re: Post your top 15 players in NBA history in this thread

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Why? Because he won a lot of rings?

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Well, there's also the minor matter of him averaging 22.45 rebounds per game. That's literally double Hakeem's rebound rate.

Acting like the only way to evaluate players is through eye witness is ridiculous. There's this thing called the statistical record. Your own witness has value, but you're not a scout, and eye witness testimony is notoriously unreliable anyway. You act like taking a large sample of other people's opinion is a bad thing, when in fact it is a really good tool for evaluation. Multiple expert evaluations are a GOOD thing.

And it's not like the film has been destroyed. You can watch clips of Russell playing.

All that said, I'd put Hakeem ahead of Russell, but that's because I think Hakeem might be the greatest center in NBA history not named Wilt Chamberlain. He was such a dynamic player.