Your top 10 all-time NBA greats

[saturdaysarebetter]

Who are your top 10 all-time NBA greats? I'm trying to see who makes the list by consensus.

In ALPHABETICAL order:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Larry Bird
Kobe Bryant
Wilt Chamberlain
Lebron James
Magic Johnson
Michael Jordan
Oscar Robertson
Bill Russell

For #10 for me: it's between Shaq and Tim Duncan

Which NBA players make your all-time top 10?

 

[trojanfan12]

No particular order...

Kareem
Magic
Bird
MJ
Lebron
Wilt
Oscar
Timmy
Shaq
Olajuwon

I have Kobe just outside my top 10 (literally 11th lol) but could easily swap him out with a coupe of the guys on the list.

 

[saturdaysarebetter]

No particular order...

Kareem
Magic
Bird
MJ
Lebron
Wilt
Oscar
Timmy
Shaq
Olajuwon

I have Kobe just outside my top 10 (literally 11th lol) but could easily swap him out with a coupe of the guys on the list.

So no Bill Russell?

 

[trojanfan12]

So no Bill Russell?

No. He wasn't even the best player at his position and wasn't even always the best player on his own team.

I have Kobe outside the top 10 for similar reasons.

 

[UK Cowboy]

No particular order...

Kareem
Magic
Bird
MJ
Lebron
Wilt
Oscar
Timmy
Shaq
Olajuwon

I have Kobe just outside my top 10 (literally 11th lol) but could easily swap him out with a coupe of the guys on the list.

Your list only Kobe and Steph for Timmy and Dream. JMO

 

[msgkings322]

No particular order...

Kareem
Magic
Bird
MJ
Lebron
Wilt
Oscar
Timmy
Shaq
Olajuwon

I have Kobe just outside my top 10 (literally 11th lol) but could easily swap him out with a coupe of the guys on the list.

In no order:

Kareem
Magic
Bird
Jordan
LeBron
Wilt
Shaq
Olajuwon
Duncan

For that last slot it could go a lot of ways: Curry, Oscar, Kobe, heck maybe even Jokic

 

[Albuquerque Rams]

Jordan
Kobe
Duncan
Kareem
Bird
Magic
LeBron
Curry
Olajuwon
Wilt

 

[broncosmitty]

Jordan
Big O
Magic
LeBron
Kareem
Wilt
Bird
Duncan
Hakeem
Shaq

 

[msgkings322]

Everyone has pretty much the same 10 guys with a few interchangeable at the end. Which is probably it should be

 

[dtgold88]

don't really watch anything on guys I never saw play live so my list is only guys I've seen

KAJ
Lebron
MJ
Magic
Olajuwan
Duncan
Bird
Bryant
Curry
K. Malone (really close with Shaq)

 

[Clayton]

Jordan
Kareem
Lebron
Wilt
Magic
Bird
Duncan
Curry
Big O
Kobe

I have a hard time leaving Shaq off the list but hack a shaq has prob given me PTSD

 

[MilkSpiller22]

NOT IN ORDER SINCE THE LACK OF ORDER IS CHAOS...

1. MICHAEL JORDAN
2. LEBRON
3. STEPH CURRY
4. NIKOLA JOKIC
5. KAJ
6. MAGIC
7. BIRD
8. DUNCAN
9. WILT
10. HAKEEM

probably need a new way to measure... feels weird that 4.5 of the top 10 are centers... and even players that "just missed" are centers...

defensive metrics love centers... because they get the rebounds and blocks... so any center that scores points will just always be elite metrically...


but makes me wonder if that should be the biggest factor....

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

You almost need two lists, one for modern players and one for the era before the ABA. I was born in 1970 and missed so many great players from the past. Of the ones I've seen play:

Jordan
Kareem
Magic
Bird
Shaq
Hakeem
Kobe
Drexler
Duncan
LeBron