Jemele Hill on Dirk being a potential Top 10 Player

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Wilt played against 5'9 cacs. He's def not top 10

Bird played with hall of famers his whole career and never commanded a double team. Dirk has


And in no fukking way is kg > dirk

Dirks led his Mavs to two finals. Robbed of one. Kg had to piggy back pierce, allen, rondo to a championship

#wpoy2015

u basically just said dirk > wilt, bird and kg in one post

 

[Houston911]

Dirk not even Durant level

 

[#SOG_soldier]

Yall see how fukked up NBA fans are? Drik my nikka even tho is hate the MAVS (SunsNation). But he aint no damn top 10 of all time.

All these mothafukkas care about is ring this and ring that. fukk defense or anything like that, the only thing that matters is rings.

 

[who_better_than_me]

Possibly kicking Larry Bird or Oscar Robertson out for Dirk? I don't like how Dirk and Larry get compared just because they are white. Larry was one hell of a passer like LeBron from the forward position. Dirk was never that kind of passer. And Oscar was unfortunately stuck on crappy teams but still won a ring and there is an interesting thread comparing Oscar favorably (or more evenly) to Magic Johnson that is an interesting read.

http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=1354089

While still speaking about Oscar, ESPN had Jabbar a while back. They asked about one-on-one match-ups and Skip said he thought Jabbar could beat Jordan because all of Jabbar's shots would be close-to-the-basket shots deep in the paint. But Jabbar said, "There's one guy left off these match ups that would have whipped everybody and that was Oscar." On ESPN's First Take YouTube page they edited that part out but another YouTuber uploaded the entire interview. Basically, Oscar for a long time was seen as one of the very best to ever play. So it's interesting how he is forgotten. People name John Stockton as the 2nd best point guard like Oscar never existed. Skip to the 11:05 mark for everything.



Dirk is great. But Top 10?

Michael Jordan
Bill Russell
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Wilt Chamberlain
Magic Johnson
Larry Bird
Hakeem Olajuwon
Shaq
Jerry West
Oscar Robertson
LeBron
Tim Duncan
Dr. J
Moses Malone
David Robinson

How many of those guys is Dirk better than? ESPN really rides the "hot in the moment" type of wave all the time. Dirk is great but probably more of a Top 15 or Top 20 guy than a Top 10 guy.

Dont forget kobe.

 

[BXKingPin82]

Coli love callin muthafukkas c00ns
lemme find out yall the crakkkers that couldnt cut it over at Bokkksden

 

[richtree]

Top 10 All Time? Not even Dirk would encourage such talks.
Phenomenal player, one of the best PFs to do it but in no way, shape or form is he in that list.