06-18-2022, 02:20 PM
(06-18-2022, 01:42 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Indeed, great stuff, Fred.
Pretty much the only one I can argue is Kareem; he's above anyone, let alone just the Cs, IMO.
I was actually going to include a comment about how Kareem was the big omission. Even I admit I underrate that guy.
It is probably because he won 5 of his 6 MVPs ('71, '72, '74, '76, '77) before I was a big NBA fan. I only really watched him play with Magic. And I think Kareem just made dominance look too easy. He was not fiery. He was calm on the floor. Some people mistook it for "not caring enough" or even laziness, but he was a total bad ass.
Magic became a legend when Kareem was out for game 6 of the 1980 Finals. Johnson jumped center and finished with 42 points, 15 rebounds, and 7 assists as the Lakers beat the Sixers for the title. Most people don't remember that in the first three Laker wins in that series Kareem averaged 35.3 points, 14.3 rebounds, and 4.7 blocks.
