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Message: [QUOTE="Ward, post: 1795485, member: 1958"] Was fun reading that list and thinking about how I would rank these guys I grew up watching. My comments below are based more on memory and not so much a deep dive analytically. I think I'm falling victim though to remembering guys at their best and their peak as opposed to entire body of work. I would put Pierce behind Durant and Paul. I go back and forth on him behind McGrady. Pierce had more success in the postseason, again I didn't really look at their overall career numbers, but I just keep thinking I'm not sure Pierce was ever as good as McGrady was in his best years in Orlando. He was crazy. Biased too because when I was wearing his black and blue sneakers (the first edition) I felt like I was the absolute MAN when I played. Maybe I'd put Wade above Garnett. He has three rings and while Garnett probably has to be given a lot of credit for "re-inventing" this generation of the face up big Wade had stretches where he was dominant in the playoffs and carried some of the Miami teams to respectability before LeBron came down. I think too that there was a stretch where you may have been able to argue that Wade was the best 2 guard in the league ahead of Kobe. Kobe just usually had a better supporting cast which led to more wins and overall team success. I'd put Kidd ahead of Iverson. Iverson was an unbelievable scorer and player to watch but if I were building a team I'd probably go Kidd as my alpha guard instead of Iverson because he maximized his teammates abilities a little better. Also led those Nets teams to back to back Finals, though Iverson led a rag tag group to the Finals one year as well. Shaq could've won as many championships as he wanted in the early 00's and made a claim to be remembered in a special spot in history if he made it his only priority. I feel like with Kobe he was obsessed with winning. Terrible teammate, but obsessed with winning as many rings as possible. Shaq really liked winning but also wanted to enjoy life and the perks his success brought him. Absolutely nothing wrong with that at all just throwing it out there that he could have potentially been even more dominant for even longer than he already was. [/QUOTE]

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