Would you rather have Chuck or Horry's career?

[Marchesk]

In one, you're the man, a yearly all-star, win an MVP, go into the Hall, and get to be considered top 50 all-time. But you end up ringless. In the other, you're a role player who makes some big shots in the playoffs and ends up with 7 rings.

Do rings matter more than being great? We're not talking about a guy that rode the pine. Horry did contribute. But he was never great.

When all is said and done with one's career, what would feel better?

[navy]

Whichever pays more.

[ILLsmak]

I'd take Horry because he was a lot better than people think. I remember I called him an all-star talent... and dudes here were like lululul. To me, he was. he wasn't an all time great at all, but he was very capable and used his ability to fit in. Great defender, could play both forwards, was wet, could handle the ball, pass. I'd take him on my championship team.

Horry knows how good he is and so do the people who played with him. So, I'm kind of partial to those kind of people.

-Smak

[Marchesk]

Whichever pays more.

So having more millions would result in greater life satisfaction than either kind of career?

[JohnMax]

Melo vs Horry would be a better comparison

[Prime_Shaq]

My dream is to win a NBA championship so... Horry :lol

[navy]

So having more millions would result in greater life satisfaction than either kind of career?
Yes. Money > Basketball

[24-Inch_Chrome]

Chuck, I still hate Horry for hip-checking Nash into the scorers table, couldn't live with myself if I picked him. :oldlol:

[JohnFreeman]

If I wanted to be a role player I would take Kobe's career

[Quickening]

So a Horry type player is probably going to earn around 70 mill over their career with salary and endorsements... a superstar is going to earn around 500 mill over their career with salary and endorsements.

Ill take the 500 million, you keep your roleplayer rings.

[JohnFreeman]

So a Horry type player is probably going to earn around 70 mill over their career with salary and endorsements... a superstar is going to earn around 500 mill over their career with salary and endorsements.

Ill take the 500 million, you keep your roleplayer rings.
Chuck never made $100 million let alone $300

[24-Inch_Chrome]

So a Horry type player is probably going to earn around 70 mill over their career with salary and endorsements... a superstar is going to earn around 500 mill over their career with salary and endorsements.

Ill take the 500 million, you keep your roleplayer rings.

Horry's salary totaled $53,745,000.

Barkley's salary totaled $40,301,000.

Endorsements may make up the disparity but it's not like Chuck is going to blow Horry out of the water even with good endorsement deals.

[warriorfan]

horry because i dont end up a fat piece of shit

[24-Inch_Chrome]

horry because i dont end up a fat piece of shit

Trying to escape reality? :confusedshrug:

[Dr Hawk]

Horry. Millions of $'s, rings, played with Olajuwon, Shaq and Duncan, clearly overachieved. Retire and have fun, sleep tight, no remorse.

[T_L_P]

Every 'historical' championship team needs a Robert Horry.

[Quickening]

Chuck never made $100 million let alone $300

I am talking about superstars nowadays, they routinely make 50 mill a year from salary and endoresements... I dont know what they were making in the weak 90s era

[I<3NBA]

idk what Horry is doing now, but Chuck still has a job and is still successful as far as careers go.

[Dragic4Life]

If I wanted to be a role player I would take Kobe's career
Damn.

[imdaman99]

Is Horry broke? :lol If he is comfortably well off and by that I mean like at least $10 million to live the rest of my life with a family and spend how I will, (wisely but still extravagantly) than I would take Horry. You people can't realize how bitter Barkley is? I have listened to 1 or 2 games done by him and he is an angry old guy now because he didn't get the rings or even the $$$ they are handing out nowadays.

Give me Horry in 9 out of 10 lifetimes.

[Jailblazers7]

Chuck and it's not close. Got to be a celebrated star, MVP, part of the dream team, went toe to toe with MJ in the finals, and leveraged all of it to have a lucrative career post basketball.

[DMV2]

Horry's salary totaled $53,745,000.

Barkley's salary totaled $40,301,000.

Endorsements may make up the disparity but it's not like Chuck is going to blow Horry out of the water even with good endorsement deals.
To be fair, NBA players didn't start making multi-million contract deals until 1996.

Just look at Barkley's salary his 1993 MVP season($2.4m) compared to his final season, 2000($9 million). NBA just got a new CBA.

No way Horry makes millions during the 80's and early 90's.

[comerb]

Chuck. He was one of the greatest offensive players of all time.

Now if you said something like Melo or Iverson...

[Detroit]

Horry. Millions of $'s, rings, played with Olajuwon, Shaq and Duncan, clearly overachieved. Retire and have fun, sleep tight, no remorse.

:cheers:

[deja vu]

The one who will make far more money.

You can't feed your family with those rings.

[24-Inch_Chrome]

To be fair, NBA players didn't start making multi-million contract deals until 1996.

Just look at Barkley's salary his 1993 MVP season($2.4m) compared to his final season, 2000($9 million). NBA just got a new CBA.

No way Horry makes millions during the 80's and early 90's.

That's definitely true, I was just trying to show that people making the decision for monetary reasons might be off the mark a little.

It's crazy looking at a comparison year by year of their earnings.

Barkley:

1985-86 Philadelphia 76ers NBA 437,500
1987-88 Philadelphia 76ers NBA 822,500
1988-89 Philadelphia 76ers NBA 1,536,000
1990-91 Philadelphia 76ers NBA 2,900,000
1991-92 Philadelphia 76ers NBA 3,200,000
1992-93 Phoenix Suns NBA 2,420,000
1993-94 Phoenix Suns NBA 3,250,000
1994-95 Phoenix Suns NBA 4,030,000
1995-96 Phoenix Suns NBA 4,760,000
1996-97 Houston Rockets NBA 4,695,000
1997-98 Houston Rockets NBA 2,250,000
1998-99 Houston Rockets NBA 1,000,000
1999-00 Houston Rockets NBA 9,000,000
Career (may be incomplete) 40,301,000

Horry:
1992-93 Houston Rockets NBA 997,000
1993-94 Houston Rockets NBA 1,200,000
1994-95 Houston Rockets NBA 1,499,000
1995-96 Houston Rockets NBA 1,601,000
1996-97 Phoenix Suns NBA 1,703,000
1997-98 Los Angeles Lakers NBA 6,000,000
1998-99 Los Angeles Lakers NBA 5,000,000
1999-00 Los Angeles Lakers NBA 4,800,000
2000-01 Los Angeles Lakers NBA 4,800,000
2001-02 Los Angeles Lakers NBA 5,300,000
2002-03 Los Angeles Lakers NBA 5,300,000
2003-04 San Antonio Spurs NBA 4,500,000
2004-05 San Antonio Spurs NBA 1,100,000
2005-06 San Antonio Spurs NBA 3,000,000
2006-07 San Antonio Spurs NBA 3,315,000
2007-08 San Antonio Spurs NBA 3,630,000
Career (may be incomplete) 53,745,000

Barkley had 4 years of $4-million+, Horry had 7 years. If they had played concurrently Barkley would have blown Horry's earnings out of the water but with the way the league was structured it went the other way.

Personally I'm taking Barkley no matter what it goes to show how much Horry's earnings are a product of his time.

[bdreason]

Obviously Barkley.

[Fire Colangelo]

Wow, to be remembered as the 2nd/3rd best PF in the history of the game.


Or to be remembered as a role player.... Hard choices

[ImKobe]

Damn.

mods.

[hawksdogsbraves]

Wow, to be remembered as the 2nd/3rd best PF in the history of the game.


Or to be remembered as a role player.... Hard choices

Seriously

Anyone who would rather be a role player over a Hall of Famer is a complete beta :oldlol:

[ImKobe]

Seriously

Anyone who would rather be a role player over a Hall of Famer is a complete beta :oldlol:

I'd much rather have Horry's career than Barkley's....

7 championship runs, imagine all those celebrations and playing with all those all-time great players in their primes (Hakeem, Kobe, Shaq, Duncan) and having to do less and still making tens of millions, being known for making big time shots in big games...

[SugarHill]

Wow, to be remembered as the 2nd/3rd best PF in the history of the game.


Or to be remembered as a role player.... Hard choices
:applause:

[GrapeApe]

You have to remember, these guys compete in a sport for a living, and I would think winning is the ultimate satisfaction. That's the goal of competition. Like Pat Riley said, winning isn't everything but losing is nothing. Every year of Barkley's career (in which his team made the playoffs) his season ended with a loss. That has to suck, especially for an all time great player.

[Smoke117]

I'd much rather have Horry's career than Barkley's....

7 championship runs, imagine all those celebrations and playing with all those all-time great players in their primes (Hakeem, Kobe, Shaq, Duncan) and having to do less and still making tens of millions, being known for making big time shots in big games...

You just want to have Horry's career so you could play with Kobe ie: you're a bitch.

[tpols]

Would have to be beta af to choose stats over rings..

Horry > barkley

[SugarHill]

Would have to be beta af to choose stats over rings..

Horry > barkley
Kerr > Melo/Nash

?

[zoom17]

Charles Barkley easily.

[tpols]

Kerr > Melo/Nash

?

Steve nash got robbed.. he was a winner. Melo and barkley are looosers

[SugarHill]

Steve nash got robbed.. he was a winner. Melo and barkley are looosers
by that POS Horry :mad:

[K Xerxes]

Chuck is one of the top 20 players to ever play basketball. Not his fault that his teams were never good enough and the competition (Jordan's Bulls) were too good.

Horry was a role player. A nice player, especially in his Rockets days, but a role player nonetheless.