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What do you mean by this? I'm going to assume you are not saying that Larry Bird and Karl Malone are NOT all-time greats. Rather, I'm going to assume you mean that those guys are not the best to ever do it at their respective positions (still questionable).
Yep, I meant that they are generally regarded as the best to play that position.
Meaning that no matter what you select for your squad, the 1992 dream team will have better players at the 1 & 2 positions. Karl Malone is awesome but a rival squad would have a Tim Duncan. Bird is awesome but there is Lebron and so on and so forth.
Agreed that people could pick nits with some of that so I'm just saying "in general" but against an "all-time" team the DT will face the most trouble at the 3-5 slots, maybe that's a safer statement without getting people defensive about players they love\hate.
From the same era... 8 HOFers on the challenging team, with Reggie Lewis being a "what if". Remember, this is 1991-1992 Larry Johson, a beast!! Hardaway was an established 20/10 pg and GP was just getting started so Tim gets the nod, with K.J. a close second. Manning was a good player as well. I still don't think they stack up agains the Dream Team.
From the same era... 8 HOFers on the challenging team, with Reggie Lewis being a "what if". Remember, this is 1991-1992 Larry Johson, a beast!! Hardaway was an established 20/10 pg and GP was just getting started so Tim gets the nod, with K.J. a close second. Manning was a good player as well. I still don't think they stack up agains the Dream Team.
Nice try though, I think they still get beat by 15-20pts!
David Robinson vs Kareem Abdul-Jabar
Karl Malone vs Tim Duncan
Larry Bird vs Lebron James
Michael Jordan vs Kobe Bryant
Scottie Pippen vs Kevin Durant
Magic Johnson vs __________?
John Stockton vs Chris Paul
Charles Barkley vs Paul Pierce (prime)
Patrick Ewing vs Kevin Garnett
Damn. This ain't easy.
I would add either Westbrook or James Harden, or maybe even Shaun Livingston??? I don't know.
Yes he's a grade A douche bag as a person, but as a competitor one of the best ever. His talent and fire made him seem taller than his 6/6'1" skinny frame.
Unfairly snubbed from the original Dream Team.
Michael Jordan wouldn't have played on the original Dream Team had Isiah Thomas been selected. (This is detailed in Jack McCallum's book about the Dream Team.) Isiah had also rubbed his one-time good friend Magic Johnson the wrong way with some comments he made after Magic announced he was HIV positive. (That is detailed in Jackie MacMullan's Larry Bird/Magic Johnson biography, "When the Game Was Ours".) There were a number of other guys on the 1992 team (Larry Bird, who Isiah indirectly insulted via a comment made by Dennis Rodman after a 1987 playoff game, Scottie Pippen, and Karl Malone in particular) who didn't like or had reason not to like Isiah Thomas either. The chemistry, which was very good on the original Dream Team, wouldn't have been the same and almost definitely would have been much worse than it actually was.
I think leaving Isiah Thomas off the original Dream Team was the right idea.
From the same era... 8 HOFers on the challenging team, with Reggie Lewis being a "what if". Remember, this is 1991-1992 Larry Johson, a beast!! Hardaway was an established 20/10 pg and GP was just getting started so Tim gets the nod, with K.J. a close second. Manning was a good player as well. I still don't think they stack up agains the Dream Team.
Thanks for at least putting Olajuwon on Robinson. That is a no-brainer.
I chose not to put in anyone if have not seen play (Bill Russell, Chamberlain, etc).
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