No, I don't think so.
I don't think top 75 necessarily requires a championship
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
1 points (100.0% liked)
NBA - Main
14 readers
4 users here now
Game analysis, highlights and everything else that is happening in the NBA.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Barkley, Stockton, Malone, Iverson, Baylor, Ewing, Nash, ‘Nique, Reggie, Melo, Gervin, Pistol Pete, Bing, Thurmond, and Wilkins all never won a ring
This is dumb. First context would matter. Were there injuries? Did they get to the final seconds of a game 7 and lose by one possession?
Did they take an early exit but Dame played crazy and Giannis played poorly?
Big sweeping comments are fun for the ignorant masses but meaningless for those looking for real basketball discussion.
Lebron and AD, two of the top 75 players of all time, have been playing together for 4 years now going on the 5th and have just one ring. Is AD's selection wrong?
Shit happen.
John Stockton never won a ring. Remove him from the HoF imo.
Doesn't mean it was wrong then, but you can easily see a short future where guys like Luka, Tatum, Shai or Booker win rings or MVP and overtake him as top 75 like Jokic.
He's 33 so no
Wasn't wrong but definitely questionable, think voters were just biased. Dwight and at the time the reigning mvp didn't get in while he and AD got selected.
Gonna go back and magic erase him from the top 75 broadcast? New Google commercial with Jimmy Butler erasing Dame?
Winning a title is hard, and the league is really deep in contenders this year.
There are also multiple teams with two top-75 (or likely to be by the end of their career) guys: Denver (Jamal seems likely to make it), Phoenix (Booker seems likely to make it), Lakers, Warriors, maybe even Boston (depending on where you think Brown is going to need up). It's not like, in today's league, having two top-75 guys makes you a favorite, much less a clear favorite.
Chips!
there's plenty of teams that had 2 or more top 75ers that didn't win a ring though
Dame led the league in points per game from January 1 until he was benched for the tank job, by 4 ppg. Put some respect on his name man
No, that’s not how I look at basketball
I hate ring culture so much
You can do whatever you want man
You could say so if you wanted. The NBA needs always casuals to keep the debate sphere active and buzzing.
It doesn’t matter. And by “it”, I mean the whole 75 list too.
Nah there aren't as many good NBA players as you think. Top 75 is an easy make for Dame.
Especially if you compare him to some of the older guys who were grandfathered in just because they didn't want to deal with the awkwardness of dropping some guys out. Go and compare Dame's NBA career with Pete Maravich's. Dame's career practically laps his.
I guess by this standard Barkley/Stockton/Malone aren't top 75 either.
Do you actually like basketball?