How many were the best player in those years?

[Kblaze8855]

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[SouBeachTalents]

Magic in '87
Jordan
Shaq in '00
KG in '04
LeBron

[warriorfan]

Took over 20 years for someone to catch up to Jordan’s salary :lol

[tpols]

Looks like Pat Ewing was the come up superstar in the 80s... its too bad they never gave him a legit 2nd option while he was in his prime.

[Kblaze8855]

Looks like Pat Ewing was the come up superstar in the 80s... its too bad they never gave him a legit 2nd option while he was in his prime.


At one point he made the current cap equivalent of 85 million dollars. Makes it more understandable to not have a lot more stars.

[Kobe_Bryant]

me in 2010, 2013
shaq in 2000, 2005
garnett in 2004
jordan in 1996, 1997
Magic in 1987

[FultzNationRISE]

Looks like Pat Ewing was the come up superstar in the 80s... its too bad they never gave him a legit 2nd option while he was in his prime.


Unfortunately the pool of perimeter talent in the late 80s and throughout the 90s was pretty shallow.

[RRR3]

Magic in '87
Jordan
Shaq in '00
KG in '04
LeBron
Curry was the best player last year too change my mind.

[HBK_Kliq_2]

I would say 3 times. Magic 1987 and Jordan 97/98.

KG 2004 and LeBron 2017 were close

[kawhileonard2]

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Of the list

Magic in 1987, MJ 1997, 1998, Shaq 2000, KG 2004

[j3lademaster]

Curry was the best player last year too change my mind.It's hard to take away from what Steph did, but Giannis had a better finals performance than Curry's ever had and won fmvp.

[RRR3]

It's hard to take away from what Steph did, but Giannis had a better finals performance than Curry's ever had and won fmvp.
Do you really think Curry wouldn’t have won in Giannis’ place last year lol? Dude had a free path to a ring.

[Axe]

Curry was the "best" recently yet was only good enough for the 9th seed after b2b losses in the losers bracket, despite help from wiggins, bazemore, wiseman and oubre jr. :ohwell:

[Chick Stern]

Magic all three years
Shaq in 2000
Kobe 10-13
Bron
Curry 15-18

[Cold soul]

Magic 87, MJ 97, Shaq 2000, KG 2004, Lebron 2017.

[Sulico]

Magic all three years
Shaq in 2000
Kobe 10-13
Bron
Curry 15-18

No way Magic was best player in 85-86 or Kobe past 2011.

[RRR3]

Magic all three years
Shaq in 2000
Kobe 10-13
Bron
Curry 15-18
In what ****ing universe was Kobe better than LeBron from 2010-2013? :roll:

[Phoenix]

No way Magic was best player in 85-86 or Kobe past 2011.

Or past 08 for that matter.

[Shogon]

Curry 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021... probably 2022, etc.

Shaq 2005, 2000.

Jordan 1998, 1997.

Maybe Magic in one of those 80s years... maybe.

The rest? Nope.

[Shogon]

Magic all three years
Shaq in 2000
Kobe 10-13
Bron
Curry 15-18

Curry in 2015 and 2016 and 2017 isn't on the list...

[Phoenix]

87 would have been Magic's best season but I don't think he was better individually than Bird that year. Larry Legend dropped 28ppg/9rpg/8apg/2spg/1bpg on 53/40/91 season splits ( fukk what a statline). Magic didn't really surpass Bird as a player until Larry's back got fukked.

[Manny98]

Jesus ****ing Christ Jordan was making double of what the second highest paid player makes in salary

[Shogon]

Jesus ****ing Christ Jordan was making double of what the second highest paid player makes in salary

Forget about his play... he deserved way way way more than double the second highest from a business standpoint.

Jordan alone brought the NBA to heights proportionate to the population that haven't been seen since.

His marketability was nearly unfathomable.

[Phoenix]

Yeah, MJ was underpaid the first 9 years relative to the value he presented. His 2nd 3peat salary was effectively backpay for what he had previously done as much as what he was doing in the moment. If I recall those were all one year contracts.