ESPN Top 10 small forwards all time

[Reid2Achieve]

He's number 4 bruh.

Looking at the resumes closer I can understand his ranking. 4x scoring champ, MVP, etc compares well to rest of the top 10 SFs.

It just feels like his career is going to be a footnote if he doesn't start winning championships. What do you put in the guy's documentary? He has no legendary performances or highlights.

I know its mostly because of injuries, but OKC is supposed to have a few rings by now.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Looking at the resumes closer I can understand his ranking. 4x scoring champ, MVP, etc.

It just feels like his career is going to be a footnote if he doesn't start winning championships. What do you put in the guy's documentary? He has no legendary performances or highlights.

I know its mostly because of injuries, but OKC is supposed to have a few rings by now.

To be honest the top ten is already done. I'm just debating should I put it up or not.

 

[Goat poster]

Penny Hardaway
Lebron
Baylor (since everyone else mentioned him)
Bird
Durant (based on potential)
Dr J
Carmelo
McGrady
Pippen
Hill
Pierce (honorable mention)

Penny was PURE PG bro....

 

[DoubleClutch]

GIANNIS ANTENTEMKOUMPO CAN PLAY ALL 5 POSITIONS, DOES THAT MEAN HE TOO IS BETTER THAN DR J? NAAH BRUH

LIKE U SAID ABOUT MELO VS PIERCE, TMAC WOULD DESTROY PENNY 1-ON-1..BUT ON TOP OF THAT, HIS CAREER WASNT AS RIDDLED BY INJURIES. TMAC WAS JUST A MUCH BETTER OVERALL SCORER. D WAS AVERAGE, ILL GIVE U THAT.. BUT WIT GOOD D, TMAC IS TOP 10.

PIPPEN AT TIMES WAS REGARDED AS THE SECOND BEST PLAYER IN THE NBA ONLY BEHIND JORDAN WHEN HE WAS IN HIS PRIME.. I WOULD ARGUE THAT IF PIPPEN WAS GIVEN HIS OWN TEAM FROM THE JUMP, HED BE ABOVE LEBRON ON THE LIST. WE SAW WHAT HE DID IN 1 SEASON LEADIN THE BULLS, 50+ WINS, ECF SEMIS. AND AS U MENTIONED ABOUT PENNY, PIPPEN TOO COULD PLAY THE POINT.

REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT MELO WOULD BEAT PIERCE 1-ON-1, THIS AINT A 1-ON-1 COMPETITION .. NICK YOUNG WOULD BEAT DRAYMOND GREEN 1-ON-1, WOULD U SAY HES BETTER THO? MELO COULD ALSO BEAT LEBRON 1-ON-1, IS MELO>LEBRON? AND ITS FUNNY HOW U START OFF BY SAYIN LEBRON SHOULD BE HIGHER, BUT THEN GO ON TO DISCREDIT PIERCE BECAUSE HE WON WITH HALL-OF-FAMERS.. IF PIERCE LOSES POINTS FOR THAT, LEBRON DEFINITELY DOES AS WELL. BUT EITHER WAY, PIERCE HAS THE LEGACY, LONGEVITY, AND ACCOLADES ON MELO..THOSE ALL ARE PART OF WHAT FACTORS IN TO MAKIN THESE LISTS.

It's about how good you are at different positions no just the fact that a player can play them. Lebrons better than most at every position except center.

TMac wouldnt destroy Penny in one on one

TMac scored more because he shot more and passed less. He was a different player.

There've been plenty great scorers like TMac in the NBA but only a few like penny (Lebron, Magic, hill)
Pippen was never regarded as the second best player in the NBA.

Yes Nick Young is better than Draymond Green. But Nick young is stupid and doesn't take basketball seriously these days.

Lebron loses for winning with stacked teams. But he already proved himself before that by winning with bums in Cleveland. If he won titles in Cleveland BEFORE Miami he'd be up there it's Jordan.

 

[twan83]

We were robbed of grant hills lasting greatness a damn near walking triple double

Them Sprite commercials


He won with his wife tho she so damn bad

 

[DoubleClutch]

Penny played pg

Penny was a point forward breh.

 

[god shamgod]

Penny was a point forward breh.

No he wasn't he was a 6'7 pg.

 

[Sccit]

It's about how good you are at different positions no just the fact that a player can play them. Lebrons better than most at every position except center.

TMac wouldnt destroy Penny in one on one

TMac scored more because he shot more and passed less. He was a different player.

There've been plenty great scorers like TMac in the NBA but only a few like penny (Lebron, Magic, hill)
Pippen was never regarded as the second best player in the NBA.

Yes Nick Young is better than Draymond Green. But Nick young is stupid and doesn't take basketball seriously these days.

Lebron loses for winning with stacked teams. But he already proved himself before that by winning with bums in Cleveland. If he won titles in Cleveland BEFORE Miami he'd be up there it's Jordan.

YOU ARGUIN SEMANTICS, I ALREADY SAID 10-20 ARE BASICALLY INTERCHANGEABLE .. AS FOR PLAYIN ALL 5 POSITIONS, IT REALLY DONT MEAN SHIIT... KAREEM PLAYED ONLY CENTER AND HES ARGUABLY THE GOAT. ITS NOT ABOUT WHAT U DO, BUT HOW WELL U DO IT.. LEBRON IS GREAT, BUT FAR FROM THE BEST AT WHAT HE DOES.

TMAC WOULD KILL TMAC ONE ON ONE.. MAKE THE POLL BRUH.

PIPPEN WAS INDEED REGARDED THE SECOND BEST AND EVEN THE BEST ALL-AROUND PLAYER BY SOME. ACTUALLY, HE FINISHED 3RD IN MVP VOTING IN 94 AND EVEN GOT 7 FIRST PLACE VOTES.

IM A LAKER FAN AND NICK YOUNG IS NOT BETTER THAN DRAYMOND GREEN LMAO .. PART OF YOUR STATURE IS HOW SERIOUS YOU ARE ABOUT THE GAME. GEORGE MURESAN WOULDA BEEN THE GOAT WITH KOBES WORK ETHIC, THATS NEITHER HERE NOR THERE.

WHICH BRINGS ME BACK TO LEBRON .. HE JUS DONT GOT THAT IT FACTOR. IF HE DID, HE DEF HAS THE PHYSICAL TOOLS TO BE GOAT. ITS ABOUT WHATS IN BETWEEN THE EARS THAT COUNTS.

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

I'm gonna be so fukking when they rank Bill Russell ahead of Shaq

 

[The God Poster]

Yall kill me tryna put Penny/Mac on Shooting Guards & Small Forwards list

 

[DoubleClutch]

Penny was PURE PG bro....

No he wasn't he was a 6'7 pg.

Ok he played both positions. That's why I said he could've been on the pg list. Same thing with lebron.

You can't put players like that in a box. Penny played SG too. He just had point guard skills despite his size. But True pgs typically can't start at the SF position and destroy someone like Pippen. Or posterize 7 foot centers on a nightly basis.

Penny was a great SF who could play the pg position very well. That's why he's top ten.

 

[god shamgod]

Ok he played both positions. That's why I said he could've been on the pg list. Same thing with lebron.

You can't put players like that in a box. Penny played SG too. He just had point guard skills despite his size. But True pgs typically can't start at the SF position and destroy someone like Pippen. Or posterize 7 foot centers on a nightly basis.

Penny was a great SF who could play the pg position very well. That's why he's top ten.

You dumb as fukk

 

[FTBS]

I'm gonna be so fukking when they rank Bill Russell ahead of Shaq

It's Shaq's fault .

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

It's Shaq's fault .

How is it Shaq's fault he didn't play in the 60s?

 

[FTBS]

How is it Shaq's fault he didn't play in the 60s?

It's not but he did play with Penny, Nick and Eddie, Kobe, and Wade. He had the talent around him, as well as within him obviously, to challenge Russell's ring total and make it so that it wasn't even a discussion.