NBA All-Quarter Century Teams: LeBron, Kobe, Steph are locks, but center and power forward debates get tricky

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All-Quarter Century First Team
PG: Stephen Curry
SG: Kobe Bryant
SF: LeBron James
PF: Tim Duncan
C: Nikola Jokić

All-Quarter Century Second Team
PG: Chris Paul
SG: Dwyane Wade
SF: Kevin Durant
PF: Giannis Antetokounmpo
C: Shaquille O'Neal

All-Quarter Century Third Team
PG: Steve Nash
SG: James Harden
SF: Kawhi Leonard
PF: Dirk Nowitzki
C: Dwight Howard

 

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All-Quarter Century First Team
PG: Stephen Curry
SG: Kobe Bryant
SF: LeBron James
PF: Tim Duncan
C: Nikola Jokić

All-Quarter Century Second Team
PG: Chris Paul
SG: Dwyane Wade
SF: Kevin Durant
PF: Giannis Antetokounmpo
C: Shaquille O'Neal

All-Quarter Century Third Team
PG: Steve Nash
SG: James Harden
SF: Kawhi Leonard
PF: Dirk Nowitzki
C: Dwight Howard

fukk it I’ll say it. Based on 2000 to 2025 Shaq should be over Jokic AND Dirk over Giannis. Other than that I think this is a great list
 

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Article just trying to get outrage clicks with that Jokic shyt but Shaq don’t got enough diehard fans for it to even gain steam


This.

Plus his repulsive andrygonous pagan bathhouse hazing of teammates. Does not help shaq gain any new support.
Yet past support.
Factually shaq should be over jokic without question.



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Obviously Shaq should be 1st team.

Dirk should clearly be 2nd team.

I would also put KG as 3rd team PF, but I somewhat understand going Giannis (I’d also put Giannis as a SF, so he wouldn’t make it either way)



Kawhi is the clear #2 SF. We gotta stop with the putting KD on the edge of Lebron/Kobe & Wade tier of guys.

With that said KD is the clear #3 SF.



It’s wild that Harden could legitimately be considered the #3 SG. Such a wide gap. I guess I can say the same for Howard & Centers.
 

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Harden is a point guard. Should be him vs CP3 for 2nd team.

Giannis vs Duncan isn't really tricky since 90% of Duncan's career still happened after 1999, and he's viewed as someone in the top 5-7 GOAT conversation.

Jokic vs Shaq is more "interesting" since we're omitting the better half of Shaq's career ('92-'99). So basically Shaq's 4 title seasons vs Jokic's 6 to 7 great to monsterous individual seasons

Dirk over Garnett is interesting as well, but i get it. The early 00s was basically a 2-man debate between Duncan vs KG. Duncan basically left him in the dust and then Dirk sneakily got in the convo for #2 without there ever being a direct ongoing comparison with KG like there was with KG/Duncan. Dirk vs KG seemed to pick up only happen after 2011... since the stigma on Dirk was he was a p*ssy, until he wasn't (2011) and then you had to reframe the entire narrative about him.
 
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