Who is the greatest basketball player ever to play the game?

Question

In your opinion, you can have more than one choice

Answer 1

MIchael played 15 years in the NBA... and played on 10 winning teams.

The five losing teams he played on correspond to the five years he played without Scottie Pippen as a teammate.

MJ led the Bulls to three straight losing seasons when he came up. The Bulls did not become a winning team until they got Pippen.

WIthout Scottie as a teammate, Jordan was also 1-9 in the playoffs, getting knocked out of the first round all three times.

It took Jordan FIVE years in the NBA before his career W/L record even reached .500 (after five years, the Bulls record was 205-205).

Three straight losing seasons and a 1-9 playoff record hardly suggests the greatest player of all time. It just shows that Michael never accomplished anything by himself.

Even without Jordan (after his first retirement), Scottie led the Bulls to the 2nd round of the playoffs... Pippen was 11-9 in the playoffs with the Bulls without Michael. The Bulls won 55 games one year without Michael, and 47 in the other season without MJ (they won 57 in their last year with Michael before his first retirement, so they only dropped by two games).

And for the record, although Oscar averaged an actual triple-double for "only" one season, he actually averaged a triple-double, career wise, over the first five years of his career (in his triple double year of 1962, he averaged 30.8 ppg, 12.5 rebounds per game, and 11.4 assists per game...1962 was also the year Wilt averaged 50.1 ppg along with 25.7 rebounds per game)

After five seasons in the NBA, Oscar's career totals (in 384 games) were:

11,620 points (30.3 per game)
3,993 rebounds (10.4 per game)
4,076 assists (10.6 per game)

In his sixth season, he pulled down 586 rebounds in 76 games (thanks to the emergence of his teammate, 2nd year man Happy Hairston, as a formidable rebounder), which dropped his career rebound averaged to 9.95 per game, which still rounds to 10, but it's not a true triple-double average.

The top 8 players of all time are (in more or less chronological order) are:

Russell
Chamberlain
Robertson
Abdul Jabbar
Magic
Bird
Jordan
Shaq

Answer 2

Heres my all-time team (in no particular order):

Wilt Chamberlain
Bill Russell
Larry Bird
Michael Jordan
Magic Johnson
Charles Barkley
Kevin Garnett
Jerry West
Isiah Thomas
Oscar Robertson
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Julius Erving

Answer 3

If he starts off enjoying protection, purely then will Carmelo additionally be deserving of the corridor of repute, He has no scoring call, No MVP, No shielding communities, No jewelry, And he has been enjoying for 10 years, Melo has some artwork to do

Answer 4

1. Michael Jordan
2. Wilt Chamberlain

Answer 5

Of course Michael Jordan

Answer 6

Wilt Chamberlain. The man scored 100 points in a game and lead the league in rebounding and scoring multiple times.

He also never fouled out of a game in his entire career.

Answer 7

im sorry oscar robertson is great ....but the greatest?!!?
being great is not just about numbers....wilt is great to but comon when he scored 100 points who the hell was he playing against i think he was the only 7 footer there..

MICHAEL JORDAN IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME FORGET POINTS ,STATS OR WHATEVER

“I think he’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.” - larry bird

Answer 8

Michael Jordan, hands down

Answer 9

oscar robertson, in a couple years he Averaged a triple-double, even a great player usually only has about 3 or 4 a year

Answer 10

I think it is Michael Jordan. There are a couple currently playing that may get to that point some day. (Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, for example)