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Best Player To Wear #5?

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Best Player to Wear #5?

3K views 63 replies 19 participants last post by  Jace 
#1 ·
Lots of choices although I see it only really coming down to two guys. But we'll see how it plays out.

Carlos Boozer
Baron Davis
Kevin Garnett
Robert Horry
Juwan Howard
Jason Kidd
Danny Manning
Jalen Rose
Josh Smith
Dick Van Arsdale
Tom Van Arsdale
Other (Please Specify)

00/0 - Robert Parish
1 - Tracy McGrady
2 - Moses Malone
3 - Dwyane Wade
4 - Chris Webber
 
#3 ·
#64 ·
LeBron/Rose is a fun example for me. Heat didn't win the title, but LeBron shamed that award in that series, not to mention had a better season.

hardware speaks volumes. stop pretending it doesn't.
:nonono:

So, hypothetically, if you believed a player had a better season than another player who won the MVP, would you still consider the MVP player to have had a better season because a group of writers voted him over the guy who you know had a better season? MVP's are nice, but they shouldn't be the difference maker between deciding which player is better.

People won't remember how great of a year Kidd had but people will remember how many MVPs a player has.

It's sucks, but it's true.
So because casual fans only remember the shiny stuff we should dumb down our analysis of who was better?
 
#13 ·
Well, Garnett was the best player on a championship team in his first season wearing number 5, so he's way better than Smith and the like either way. However, he blew out his knee the next year and has been a different, but still very effective, player ever since.
 
#21 ·
Sorry. 2 seasons of Lebron gets nowhere near Russell or even Dr. J.
 
#23 ·
Got you. We'll wait until that thread to continue that discussion.

The thing with voting for the players when they wore a certain number is kind of tough. Because then you have to evaluate players in different points of their careers.

Metta World Peace might be the best player to wear 4 different numbers?
 
#24 ·
Got you. We'll wait until that thread to continue that discussion.

The thing with voting for the players when they wore a certain number is kind of tough. Because then you have to evaluate players in different points of their careers.

Metta World Peace might be the best player to wear 4 different numbers?
6 different numbers, although one of them he only wore for 7 games.
 
#30 ·
No one went with the Boom Dizzle? He wore #5 during the We Believe run.
 
#42 ·
is this a question about a number or a player? if it's about a player why are we spending time worrying about a number? if it is about a player then the answer is 23 or perhaps 13 or maybe 33 - you see, young grasshopper it is the introduction of the number into the question that formalizes it and makes it worth considering - think again upon the question and return when you have found more wisdom
 
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