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Post by Gossip Girl on Jul 27, 2009 11:46:02 GMT -5
Spence's thread about the best fake player ever got me thinking about who the best player, real or fake, is. I wasn't around until about 2010, so it might be a little biased towards later in this version but the first names that come to mind are Durant, Rose, Blair, and Bak. In terms of all round greatness it is hard to argue against Durant, especially since he played at such a high caliber for such an extended period of time.
Feel free to leave your input.
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Post by Gossip Girl on Jul 27, 2009 11:46:24 GMT -5
Strictly in terms of efficiency, I think DJ Augustin was the best.
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Post by noves on Jul 27, 2009 11:53:58 GMT -5
Durant, Dwight, Rose, Bigelow.
Pearson will finish as the best probably.
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Post by Funky George! on Jul 27, 2009 11:56:47 GMT -5
It has to be Durant. Funny because I think he only ever had one rating above A-, but he was just ridiculous. Probably would've dominated at any position. I'd say Rose is a close enough second, and there aren't many guys who were as good as either of them.
I'd put Josh Smith third overall, and he's probably close to as good as Rose. He mostly sucked late in his career though.
Among the earlier players, Shaq and Pierce stand out in my memory. Zo didn't play for long enough. LeBron was really good and put up amazing stat lines but was never the best player in the league, IMO.
Among big men, Howard and Shaq were the best I can remember. Nenad, Bynum and Oden were great, too.
If West plays for a long enough time, he could be up there.
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Post by noves on Jul 27, 2009 12:02:55 GMT -5
Josh Smith 3rd? No way. Dwight had a remarkable career.
Elton Brand was nasty too. He had like 15 seasons of 20/10 a year.
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Post by Johnny "B. Good" Stamos on Jul 27, 2009 12:06:07 GMT -5
Josh Smith was the best player in the league
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Post by Funky George! on Jul 27, 2009 12:17:54 GMT -5
Josh Smith 3rd? No way. Dwight had a remarkable career. Elton Brand was nasty too. He had like 15 seasons of 20/10 a year. For every season of his prime, Smith was better than Dwight. Smith had about 8 seasons that were better than Dwight's second best season. Dwight was awesome, but Smith was better. |
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Post by Funky George! on Jul 27, 2009 12:20:08 GMT -5
I don't see how you could name Bigelow and not Smith. Seems like you're forgetting his career.
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Post by Johnny "B. Good" Stamos on Jul 27, 2009 12:21:13 GMT -5
I don't see how you could name Bigelow and not Smith. Seems like you're forgetting his career. |
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Post by Funky George! on Jul 27, 2009 12:22:49 GMT -5
I don't see how you could name Bigelow and not Smith. Seems like you're forgetting his career. bro you need to cool it |
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Post by DB on Jul 27, 2009 12:25:41 GMT -5
Durant was the best so far.
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Post by Apollo on Jul 27, 2009 13:40:18 GMT -5
They say I'm the greatest of all time and I say who and they say you.
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Post by Funky George! on Jul 27, 2009 14:01:41 GMT -5
Oooh, nvm, Blair was better than Joshy poo. Angie reminded me.
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Post by Pacman on Jul 27, 2009 14:03:13 GMT -5
KD FTMFW
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Post by Johnny "B. Good" Stamos on Jul 27, 2009 14:24:00 GMT -5
Oooh, nvm, Blair was better than Joshy poo. Angie reminded me. noooooo way |
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Post by Rocky on Jul 27, 2009 14:27:18 GMT -5
Definitely Durant for me, with Rose 2nd
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Post by Matt on Jul 27, 2009 14:48:14 GMT -5
1a. Durant
1b. Rick Barry
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Post by Gossip Girl on Jul 27, 2009 15:20:54 GMT -5
Blair was a player.
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Jul 27, 2009 15:52:20 GMT -5
Durant single handedly got me a championship, so yeah, Durant.
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Post by Gossip Girl on Jul 27, 2009 15:55:19 GMT -5
Durant single handedly got me a championship, so yeah, Durant. You also had Henry too, right? Your offense was really spectacular that year. Durant pretty much single handedly won CC's ship also. |
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Post by GP on Jul 27, 2009 16:07:48 GMT -5
Durant's been the best
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Post by Johnny "B. Good" Stamos on Jul 27, 2009 16:36:26 GMT -5
Josh Smith wasn't the best but he is way up there IMO and i would put him in front of Blair.
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Post by cjmjones008 on Jul 27, 2009 16:41:32 GMT -5
Durant is definitely the best. Blair and Rose are second and third. Pierce was really sick back in the day as well.
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Post by Skillz on Jul 27, 2009 16:53:51 GMT -5
Durant, Rose, Lebron, Blair, Shaq, Smith i'd say are the best players
On the next tier i'd say Dwight, Bynum, Oden, CP3, TP, DJ Augustin for some years, Bigelow, Bak
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Post by SOME BIG ASS TDS on Jul 27, 2009 18:08:08 GMT -5
Durant single handedly got me a championship, so yeah, Durant. You also had Henry too, right? Your offense was really spectacular that year. Durant pretty much single handedly won CC's ship also. My championship team was this. C 1/ Brand 2/Cisse 3/Haddadi PF 1/Durant 2/Williams 3/Cisse SF 1/Henry 2/Durant 3/Sanford SG 1/McGahee 2/Henry 3/Roy PG 1/Roy 2/Clark 3/Roy Roy and Durant were probably the two biggest stars on my team. McGahee and Henry I believe were no where near the level they became to be. |
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