Chalamon

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.

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

Interesting that you rank all time players based on their cultural impact. Seems pretty arbitrary to how good he is at basketball.