Why are we still talking about this 5 years later

Media perception. Shaq damaged his image so bad over the years, people write him off. But Dwight fell off hard over the years himself, and injuries so is what it is. But Shaq didn’t help…

Lol @ the people here saying “well yeah he had off the court drama”…. Exactly what ROBBED means.

Tabloid rumors should not effect his beast basketball prime.

Perhaps some recency bias for Lillard. I could be off, but that might be the same year Lillard went nuclear on Denver in the playoffs until CJ stepped outta bounds

Y’all are so mad at Dame when he 100% deserves to be here over Billy Cunningham or Lenny Wilkens if we aren’t considering their coaching careers

Ah I forgot they kept Dwight out if it. What a fucking joke. Iirc it was around the time of the “gay” allegations or whatever it was.

He and Manu were the biggest omissions to me.

I don’t think anyone really disagrees with the idea that Dwight got shafted.

Pretty much the only explanation for it is that people simply didn’t like the guy.

i agree dwight top 75. i just think carmelo is also top 75. im pretty sure i can be convinced that lillard is too, i just havent looked deep into the list as im typing this.

Disagree

Yes he was robbed. Trying to bring down Carmelo and Lillard to make your case is weak though.

The top 75 list doesn’t even make sense anyway. They only append names to the list instead of redoing the entire thing.

He’ll make top 100. Can we just calm down?

Nobody disagrees Dwight was a miss here.

I do think Dwight should be top 75, especially over the guys you mentioned

I think a major thing that some people hold against him (including me, to be honest) is that his success was based more on otherworldly athleticism than actual skill

Dwight was DPOY, 1st Team All NBA, 1st Team All Defense three seasons in succession. An NBA record. Only Hakeem has been all three more than once but only did it twice.

Bruh the amount that you nephews care about that stupid list

He deserves to be top 75 but no way Melo deserves to be out. He gets slack for his playoff success but he was never favored in those playoff series he lost. As a matter of fact one year he had to win 50 games just to get in the playoffs. 

Better than Dame yes, Melo no.

He wasn’t better than Melo. He was better than Lillard, Ad of the new ones I can remember

Didn’t look like a top 75 player when the Blazers beat the Rockets in the 2014 first round.

He shoulda made it over tmac

Howard had off court situations that unfortunately took him out of the running.

Yo P!

I think this was the consensus reaction when the list was published

Yes and he’s an NBA CHAMP!

Dwight was incredible his early years unfortunately for him the rest of his career happened and that wasn’t nearly as good.

Dwight hurt himself a lot with the back and forth leaving Orlando and just his personality in general. They just saw a borderline case and said no.

All because he told lebron to stop complaining like a bitch and get back on defense.

🤣🤣🤣

He could’ve been a better player than he was yes, but what he was was already a top 75 player, everyone understood that.

Respectfully, you’re delusional

Dwight was great, I think one could argue he had a higher peak than either of the others. It seems like there is a longevity component to the top 75. T Mac had one of the best individual seasons of all time but was injured a lot of his career and always hurt at the wrong time so he didn’t make it. 

He is not better then Carmelo, but he still desired to be on that top 75. Melo has almost 10k more made buckets then Howard. The disrespect for Carmelo Anthony is so confusing to.

DAME however is a more fair argument few hundred over Howard, but when I think about there body of work, it just feels like Howard did more, maybe the team switching is seen as a bad thing, but the reason I think it works as an argument for dame is because he didn’t switch, and when he did that didn’t work out, instead of moving forward maybe being a second option for a winning team, he just fine with going back to Portland its sad.

He’ll get on the next list, just as Bob McAdoo (1972-1986), Reggie Miller (1987-2005), Gary Payton (1990-2007), Dominique Wilkins (1982-1999), and Dennis Rodman (1986-2000) missed the 1997 list but were added in 2021.

I think most top players dislike Dwight, that’s what hurt the tail end of his career even after the Lakers ring. 

People forget that the Top # also involves a little bit of projection. There were people mad that Shaq was included in the Top 50 because he hadn’t won anything yet, but that was because the expectation was he was going to win eventually. Not much of an argument for Carmelo, but I think people expected Lillard to not drop off the way he did

I thought Dwight should have won the 2011 MVP.

its all media perception that list is extremely inaccurate.

Dwight resume is closer to 40 than 75. Absolutely got robbed.

Why is Dame the scapegoat for Dwight being robbed?

In terms of their peak, yeah Dwight was better than them both.

He would be there if only he joined the bucks not the rockets

Jokic had already cleared all 3 of them and he’s not on it.

If you guys need anymore reason as to why you shouldn’t take these awards/lists seriously then the top 75 list should be all you need. It was terrible

Probably

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And he did it all while juggling some sort of Kevin Spacey/R Kelly/Nick Cannon type shit off the court

At the time we all thought Dwight was snubbed because of AD. What makes it awkward is that Dwight was on the Lakers w AD when the list was dropped lol.

Dwight was definitely robbed. Lillard has somewhat of a case. Melo is insane. No way should he even be sniffing the list 

Howard is soft

People have always tended to overrate/overvalue scorers, for obvious reasons. Dwight was by far the best of these three players to build a contender around…the other two probably weren’t true top tier franchise centerpieces like that.

Better thread, who would be more annoying about not being in the top 75, Dame or Melo?

Melo shouldn’t have made it. Dame and Dwight both should have made it

Lol no

Lillard made top 75 cause of vibes. How is he greatest 75 ever with THOSE accolades

If he didn’t have those back injuries, he definitely would’ve made it. But he didn’t seem like he expanded his game, like improve his shot, post op game, etc. He relied too much on his size, strength and athleticism.

Dwight’s longevity is terrible though. He was past his prime by age 26. It’s like a less severe case of D Rose.

Kitty is this you?

I’m not taking him over Dame or Carmelo. Dwight is underrated for sure but come on now.

They could take out any of those 60s players for him easily too.

Why do you have to tear other all-time greats down to big up Dwight Howard? Super weak. r/nba redditors somehow hate basketball.

He should have been there over AD. What on earth did AD ever do to deserve NBA 75?

Dwight’s peak was really short. He was basically done as a first option after his first season in Houston, and he was only 28 at the time. I think he deserved the spot over Lillard.

Probably because of what a shit human being he is. 

They left him off for a reason. It was calculated. They needed to do something controversial to get people talking. And guess what? They manipulated you so well that you’re STILL talking about it.

Dwight Howard wasnt that good

His post moves looked like a high schooler

Great rebounder though

Real talk though all three of them could absolutely cook dudes like Bob Cousy and even Jerry West for that matter.