Players that gave no sign of being virtually stoppable.

[Rocketswin2013]

And I mean this literally.

'00 Shaq, '91 Jordan, '94 Hakeem.


Those are the only three for me. 27 year old Jordan, 27 year old Shaq, 1994 Olajuwon. Hakeem was less athletic, but in his peak in terms of discipline on both ends, and mental toughness(HUGE big game performer).

You can even add a 28 year old Shaq and 1995 Hakeem. Just one year separated, and both got healthy in the playoffs, and just murdered everything in sight.

Jordan destroyed an elite defense in Detroit. My only knock is that his worst game was pretty bad. But he just slaughtered a great Detroit defense in the other games.

I think these 3 players were literally incapable of being significantly slowed down by any level if defense in a playoff series. Shaq and Hakeem made jokes out of all-time great defenders(Ewing in '94, Robinson in '95. Peak Mutumbo in 2001).

Add any other players that come to mind.

[FKAri]

I don't mean to be pedantic but it depends how you define unstoppable. All those guys were stoppable. They lost games and missed shots.

Also depends how short of a stint you're including. I'm assuming you mean over a season because there have been many players who had games, stretches, or even series of being as good as anybody.

[Young X]

How do you stop 1990 Magic? You can't put a little guy on him, you can't put a big guy on him, you can't really force him to shoot (38% 3 pt shot that year), you can't even come close to slowing him down in transition, what do you do? He's a matchup nightmare. And yes, I know the Lakers lost to the Suns but they didn't come close to stopping him.

[Westbrook0]

I know this is biased, AND much more recent, but how about Russell Westbrook this past year? When he wasn't hurt that is.

Not only was he picking up triple doubles at will, but he simply can't be stopped by any defender. If you back off of him, he's got that ultra quick pullup jumper. If you guard him close, he'll blow by you with ease.

[inclinerator]

lebron james

[WayOfWade]

Shaq in his 3-peat years was absolutely unstoppable; personally I don't think anyone tops that in terms of having to stop a single player.

[Chief Keef]

lebron james

I'd like my chances in the finals against LeBron actually.

[Marchesk]

lebron james

[Marchesk]

How do you stop 1990 Magic? You can't put a little guy on him, you can't put a big guy on him, you can't really force him to shoot (38% 3 pt shot that year), you can't even come close to slowing him down in transition, what do you do? He's a matchup nightmare. And yes, I know the Lakers lost to the Suns but they didn't come close to stopping him.

Put Pippen on him.

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

11 Dirk is prolly the greatest most complete isolation scorer ever ITO mismatches, bigs, post, drives, shooting etc. No defense could stop him form getting a clean look and it opened up open drives, shots lanes etc for teammates too

77 Kareem as well, shtted on peak Walton head to head who is one of the GOAT maybe top 5 at his peak defenders ever

[warriorfan]

'15 Curry

Drew more defensive attention than any man in history over a Finals Series. There was no answer to Curry besides double teaming him as soon as he crossed half court.

[stalkerforlife]

Kobe most of his career.

[Young X]

Put Pippen on him.

That will probably slow him down a little bit but that won't stop him, he's still gonna be Magic at the end of the day. It's not like he wasn't still solid in the finals despite Pippen and MJ hounding him.

[Cocaine80s]

'15 Curry

Drew more defensive attention than any man in history over a Finals Series. There was no answer to Curry besides double teaming him as soon as he crossed half court.

[inclinerator]

chris paul