He's definitely one of the top 50 or so players or all time and one of the best big men to ever play.
Consistently a great player and great defensive anchor for some really tough knicks teams that really didn't have much talent outside of him.
Those Knicks teams were tough, played good defense, and were definitely deep, but there wasn't much top end talent ever on the knicks in the 90s outside of him.
His second fiddles were Kiki VDW, starks, Charles Smith, Mark Jackson, and a bunch of other average-ish players.
He was a walking 26/10/2 blocks type guy.
But he was just overshadowed by MJ and Hakeem who were better players.
It's true he doesn't get talked about that much in public discourse, but very few players do.
Like, who does the media really talk about from that era? MJ, Hakeem, Shaq in the later 90s. Chuck of course but that's also because he's on TV. There just isn't much public discourse at all outside of the upper echelon of players in the past besides these "why does nobody talk about x top 50 player?" threads.
I mean, the guy was 29/10/2 blocks on a knicks team in 1990 that was seriously void of talent on the offensive end.
I'm not sure which big of his era was definitively better than him other than Hakeem.
He's definitely one of the top 50 or so players or all time and one of the best big men to ever play.
Consistently a great player and great defensive anchor for some really tough knicks teams that really didn't have much talent outside of him.
Those Knicks teams were tough, played good defense, and were definitely deep, but there wasn't much top end talent ever on the knicks in the 90s outside of him.
His second fiddles were Kiki VDW, starks, Charles Smith, Mark Jackson, and a bunch of other average-ish players.
He was a walking 26/10/2 blocks type guy.
But he was just overshadowed by MJ and Hakeem who were better players.
It's true he doesn't get talked about that much in public discourse, but very few players do.
Like, who does the media really talk about from that era? MJ, Hakeem, Shaq in the later 90s. Chuck of course but that's also because he's on TV. There just isn't much public discourse at all outside of the upper echelon of players in the past besides these "why does nobody talk about x top 50 player?" threads.
I mean, the guy was 29/10/2 blocks on a knicks team in 1990 that was seriously void of talent on the offensive end.
I'm not sure which big of his era was definitively better than him other than Hakeem.