My Pile of Top 56 Players From Which to Select The Top 36 All-NBA or all-ABA Guys

After the analysis set forth below, I had 61 guys left somehow (I don't really know how, I thought I had 60).  


But, I see from the list that the ones who stick out most like a sore thumb are Penny Hardaway (only great for 3-4 years), Tom Gola (somehow avoided deletion twice) and Dick McGuire (same) and Hal Greer and Richie Guerin (same).  So, we are down to 56 players.  Making some great progress now!  Now I just need to delete 20 more and then rank the last 36.


The 4 on my current list of 56 who are not on ESPN's Top 100 list are Anthony Davis, Ed Macauley, Mel Daniels and Neil Johnston.  10 of ESPN's top 56 guys did not make this cut to 56 (McHale, Walton, Worthy, Nique, Pierce, McAdoo, Unseld, King, Cowens, P. Gasol).


Again, I cannot assure you these are the top 56 guys of all-time, but the top 36 are on here still (all of my 2015 top 36 are on here and 35 of ESPN's top 36 are on here - Kevin McHale is gone).








1 -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2 Ray Allen
3 Charles Barkley
4 Rick Barry
 5 Elgin Baylor
6 Larry Bird
7 Kobe Bryant
8 Wilt Chamberlain
9 Bob Cousy
10 Billy Cunningham

11 Steph Curry
12 Mel Daniels
13 Anthony Davis
14 Clyde Drexler

15 Tim Duncan
16 Kevin Durant

17 Julius Erving

18 Patrick Ewing
19 Walt Frazier
20 Kevin Garnett

21 George Gervin
22 Artis Gilmore
23 James Harden
24 John Havlicek
25 Elvin Hayes
26 Dwight Howard
27 Allen Iverson
28 LeBron James

29 Magic Johnson
30 Neil Johnston
31 Michael Jordan
32 Jason Kidd
33 Jerry Lucas
34 Ed Macauley
35 Karl Malone

36 Moses Malone
37 George Mikan
38 Reggie Miller

39 Steve Nash
40 Dirk Nowitzki
41 Hakeem Olajuwon
42 Shaquille O'Neal
43 Chris Paul

44 Gary Payton
45 Bob Pettit
46 Scottie Pippen
47 Willis Reed
48 Oscar Robertson

49 David Robinson
50 Bill Russell
51 Dolph Schayes

52 John Stockton
53 Isiah Thomas
54 Dwayne Wade
55 Jerry West
56 Russell Westbrook