Classic Basketball Thread

I'm a Celtics fan, but that isn't happening lately obviously the Spurs and Thunder are joint for my fave West team. Duncan is the person i like most in the league but he isn't a favourite to watch. Not talking about how they are playing now, my top 5 active players would be something like this:

1.Dwayne Wade
2.Russell Westbrook
3.Danny Green
4.Kevin Durant
5.Stephen Curry

Wish Steve Nash was a little higher than 7, and it's awesome to see Larry Bird at 2 but I don't like Lebron, and I'm a die-hard Celtics fan, so number 1 would have been awesome. And personally I think Reggie Miller is a better ball player than Allen or Gervin, he should have been behind Iverson.

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Top 5 retired since this is a Classic thread:

1.Bird
2.Hakeem
3.Frazier
4.Pippen
5.Iverson (yup)

Iverson. Come on Camo. My fave five. Quite standard and boring.

Magic
Jordan
Hakeem
Bird
Malone.

Sorry, you said you were a Celtics fan in the other thread. I don't watch nearly the amount of ball I used to but I really enjoy watching Curry, Durant, and Rose when he's healthy. Dirk is fun. Bryant is great but a love to hate kind of guy for me.

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Bird
Jordan
Pippen
Magic
Nash

My starting lineup

PG: Isiah Thomas
SG: Michael Jordan
SF: Lebron James
PF: Tim Duncan
C: Bill Russell

Karl or Moses Malone Sean? I imagine it is Karl but just in case. Glad to see Hakeem and Bird on your list.

ATC has the best one (other than mine) though.

Karl, sorry. I like Pippen and Nash but they are not this level for me.

Maybe do it by decade? If I had to go with the 2010's I'd go with...

Chris Paul
Kobe Bryant
Lebron James
Tim Duncan
Joakim Noah

Yep, Thunder are my favorite team. As far as current favorite players, go, I usually like to watch young teams that aren't that great yet. Or they are pretty good, but not good enough to beat the Thunder in a series, because then I will fall in hate with them. That's how it is with the Warriors now, I liked them before they were champs, now I just want to crush them somehow.

Starting Five all-time, if I want to win some kind of championship

Magic
MJ
Bird
Nowitzki
Wilt

I like the idea of having damn good spacing with this group.

For fun starting 5:

Jason Williams
Manu Ginobili
Kevin Durant
Elgin Baylor
Bill Walton

Off-topic JJ, but that clapping avatar is annoying

And your forwards can't play defense!

defense is for losers

My response to JJ's avatar?

We should talk about how Dennis Rodman should have won the 96 Finals MVP.

Funny thing about JJ's avatars is even though I hate rap, I love his current and former avatars.

I like that 5, except I'd take Duncan over Malone.

Horace Grant was a very good player for the Bulls, but when Rodman took over that slot, they went from great to practically unbeatable.

That's because Rodman is a little bit crazy, and he managed to be the right type of crazy to help all of his teams (most of the time.) He's a blast to watch on youtube, either from full games or just clips. You never know what kind of shenanigans he is going to pull, and then of course he hit the offensive glass HARD. Plus he was an assh*le on defense, in the best possible way.

He was also a very smart player