Tag: players
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Is Yao Ming a top 100 greatest basketball player of all time?
No, he’s not. (And this is how you know me being Chinese doesn’t affect any of my basketball opinions. In fact I had some Lebron haters / Kobe fans tell me I was hating on Kobe and being a Bronsexual because I was Chinese which makes absolutely no sense because in China, Kobe is much…
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Who is in your top 11-20 NBA players ever?
I think #9-#11 always change around for me. Kobe, Hakeem and Shaq are in these spots but which order they are in I’m not sure. You can make a case for any of these guys to be in any order from the 9–11. Most people have Kobe in their top 10. Then Shaq/Hakeem is a…
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Which NBA basketball players of the past would be much bigger stars in today’s changed NBA?
Nice question. Today’s NBA players benefit from faster pace which is a byproduct of looser defenses, more perimeter shooting, more focus on spacing and less focus on the interior, which overall leads to today’s game being more beneficial for perimeter players. And in fact the game had already been trending in this direction ever since…