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Re: Evaluating Great Big Men: Prime Hakeem and Shaq and others
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Originally Posted by Nikos
If you could assign a rating to these players 1-10, what would they be?[/b][/size]
(In increments of .1, like 9.5, 9.7 etc…). Lets say Michael Jordan is a perfect 10, and Magic Johnson and Larry Bird are 9.8, and Scottie Pippen is a 9.5.
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If Scottie Pippen is a 9.5, i would have to give each player 9.6 or 9.7 (all better than Pippen and worse that Magic/Bird...)
So, forgetting Pippen and thinking about Magic/Bird as 9.8 type of players, i'd go:
Shaquille O’Neal: 9.5
Hakeem Olajuwon: 9.3
David Robinson: 9.0
Tim Duncan: 8.9
Karl Malone: 9.2
Charles Barkley: 8.7
Patrick Ewing: 8.9
Or something like that. And considering career value, not prime years.
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