NBA Players that seem to never get tired

[TheAnchorman]

Who in history are those players you feel that just keep running... running... running... and it goes triple OT and you think they can't keep it up anymore but they still can? Even while deep in the 4th they can still run the break, get insane elevation on their jump shot or just plain not quit?

Hondo
Magic
Jordan
Ray Ray

Just a few to get the ball rolling... Anyone else I'm missing?

[OmniStrife]

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http://www.nba.com/media/suns/07081217vssa_hill_block_300.jpg
Seem to never get old either...

Chasing and effectively harassing opponent teams' best player all game.
Then he run n' guns to the other side... at 38.

Old man is batshit crazy!

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[Magic38]

Dwight

[Goliath Uterus]

AI should be the first to come to mind

[ace23]

Rip Hamilton is the first to come to mind.

[d.bball.guy]

Big Baby?

[Styles p]

iggy

[protox]

Lebron, it seems has been playing the whole entire games in the playoffs. Dude is huge and has crazy stamina.

[HB40TheNextStar]

No Steve Nash mention yet? Really? He's arguably the best conditioned athlete in the league.

[OldSchoolBBall]

Havlicek
Jordan
Wilt
KG
Iverson

These guys are the gold standard of NBA stamina imo.

[MJ(Mean John)]

Iverson is the first name that comes up.

Imagine how this guy was always taking shot after shot? always running around? playing 44-48 minutes a game, always having the ball in his hands, with all that energy, all that heart?

I remember watching in live, in the flesh.

It had to be like 2005.
I was in the 4th row, and i would see him at one end of the floor, looked to my left and took a sip of my drink, and looked at the game and the mfer was already hitting a lay up.

[AngelEyes]

Havlicek
Jordan
Wilt
KG
Iverson

These guys are the gold standard of NBA stamina imo.


I think Lebron needs to be placed in that same group. His stamina in his career has been astonishing.

[Ancient Legend]

Right now, LeBron, obviously. Playing 48 mpg while guarding Rose and himself scoring 35 pts is insane.

Young Allen Iverson for me had the greatest stamina, never stopped running and driving to the lane all game.


No Steve Nash mention yet? Really? He's arguably the best conditioned athlete in the league.

Steve Nash got tired in a lot of playoff runs with the Suns. And he's not a heavy mpg player, usually around 35 mpg. You could easily tell late in games his shots were almost always short.

[Pursuer]

Rondo? That triple-double game was very impressive.

[Ne 1]

Chris Paul.

[adri41]

No Steve Nash mention yet? Really? He's arguably the best conditioned athlete in the league.

First person I thought of.

[Abd El-Krim]

DWade.

[NewYorkNoPicks]

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[Teanett]

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spree
iverson
rip
lebron
rodman
jordan

[Bigsmoke]

Eddy curry

[Batz]

Lebron, it seems has been playing the whole entire games in the playoffs. Dude is huge and has crazy stamina.
Watch the end of the 2008-2009 playoffs.

[QuebecBaller]

http://lakeshowlife.com/files/2010/09/los-angeles-lakers-gasol-morrison-and-bryant-watch-from-the-bench-during-game-the-2010-nba-finals-basketball-series-los-angeles.jpg

After 48 minutes or quadriple OT, Adam Morisson is still ready to go :lol

[Joey3000]

Lebron, it seems has been playing the whole entire games in the playoffs. Dude is huge and has crazy stamina.

That's what she said.

[d.bball.guy]

http://lakeshowlife.com/files/2010/09/los-angeles-lakers-gasol-morrison-and-bryant-watch-from-the-bench-during-game-the-2010-nba-finals-basketball-series-los-angeles.jpg

After 48 minutes or quadriple OT, Adam Morisson is still ready to go :lol
Can give you millions of high 5's everyday.

[adri41]

That's what she said.

:)

[jlip]

Karl Malone

[sh0wtime]

1. Reggie Miller

*GAP*

[Holy Random]

No Steve Nash mention yet? Really? He's arguably the best conditioned athlete in the league.

Steve Nash is well conditioned and it's one of the main reasons he's managed to keep his play up at his age but he struggles at the end of games more so near the end of the season. In fact every year the last few years his shooting % has dropped near the end of this season. He was easily going to shoot 50/40/90 again this year but the last 20-30 games he was just too tired and his numbers dropped.

[Clutch]

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[DaHeezy]

Add Chucky Atkins and Dennis Rodman

[Kobe24Clutch]

Allen Iverson.

[therammingman]

reggie miller

[Micku]

John Stockton~ He played a loooot of minutes and a looot of games. He only missed 22 games out of 1526 games. He only missed 22 games in his entire career. And he still produce some crazy numbers! The dude never got tired.

Wilt~ He played crazy minutes, and he could still fill up the stat sheet whenever he wanted too.

Moses Malone~ One of the best longevity ever.

[wally_world]

No Wilt the Stilt mention?

[BarberSchool]

Kevin Durant

He needs so little oxygen (so little muscle mass) that he can go all day.

[bagelred]

Lamar Robot 3000

Remember that guy? Always performed at exactly the same level. A little stiff in his movement, but consistent. :cheers:

[Pointguard]

Havlicek
Jordan
Wilt
KG
Iverson

These guys are the gold standard of NBA stamina imo.

Wow, I couldn't beat anybody at any position - great list. Lebron, Grant Hill, Rodman, Moses Malone off the bench. Mugsy Bogues used to full court press people the whole time he was in the game and not breathe hard.

Karl Malone was another guy I don't recall sitting out much. But I didn't like him so I could have been wishing him to sit down and it seemingly never happened.

[Go Getter]

Right now, LeBron, obviously. Playing 48 mpg while guarding Rose and himself scoring 35 pts is insane.

Young Allen Iverson for me had the greatest stamina, never stopped running and driving to the lane all game.



Steve Nash got tired in a lot of playoff runs with the Suns. And he's not a heavy mpg player, usually around 35 mpg. You could easily tell late in games his shots were almost always short.

Lol..he spends half the game lying down too....(I know it's for his back but it makes it seems like he's not as energtic as he used to be).

Hondo? Gtfoh....how many games of his have you watched?

[TheAnchorman]

Hondo? Gtfoh....how many games of his have you watched?
I'm not going to act like an old-timer because I've only watched from the 90s onwards, but based on stories/career MPG/Bill Simmons Book of Basketball/his performance on 3OT Game 5 1976, yes I would say he is on the list. Just because I've never watched him before doesn't mean I can't draw conclusions about his play.

Have YOU watched any of his games?

[az00m]

Dennis rodman and wilt for sure.


Phil Jackson sure had plenty to say during a speech to the University of North Dakota as part of the convocation in which he received an honorary degree. Of the course of an hour, P-Jax criticized his school's nickname, told funny stories about Shaq swimming, and picked Dennis Rodman as the greatest athlete he ever coached. From the OC Register: "[Rodman] could probably play a 48-minute game and play the 48th minute stronger than the first minute of the game," Jackson told the crowd at UND. "He was that terrific an athlete."

[Go Getter]

I'm not going to act like an old-timer because I've only watched from the 90s onwards, but based on stories/career MPG/Bill Simmons Book of Basketball/his performance on 3OT Game 5 1976, yes I would say he is on the list. Just because I've never watched him before doesn't mean I can't draw conclusions about his play.

Have YOU watched any of his games?

If that's your M.O. to speak on things you don't know about then fine. I can't vouch for him because I've only seen that clip of him where he steals the ball and dribbles with his right hand like he has never met his left.

[TheAnchorman]

If that's your M.O. to speak on things you don't know about then fine. I can't vouch for him because I've only seen that clip of him where he steals the ball and dribbles with his right hand like he has never met his left.
Way to twist words. Not my fault I wasn't born in the 50s. I use the sources available to me to make the best possible conclusion about his play, his durability, etc. Is that not a logical approach to studying players in the past? Or would you rather look at 1 clip and base your conclusions off of that like you seem to do...?

[Bigsmoke]

lol this thread is dumb.

just look at players MPG and post them.

[Go Getter]

Way to twist words. Not my fault I wasn't born in the 50s. I use the sources available to me to make the best possible conclusion about his play, his durability, etc. Is that not a logical approach to studying players in the past? Or would you rather look at 1 clip and base your conclusions off of that like you seem to do...?


I didn't make any assumptions based off that clip, I said that I couldn't make any based off that clip.

:facepalm

[TheAnchorman]

I didn't make any assumptions based off that clip, I said that I couldn't make any based off that clip.

:facepalm
You say that, yet your really snarky comment implying his lack of a left-handed dribble makes me think otherwise. Don't try to pull that lol :no:

You say you can't (or don't want to?) make any assumptions on players based on clips. Yet that is the best, and usually only source we have besides statistics. But I guess you don't really care that much about players past; not saying that it is a bad thing, but you shouldn't call me out for trying to study past players using the sources we have today. This is the YouTube era, after all.

[Go Getter]

You say that, yet your really snarky comment implying his lack of a left-handed dribble makes me think otherwise. Don't try to pull that lol :no:

You say you can't (or don't want to?) make any assumptions on players based on clips. Yet that is the best, and usually only source we have besides statistics. But I guess you don't really care that much about players past; not saying that it is a bad thing, but you shouldn't call me out for trying to study past players using the sources we have today. This is the YouTube era, after all.
:facepalm

Okay man. You are inferring way too much here.

Good day.

[TheAnchorman]

:facepalm

Okay man. You are inferring way too much here.

Good day.
Without even responding directly to my argument that you can study past players through sources, but instead dodging it by using numerous facepalms... whatever, this is ISH so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Good day man.

lol this thread is dumb.

just look at players MPG and post them.
Not entirely accurate... you can probably say that for the 60s when no one really cared how many minutes were played (see: Wilt 48.5 mpg) but now coaches make sure to give their best players even just 40-41 minutes max even though they can possibly go the whole 48. It's more of playstyle if anything, see Magic running the fastbreak the entire game or Ray/Reggie running in circles and losing their man through screens.

[FKAri]

If Lance Armstrong played in the NBA, he'd be the GOAT at this. :lol