The NBAs All-Time 50 Greatest Players

August 12th, 2011 by Izzy Montalbo Leave a reply »
It is early August and an impending lockout has led basketball fans to believe that the NBA season may start late or not be around this upcoming season. For all we know, all of the NBA's best players will soon call Turkey, China or Spain home.

This reality causes me to reflect on the good old North American game of basketball and the one league, the NBA, which has stood the test of time...so far...

The way I chose this list was by naming the top 100 probable players in NBA history and then picking them in order as if it were a draft. I was born in 1975, and I am obviously pretty old. I have seen at least three major eras pass before my eyes: the 1980's (Lakers, Celtics, 76ers), the 1990's (MJ and Olajuwon) and the 2000's (Lakers, Spurs, no college).

Through my life experience and my study habits, I have now materialized a non-biased list of great players. When you saw a little man like Isiah do what he did in the 1980's, it makes the league today seem kind of...well...weak.

The shooters back then were so on target that it was unbelievable. Nowadays, shooting under 50 percent is acceptable. In the 1980's all the big stars (Magic, Kareem ...

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