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OT: Your All Time Favorite NBA Player

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Lebron fucking James. Yeah I said it

I really think the top stars today might end up being among my favorites ever. Luka, Jokic, and Giannis are all incredibly talented and likable players operating on what feels like a new level of skill. Kind of amazing to have all three active at once. There have been a lot of periods in my fandom when the best active players didn’t truly feel like all timers (like the whole 1995-2004 period excluding old Jordan at the beginning and young developing Lebron at the end). Kobe always felt weirdly a bit fraudulent to me, and Duncan is an all timer but never *felt* like one because he was so low key. Peak Shaq felt like the only truly dominant guy.

Now all three of Giannis-Jokic-Luka feel like potential top ten ever if they can rack up some championships
 
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cavsfever said:
Lebron fucking James. Yeah I said it

I really think the top stars today might end up being among my favorites ever. Luka, Jokic, and Giannis are all incredibly talented and likable players operating on what feels like a new level of skill. Kind of amazing to have all three active at once. There have been a lot of periods in my fandom when the best active players didn’t truly feel like all timers (like the whole 1995-2004 period excluding old Jordan at the beginning and young developing Lebron at the end). Kobe always felt weirdly a bit fraudulent to me, and Duncan is an all timer but never *felt* like one because he was so low key. Peak Shaq felt like the only truly dominant guy.

Now all three of Giannis-Jokic-Luka feel like potential top ten ever if they can rack up some championships
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Yes, Lebron was a close 2nd behind Dr. J. He doesn't have the smooth elegance of Dr. J, but he's as fast or faster and way stronger, a better shooter and scorer.
 
KilgoreTrout said:
The play where he essentially levitates behind the backboard and lays it in might be the greatest basketball play EVER.
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No one had the grace like Dr. J. He was before my time, but I saw that highlight and a number of others growing up on VHS tapes.
 
KilgoreTrout said:
Growing up, it had to be The Doctor.

I was first sentient when he joined the NBA. Spent hours playing Dr. J vs. Larry Bird One-on-One, on my Atari.
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I got that game for Christmas for my Atari 7800, but it was defective… never worked. SO BUMMED. I don’t think it crossed my parents’ minds to take it back.
 
JDailey23 said:
Wow. MJ. Cant believe I’m the first to say it.

Was also a HUGE Grant Hill fan
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I'm reading his recent autobio; got it at the local library this week. One of the classiest athletes ever, and an amazing player in his prime with the Pistons. I was so devastated when his terrible injuries kept him from forming the kind of duo with TMac in Orlando that so many people hoped would happen.
 
jjvors said:
The killer is, most people say he played BETTER in the ABA rather than the NBA.

He is the greatest in-game dunker ever. He was the first to do a 360 dunk--in a game. He routinely dunks from outside the key. Everything is so smooth and effortless.

Everyone wanted to be Dr. J in the 70s.
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For you guys that never got a chance to watch the ABA there was another guy in the league that dunked just as effortlessly as the Doctor. He played for the Pacers. His name was Darnell Hillman (his nickname was Dr. Dunk). That boy could glide to the basket with the best of them and throw down some vicious dunks!
LBJ is faster and stronger but he can’t hold a candle to the Doctor’s grace, agility, and athleticism around the basket.

 
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jjvors said:
Yes, Lebron was a close 2nd behind Dr. J. He doesn't have the smooth elegance of Dr. J, but he's as fast or faster and way stronger, a better shooter and scorer.
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Well Lebron is stylistically a totally different player from Dr J. What I love about Lebron is how he was able to transcend the incredible hype and achieve greatness. Experienced so many fantastic moments watching him - not just playoff games or championships but regular season games where he just took over and dominated. He just has such a great sense of the moment and usually rises to the occasion. He is so talented he could have coasted but he challenged himself to live up to his potential and did. Love his overall career arc and the drama of his story. Which I know turns some off LOL
 
Dr. J, Wilt and the Portland version of Walton.
 
Rod "The Original Point God" Strickland

then

Gary Payton

then

Rajon Rondo

now

Ja Morant

*for non-Cavs favorite players around the league
 
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