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Draymond Green. His impact during his prime in that system was huge

Sam Bowie.

Sorry, Portland. Maybe you should just stop drafting centers. Bowie missed two full seasons at Kentucky after suffering stress fractures in his legs. Whatever, he was 7'1", what could go wrong? Everything. Bowie was only able to manage 139 games in five years with Portland before salvaging a bit of hope during a solid four years with the Nets. Oh yeah, some guy named Michael Jordan was drafted third overall that year, one pick after him. Combined with the injuries, that is more than enough to make him the biggest draft bust of all time. Bowie was just one of a collection of Blazers big men who failed to reach their potential. At the time, Portland was fixated on drafting a center, as it was already a great team having won 48 games the previous season. Bowie was supposed to be the final piece to the puzzle. The roster was already stacked with talent from the likes of Clyde Drexler, Mychal Thompson, Kiki Vandeweghe and Jerome Kersey. Bowie's downfall destroyed title hopes for this squad. The icing on the cake is that Portland lost a coin toss for the first pick in the draft that year. Who went No. 1?

Hakeem Olajuwon. End of story.

Kobe Bryant. His career averages took a dive after his Achilles injury. Many fans already downplay him. I can't imagine what the narrative might be in 20 years.

Westbrook but in a bad way

pacers oladipo and jazz hayward

Lebron James.

Being the 2nd best player in the team for all 4 rings and still in the "GOAT" competition.

Couldn't make it to the playoff in the west alone but won a championship with AD joining the next season.

Warriors fans going to need to be defending Mr. Triple Single when youngins be asking why there's a statue of him outside the arena.

Russel Westbrook. People in 20 years will say that Russel Westbrook was better than Steph Curry because of his stats. Russ will be the Wilt Chamberlain of the future.

I will go to war for wolves/pistons/knicks Derrick Rose

MANU

Ron Artest (Metta World Peace). Two way stud in his prime and changed the NBA forever with the "Malice At The Palace" incident.

It’s gonna be kawhi. He has less career points than Sam cassell. People who grew up post 2010s aren’t gonna respect kawhi as much as us and we need to understand that.

No one, “I can’t wait for 20 years from now” is not in my vocabulary

Is there a link to that 2000s thread?

I love these conversations.

I think Jimmy Butler is a tad overrated as a playoff performer and his team doesn’t get enough credit. I’m fine with people retconning this Heat run as mostly Spo. Cause the internet tries to tell us nowadays that Butler carried two teams to a finals, and lost them because his team failed him. Instead of just losing to the better team. Him and KD get gassed for losing like no one I’ve ever seen before lol.

Bobby Portis

Jamal Crawford. Had quiet seasons, but a lot of loud ass games and moments. My top 5 favorite Blazer of all time.

Kobe Bryant - already, there are a bunch of people that are lowering him out of the top 15 based on pure stats and modern narratives. They'll talk about this or that playoff series, and then you go and look at the games on youtube or NBA.com and watch the game and there isn't a lot to find fault with.

I remember one guy brough up box scores in a series to say that Kobe wasn't passing and just hogged the ball. but if you look at the game, every half court set started with a pass. The lack of assists, weren't because Kobe was holding the ball for 14 seconds the way James Harden does.

Manu Ginobili