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Message: [QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 4284009, member: 767"] yeah I get that, and that is a way to think about it. It's less "if all these guys were playing right now how would they stack up" and more "how do they stack up relative to their time". And look at mens tennis, the three best players of all time had very overlapping careers. So it does happen. I still just can't totally reconcile that fact, I don't know if it's just the 80s is a heavy romanticized period in NBA history or what, but i do wonder if something is being missed. (nearly) All of the best players just happened to play in the era where the game really broke through on a national basis? Possible! For sure. And if I was putting together a list, my top 3 is almost certainly MJ/Lebron/Kareem, so i am somewhat guilty of it myself. This is probably a long way of me saying I think Tim Duncan is historically underrated and I would probably have him over Magic and Bird. [/QUOTE]