UPDATE: So Yes, Nique IS in the top 75 players of all time

[RedDawg#8]

Nique made the list, they are taking about him now.

[RedDawg#8]

Let's Gooooooo

[aali34]

Change of plans yall.

[ATLHawks3]

Didn't know Lenny Wilkens was on the original list. Glad to have 3 former Hawks represented.

[Dnice]

No link yet, but he's in and had a chat with the studio crew..he's at the farm.

[Dnice]

 

[Final_quest]

Congrats to the best in game dunker of all time!  Nique might be my favorite professional athlete.  Great news.

[NBASupes]

Nique is in the top 75

[swanlee]

Thank god, Nique deserves it.

[Watchman]

I can't believe they left off Bob Lanier this time around, considering some of the players they included. 

[Sothron]

Very glad to see Nique get this. He still is the biggest snub on the NBA 50 list but hey at least he has this. Thank God. I don't have to go burn down NBA headquarters.

[RedDawg#8]

Respect 

[kg01]

1 hour ago, Sothron said:

Very glad to see Nique get this. He still is the biggest snub on the NBA 50 list but hey at least he has this. Thank God. I don't have to go burn down NBA headquarters.

How many of you know saphron ain't jokin'?

[JayBirdHawk]

 

 

[lethalweapon3]

First, congrats to the Human Hall of Fame Film! However belated (by, like, 25 years) those congrats are!

~lw3

[lethalweapon3]

Second, the effort to put together the list of 76 (75, with a tie for last) was wholly unserious.

The committee that was convened was essentially given one job by the league:

Here's 50 all-timers from 1996. Don't nudge a single one of them off the list. Instead, add Dominique so we can finally stop hearing about how badly we goofed. Then add 24 more dudes. Yes, we understand, maybe a dozen more deserve to get in, with the league's talent pool having improved immeasurably since '96. But this isn't the NBATop87, sorry. Again, nobody from the old list gets cut. Okay, Go!

It didn't help that a few of the living members from NBATop50 that likely deserved the heave-ho... Lenny, Kangaroo Kid, Pearl, J-Luke, Bing... were placed on the panel. They weren't voting themselves off, and who else had the guts to do so?

The victims of the top-down decision not to boot some pre-existing members were mostly (1) modern-era players that excelled in not-clearly-the-lead roles, and (2) modern-era centers who hadn't, or haven't yet, led a team to a title.

If you count Timmy as a center (AD tries his best not to count himself), he's the only one that got added to the list (I count 16 carryover centers in the NBATop50), while Spur cohorts Tony and Manu are left out in the cold. Chauncey, Dumars and Pau come to mind as well. I believe Joel was a playoff series or two away from getting the benefit of the doubt to make the list early. Dwight not being in here is a felonious crime, Deke more of a misdemeanor. He doesn't fit in either snub-pot, but Vince got jobbed as well.

Good for Bob McAdoo, but I had Adrian Dantley and Dennis Johnson on my shortlist of O.G.'s squeezing in.

As a lesser gripe, I trust Sekou, and perhaps the also late Rick Bonnell, would have been on the panel, but as was the case with the '96 group that snubbed Nique, I strain to find anyone from the media that was a sportswriter south of D.C. Way too much ESPN and ex-ESPN talents in the media pool.

 

~lw3

[AHF]

28 minutes ago, lethalweapon3 said:

It didn't help that a few of the living members from NBATop50 that likely deserved the heave-ho... Lenny, Kangaroo Kid, Pearl, J-Luke, Bing... were placed on the panel. They weren't voting themselves off, and who else had the guts to do so?

 

Very true.

[pimp]

Thoughts on Mutombo not making the top 75?

Fair or snubbed.?

[pimp]

Anthony Davis  and Lillard  making it is very questionable . Dwight Howard’s resume is better than AD and this point.

[Spud2nique]

1 hour ago, lethalweapon3 said:

Dumars

He’s gotta be on that list imo. Hawks fans remember what he did to us, Bulls fan also remember a few things about him, Lakers, Celts etc.