![]() There’s really only one thing Kawhi Leonard has left to accomplish in his career. Zeke not being on the Dream Team is the biggest snub ever, no exaggeration, but he rightfully earned a spot on the NBA 75 team. He’s still in the top five in assists (he averaged 13.9 apg in ‘85) and still gets under MJ’s skin. Thomas was a diabolical general who was able to score whenever he wanted and put his team on his back to will them to victory. Detroit won back-to-back championships in the middle of what many call the toughest era of NBA basketball and made Jordan scratch and claw for years before he finally got the Bulls over the hump. The Bad Boys wreaked havoc on the NBA’s Holy Trinity of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan and most of the damage that was done was on the orders of the 6’1” point god. However, there’s no denying what he did on the court as the leader on two of the most hated championship teams in NBA history. Zeke’s legacy has been somewhat tarnished over the years by the opinions of his peers and the off-the-court issues he brought on himself while in the Knicks’ front office. ![]() For a guy his size to go out and drop 48 on the road against the heavily-favored Los Angeles Lakers is straight-up unbelievable. To this day that is still one of the most amazing individual performances on a basketball court that I’ve ever seen. For myself, I’ll never forget Game 1 of the 2001 NBA Finals. You could go on and on with former and current NBA stars talking about why Iverson was so great and means so much to them. ![]() Dwyane Wade has said AI is part of the reason he wore No. The list goes on, but Iverson’s cultural impact on the current, and even future, generation of NBA players are more meaningful than his numbers on the court. LeBron James has called him the pound-for-pound best ever. AI is unquestionably a top 30 NBA player ever. It upsets me that people might be shocked that Allen Iverson is included on this list. O’Neal was physically and statistically unlike any center the NBA has seen. But how much more credit do you give Bryant for winning more rings and drawing legit comparisons to Michael Jordan? Instead, the politicking and petty attacks on each other’s basketball intelligence got really heated, over multiple Zoom calls and text threads, when we tried to properly rank Shaq and Kobe and a bunch of point guards toward the bottom of our 30 Best NBA Players of All Time list. It’s guaranteed to get hardcore basketball fans in their feelings and, in our humble opinion, do a much better job than some of those other rankings floating around the interwebs that shall remain nameless.Īlmost up until deadline, we debated whether Shaquille O’Neal, inarguably one of the best big men in NBA history and a true disruptor on the court, deserved to be ranked higher than the late, great Kobe Bryant. ![]() Nor did we particularly labor over why Tim Duncan, for instance, deserved top 10 status over Kevin Garnett and Kevin Durant (for now). When the Complex Sports crew started to put together this list, we didn’t waffle over whether LeBron deserved to be ranked higher than MJ. The toughest debates may not be the obvious ones. ![]()
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