Comments on: Which Classic Member of the NBA’s Top 75 Players Would Adjust the Best to the Modern NBA? https://knickerblogger.net/2022/02/which-classic-member-of-the-nbas-top-75-players-would-adjust-the-best-to-the-modern-nba/ Knicks, Stats, Humor, Analysis. Tue, 08 Feb 2022 23:30:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Z-man https://knickerblogger.net/2022/02/which-classic-member-of-the-nbas-top-75-players-would-adjust-the-best-to-the-modern-nba/#comment-790500 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 23:30:18 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=19535#comment-790500 Jerry Lucas would have been amazing today’s game, maybe the first true stretch 4-5….

]]> By: Owen https://knickerblogger.net/2022/02/which-classic-member-of-the-nbas-top-75-players-would-adjust-the-best-to-the-modern-nba/#comment-790323 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:41:16 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=19535#comment-790323 Yeah, Mark Price would have had a 65% ts%.

There are a few guys who I don’t think would be great in the current day and age but I’m not naming names.

]]> By: Donnie Walsh https://knickerblogger.net/2022/02/which-classic-member-of-the-nbas-top-75-players-would-adjust-the-best-to-the-modern-nba/#comment-790321 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:34:40 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=19535#comment-790321 I think most of the great players of the 80s and 90s would probably be able to dominate in today’s NBA. Bird for sure. I imagine Olajuwon would find a way too.

Another question could be: which player from the 80s and 90s would have made the top 75 if only they had played in the modern NBA? Chris Mullin? Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf? Jeff Hornacek? Jack Sikma? Dana Barros?

]]> By: Owen https://knickerblogger.net/2022/02/which-classic-member-of-the-nbas-top-75-players-would-adjust-the-best-to-the-modern-nba/#comment-790306 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:19:48 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=19535#comment-790306 I think Bird and Reggie Miller are the guys that leap to mind. They would wake up in 2022 and be like, sure, I should double my 3pr. I think KG’s defense might be even more valuable in this era and he was amazing in his.

I gotta say, it’s not actually the best list. And not just because Manu isn’t on it. I don’t know that I would have put Dame on the list over Klay Thompson.

]]> By: Hubert https://knickerblogger.net/2022/02/which-classic-member-of-the-nbas-top-75-players-would-adjust-the-best-to-the-modern-nba/#comment-790295 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:43:04 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=19535#comment-790295 I’m thinking of it in maybe slightly different terms. I think most of the top 75 would adjust perfectly. But there are some guys who would probably be even better if they were in this era.

Bird and Magic, for instance. Imagine those two guys with space on the court!

I think Barkley would dominate even more, too.

]]> By: Brian Cronin https://knickerblogger.net/2022/02/which-classic-member-of-the-nbas-top-75-players-would-adjust-the-best-to-the-modern-nba/#comment-790294 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:40:40 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=19535#comment-790294 In reply to E, all merc’d out.

I won’t front, I thought Jordan retired after Lebron’s rookie year and so was planning on that eliminating Jordan as an option. 😉

It’s kind of crazy, in retrospect, that Jordan’s career literally ended right as Lebron’s started. That’s some eerie shit right there.

]]> By: E, all merc'd out https://knickerblogger.net/2022/02/which-classic-member-of-the-nbas-top-75-players-would-adjust-the-best-to-the-modern-nba/#comment-790293 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:36:03 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=19535#comment-790293 Prime Jordan would be the best player in the NBA today. The only embedded assumption there is that growing up 30 years later, he would have worked on his 3-ball from youth and had the 3-ball talent that people of his overall talent have.

The last couple possessions of his (real) career are his overall career in a nutshell. In big playoff games in the fourth quarter, his team would give him the ball and no matter what they other team did, they couldn’t stop him. There’s no reason whatsoever that wouldn’t seamlessly port to today, particularly when we remember that, as cyber noted, defenses could be much more handsy BITD. On the other side of the ball, he was an ultra-elite defender in every dimension and still would be today.

I’d trade Giannis or Jokic, great as they are, for time traveled Jordan, no questions asked.

]]> By: cybersoze https://knickerblogger.net/2022/02/which-classic-member-of-the-nbas-top-75-players-would-adjust-the-best-to-the-modern-nba/#comment-790285 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:59:51 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=19535#comment-790285 I’m having a hard time not picturing Jordan being even more dominant. If he was dominant in the 90s with all that physicality, how come he wouldn’t be even better in a time when you can’t touch the James Hardens of the world. This was my brain speaking. In my heart i go with Alan… the great PATRICK EWING! 🙂
Still waiting to see a player as dominant as Ewing wearing orange and blue.

]]> By: Alan https://knickerblogger.net/2022/02/which-classic-member-of-the-nbas-top-75-players-would-adjust-the-best-to-the-modern-nba/#comment-790283 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:51:19 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=19535#comment-790283

Brian Cronin:
” (classic, for the sake of this question, will be anyone who retired before Lebron James entered the league)”

Now I am every asshole who never reads the introductions to my articles. Way to go, Alan. Way. To. Go.

]]> By: cgreene https://knickerblogger.net/2022/02/which-classic-member-of-the-nbas-top-75-players-would-adjust-the-best-to-the-modern-nba/#comment-790281 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:45:13 +0000 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/?p=19535#comment-790281 Wasn’t Arvydas Sabonis Nikola Jokic before Nikola Jokic?

On another note, I cannot help but feel that the Knicks FO made perhaps its largest mistake not locking up Mitch. He’s the best player on the team by a wide margin at this point. He’s 23. And he can and may walk for nothing. The signings this summer can be forgiven. We were all gaga over the Kemba deal. The incinerated pick is minor although weird. But not locking up your best young player to a long term contract and then having him leave with no compensation. That is, frankly, fireable. Am I overreacting?

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