SI's (new) 50 Greatest NBA Players list

The Syracuse guys, bing and schayes, make it back. Im cool with that.

 

Ewing invalidates the list. Add Walt Bellamy to the list. Artis Gilmore. Dan Issell.

Would have liked to see LeBron play against physical players allowed to be physical. Karl Malone, Barkley, Oakley.

 

Which of those guys would have been able to guard him on the perimeter?

 

Barkley, maybe. lebron is too versatile. But he's a 2/3 and would never have had to guard a player his size down low. But those are rare anyway.

 

Barkley wouldn't be able to come close to guarding him outside

 

My starting 5 and 6th man are Magic, Bird, Jordan, Kareem, LeBron, Kobe

 

Probably, but better than Malone and Oakley.

 

Well, of course

 

Vs Russell, Shaq, Oscar, Kobe and Duncan or Bird. It would be a 7 game series.

 

Walter Frazier ahead of Isiah and Stockton? Is this guy high?

 

Any way you look at it, a top 5 list in pro sports is purely subjective.

So, barring detached absurdity, nothing is unquestionable.

 

Abdul-Jabbar said Nate Thurmond was toughest center he played against.