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National High School Star
Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Originally Posted by played0ut
Top 5 centers is nigh impossible to break into now.
Top 5 PF's is probably 2nd most stacked position of all time.
3rd is SG's.
PG's could be making history now...
You wanna make top 5 better quickly be a PG or an SF
After them there's still Ewing and Robinson
yeh. 00's era of the PF's. (They're all getting old anyway). 10' is PG's turn.
Cp3 has a definite chance of becoming top 5 if he wins a ring or has impressive longetivity
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Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Funny how everyone's been lamenting the fact that there hasn't been any good centers forever.
When the all-time center position is the most stacked of all.
Russell
Wilt
Kareem
Shaq
Hakeem
Moses
Ewing
Robinson
Mikan
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Dirk top 15 all time
Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Originally Posted by navy
Are we only listing current players?
Lebron-lock
Wade-lock
Kobe-lock
CP3
Durant
Duncan-lock
Dirk
KG
so wade is lock and not dirk for his position? wow your trolling are getting as weak as the SG position.
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Cavs for life
Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Originally Posted by pastis
so wade is lock and not dirk for his position? wow your trolling are getting as weak as the SG position.
PF position is much stronger than SG, so it's harder for Dirk to make it.
You could make a case for the five guys being above Dirk:
Duncan
Malone
Barkley
Garnett
Pettit
All of them MVPs, while only 2 SGs have ever won the award.
Last edited by BigTicket; 08-10-2014 at 03:49 AM.
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4 ring - 4 FMVP - 4MVP
Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Hmm does Dragic stand a chance?
Definitely could be top 5 at the WP position
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Big Sexy
Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Originally Posted by BigTicket
PF position is much stronger than SG, so it's harder for Dirk to make it.
You could make a case for the five guys being above Dirk:
Duncan
Malone
Barkley
Garnett
Pettit
Minus Pettit, I've seen posters make arguments that all those players are the best PF of all time.
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Cavs for life
Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Originally Posted by played0ut
Top 5 centers is nigh impossible to break into now.
Top 5 PF's is probably 2nd most stacked position of all time.
3rd is SG's.
PG's could be making history now...
You wanna make top 5 better quickly be a PG or an SF
SG position is weaker than SF.
After Jordan, Kobe and West, who are the other members of the top 5 ?
SF has Bird, Lebron and Dr. J as the top 3, with Pippen, Baylor, Havlicek and Durant competing for the last two spots.
Last edited by BigTicket; 08-10-2014 at 03:58 AM.
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Mozart Basketball
Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Originally Posted by J Shuttlesworth
PG: CP3, Westbrook
SG:
SF: Durant
PF: Love, Griffin
C: Anthony Davis
He's not primarily a center.
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Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
It's no coincidence that the deepest positions ever are the big men positions.
I don't think the smaller guys are necessarily inferior talent-wise. But when it comes to impact nothing compares to a big man.
Makes you really appreciate how outstanding the top non-big players are.
Mother fucing MJ.
Originally Posted by BigTicket
PF position is much stronger than SG, so it's harder for Dirk to make it.
You could make a case for the five guys being above Dirk:
Duncan
Malone
Barkley
Garnett
Pettit
All of them MVPs, while only 2 SGs have ever won the award.
I forgot, there's also McHale. Barkley called him the hardest player he ever had to play against, and was completely unstoppable in the post. Long ass dangly arms and the instinct for scoring.
But playing on a team with someone like Bird, it's hard not to get overlooked...
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Cavs for life
Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Number of NBA MVPs per position:
Center - 26 ! (12 different players)
Power Forward - 9 (6 different players)
Small Forward - 9 (4 different players)
Shooting Guard - 6 (2 different players)
Point Guard - 9 (6 different players)
Although it has the GOAT, shooting guard is clearly the weakest position overall, while center is obviously the strongest.
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Dirk top 15 all time
Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Originally Posted by BigTicket
PF position is much stronger than SG, so it's harder for Dirk to make it.
You could make a case for the five guys being above Dirk:
Duncan
Malone
Barkley
Garnett
Pettit
All of them MVPs, while only 2 SGs have ever won the award.
petit, barkley, mchale, garnett are clearly under dirk.
but i give you credit: sg position is low. like the competition for the all nba team every year. kobe and wade no competition. so easy for them.
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Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Originally Posted by pastis
petit, barkley, mchale, garnett are clearly under dirk.
but i give you credit: sg position is low. like the competition for the all nba team every year. kobe and wade no competition. so easy for them.
Not clearly.
Pettit
1x NBA champ
2x NBA MVP
-First NBA player to ever score 20,000 pts
-And averaged 20/20 season
Yeah, he's from one of the first eras but his impact relative to his time was still staggering.
Kevin McHale
3x Champ
2x 6th player of the year (consecutively)
6x All-Defensive
And he was UNSTOPPABLE in the post.
For two seasons he averaged 60%+ FGA shooting 26/10 and 22/8.5
You crazy, man. I'm not saying they're definitively over Dirk but you could really go either way. It's not clear cut.
His only knock is he happened to play beside Larry Bird.
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Decent playground baller
Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Originally Posted by played0ut
Funny how everyone's been lamenting the fact that there hasn't been any good centers forever.
When the all-time center position is the most stacked of all.
Russell
Wilt
Kareem
Shaq
Hakeem
Moses
Ewing
Robinson
Mikan
None of them played in the last 5 years and no current C has the potential to join that list
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bears can smell it
Re: NBA players that can break into top 5 ever in their positions
Originally Posted by J Shuttlesworth
PG: CP3, Westbrook
SG:
SF: Durant
PF: Love, Griffin
C: Anthony Davis
Davis will need to drop to PF to have a chance.
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