Top 10 Players of 1995, 2005, & 2015

[coolhandsteve]

Come up with your Top 10 player list (doesn't have to be in order) for these 3 seasons (1994-1995 season, 2004-2005 season, & 2014-2015 season) and then say which one is the best. Here goes mines (in NO particular order BTW):

1995:
Robinson
Olajuwon
Shaq
Ewing
Pippen
Malone
Barkley
Penny
Stockton
Drexler


2005:
Nash
Duncan
Kobe
Garnett
Shaq
LeBron
Wade
McGrady
Iverson
Nowitzki


2015:
Curry
LeBron
Harden
Davis
Westbrook
Paul
Griffin
Wall
Thompson
Aldridge

Didn't include MJ in '95 for the same reason no Durant in 2015; not enough games played but if you include them that's fine.

Give me 2005.

[Kobe_6/8]

2015:
Curry
LeBron
Harden
Davis
Westbrook
Paul
Griffin
Wall
Thompson
Aldridge
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Gasol
Lillard
Kawhi
Duncan

[J Shuttlesworth]

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Gasol
Lillard
Kawhi
Duncan

[DMAVS41]

Dirk was a top 10 player in 05.

He was 7th in RAPM and averaged 26/10/3 58% TS.

LOL

[DirkNowitzki41]

Dirk was a top 10 player in 05.

He was 7th in RAPM and averaged 26/10/3 58% TS.

LOL

[TripleA]

I'd replace tmac with dirk

[3ball]

Give me 2005.

You want basically rookie Lebron?.. Going into the 2005 season, Lebron had averaged 20 PPG as a rookie on 41.7% FG.. 40-year old MJ did better just one year earlier (20 ppg on 44.5% FG).
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[nathanjizzle]

I dont see who dirk would replace on the 2005 list. tmac is arguable but tmac put up 28 points and 32 points in the 2 seasons prior to that compared to 21 and 25 with dirk. no one in 2005 would have said dirk was a top 10 player over tmac.

[nzahir]

Klay over Marc or cousins is a joke.

[3ball]

Give me 20005

The same era that couldn't beat Euroleague?.. Literally - the NBA's best lost to every international team imaginable (7 times) in the Olympics and World Games.

The USA's many losses to Euroleague-level competition proves that the 2000's era was the weakest era the NBA has ever had - there's no other way to interpret the NBA's best getting smashed by Euroleague..

The USA's brand of basketball was SO much worse, that it more than offset their massive talent advantage.

[coolhandsteve]

Dirk was a top 10 player in 05.

He was 7th in RAPM and averaged 26/10/3 58% TS.

LOL

Yeah you got me on that one forgot about Nowitzki, & he was 1st team All-NBA too ..I'm not replacing TMac for Dirk tho. I'll take off Kidd, as hard as that is for me. He didn't have great stats but he was so valuable to the Nets.

[coolhandsteve]

The NBA's best in that era didn't all play on the same Olympic team at the same time for whatever reasons. Y'all tell me, if Shaq, Kobe, Garnett, Kidd & McGrady decide to play on that '04 Olympic team would things have turned out better for the U.S.

Or if the likes of Duncan, Webber, Shaq & Kobe played for the 2000 team that seemed to squeak by for the gold, if that team's not much more dominant with those guys.

P.S: I figured I'd get some flack for these lists..but y'all do know you can make yours too, right? I can't be the only one getting roasted! LOL

[JZ600]

Curry over lebron lmfao
Klay lmfao

[DMAVS41]

I dont see who dirk would replace on the 2005 list. tmac is arguable but tmac put up 28 points and 32 points in the 2 seasons prior to that compared to 21 and 25 with dirk. no one in 2005 would have said dirk was a top 10 player over tmac.

Because you don't understand the game at all....that's why.

[coolhandsteve]

You want basically rookie Lebron?.. Going into the 2005 season, Lebron had averaged 20 PPG as a rookie on 41.7% FG.. 40-year old MJ did better just one year earlier (20 ppg on 44.5% FG).
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I'm just talking about the 2004-2005 season there. LeBron averaged 27/7/7 that year.