He wasn’t more deserving than Russ. But even putting that aside, there are others that would come to mind before him like Klay.
NBA 75th Anniversary Team | all 76 named (there was a tie)
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jetflyinglimousineriding
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You're been planning and promoting all this to commemorate "75", you think someone in the league front office making six or seven figures would be smart enough to just have the panel vote between the two that had a tie for the last spotshyt is just stupid. They didn't even make it a 75 list.
This could have been special but they made it into some clown shyt.
Like they really couldn't cut 1 motherfukker to balance this out?
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25 years is long time to wait for another list.
Anthony Daivs?. 
No T-Mac, Chris Webber, Tony Parker, Vince Carter?,
No T-Mac, Chris Webber, Tony Parker, Vince Carter?,
They should put Klay in there if they gonna added Dame, AD, James Harden.
When Klay can score 30 in one quarter and score 60 in 3 quarters and arguably can be the second greatest shooter in nba history! Come on brehs!
When Klay can score 30 in one quarter and score 60 in 3 quarters and arguably can be the second greatest shooter in nba history! Come on brehs!
Be careful Klay your entitlement is showing, I have about 10 people that deserve it over klay in my opinion. Dwight, Chris Webber, Mutumbo, Tony Parker, Pau Gasol, Chris Bosh, Penny, Manu, Alex English, Andrian Dantley.
Klay isn’t better than any of those guys. Klay has the weakest argument of anyone complaining. Klay is just coming off seriously entitled, and for little reason. But it’s not a surprise coming from him.
especially when you consider they keeping all the voting secret and shyt.shyt is just stupid. They didn't even make it a 75 list.
This could have been special but they made it into some clown shyt.
Like they really couldn't cut 1 motherfukker to balance this out?
they literally could have done whatever they wanted at that point and nobody would know.
I looked at this list again and just realized no Dikembe Mutombo on that list.
AD make no sense at all.
I'm still having hard time what did James Harden deserve to be on that list bro? I'm trying to figure it out
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None of those guys are All-Time greats. They had a few good to great seasons but so did a lot of people from the past like Bernard King, Adrian Dantley, Grant Hill, Alex English, Ralph SampsonAnthony Daivs?.
No T-Mac, Chris Webber, Tony Parker, Vince Carter?,
Melo makes it no matter what. Apparently the players acknowledge how great he was. Dominant while your team is trash didn't mean much either. You can tell the difference between a great player putting up numbers on bad teams, and marginal to good players putting up great numbers on bad teams. In Cousins case, he got traded, and still put up the same numbers playing along side AD. That null and voids any discussion of him not being a great player. AI teams had more losing seasons that Ws.
Pierce is hated by pretty much everyone, aside from the C's organization. He's respected for his hard work and being consistent. Dennis hated by most.
People don't act like he wasn't shyt because he wasn't as good as Shaq. He's not great because he's not as good as ANY of the all-time great C's. If you look at the stats...career high of all of the Cs, he's not in Top 10 in ppg, rpg, bpg, apg. He may be for steals. He may not even be in Top 20 of those stats. In fact, he falls behind players like Ratliff, Camby, Zo for blocks. He's behind Serge in blocks too, and a bunch of folks for rpg. And Embiid, KAT, Jokic, Cousins already had better seasons statistically.
As for not listening to the OGs, they don't care if he didn't listen, they just wanted him to get better. He didn't listen AND he didn't get better. So either he didn't have the determination to be better, or he played to the maximum of his ability, which still means he wasn't good enough. Being goofy/playful or immature isn't relevant to what he did on the court being up to the standards of the All-Time cream of the crop.
He's a good C...but when you're talking about the best of the best to ever play the game, he doesn't make the cut. He'll be the Joe Dumars/Sidney Moncrief of C's. He's in the Ben Wallace/Deke/Zo/Chief level of Cs. That's good company as well, but Deke has a better case, being the greatest shot blocker the game has seen.
OAN - In my opinion, there are maybe 5 of the 50 that shouldn't be on there either. Bill Walton for 1. He was actually controversial on the 50 list...people felt he wasn't dominant enough then. And dudes definitely wanted Nique to have his spot. I don't think Lenny Wilkens needed to be on there either, or Pearl Monroe, and maybe Dave Debusschere. In their places would've been Artis Gilmore, Adrian Dantley, Neil Johnston, Bernard King. My other questionables were Chief, Worthy & Pippen. Worthy, everyone says how great he was, but I didn't see it. I saw him as a consistently good player.
Yall nikkas are lacking context. Yes Dwight started off on a trajectory of being an all time great but he became a role player bouncing around playing on like 9 teams people don’t look at him the same. He hasn’t been that Dwight since he forced his way out Orlando. People ain’t putting no role playing journeyman on a 75 greatest players list I’m sorry to tell y’all
Carmelo is now a journeyman but he made it
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