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    Default Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    Take the decade as a whole. How far can a one man army get?

    1. Larry Bird
    2. Magic Johnson
    3. Julius Erving
    4. Moses Malone
    5. Michael Jordan
    6. Isiah Thomas
    7. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    8. Dominique Wilkins
    9. Alex English
    10. Hakeem Olajuwon

    Honorable mentions: George Gervin, James Worthy, Robert Parish, Clyde Drexler, John Stockton, Bernard King, Kevin McHale, Joe Dumars
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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    1. Magic
    2. Bird
    3. Isiah Thomas
    4. Moses
    5. Jordan
    6. Erving
    7. Kareem
    8. Hakeem
    9. Wilkins
    10. Gervin

    Honorable mention McHale and Worthy

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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    During the 93' Finals, Magic and Isiah said that if you removed mj/magic/isiah from their teams, the lakers/pistons would annihilate the bulls

    in other words, the laker/pistons casts were much better

    So doesn't that mean if MJ had the same help Isiah/magic had in the 80's, he would've destroyed them?..
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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    Quote Originally Posted by 3ball
    During the 93' Finals, Magic and Isiah said that if you removed mj/magic/isiah from their teams, the lakers/pistons would annihilate the bulls

    in other words, the laker/pistons casts were much better

    So doesn't that mean if MJ had the same help they had, he'd destroy them?
    How much more help does MJ need?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lilteapot
    How much more help does MJ need?
    Can you read?

    Magic and Isiah said they had much better casts than mj

    And mj already destroyed both as it was, with weaker casts in 91 - the Pistons had 3x all-stars at every starting spot.. isiah/dumars/rodman were 27-29 years old....

    And magic had 2 deluxe bigs (divac/perkins) who were better than anything the bulls had after the magic/mj and worthy/pippen matchups.. and they had 90' all-star ac green who lost playing time in 91' to Perkins/dicac

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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    1. Bird
    2. Magic
    3. Moses
    4. Jordan
    5. Kareem
    6. Dr. J
    7. Isiah
    8. Hakeem
    9. Gervin
    10. Wilkins

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3ball
    During the 93' Finals, Magic and Isiah said that if you removed mj/magic/isiah from their teams, the lakers/pistons would annihilate the bulls

    in other words, the laker/pistons casts were much better

    So doesn't that mean if MJ had the same help Isiah/magic had in the 80's, he would've destroyed them?..
    Of course this obessive mentally ill fakkot just goes off on some pathetic
    Jordan tangent instead of just sticking to the subject and posting a normal response.

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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    #1 Larry Bird
    #2 Magic Johnson
    #3 Kareem Abdul Jabbar
    #4 Arvydas Sabonis
    #5 Moses malone
    #6 Julius Erving
    #7 Isiah Thomas
    #8 Michael Jordan
    #9 Kevin Mchale
    #10 Oscar Schmidt


    in hindsight jordan was top 3-4 sure but i'm basing mine off not knowing anything past 1989

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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    Quote Originally Posted by Smoke117
    Of course this obessive mentally ill fakkot just goes off on some pathetic
    Jordan tangent instead of just sticking to the subject and posting a normal response.
    did he call it? No, he did not call it. 30-0.

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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    Quote Originally Posted by kennethgriffen
    #1 Larry Bird
    #2 Magic Johnson
    #3 Kareem Abdul Jabbar
    #4 Arvydas Sabonis
    #5 Moses malone
    #6 Julius Erving
    #7 Isiah Thomas
    #8 Michael Jordan
    #9 Kevin Mchale
    #10 Oscar Schmidt


    in hindsight jordan was top 3-4 sure but i'm basing mine off not knowing anything past 1989
    Interesting take on including Sabonis, but I would have to exclude someone like that because the Soviet Union would not let him play in the NBA then.

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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    ain't no Ben Wallace that's fo sho

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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    Zuma

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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    6.

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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    1. Bird
    2. Magic
    3. Moses
    4. Kareem
    5. Erving
    6. Jordan
    7. Zeke
    8. Dominique

    I don't know who to pick for last 2 spots but my candidates are McHale, Dantley and English.

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    Default Re: Rank the top ten players of the 1980s

    Dantley's defense sucked. So did Dominique's, though. Alex English scored the most points in the decade, so he's clearly one.

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