Have the 2 best players in the league ever been on the same team?

[Joyner82reload]

Of course before Westbrook and Durant. In b4 Kobe/Shaq, Kobe wasn't even top 5 back in the early 2000's. About to have back to back MVP's on the same team followed by them going from 8 seed->NBA title :applause:

[SouBeachTalents]

Shaq & Kobe have a better argument than Durant & Westbrook

[SugarHill]

Name 5 players better than 01 and 03 Kobe. For the fvcking laugh.

[imdaman99]

You could make a case for MJ and prime Pippen. If he wasn't the 2nd best player, he was the best all around player.

[Milbuck]

Kobe wasn't even top 5 back in the early 2000's.
http://i.imgur.com/VcEnczV.gif

[SugarHill]

You could make a case for MJ and prime Pippen. If he wasn't the 2nd best player, he was the best all around player.
Pippen nowhere near number 2.

01 Shaq/Kobe were the top 2 players in the league

[Budadiiii]

Name 5 players better than 01 and 03 Kobe. For the fvcking laugh.
You were getting bullied in elementary school in the early 2000's. We gonna act like you have any sort of grasp or understanding on who were the best players during that time?

Give us your top 5. Since you apparently know the NBA more than everybody else, you condescending prick.

[SugarHill]

You were getting bullied in elementary school in the early 2000's. We gonna act like you have any sort of grasp or understanding on who were the best players during that time?

Give us your top 5. Since you apparently know the NBA more than everybody else, you condescending prick.

Name 5 players better than Kobe. :hammerhead:

[HOoopCityJones]

Name 5 players better than 01 and 03 Kobe. For the fvcking laugh.

/Thread.

[J Shuttlesworth]

Of course before Westbrook and Durant. In b4 Kobe/Shaq, Kobe wasn't even top 5 back in the early 2000's. About to have back to back MVP's on the same team followed by them going from 8 seed->NBA title :applause:
Come on dude. I'm a Kobe hater, but this is getting ridiculous.

And we all know it's to push some kind of agenda that Kevin Durant > Prime Kobe, which clearly isn't true

[Budadiiii]

Name 5 players better than Kobe. :hammerhead:


AI
Jason Kidd
Tim Duncan
Lil Bow Bow
Tracy Renyolds
Murph

[Im Still Ballin]

AI
Jason Kidd
Tim Duncan
Lil Bow Bow
Tracy Renyolds
Murph
LA Knights!

[SugarHill]

AI
Jason Kidd
Tim Duncan
Lil Bow Bow
Tracy Renyolds
Murph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDtz_rpS6hI

[Joyner82reload]

Name 5 players better than 01 and 03 Kobe. For the fvcking laugh.

01: Shaq, Duncan, Webber, AI, , Carter
03: Shaq, Duncan, Garnett, McGrady, Kidd

next

[HOoopCityJones]

You were getting bullied in elementary school in the early 2000's. We gonna act like you have any sort of grasp or understanding on who were the best players during that time?

Give us your top 5. Since you apparently know the NBA more than everybody else, you condescending prick.

Did OP post and immediately switch accounts? :roll:

You went alittle too hard in this for someone just casually discussing the topic.

[Keno]

with 0 rings. #stacked #noexcuses

[SugarHill]

01: Shaq, Duncan, Webber, AI, , Carter
03: Shaq, Duncan, Garnett, McGrady, Kidd

next
:roll:

[Budadiiii]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDtz_rpS6hI
http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/003/292/097/Jonathan-Lipnicki-Jerry-Maguire_crop_650.jpg

[Joyner82reload]

:roll:

BRB Carter leading the garbage raptors by himself
BRB Iverson winning MVP
BRB Webber averaging 27/11/4
BRB Kidd leading the garbage Nets to the Finals

[J Shuttlesworth]

What's crazy is that the Thunder could have potentially had 3 of the top 5 players in the league... I can't imagine how many titles that would have resulted in

[Young X]

Moses Malone and Dr. J?

[SugarHill]

BRB Carter leading the garbage raptors by himself
BRB Iverson winning MVP
BRB Webber averaging 27/11/4
BRB Kidd leading the garbage Nets to the Finals

You like stats, right? Kobe shits on all of them. :oldlol:

lmao @ East

like Kobe wasn't dominating the West in 01 :yaohappy:

Iverson doesn't deserve his MVP nor does that have any bearing on who the better player is. I guess Rose was the best player in 2011.

[Inferno]

So what you're saying is...

no excuses?

[Joyner82reload]

You like stats, right? Kobe shits on all of them. :oldlol:

lmao @ East

like Kobe wasn't dominating the West in 01 :yaohappy:

Iverson doesn't deserve his MVP nor does that have any bearing on who the better player is. I guess Rose was the best player in 2011.

Are you implying Rose wasn't a top 5 player in 2011? Also Kobe was at league average efficiency despite playing with league average efficiency.

As for "lmao @ East", I guess LeBron hasn't been a top 5 player the past 8 years because of lmao @ East

[SugarHill]

This guy actually thinks Vince was better than Kobe :biggums:

he also thinks Ronda Rousey can beat up Mike Tyson

[SugarHill]

Are you implying Rose wasn't a top 5 player in 2011? Also Kobe was at league average efficiency despite playing with league average efficiency.

As for "lmao @ East", I guess LeBron hasn't been a top 5 player the past 8 years because of lmao @ East

I'd make that argument, sure, but that wasn't the point of my post. It's that bringing up Iverson's MVP as some sort of argument to him being better than Kobe is asinine, particularly when you also bring up efficiency. Be consistent. You're contradicting yourself.

[HOoopCityJones]

BRB Carter leading the garbage raptors by himself
BRB Iverson winning MVP
BRB Webber averaging 27/11/4
BRB Kidd leading the garbage Nets to the Finals

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/a5c94d80bc8990bfc077b03499654a85.gif

[Roundball_Rock]

Pippen nowhere near number 2.

01 Shaq/Kobe were the top 2 players in the league

Pippen was 3rd-5th in a few years.

[SyRyanYang]

BRB Carter leading the garbage raptors by himself
BRB Iverson winning MVP
BRB Webber averaging 27/11/4
BRB Kidd leading the garbage Nets to the Finals

East, duh.
And this isn't bb.com. negged

[JohnFreeman]

Joyner started watching basketball very recently.

[JebronLames]

What's crazy is that the Thunder could have potentially had 3 of the top 5 players in the league... I can't imagine how many titles that would have resulted in
imagine if they got GOATside.

[Genaro]

Answering to the question, Kobe and Shaq, Pippen and Jordan and Lebron and Wade all have a case.

But why all these clowns always want to bash Kobe to prop up their agendas?
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FUuZTSRS1QI/UT00uFQNEFI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/j5kqyB0YUHQ/s500/kobe6.gif

[tpols]

BRB Carter leading the garbage raptors by himself
BRB Iverson winning MVP
BRB Webber averaging 27/11/4
BRB Kidd leading the garbage Nets to the Finals

01?

BRB kobe drops 35/9/4, 47FG on webber head to head to chris' 26/13/4 , 42FG (for a big man? :( )

BRB Kidd wasn't even on the nets then

BRB Iverson was one of the weaker mvp winners of all time

BRB Vince carter Top 2 :yaohappy:

BRB.. OKC is a first Rd exit.. second at best.

OKC 16-1 in the playoffs? You never coming back with that prediction

[plowking]

Whiteside and Wade right now.

[Badazzwriter]

http://i.imgur.com/VcEnczV.gif
:lol :lol

[Badazzwriter]

, Kobe wasn't even top 5 back in the early 2000's.
https://38.media.tumblr.com/0ce8e4861840205195dfc61762fbaca7/tumblr_mj1prrCg1M1rk0uv7o1_500.gif

[KNOW1EDGE]

Shaq & Kobe have a better argument than Durant & Westbrook

Thia

I don't know whats wrong with teenagers today.

[HOoopCityJones]

https://38.media.tumblr.com/0ce8e4861840205195dfc61762fbaca7/tumblr_mj1prrCg1M1rk0uv7o1_500.gif

http://media.giphy.com/media/dikxzIHDkMFMs/giphy.gif

[deja vu]

Damn... the top 3 players in the league plays or once played for OKC.

[KG215]

What's crazy is that the Thunder could have potentially had 3 of the top 5 players in the league... I can't imagine how many titles that would have resulted in
While I'll readily admit we f***ed up trading Harden (although that wasn't my stance initially after the trade), it's not like Harden would be who we think he is today if he was still playing for the Thunder. Yes, maybe his numbers are a little better than they were in his last season in OKC, but he'd still likely be topping out at 18-20 PPG, 4-5 APG, and 4-5 RPG. Great/elite 3rd option numbers, but that'd still most likely be his role in OKC. And with that, even with the occasional 30-7-7 outburst, he'd still be viewed as a top 20-25 player.

Now, you could still argue, "but still, he's a top 5 or top 10 talent," but he wasn't ever going to have top 5 player or top 10 player impact in OKC. Does it result in at least one or two rings? Probably, but he's also pretty redundant in OKC with KD and Russ.