9th, and its not close.

Jordan
Magic
Bird
LeBron
Kareem
Duncan
Wilt
Hakeem



Kobe

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Hakeem

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Even Magic acknowledges Kobe was better.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

He's wrong too

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

And that's why superstars make terrible GMs

It took three quick seconds to toss Duncan.

And yes,I am taking Wilt over Russell & his HOF filled rosters all day every day. The man could high jump almost 7 feet, pick em up and put em down and with a straight face talk about 20,000 wins that matter.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

I thought you were a Russell guy.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

Nobody wants to talk about the 1969 season?

The roster argument doesn't really hold up post 1965. Sorry.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

That's a Trump like lie.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

okay you're getting rid of one who you replacing them with?

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

I'd replace Kobe with Oscar or Russell

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

What made the Celtics was that they didn't have better athletes they had players with better basketball IQ

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

I'd replace Duncan, Kobe, and Bird with Robertson, Russell, and Shaq.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

Wilt would get dominated by Luc Longley.

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Agreed, Kobe is easily first to go, then Bird then Wilt.

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Seriously, though...

Wilt averaged 50 points and 26 rebounds in 1962. Are we really saying he could average that today? I'm not saying he's not an all-time great or that he wouldn't be great today. But we have to admit that his competition allowed for some of those numbers. Otherwise, he was an alien sent to dominate the game of basketball and no one in history is even remotely close to him.

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Adjusted for pace of play and 40 mpg instead 48+ mpg, those numbers would probably be about 30 and 15 today. Still awesome.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

For sure. Just not superhuman.

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I think the MPG and pace of play factors are largely overlooked. JORR is right about his competition. Like Nas said, there were like 8 other teams. Almost all had good centers. Russell Westbrook's current season would look something like 45 ppg, 15 rpg, 15 apg if they had the same pace of play today they had in 1968.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I don't know man...this is pretty impressive.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.