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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