He beat Malone, Stockton, Barkley, Ewing that year. His second best player was Kenny Smith. Prime Hakeem was absolute nuts.

One of the most infamous draft moves ever is the Blazers taking Sam Bowie over MJ at #2 in 1984.

No one has ever had an issue with the decisionmaking of the team that had the first pick that year.

When you think about it, that alone says a lot about just how absurdly good Hakeem really was.

he is the shortest guy on that list too

He also had 40 steals lmao

Wemby could get there if he gets 5-6 blocks per game and the series goes to 7.

10 guys inside the three-point line 😭

In David Robinson’s rookie season the Spurs coached by Larry Brown made it to the Semis and lost in 7 to the Blazers.

They shot only 1 3 in game 7 and a total of 24 for the series.

The players sometimes blend into a mass of waving arms that’s almost impressive before you realize that you’re spending a solid bit of your Sunday watching this stuff and that you should really probably be doing something else with your life than watching pre turn of the century basketball.

For real. Wemby might have averaged 5 blocks per game if he played any time before 2010

My thoughts initially as well but the pace and spacing of the game today gives a lot of clear runway for Wemby to crash in and block a shot rather than the physical toll of having someone try to bump and back you down for 8 seconds before getting a shot off. Still crazy impressive from Wemby and the numbers clear any margin of error but it makes me curious to know how many blocks he would’ve had on the legendary big men of the 90s

And players are more athletic overall. Fewer white accountants with 20 inch vert going to the rim

Hakeem was the 1st pick in the draft that had MJ. No one in Houston regrets that pick. Says how godly the Dream was

Duncan was politely denying his opponents shot attempts my god

lol just looked it up and that’s insane. Averaged 24/17/5/1/5 in 6 games…

Okay that is fucking nuts. Wemby has played 20.

I’ll die on the hill that he should be in a lot more top 10s.

I think if you did a 5 on 5 tournament of the same player, eg 5 MJ vs 5 Kobes, Hakeem would win.

Could guard 1 through 5, post, dunk, shoot and even pass (in the 90s)

He’s dead?! lol wtf

No shit.

With no threes and everyone crowded in the paint, even mediocre centers would be getting 3 blocks a game.

3 blocks a game back then was nothing for a center. 3 blocks a game now is a generational defensive talent.

If blocks per rim attempt while on the floor was a stat, think it would be close

Really wish we had more italians to do 🤌 in the NBA

Wemby’s not getting 22 blocks in 4 games hahahaha….

…Actually, he might get 22 blocks in 4 games, that doesn’t seem impossible for him

So were Shawn Bradley and Yao ming but you don’t see them on the list 

You people need a new script. Out here sounding like AI slop..

How many were the others? Its only with Wemby we have the technology to go back in real time to look, but you think refs 25-30 years ago were 100% on blocks all the time? No? Then this argument doesnt work.

Hating like a motherfuckah