirk
AI
Garnett
Wilkins
McAdoo

So that's the 8.

The problem is that the criteria is all over the place. Guys like Zeke put more of an emphasis on winning rings. But how does that weigh against a player who carried a franchise, while ending up ringless? The example was McAdoo who had the personal accolades, but he didn't win until he joined the Lakers as a 6th man. Is that so much better than, say, Barkley taking Phoenix to the Finals on his back and losing the Bulls? The other was Reggie vs Ray. Ray didn't carry a franchise as much as Reggie did. Ray has the rings, however as a 2nd, 3rd, 6th man type of option. Which one is greater?

Then there's overall talent and peak of the players. Shaq lobbied for McGrady and Penny with that as his support. Grant Hill is another name for that argument. Bill Walton is the example of that which made the 50 greatest.

Which criteria definitively makes one greater?