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Become important culturally outside of Arizona—ie: it will never fucking happen
Interesting that you rank all time players based on their cultural impact. Seems pretty arbitrary to how good he is at basketball.
Not a lot of average players out there making cultural impacts. Not arbitrary at all when you actually stop and think about it. AI is an all-time great. He normalized a lot of shit that you see in the NBA today, on and off the court. Oh, he was pretty good at basketball too.
I definitely see what you mean, and I agree that cultural impact can’t happen to some bench players in most cases. But surely you wouldn’t argue that hakeems cultural impact is as much as iverson, but iverson doesn’t come close to Hakeem in terms of all time rankings. Just an example. Booker could be the most bland personality ever, but if he won a couple rings or MVPS and plays another 8 years, surely he would be able to surpass Iverson easily in purely on court basketball skill
No offense but were you watching basketball when Hakeem and AI were playing? Hakeem was pretty well known
I know Hakeem was well known, but I wouldn’t say it was on the level of AI. I guess maybe not the greatest example, because yes he still had an impact. But certainly there are a lot of players much better than AI with less cultural relevance.
Sure—I more wanted to point out that AI was a special player and even if he just met him on stats and accolades alone (which seems unlikely) Booker would have to do a LOT of other stuff to truly compare
Yes. To people that watched basketball.
I don’t, but AI is such a unique figure and Booker is so milquetoast the question feels absurd
Even though AI famously ranted about practice, can’t even imagine AI complaining about getting double-teamed in practice lol
Top 10 NBA vibes of all time
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He was just on the cover of 2k
So was Anthony Davis and he is not culturally important even a little bit
AD was in Barbershop 3 though.