Greatest What If NBA Player

grant hill is a good one. brandon roy and greg oden are options.

len bias will probably get a lotta love

ill throw in danny manning as well. not talked about much but his knees fricked him so hard.

Legends of the Blacktop

Greg Oden was a perfect center for the future of the NBA. A prototypical NBA center right when there would've been a shortage.

But Len Bias is probably the biggest what if and for good reason.

Len Bias hands down.

But I gotta throw in some Sam Bowie too.

Tracy Mcgrady is my answer.

With Hill, you can at least reasonably imagine how he would have turned out because he had some seasons at his peak.

I would say that my biggest "what if" player is one of those guys from the 1980s who played all their games on drugs and washed out. Roy Tarpley, Chris Washburn, Michael Ray Richardson, etc

You act as if Grant Hill is the clear cut correct answer. There isn't one correct answer. Reasonable minds can differ on this topic.

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You act as if Grant Hill is the clear cut correct answer. There isn't one correct answer. Reasonable minds can differ on this topic.

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I agree that some difference of opinion exists, but as you say McGrady his career was intertwined with Hill. The Rockets era T-Mac wouldn't exist if Hill had been healthy in Orlando. You are looking at two dominant wing players who be right there in the conversation as the best teammates of all-time. Hill was Triple Double threat every night and McGrady was an elite scorer while his body held up. Who knows if McGrady ever develops the back injury if he was (literally) carrying Orlando for 3 years.

Grant was as special as any player in his era (Shaq,Duncan,Kobe,KG,Nash) and superior to the high volume scorers (VC,AI,T-Mac). If Doc Rivers were coaching those two, the landscape of the NBA would have totally changed outside of Los Angles and San Antonio. It would have been those three teams.

Len Bias

eta just watched his highlight tape, what an athlete...