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Mikan-revolutionized the game
Russell/Wilt-obviously
Jordan-made the league what it is today
Magic-combined with Bird to bring the league back from the dead
Bird-made the game extremely popular with the caucasian population
Kareem-perhaps the greatest impact on the game itself. He literally changed the rules of the game
Yao-brought the game to the biggest nation in the world
After these 7 its pretty much meh
[QUOTE=pauk]Its just a rating of a player stats and it doesnt lie imo if you check those players stats... check Jordans stats and consider the more modern era he played in with much less pace, possessions compared to the 60s for example (something which PER takes into account aswell, which also explains why Wilts/Oscars crazy numbers didnt give the highest career PER rating although the non recording of blocks/steals had something to do with that to, so it might be flawed that way anyways as im sure Wilt non-officially averaged probably more than 2 bpg-2 spg, god knows)...[/QUOTE]
True, but PER's one major flaw is it's relativity. It's the reason why's Jordan's best statistical years aren't necessarily his highest PER years.
[QUOTE=DuMa]Shaq has to be in there. he changed so many rules with his physicality and dominance.[/QUOTE]
This... After MJ Magic and maybe Bird, he's got to be the most well known NBA player of all time.
jeremy lin
[QUOTE=WillC]You make a convincing argument.
...oh wait, no, you didn't make any argument at all.
Constructive.[/QUOTE]
In terms of changing the game he wasn't very significant I'll give that to you easily but he single handedly brought millions of fans to the NBA and to me that's very very significant. I can't think of anyone else who brought that level of popularity to the world.
[QUOTE=28renyoy]Mikan-revolutionized the game
Russell/Wilt-obviously
Jordan-made the league what it is today
Magic-combined with Bird to bring the league back from the dead
Bird-made the game extremely popular with the caucasian population
[B]Kareem-perhaps the greatest impact on the game itself. He literally changed the rules of the game[/B]
Yao-brought the game to the biggest nation in the world
After these 7 its pretty much meh[/QUOTE]
Actually, aside from the banning of the dunk shot in college for a few years, there were no major rules changes because of Kareem.
Mikan and especially Chamberlain brought about the most rule changes.
****ing Kobe stans....
As others have suggested, I think Allen Iverson has to make the list. His influence on the game was crazy.
There are a lot of posts saying that "player X should make the list" but no justification of who you'd take out of the top 10 and why.
Where would the NBA be without the basketball God himself, GOATbe?
Without Kobe, basketball would be hockey, and everyone here would watch baseball instead.
the list is simply incomplete without AI.
A couple of those old names on there.. people today in the playgrounds would not know. Ask them about AI? Yeah.. their idol growing up.
Cousy should be in the Top 5.
[QUOTE=BuffaloBill]Where would the NBA be without the basketball God himself, GOATbe?
Without Kobe, basketball would be hockey, and everyone here would watch baseball instead.[/QUOTE]
this and not even close.. :bowdown:
It's pretty hilarious how no players post MJ is in there while they are responsible to uphelding the NBA as it extremely high standard. :yaohappy:
Well...
Russell
Wilt
Kareem
Dr. J.
Bird
Magic
Jordan
for sure.