Wednesday, April 28, 2021

I am Not Re-doing all of my work on Kareem and Wilt - 2021 Top 36 -- Wilt #3, Kareem #4

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Wilt, in my opinion, was a better player and had a better career than Kareem.  Nothing has changed in 3 years to change my opinion enough to...

Top 36 (April 2021 Edition) - 5 & 6 - Is It Duncan or Magic?

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Timothy Theodore Duncan was born on April 25, 1976, in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Earvin Johnson Jr. was born on August 14, 1959 in Lan...

The #7 Player of All-Time (April 2021 Edition) - Bill Russell

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 William Felton Russell was born February 12, 1934 in Monroe, Louisiana.   Bill Russell's Celtics won 11 titles out of his 13 years, los...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

The #8 Player of All-Time (2021 Edition) - Shaquille O'Neal

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Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal was born on March 6, 1972 in Newark, New Jersey.   Now, imagine, if you will, that your reputation was that you...

The #9 Player of All-Time - Larry Bird

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 Larry Joe Bird was born on December 7, 1956 in West Baden Springs, Indiana. Bird would not reach the NBA until just before his 23 birthday,...

Who Remains - The Top 9 of All-Time (April 2021 Edition)

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9 players are left to rank in the next 4 days.  They are, in alphabetical order: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - 6 MVPs, 6 titles, 3 FMVPs, all-time l...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Numbers 12 to 10 -- Ranking the Top 36

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 12.  Oscar Robertson -- It really pains me to not have Oscar in the Top 10, largely because virtually every single guy aged 65 to 85 I have...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Top 36 ranked in 2021 - ##16-13

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 Since we are more than halfway through the month, I better get things cranking up. It is interesting that players ##16-13 on my 2021 list a...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Side Story From 1983 - Just Reminded of today

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 We take a break from the 2021 Top 36 for this story.  I was criticized today for putting Splenda in my coffee, and I remembered this story,...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Players 17 to 22, April 2021 Edition

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 22) Kevin Garnett - 4x first-team All-NBA, MVP placements of 1-2-2-3-5.  Numerous All-Defense years, DPOY.  Overall, Garnett's career i...
Friday, April 09, 2021

April 2021 - Players 25 to 23

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 25.  James Harden - an 11 spot move up in 3 years for the bulky and bearded one.  Harden, based solely upon regular season performance, is ...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

April 2021 - Players 29 to 26

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 29.  Chris Paul - Chris Paul's Advanced Stat numbers are simply silly.  Ridiculous.  Whatever term you want to use and say, "I can...

My April 2021 Top 36 Professional Basketball Players of All-Time. Numbers 36 to 30

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 36.  Steve Nash -- Nash edges out all of the great players I have identified in my run-up to the Top 36 primarily because he won 2 MVPs and...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

All That Work, and We End Up With the Same 36 Guys

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Much like Richard Gere and Kim Basinger, I have reached my Final Analysis and that is that I cannot add Artis Gilmore to my Top 36 list and ...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Kahwi Doesn't Make the Top 36

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  Having Gilmore, Payton, Nash, Ewing and Kawhi Leonard left, I have to drop Kawhi.  He has a good argument for Top 36 based primarily on hi...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

33 Guys In the Safe Pile

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Abdul-Jabbar Barkley Barry Baylor Bird Bryant Chamberlain  Cousy Curry Duncan Durant Erving Garnett Harden Havlicek James Magic Johnson Jord...

Let's Save 5 and cut 5, leave 5 to be ranked

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We will cut (italics) Kidd (shooting mostly), Howard (BPM, short peak), Drexler (All-NBA shortfall), Gervin (advanced stats) and Schayes (fa...