The toughest debates may not
be the obvious ones. When the Complex Sports crew started to put together this
list, we didn’t waffle over whether LeBron deserved to be ranked higher than
MJ. Nor did we particularly labor over why Tim Duncan, for instance, deserved
top 10 status over Kevin Garnett and Kevin Durant (for now).
Instead, the politicking and petty attacks on
each other’s basketball intelligence got really heated, over multiple Zoom
calls and text threads, when we tried to properly rank Shaq and Kobe and a
bunch of point guards toward the bottom of our 30 Best NBA Players of All Time
list.
It’s guaranteed to get hardcore basketball
fans in their feelings and, in our humble opinion, do a much better job than
some of those other rankings floating around the interwebs that shall remain
nameless. Almost up until deadline, we debated whether Shaquille O’Neal,
inarguably one of the best big men in NBA history and a true disruptor on the
court, deserved to be ranked higher than the late, great Kobe Bryant. O’Neal
was physically and statistically unlike any center the NBA has seen. But how much
more credit do you give Bryant for winning more rings and drawing legit
comparisons to Michael Jordan?
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