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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 11:03 am    Post subject:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160129/all-nbarank-36-40

Again, nothing too interesting yet.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:15 pm    Post subject:

Aeneas Hunter wrote:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160129/all-nbarank-36-40

Again, nothing too interesting yet.


Man they are dragging this out.


Does anyone think Gilbert Arenas should have maybe cracked the Top 100? At his best he averaged 29 PPG, 6 APG, and 3.5 RPG.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:43 pm    Post subject:

kaoss128 wrote:
Aeneas Hunter wrote:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160129/all-nbarank-36-40

Again, nothing too interesting yet.


Man they are dragging this out.


Does anyone think Gilbert Arenas should have maybe cracked the Top 100? At his best he averaged 29 PPG, 6 APG, and 3.5 RPG.


No. He had a few big scoring seasons, but he had a short career that was derailed by injuries. He's mostly remember for having the worst contract in NBA history (from the team's perspective)
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:56 pm    Post subject:

I am guessing that they are dragging this out to coincide with the All-Star Game in some form or fashion.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 1:35 pm    Post subject:

activeverb wrote:
kaoss128 wrote:
Aeneas Hunter wrote:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160129/all-nbarank-36-40

Again, nothing too interesting yet.


Man they are dragging this out.


Does anyone think Gilbert Arenas should have maybe cracked the Top 100? At his best he averaged 29 PPG, 6 APG, and 3.5 RPG.


No. He had a few big scoring seasons, but he had a short career that was derailed by injuries. He's mostly remember for having the worst contract in NBA history (from the team's perspective)


Fun to watch, but yeah, a short-lived chucker who played no defense.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 10:33 am    Post subject:

Love is not a top 100 player.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:15 pm    Post subject:

Dave20 wrote:
Love is not a top 100 player.


Love's stock has fallen a lot. Only player whose stock has fallen more, arguably, is Howard's.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 1:57 pm    Post subject:

ESPN list for most part is total joke awful job on some of these rankings are really bad.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 1:02 pm    Post subject:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160201/all-nbarank-31-35

Now we're starting to get to some of the real names.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 1:04 pm    Post subject:

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http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160201/all-nbarank-31-35

Now we're starting to get to some of the real names.


I'd switch Kidd and Ewing.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 2:16 pm    Post subject:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160202/all-nbarank-26-30

Now we start getting to some real names. As I said in the PG thread, I would rank Paul over Isiah. I'm not so sure about Nash in the top 30, though.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 2:50 pm    Post subject:

Aeneas Hunter wrote:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160202/all-nbarank-26-30

Now we start getting to some real names. As I said in the PG thread, I would rank Paul over Isiah. I'm not so sure about Nash in the top 30, though.


Nash is great, but I wouldn't put him in the same class as Havlicek and Wade. I've always thought Isiah was over-rated.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 3:13 pm    Post subject:

activeverb wrote:
kaoss128 wrote:
Aeneas Hunter wrote:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160129/all-nbarank-36-40

Again, nothing too interesting yet.


Man they are dragging this out.


Does anyone think Gilbert Arenas should have maybe cracked the Top 100? At his best he averaged 29 PPG, 6 APG, and 3.5 RPG.


No. He had a few big scoring seasons, but he had a short career that was derailed by injuries. He's mostly remember for having the worst contract in NBA history (from the team's perspective)


There is that one other thing...
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:02 am    Post subject:

For some controversy they'll rank Steph Curry in the top 25. I don't know if you can put a guy that's only played 6 full seasons in there.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 6:46 am    Post subject:

True. I don't doubt that you can project Curry as a top 25 player, or even higher, but I don't see how anyone could put him there yet.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:29 am    Post subject:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160203/all-nbarank-21-25

Curry at 23. Eh. Two spots ahead of Pippen. I think people greatly overrate Pippen in some of these discussions, but . . . really?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:39 am    Post subject:

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Curry at 23. Eh. Two spots ahead of Pippen. I think people greatly overrate Pippen in some of these discussions, but . . . really?



It reminds me of putting Shaq on the all-time top 50 team when he'd only played a couple of seasons -- more of a prediction of what he'll do than an assessment of what he's done. I'd be more conservative -- imagine ranking Rose in the top 30 after his MVP season and how dumb that would look now.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:42 am    Post subject:

non-player zealot wrote:
activeverb wrote:
kaoss128 wrote:
Aeneas Hunter wrote:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160129/all-nbarank-36-40

Again, nothing too interesting yet.


Man they are dragging this out.


Does anyone think Gilbert Arenas should have maybe cracked the Top 100? At his best he averaged 29 PPG, 6 APG, and 3.5 RPG.


No. He had a few big scoring seasons, but he had a short career that was derailed by injuries. He's mostly remember for having the worst contract in NBA history (from the team's perspective)


There is that one other thing...


True!
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 1:18 pm    Post subject:

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There is that one other thing...


True!


Gil should be thankful that he didn't take it too far with Critter. I don't know if Gilbert would actually pull his trigger, but Critt would. He keeps it RAIL to a level Gilbert wasn't really prepared to take it to. That situation could've easily snowballed into a legendary example of pro sports stoopidity. Arenas didn't even have the sense to maybe NOT!1 make a joke out of it during a pregame huddle. Idiot... He really burned out because of that whole mess and injury. I consider him to be of the Francis, Marbury, Penny ilk. They all burned bright, but briefly.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:22 pm    Post subject:

Yeah, I wonder how Arenas felt when he found out that Critt really would kill someone.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:34 am    Post subject:

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Yeah, I wonder how Arenas felt when he found out that Critt really would kill someone.


I'll he did one of those hard gulps. Gil shows that some of these guys, no matter how hard they've worked to attain tens of millions, they don't let go of whatever ignorance they had a teen/20-sthg. To their credit, many do. Some see being rich as an opportunity to uplift others (within reason). Some of them actually mature after years of world travel and meeting people from all walks of life, even in some cases shaking hands with the President. I saw a thing on McGrady where they interviewed him and showed a clip of him as a teen. He sounded like you would expect, a totally different person with a socially concerned outlook. Part of that's from just aging, but he also benefited from all the opportunity and positive experiences that being a pro athlete in this country gave to him. Same with the Fab 5 guys. Artest another. He's a nut, but now he's a good nut. He used to be a Brazil nut, now he's a Macadamia nut. He came out of abject squalor, by far the worst looking childhood tenement apartment I've ever seen in any background story on any pro athlete. It took Metta some years, but God bless him, he's now a spokesman for mental health awareness and stopped being a ne'er-do-well on the court. That's a minor miracle. All those guys are more worldly by sheer exposure to the world.

And YET...there are the guys like Jayson Williams (who admittedly had much more serious mental baggage than Gil does), Crippin Critt, Aaron Hernandez, etc. I guess if you get enough people packed into any organization, they're gonna reflect society and some small percentage are criminals waiting to offend or are guys with zero impulse control (Ray Rice, etc).
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 8:31 am    Post subject:

David Robinson at 20
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 1:26 pm    Post subject:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160204/all-nbarank-16-20

I have no problem with any of these.
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Aeneas Hunter wrote:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160204/all-nbarank-16-20

I have no problem with any of these.


I wouldn't ranked Robinson that high because the second half of his career took such dive after his injury. I probably would put him about 5 or 6 slots back.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 2:02 pm    Post subject:

activeverb wrote:
Aeneas Hunter wrote:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank160204/all-nbarank-16-20

I have no problem with any of these.


I wouldn't ranked Robinson that high because the second half of his career took such dive after his injury. I probably would put him about 5 or 6 slots back.


Yes. I'd consider swapping Barkley and Dirk, but that's quibbling.
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