Carmelo Anthony and Kenyon Martin agree

Thank you… Chauncey Billups?

Malone should be on a special list about living near schools

same for Stockton

I’m happy Chris Paul didn’t get one

It was actually 12…

Shimmy Shimmy

In which place would he be?

Smart was sacrificed for the C’s to win it

Smart is actually at 112, but yeah it’s crazy to me Smart is 8 playoff games away from Nash. That seems insane. Conley or PG I could see that.

Wow Smart really went through it all with the Celtics but just couldn’t crack the final piece

It’s to show how many rings he has.

My first thought is there’s some reddit filter for “stock” in titles.

Posts with his name might still be banned here ever since COVID

Guessing some stupid automod bullshit.

He must’ve joined the Cavs after their Championship run in ‘16.

The Hawks made the playoffs 11 years in a row during the late 2000’s / early 2010’s. They had the second longest active streak for a while behind the Spurs. It makes sense he racked up quite a few playoff games.

Dude was a solid player on a lot of good teams. He was on some of those Rose Bulls teams, the Boozer/ Williams Jazz, the “greater than the sum of their parts” Hawks teams, the Cavs right after their title, and the Bucks right before theirs. Honestly one of my favorite players, he was such a cheat code on those early NBA 2k games if you just had him chuck threes.

I do feel like one is infinitely worse than the other tbf

Two of the more overrated players ever.

Yeah, Harden routinely ran into monsters during his prime:

• 2010: NBA Champ LAL (57 wins)
• 2011: NBA Champ DAL (57 wins)
• 2012: NBA Champ MIA (57 wins, prorated)
• 2013: 60-win OKC
• 2014: 54-win POR
• 2015: NBA Champ GSW (67 wins)
• 2016: 73-win GSW
• 2017: 61-win SAS
• 2018: NBA Champ GSW (58 wins)
• 2019: 57-win GSW
• 2020: NBA Champ LAL (56 wins, prorated)
• 2021: NBA Champ MIL (52 wins)
• 2022: 53-win MIA
• 2023: 57-win BOS
• 2024: 50-win DAL
• 2025: 50-win DEN

Top 3 all consistently ran into buzzsaws

That’s being very charitable.

Malone and Stockton played 18 seasons together. They didn’t lose to 18 buzzsaws. And at some point, two players that are allegedly great should have __been__ a buzzsaw. They lost:

• in the first round to 44-win Dallas, 42-win Golden State, 43-win GSW (swept), 54-win Phoenix, 55-win Seattle, to 47-win Houston, to 53-win Dallas, to the Kings twice (!!)
• in the second round to 63-win Portland who subsequently got handled by Los Angeles, to Portland twice who have never been a buzzsaw
• in the conference finals to 57-win Portland who subsequently got handled by Chicago, to 58-win Houston that was Olajuwon and not much else, to 64-win Seattle who subsequently got handled by Chicago

If you want to win a title, you have to beat the teams that Utah proved unable to beat – the vast majority of whom were not in any way, shape, or form buzzsaws.

For a counter example to Malone and Stockton, investigate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Abdul-Jabbar’s teams made the playoffs on 18 occasions. They won 6 titles, and lost to the eventual champs 8 other times. The only four teams that ever defeated an Abdul-Jabbar team in the playoffs and were subsequently defeated by anyone else are;

• ‘73 Golden State
• ‘78 Seattle ( lost G7 in the Finals, and then won the title the following season )
• ‘81 Houston ( best of 3 series )
• ‘86 Houston

‘73 Golden State is the only team to ever beat an Abdul-Jabbar team in the playoffs, and not make at least G6 of the Finals.

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George Hill was on Milwaukee in 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. Missed the one year they got a ring lol

What’s crazy to me is Vince Carter isn’t even on this list. Dude played so good for so long and never won.

Credit to him for wanting to play minutes and not ring chase at the end of his career.

Well actually don’t fuck him

I’m not sure what the list looks like today but 5 years ago before the Jazz embraced the tank, the list of most winning franchises was something like:

1. Spurs
2. Lakers
3. Celtics
4. Sun’s
5. Jazz

It’s not surprising that this list is full of Suns and Jazz players. They won a lot of games but never won a ring.

The Hawks made the playoffs 11 years in a row during the late 2000’s / mid 2010’s. They had the second longest playoff streak after the Spurs for a while. It makes sense tbh.

lol goddamn

automod removes titles with his name in it. i think it came from a time when people were spamming threads related to him

“He not like us”

I’d take Harden over him but CP3 is amazing for sure

For sure

The mods don’t let you spell out his name on here due to his anti-vax stances

To show how many chances at a ring he got and how many he won.

Fuckin’ bums.

(Counts on fingers backwards to 2022)

Yeah but that’s only because Chris Paul got a finals addiction

Malone and Stockton lost like 5% of their playoff games against Jordan, they “Jordaned” themselves more often than not.

With modern medicine and training, Jordan blocks even more players…

The bravery

Didn’t GS employ Draymond?

fuck outta here with that, unethical playing style, ain’t nothing more unethical than adding Kevin Durant to what is already a championship team 

Don’t get mad that you nearly lost to the Harden-CP3 Rockets 

might have lost outright that first time if CP3 didn’t get injured and miss the last two games of a 7 game series 

Congrats, you ruined the NBA in the process!

they were never going to beat lebron anyways

Harden is playing for a championship literally right now while the Warriors are sitting at home