Best player on the team while also being the "Enforcer"

[Reggie43]

You are a teams franchise player while also taking on the role of being the toughest guy on your team. Push comes to shove and you are at the forefront, protecting teammates and talking trash to guys on the other squad and not backing down from the physicality.

Karl Malone played this role for the Jazz and also Barkley with his teams. Ewing is capable of this but we all know Oakley and Mason did the dirty work.

Which other guys fit this mold in the 90s and maybe alltime?

[insidious301]

I think Shaq is a good mention. He was the biggest man on the court and wasn't afraid to drop somebody.

[Shooter]

LeBron James is the obvious choice you missed

[Reggie43]

I think Shaq is a good mention. He was the biggest man on the court and wasn't afraid to drop somebody.

Definitely. He is probably one of the better examples for this.

[MrFonzworth]

Surprised TJ McConnell hasn't been mentioned yet. Dude's a brute.

[LAmbruh]

Surprised TJ McConnell hasn't been mentioned yet. Dude's a brute.

This

[Reggie43]

LeBron James is the obvious choice you missed

Didnt really try to list down everyone but you are definitely right that Lebron is his teams enforcer in some years.

[Reggie43]

Glad that T.J. McConnell is on my team :D

[999Guy]

Draymond Green 2016.

[SouBeachTalents]

Bill Russell

[VictorMosquito]

Glad that T.J. McConnell is on my team :D

Dude's a baller:cheers:

[Genaro]

KG, D12 in Orlando

[warriorfan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsOvUc3FGMk&app=desktop

Willis Reed

[NBAGOAT]

alonzo mourning after hardaway dropped off.

[Reggie43]

Very nice examples. Reed is obviously way before my time but that video is something else. Shades of the malice at the palace that i always try to forget.

[KD7]

Ben Wallace on the Pistons

Westbrook on the Thunder post KD

[Reggie43]

Westbrook on the Thunder post KD

In a similar vein I also think Gary Payton on the Sonics post Kemp qualifies for this.