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Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 3:40 pm
by Mike G
As to what constitutes a player's Peak, nobody's offered a suggestion. Some like Best 3 years, 5 yrs, 7, etc.
http://bkref.com/tiny/vEBnq
Copy/pasting the top 500 WS season, separating by player, and summing their WS in Best year, best 2 years, and etc -- then ranking them in each "interval" (not necessarily consecutive years):
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.WS 1 year WS 2 year WS 3 year WS 4 year WS 5 year
25.4 Kareem 48 Wilt 70 Wilt 91 Wilt 112 Wilt
25.0 Wilt 48 Kareem 70 Kareem 88 Kareem 106 Kareem
23.4 Mikan 45 Mikan 65 Mikan 82 Jordan 101 Jordan
21.2 Jordan 42 Jordan 62 Jordan 80 Mikan 94 Mikan
20.6 Oscar 40 LeBron 58 LeBron 74 LeBron 90 LeBron
20.3 LeBron 38 Robinson 56 Robinson 73 Robinson 89 Oscar
20.0 Robinson 38 Oscar 55 Oscar 72 Oscar 88 Robinson
18.9 Durant 36 Paul 50 Shaq 66 Nowitzki 80 Nowitzki
18.6 Feerick 36 Groza 50 Barkley 65 Garnett 80 Malone
18.6 Shaq 36 Shaq 50 Nowitzki 65 Barkley 78 Barkley
18.3 Paul 35 Durant 50 Garnett 65 Malone 78 Garnett
18.3 Garnett 34 Garnett 50 Paul 64 Shaq 78 Shaq
18.3 Johnston 34 Duncan 50 Russell 64 Paul 77 Russell
18.0 Groza 34 Russell 49 West 64 Magic 77 Magic
17.8 McAdoo 34 Barkley 49 Johnston 64 Russell 77 Paul
17.8 Duncan 34 Nowitzki 49 Malone 63 West 77 Johnston
17.7 Nowitzki 34 West 49 Magic 63 Johnston 76 West
17.3 Russell 34 Johnston 48 Duncan 62 Bird 76 Bird
17.3 Barkley 33 McAdoo 47 Durant 61 Duncan 74 Erving
17.1 West 33 Malone 47 Bird 60 Erving 74 Duncan
.WS 6 year WS 7 year WS 8 year WS 9 year WS 10 year
133 Wilt 152 Wilt 170 Wilt 187 Wilt 203 Wilt
123 Kareem 138 Kareem 154 Jordan 171 Jordan 187 Jordan
119 Jordan 137 Jordan 152 Kareem 166 Kareem 180 Kareem
107 Mikan 120 LeBron 134 LeBron 148 LeBron 155 Oscar
105 LeBron 118 Oscar 130 Oscar 143 Oscar 154 Malone
104 Oscar 116 Robinson 129 Robinson 142 Robinson 154 Robinson
102 Robinson 110 Malone 126 Malone 141 Malone 142 Nowitzki
95 Malone 107 Nowitzki 119 Nowitzki 130 Nowitzki 138 Russell
94 Nowitzki 103 Russell 115 Russell 127 Russell 136 Stockton
91 Shaq 102 Garnett 114 Magic 125 Stockton 133 Duncan
91 Garnett 102 Barkley 114 Garnett 125 Johnson 130 Gilmore
90 Barkley 102 West 114 West 122 Duncan
90 Russell 102 Magic 113 Bird 119 Gilmore
90 Magic 102 Shaq 112 Stockton 118 Pettit
89 Bird 102 Bird 111 Duncan
89 West 99 Duncan 109 Erving
88 Johnston 99 Stockton 108 Gilmore
87 Duncan 98 Erving 107 Pettit
86 Erving 96 Pettit 105 Kobe
86 Stockton 96 Gilmore 94 Reggie
These are seasons with at least 10.9 NBA Win Shares. If a player has no Nth such season, he disappears from the list. Obviously LeBron, with 148 WS in 9 years would have at least 148 in 10 years.
ABA seasons: I factored ABA WS by .95 for 1976, .90 for 1975 ... down to .55 for 1968, to get roughly equivalent NBA WS. Just 18 ABA player-seasons were thus added to the 500 from NBA.
The rest of the exercise:
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WS 11 year WS 12 year WS 13 year
218 Wilt 232 Wilt 245 Wilt
201 Jordan 205 Kareem 216 Kareem
193 Kareem 181 Malone 192 Malone
168 Malone
167 Oscar
152 Nowitzki
149 Russell
141 Gilmore
Again, those dropping off the list
did not have a 12th year above 10.9 WS
And of course, postseasons are an entire different story.
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:18 pm
by Mike G
For perspective: Players with exactly one season at >10.9 WS: Horford, Mourning, Kirilenko, Penny, Ben Wallace, King, Bobby Jones, Wanzer, Roy, Brent Barry, Buck Williams, Mullin, Webber, Laettner, Barros, Bing, Cowens, Rodman, Deron Williams, Rose, Schrempf, Mutombo, Goodrich, McGinnis, Yardley, Gerald Wallace, Gus Williams, Greer, Hersey Hawkins, Horace Grant, Isiah, Sikma, Harden, James Silas, Kidd, Hornacek, Kenny Anderson, Love, Kiki, Aldridge, Nance, Hudson, Deng, Marc Gasol, Price, Riordan, Blaylock, Peja, Rasheed, Guerin, Parish, Tomjanovich, Westbrook, Cassell, Sam Jones, Haywood, Steph Curry, Marbury, Brandon, Chambers, Unseld, Yao
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:23 pm
by Mike G
We have stalled out at 12 voters and 60 votes.
There's a 3-way tie for 3rd (Kareem, Wilt, Russell), so I'm inclined to wait until this logjam has separated.
I suppose there's no real philosophical objection to such ties -- I mean, who really can say one was better or less great? -- my hope was that we'd not have tied rankings.
Per 36 minutes, after adjusting for game environment (pts, reb), Bill Russell's rates most resemble these:
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diff career per36 Sco Reb Ast PF Stl TO Blk
.00 Bill Russell 12.6 14.6 3.8 2.5 1.5 2.9 4.0
.53 Bill Walton 15.7 12.8 4.0 3.5 1.0 3.6 2.7
.57 Nate Thurmond 13.4 11.9 2.7 2.8 .6 2.4 3.0
.67 Maurice Stokes 12.6 13.5 5.4 3.9 1.9 2.9 2.1
.67 Marcus Camby 11.3 12.7 2.1 3.4 1.2 1.7 2.9
.76 Jerry Lucas 15.5 11.9 3.1 2.8 1.4 2.6 1.8
.92 Joakim Noah 13.1 12.3 2.6 3.7 1.0 2.0 1.7
1.05 Elmore Smith 14.2 10.7 1.6 3.9 1.0 2.6 3.5
1.06 Sam Lacey 10.5 10.4 4.1 3.9 1.6 3.0 1.8
1.15 Andrew Bogut 14.3 11.4 2.4 3.7 .8 2.2 1.8
1.15 Vlade Divac 14.3 9.9 3.6 3.8 1.3 2.6 1.7
None of these are especially close. Would Bogut, Noah, Camby, or Divac have led a team to multiple titles in a lesser league? It depends on their teammates and the league, of course.
It's even harder to find a credible similar in equivalent career totals. These include playoffs (and estimates) --
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diff career equiv. ePts eReb eAst PF Stl TO Blk
.00 Bill Russell 16,034 19717 4991 3383 1916 3609 4984
1.72 Elvin Hayes 26,607 15573 2481 4580 1454 3787 3016
1.78 David Robinson 25,040 12193 2799 3246 1546 2717 3286
1.78 Artis Gilmore 26,006 16335 3158 4864 846 5399 3197
1.79 Robert Parish 25,909 16861 2278 5084 1374 3709 2688
1.92 Patrick Ewing 28,669 13776 2526 4563 1264 3904 3223
2.14 Hakeem Olajuwon 30,781 15631 3462 4957 2412 4111 4327
2.55 Bob Pettit 25,340 12234 2968 3231 1165 2999 1642
2.68 Elgin Baylor 24,623 10521 4246 3235 1621 3298 1542
2.71 Dikembe Mutombo 14,552 14272 1411 3735 550 2400 3654
2.72 Julius Erving 31,815 11035 5620 4039 2746 4756 2434
In this list is one player (Olajuwon) who has received a single one of our top-5 votes.
Thurmond is #24 in the eTotals list, just by a much 'smaller' career.
Mutombo is #12 in the per36 list, largely due to his very low Assist rate.
Another way to phrase the question above might be: If Bill Russell has mediocre teammates in a league of 25-30 teams, is he more than a franchise cornerstone? Is he much more than a journeyman defensive specialist?
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 4:03 pm
by permaximum
My top 5 would be Jordan, Chamberlain, Bird, Magic, Iverson.
Also surprised by how many votes LeBron James got. But I guess it's no different with my Iverson choice. I give more value to players' primes than their whole careers. I don't think anybody besides Iverson and Jordan could have carried 2001 Philly to Finals and win a game at LA.
I think that's why Shaq thinks he's one of the top 5 ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBZ2jlhwpR0
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:26 pm
by Bobbofitos
Wouldn't even have Iverson top 25, let alone top 5
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:28 pm
by v-zero
Yeah, I'm not sure a real case can be made for AI to be anywhere near...
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 6:17 pm
by permaximum
I see votes for Wade, Paul and I think even worse for Wade and Paul than what you think about Iverson. I don't consider them in top 50 list. I really think post-Jordan era has full of overrated players because of NBA's politics. Only Shaq, Iverson, Duncan, Garnett, Kobe and perhaps James should be among the elites.
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:50 pm
by MW00
permaximum wrote:My top 5 would be Jordan, Chamberlain, Bird, Magic, Iverson.
Also surprised by how many votes LeBron James got. But I guess it's no different with my Iverson choice. I give more value to players' primes than their whole careers. I don't think anybody besides Iverson and Jordan could have carried 2001 Philly to Finals and win a game at LA.
I think that's why Shaq thinks he's one of the top 5 ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBZ2jlhwpR0
Aside from whether team level achievements are a good measure of individuals (and how weak the East was at that time and how tight two of those series were).
That team was designed for Iverson. The 76ers tried to build with conventional 2nd/3rd options (such as Derrick Coleman, Jerry Stackhouse, Joe Smith, Tim Thomas, Larry Hughes, Toni Kukoc, Keith Van Horn, Chris Webber and other scorers like Corliss Williamson, Clarence Weatherspoon) and Iverson couldn't productively coexist with them (not that these were great players but they were more highly rated than the defensive minded guys in '01 like Snow and McKie). Not only did the team not succeed, their values went down whilst playing with AI (some of that was natural given age, but often it wasn't). Iverson needed to play with good defensive players who didn't want the ball on offense to get the best out of him. Only with Carmelo, later in his career did he show any signs of working well with another scorer.
Also Shaq isn't a serious (or good) basketball analyst.
I don't agree with the Paul, Wade picks but I can sort of semi see a case (ish) with certain criteria in so far as having great peaks (Paul has the best PER and WS/48 season by a point guard, Wade is one of 7 guys with a 30+ PER season) though even then I wouldn't pick them (certainly not Wade). But even at his peak (whenever you think that is) Iverson wasn't at that level because he was too inefficient (middling at best %s, high turnovers).
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 9:18 pm
by Bobbofitos
permaximum wrote:I see votes for Wade, Paul and I think even worse for Wade and Paul than what you think about Iverson. I don't consider them in top 50 list. I really think post-Jordan era has full of overrated players because of NBA's politics. Only Shaq, Iverson, Duncan, Garnett, Kobe and perhaps James should be among the elites.
huh? This makes no sense.
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 9:33 pm
by jbrocato23
My top 5 is Jordan, Russell, LeBron, Magic, and Kareem with Wilt, Shaq, Duncan, and Bird just missing the cut. Seems like that's the general consensus too, though I'm pretty surprised that Russell isn't (at least closer to) unanimous. The guy won titles in 11 of his 13 seasons.
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 9:38 pm
by jbrocato23
permaximum wrote:My top 5 would be Jordan, Chamberlain, Bird, Magic, Iverson.
Also surprised by how many votes LeBron James got. But I guess it's no different with my Iverson choice. I give more value to players' primes than their whole careers. I don't think anybody besides Iverson and Jordan could have carried 2001 Philly to Finals and win a game at LA.
I think that's why Shaq thinks he's one of the top 5 ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBZ2jlhwpR0
I'd love to see a well reasoned argument addressing why Allen Iverson is a top 5 all time player ahead of Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tim Duncan, Shaq, LeBron James, Hakeem Olajuwon, etc etc
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 11:47 pm
by MW00
jbrocato23 wrote:My top 5 is Jordan, Russell, LeBron, Magic, and Kareem with Wilt, Shaq, Duncan, and Bird just missing the cut. Seems like that's the general consensus too, though I'm pretty surprised that Russell isn't (at least closer to) unanimous. The guy won titles in 11 of his 13 seasons.
My rationale for Russell outside the top 5.
Firstly I'd accept he is in all probabililty the best defensive player ever. And an all time great rebounder. And Boston won their titles primarily with defense.
However, Russell was a drag on O. For most of his career he was the worst or near worst ts% center (amongst those playing 30+ minutes) in the league and worst or near worst for usage
1961: 4 qualifying centers: 4th in fga/36, 3rd in ts% (ahead of Kerr)
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... _by=ts_pct
1962: 5 qualifying centers: 4th in fga/36 (ahead of Kerr), 4th in ts% (ahead of Kerr)
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... _by=ts_pct
1963: 6 qualifying centers: 6th in fga/36, 6th in ts%
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... _by=ts_pct
1964: 6 qualifying centers: 6th in fga/36, 6th in ts%
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... _by=ts_pct
1965: 9 qualifying centers: 9th in fga/36 , 6th in ts% (ahead of Jim Barnes -center status dubious-, Nate Thurmond, Reggie Harding)
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... _by=ts_pct
1966: 7 qualifying centers: 7th in fga/36, 7th in ts%
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... _by=ts_pct
1967: 8 qualifying centers: 8th in fga/36, 5th in ts% (ahead of Imhoff, Thurmond, LeRoy Ellis)
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... _by=ts_pct
1968: 8 qualifying centers: 8th in fga/36, 8th in ts%
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... _by=ts_pct
1969: 11 qualifying centers: 11th in fga/36, 10th in ts% (ahead of Thurmond)
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... _by=ts_pct
Okay scoring isn't all of offense but it's a fairly big part. He surely contributed a lot on the offensive boards (though from the above you might argue (1) That a Russell offensive board was less valuable than one from someone more likely to put it back in, and (2) that his offensive boards were more easily got because he might not always have been guarded and thus boxed out, given how rarely he shot). He has strong assist numbers (and an annecdotal status as Boston's post-Cousy playmaker) but the stats are (1) partially boosted by high minutes, (2) partially boosted by high pace. Finally you might suggest that his numbers were boosted by Boston score-keeping (certainly Harvey Pollack thought Russell's rebound numbers were soft). Despite many noted scorers Boston's offense was never that special (by the advanced metric data we have though I suspect they're somewhat underrated because I suspect they were a low turnover team) which hardly supports the notion of Russell as a special playmaker (and does support the notion that Jones, Havlicek, Howell, Nelson et al were making up for Russell being somewhat of a drag on O).
I don't have time to fully flesh out other arguments but the other main part is that Boston had good deep teams. How much credit can we confidently assign to Russell?
BTW obviously all this seems hypercritical, it's all the negatives presented in the most negative way. Obviously he was a great player and did contribute to the offense through passing and rebounding, I just think its worth asking to what degree this covers up for his significant scoring deficiencies and that combined with a lack of clarity in measures of his influence mean he's not (presently) in my top 5. I'd be interested in the case for Russell over Chamberlain. Also to me I'm not sure what Magic did better than Oscar, I certainly don't see the disparity that puts Magic so far ahead (Magic having 8 votes, Robertson just 1 other vote).
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:44 am
by permaximum
MW00 wrote:permaximum wrote:My top 5 would be Jordan, Chamberlain, Bird, Magic, Iverson.
Also surprised by how many votes LeBron James got. But I guess it's no different with my Iverson choice. I give more value to players' primes than their whole careers. I don't think anybody besides Iverson and Jordan could have carried 2001 Philly to Finals and win a game at LA.
I think that's why Shaq thinks he's one of the top 5 ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBZ2jlhwpR0
Aside from whether team level achievements are a good measure of individuals (and how weak the East was at that time and how tight two of those series were).
That team was designed for Iverson. The 76ers tried to build with conventional 2nd/3rd options (such as Derrick Coleman, Jerry Stackhouse, Joe Smith, Tim Thomas, Larry Hughes, Toni Kukoc, Keith Van Horn, Chris Webber and other scorers like Corliss Williamson, Clarence Weatherspoon) and Iverson couldn't productively coexist with them (not that these were great players but they were more highly rated than the defensive minded guys in '01 like Snow and McKie). Not only did the team not succeed, their values went down whilst playing with AI (some of that was natural given age, but often it wasn't). Iverson needed to play with good defensive players who didn't want the ball on offense to get the best out of him. Only with Carmelo, later in his career did he show any signs of working well with another scorer.
Also Shaq isn't a serious (or good) basketball analyst.
I don't agree with the Paul, Wade picks but I can sort of semi see a case (ish) with certain criteria in so far as having great peaks (Paul has the best PER and WS/48 season by a point guard, Wade is one of 7 guys with a 30+ PER season) though even then I wouldn't pick them (certainly not Wade). But even at his peak (whenever you think that is) Iverson wasn't at that level because he was too inefficient (middling at best %s, high turnovers).
Yeah, I know that usual stuff. But that stuff will contradict lots of
analysts here because they will say Iverson's best season is 2004-05 or 2007-08 or even 2005-06. In those seasons he was playing with Webber at Philly and Carmelo at Denver. That's why I don't wanna come with RAPM, WS or some ASPM values to support my top 5 pick. In fact I could choose a careful lambda for RAPM calculation and rely on some play-by-play data of a different source and then you would get that top5 pick.
For Paul and Wade argument, player box score data only explains 30-35% of the real thing according to my tests. So I don't really care abour PER. WS/48 is fundementally flawed imo. RAPM is good. But the PBP data, lambda calculation and priors if there are any are too important. That's why I can't rely on someone else's RAPM and I look for matchup data always.
If you go with that biased shot percentage route, I suggest you to consider usage, shot range and the help of taking contested shots by a superstar instead of other players. Check usage and assists to see if he turned the ball a lot or not.
@Bobbofitos
Yeah I get what you mean. But you should look at the bigger picture not only advanced statistics, simulations etc. If you really wanna go that route, consider schedule, GM decisions, referee decisions and media's effect on player performances, results of games and ultimately championships.
@jbrocato23
I think this is what you want. 2001 Finals, MVP, allstars and MVPs, NBA team awards, ROTY, rookie all-star mvp , simple box-score career stats, scoring titles, leading the league in steals, minutes etc.
However if you want my real reason why I think he is among top 5 ever, he's only one of the 2 people could carry a whole team into Finals by largely himself in NBA history.
Edit: I won't say other people's picks are wrong. These are only my opinions. Just like Shaquille O'Neal's. I just think nobody should be surprised someone voted for Iverson when there are votes for Paul and Wade. 10 votes for LeBron James is an entirely different thing.
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 10:05 am
by Mike G
I'm pretty surprised that Russell isn't (at least closer to) unanimous. The guy won titles in 11 of his 13 seasons.
So he should rank ahead of Robert Horry.
Then again, Satch Sanders wasn't as good as Karl Malone, despite the titles.
Nobody here thinks either PER or WS/48 is the ultimate authority on who was 'better'. But sometimes one of them picks up what another may leave out.
Year by year playoff leaders for the Celtics in Russell's time there:
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1957 WS WS/48 PER 1964 WS WS/48 PER
Russell 1.4 .162 18.9 Sam Jones 2.1 .290 21.5
Ramsey 1.4 .290 19.2 Russell 1.9 .199 18.9
Sharman 1.3 .164 16.5 Heinsohn 0.9 .133 17.0
Heinsohn 1.2 .157 19.1
1965 WS WS/48 PER
1958* WS WS/48 PER Russell 3.3 .286 20.9
Ramsey 1.7 .235 19.2 Sam Jones 2.0 .195 18.4
Cousy 1.5 .156 17.6 KC Jones 1.3 .156 11.6
Sharman 1.5 .175 17.3
Russell 1.2 .162 21.6 1966 WS WS/48 PER
Russell 3.2 .191 20.2
1959 WS WS/48 PER Sam Jones 2.2 .179 19.6
Ramsey 2.0 .322 23.4 Havlicek 1.5 .102 16.3
Russell 1.9 .184 18.8
Sharman 1.3 .194 17.5 1967* WS WS/48 PER
Havlicek 1.2 .175 20.8
1960 WS WS/48 PER Sam Jones 1.2 .178 19.5
Russell 3.0 .249 22.1 Howell 0.7 .141 15.3
Heinsohn 1.7 .192 19.9 Russell 0.7 .090 15.3
Ramsey 1.6 .169 14.7
1968 WS WS/48 PER
1961 WS WS/48 PER Havlicek 2.8 .157 19.9
Russell 1.9 .201 22.0 Howell 2.2 .176 17.2
Sharman 1.4 .257 18.8 Nelson 1.9 .191 18.5
Cousy 1.2 .166 17.8 Russell 1.6 .091 16.7
Ramsey 1.2 .196 16.7
1969 WS WS/48 PER
1962 WS WS/48 PER Havlicek 2.8 .161 19.5
Russell 3.6 .257 22.8 Nelson 1.8 .250 21.6
Sam Jones 1.5 .143 16.6 Howell 1.6 .142 14.7
KC Jones 1.2 .173 13.7 Russell 1.4 .082 15.3
Siegfried 0.9 .110 14.4
1963 WS WS/48 PER
Russell 2.5 .197 20.5
Sam Jones 1.9 .206 19.6
Heinsohn 1.6 .182 20.5
* =
did not win the title
I'm seeing 4 of 13 seasons in which Russell is the team leader in both PER and WS/48, all between '60 and '66; more seasons in which he is the leader in neither.
He sometimes leads in WS just by playing the most minutes.
[These last 2 postseasons, his WS/48 also trailed Satch Sanders, who didn't play a lot of minutes.]
Obviously these stats are supposing no one got more blocks or steals than anyone else, etc. -- that games were won by shooting better, rebounding, etc.
http://bkref.com/tiny/jfLom
Compared to other champions and contenders with a primary superstar, these same stats tend to corroborate their status, especially in playoffs.
Re: Vote for the all-time top 5 players
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 10:46 am
by Mike G
Shaq thinks [Iverson is] one of the top 5 ever.
Somebody ask Shaq if he or Iverson is more deserving of Top 5 All-time status.
I actually like Iverson. There were times he might have even been one of the top 5 players in the league. It was almost like a great experiment watching the Sixers build a team to complement him. As others have noted, he wasn't inclined to be part of any offensive ensemble.
And how quickly he was out of the league, even when he still had most of his skills. Below a pretty high threshold, like 85-90% of his Peak, it wasn't worthwhile to accommodate him.
We can still describe him as one of the Top 5 players 6 feet and under, with a good shot at #1 on that list.
http://bkref.com/tiny/7uuGv
Well, now there's also Chris Paul.
We voted him about #45 earlier --
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