Best Player From Every Decade In NBA History 

How can you specify "BEST PLAYER" and still put Bill Russell over Wilt Chamberlain!?

I have some questions over how this video isn't reaching a million views

I disagree with Kobe Bryant over Tim Duncan for the best player for the 2000s

@@autumn8676 Kobe lead the lakers to two championship without shaq help and drop 81 points and score way more points than anyone in the 2000's

bird & tuncan than magic & kobe

Shaq is a good player a super star even but not close to the best player of the decade

Hell nah. MJ and the bulls completely ruled the NBA until 1998. Maybe still 1999-2005 shaq would've be the best player

@@patrickbatemansrightbuttch9897 only because its front loaded? shaq was an absolute monster to start the 2000s go look at him finals avgs it's insane. but he quickly fell off by 2005 he wasn't anywhere close to being that dominant. that's what the og comment means if shaq starts in 2000 instead of 1995 he would of easily been the best player of the 2000s

I feel you. If it was broken down by every 5 years, Shaq would have been the guy from 2000-2005.

For the most part, MJ was still the best from 95-98, then Shaq from 98-02, in the 02-03 season Kobe was just better simply because Shaq didn't play as much and he came into his own, too bad Kobe got injured in the 03-04 season on his shooting arm and was forced to play injured in the playoffs, they would have won against the spurs had they both been fully healthy.

And wilt

Yeah but wilt has his main career in GSW

More amazing that any talk of all-time Lakers could omit Jerry West and Elgin Baylor

Mikan West Baylor Goodrich Wilt Kareem Magic Worthy Cooper Kobe Shaq Gasol Howard Nash LeBron Davis Westbrook Pretty crazy tbh

@🏈Savage Red Sports🏈lmao Lebron better than both of them

can't respect a top 10 with bill or wilt in it lol you know what giannis would do to them? Lebron averages a million in the 60s

hakeem only won cuss MJ was playing baseball

@IR0N jokic on any team in the 60s wins more than bill and wilt combined

@IR0N comparing 2022 to the 60s is nasty. Jokic is simply way better at basketball sorry

@IR0N no you must be trolling to think a guy in the 60s can hang with a top 5 player today

I'd just lose all hope if he really walked up to me and say that

facts

The rhyme reminded me of flightreacts intro’s😂

“March is here, my daughter has a beard”

@@futureking27 💀

Ur max likes is 24 for truibite for kobe

24 is in my hearth

Heart

Mj is better

@@usmelllikepoop6359 no shit dude he’s better than anyone whose ever played. Why do u feel the need to bring that up when only talking about Kobe? Douche.

Kobe was better than Duncan, I'll leave it at that.

@@user-ou5pm6gn9j nah you can't compare shooting guard to a power foward

​@@michaelsevilla3226 I mean you can't, but Kobe was just more dominant. TIm won overall 5 times, from time to time he'd win, but that last ring was really a team effort, and the rest 4 were legit. But Kobe had some insane runs. He doesn't get enough credit for that 01 run just because he didn't get fmvp, he still averaged 29 7 and 6 while going 15-1.

@@user-ou5pm6gn9j he’s also the reason they got gentleman swept by the pistons

@@zachcollier7092 Yeah, because that had nothing to do with Kobe's broken shoulder he had to play through on his shooting arm. People always seem to forget that part.

Hm?

He said 'first and only' so giannis won one more

duncan says hi

Rooting for Ja Morant as well

@@KL-fl4th then why the fuck would Zion not be there

@@AB3L30NE what has he done?

@@makaveli6873 he would have won roty if he didn’t get injured

@@AB3L30NE ZION😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Nash stole one from him 😒

@@osamabinladin5786 from shaq not Kobe

@@mike04574 and kobe to

@@osamabinladin5786 he deserves at LEAST 4 MVPs

or respectful

20s: shared: Lebron James and Luka/giannis

@@leultrainstinct406 well we could say that about the 20s even if he were to win 2 or 3 more, but there hav been other players of the other decades in either the early or the end of the decade that shared it with the decade-goat, like the bad boy pistons of the late 80s, but we dont mention them because there can only be the 1 or special case of 2 goats to rein throughout the Entire decade

@@leultrainstinct406 curry better than Luka

Duncan only won 3 championships in the 2000s 👌 while kobe won 5 championships and 7 appearances during that decade 👌👌👌

@@Kingdoscuatro This may be tru. But are you saying he cant share with Kobe?

You cannot say that Hakeem dominated the 90s as much as mj. Same with shaq or curry. Shaq had Kobe and Dwayne wade carrying his ass up and down the court. Steph only dominated the turn of the decade. For 4 seasons only. And he did it with the best catch and shooter in nba history and kd. A walking cheat code. And it has recently been proven that curry can’t lead a team to even make the playoffs on his own. Hakeem dominated one season. The only season that Jordan was busy playing baseball. Otherwise he couldn’t pass Jordan

@@drainwater978 Hakeem dominated for one season?I find it funny that Michael chose Dream over ever center in history for to he his starting dream 5 including himself.Anyways Hakeem dominated in multiple years I'm the 90s not to mention the 1980s....In 1994 he won the MVP,DPOY,Finals MVP n NBA champion.The very next year he was even more dominant in the playoffs 33/10/4.5/2.8/1/on 52% The previous year he put up 29/11/4/4/2/ on 51%/ The 1986-1989 and 1993-1997 Playoff run shows why he is top 10 in most people's eyes.

@@ojparker3160 he is top ten in my eyes too. Mj dominated the 90s more than Hakeem. What other years did Hakeem dominate. If he not winning rings other than when mj was absent then how does he dominate it. Hakeem is on my Top ten for sure. But he did not dominate over mj or even on the same level as mj

Excellent list

60s wilt/russel/oscar 70s kareem/julius/barry 80s moses/magic/bird 90s jordan/hakeem/Shaq 20s Garnett/tim/kobe 10s lebron/durant/curry The legends of each decade

2000 Finals MVP Shaq 2001 Finals MVP Shaq 2002 Finals MVP Shaq 2006 Champion Shaq

@@Soldier979 Shaq was dominate in the paint but Kobe won those games with his 2 way basketball skills. You dont have a 3-peat with out Kobe. 2006 MVP was Kobe Bryant i don't care how good Steve Nash was. Straight robbery. Kobe was basketball in the 2000's.

⁠@@Soldier979 you’re not wrong and Shaq was incredibly clutch. However Kobe also led all playoff players in fourth quarter scoring in the 2001 and 2002 playoff runs and averaged 28 ppg to shaqs 29 ppg. Not to mention a number of games shaq fouled out or was pulled on the fourth during those playoff runs due to hack a shaq and gave up a lot of points on defense. Shaq never won before playing with Kobe as well and rarely found success after despite playing with incredible talent almost every year he was in the league. It’s easy to knock Kobe but it can be easy to knock shaq too. That’s what makes them a duo

@@StephenDeiss 2000-2002 Shaq era 2003-2007 Duncan era 2008-2010 Kobe era

​@@StephenDeiss "X doesn't win Y without Z" is such a bad argument. Jordan wouldn't have double-three-peated without Pippen -- true, but irrelevant to the fact that Jordan was far and away the MVP of those teams. Kobe, on the other hand, was never the clear-cut MVP on any of his championship teams. Regular seasons: 1999-00: Shaq 18.6 WS, Kobe 10.6 WS // Shaq 9.0 VORP, Kobe 4.5 VORP 2000-01: Shaq 14.9 WS, Kobe 11.3 WS // Shaq 7.1 VORP, Kobe 4.7 VORP 2001-02: Shaq 13.2 WS, Kobe 12.7 WS // Shaq 6.1 VORP, Kobe 5.2 VORP 2008-09: Gasol 13.9 WS, Kobe 12.7 WS // Kobe 5.9 VORP, Gasol 5.0 VORP 2009-10: Gasol 11.0 WS, Kobe 9.4 WS // Kobe 4.4 VORP, Gasol 4.2 VORP Playoffs: 2000: Shaq 4.7 WS, Kobe 2.1 WS // Shaq 2.6 VORP, Kobe 1.4 VORP 2001: Kobe 3.8 WS, Shaq 3.7 WS // Kobe 1.5 VORP, Shaq 1.4 VORP 2002: Shaq 3.8 WS, Kobe 2.6 WS // Shaq 1.9 VORP, Kobe 1.3 VORP 2009: Kobe 4.7 WS, Gasol 4.3 WS // Kobe 2.6 VORP, Gasol 1.7 VORP 2010: Gasol 4.3 WS, Kobe 3.6 WS // Kobe 2.1 VORP, Gasol 1.8 VORP (WS = Win shares, VORP = Value over replacement player) So, in conclusion, he was *very slightly* the best player on a championship team like...*maybe* two times out of five? Also, he never once led the league in VORP in 20 seasons. He came in 2nd a mere one time. He never once led the league in WS. He never once came in 2nd or even 3rd in WS. He came in 4th three times. Did he deserve to be a multiple-time All-star? Absolutely. But to claim he somehow deserved more accolades than he got is ridiculous. He won the 2007-08 MVP despite being 4th in WS and 3rd in VORP. He won the 2010 Finals MVP when it easily could have gone to either him or Gasol. He was on the All-Defensive team 9 times (tied for the most selections ever), despite only being in the top 10 in defensive win shares once in his entire career (and he was 10th that one time) -- to put that into perspective and compare it with some other guards, Jordan was in the top 10 in DWS 8 times, Kidd 5 times, Stockton 4 times, Rondo 4 times, Blaylock 4 times, C. Paul 2 times. People frequently put him in their top 10 all-time, and many even in their top 5 or top 3. What other player frequently makes top 10 all-time lists despite never having cracked into the TOP 3 in WS once in their entire career? Let's see: Jordan: 1st nine times, 2nd two times Lebron: 1st nine times, 2nd two times Kareem: 1st nine times, 2nd one time Wilt: 1st eight times, 2nd three times Harden: 1st five times K. Malone: 1st three times, 2nd three times Jokic: 1st three times Dirk: 1st two times, 2nd three times Shaq: 1st two times, 2nd three times Robinson: 1st two times, 2nd two times Bird: 1st two times, 2nd two times M. Malone: 1st two times, 2nd one time Garnett: 1st two times Duncan: 1st two times O. Robertson: 1st one time, 2nd four times Durant: 1st one time, 2nd three times C. Paul: 1st one time, 2nd three times Dantley: 1st one time, 2nd two times Russell: 2nd two times In conclusion, Kobe Bryant is the most overrated played in the history of basketball. He was a gifted All-Star and a champion, no doubt. He was not, however, a top 10 all-time player.

@🏈Savage Red Sports🏈 caruso and boban🤡🤡🤡

being honest here, who do you think will go further individually and for their team(s). giannis, jokic, zion (if he went back down to 260), or kyrie if he learned to play lockdown defense (probably never gonna happen)

Kobe might have been more iconic, but Duncan was better.

@@jbrumundsmith nah not even that

Is TD Tim Duncan? Or who?

@@rashamohammed2591 ight G Unit Steph

@@jbrumundsmith Put down the crack pipe dude. Duncan was great, but he’s not better than Kobe, not a chance.

I Agree

he won 3 mvp in the row . Maybe its a tie i cannot choose it

@@ezra7249 I refuse to argue that it's NOT CLOSE - and the careers of Larry and Earvin were linked even before they entered the NBA. 2 of the all time greatest, and one of the greatest RIVALRIES of all time - right up there with Bill and Wilt, who were even closer friends for most of their years off the court despite being very competitive ON the court in their matchups.

Larry at his best was better than Magic. Magic was healthy for pretty much the entire decade though while Larry fell off a cliff after the '87 season due to injuries. It's a classic case of peak vs career. Magic had the greater career and Bird had the greater peak.

magic is the best of all time

Like honestly chill out we all know it’s ZAZA PICHULIA

Let’s have a nice calm discussion I think Duncan was just fundamentally better but Kobe was just something else I pick Duncan though

It was definitely Duncan

Suuuupeer close,can't go wrong with either but I pick Duncan

ducan 3 rings 2 fmvp 2 mvp best player on his team for entire decade and best player on his team for every chip kobe 4 rings 1 fmvp 1 mvp best player on his team for 5 years and best player on his team for 1 chip its pretty clear to me

lol maybe giannis

2020s I think will be Giannis

He did in the 60s 100% wilt should’ve got it

He should have his number retired tho

@@cerxo8683 did we ask about football?

Problem?

Because it was the team that won, not the city

@@hugh_kemp0 and george mikan was on the team

no way it is all about winning...that is why Karl Malone is not mentioned anywhere....if he had won 4 or 5 some would call him the GOAT.....

Seth kettel “The Celtics also ran the pick-and-roll over and over again, freeing up Sam Jones and John Havlicek for open jumpers as Wilt again showed himself reluctant to leave the paint and cover the shooters who had been freed by Russell’s picks. Alex Hannum screamed from the sidelines for Wilt to switch, but to no avail as Jones, Havlicek, and point guard Larry Siegfried combined for 61 points”.-the rivalry John Taylor

One player each decade

5 rings>3 rings

Finely someone that name's all of the victims R.I.P

Fly high

Gianna? No, ok

@@elijahtheboxingfan3877 Bryant for both see he did 5 but were 7 cuz same surname 😁

I'd be interested in who that fool was - definitely was not wise or great. Why lust to be a lesser light when you can lust to be the best at his position ALL TIME HANDS DOWN? Did Lebron say he was chasing the guy in LA? No, he said he was chasing the ghost in CHICAGO....

Lmao

Lol 😂

I got one even better. DeAndre Hopkins

@@MoneyDeathMoneyGaming nah its ryan leaf no doubt

@@vimic9507 Nah bro Tiger Woods is the best basketball player. He does more hos than Santa Claus too

Just a stat padder like Westbrook

50's George Mikan

Mikan: 😢

Haha is this a joke literally nobody looked at Tim as the best in the league he wasn’t his sells prove it there’s a reason y the nba was struggling during that time Kobe is clearly the best of that era and it’s not close at all nobody wanted to watch Tim play that’s a fact

​@@The_king567 Conflating attention with value is the mark of a sucker. By that metric Lebron is better than Kobe, so either your metrics are not telling the story you want it to, or you are talking out of your ass.

I think they’re talking about skill and success

Yes, but 'skill' is more than just scoring. Wilt was obviously more skilled than Bill at scoring, but Bill was arguably a better rebounder, a much better defender in general, specifically a better shot blocker, much better passer, and less selfish, which allowed others in the offense to flourish, thus fostering a more team oriented style of play which was obviously the path to winning consistently. They were 'skilled' in different ways. Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan are the two most dominant scorers of all time, but Bill Russell and LeBron James are the two most consistent and effective leaders of all time.

@@thareelhelloagain wilt averaged 27 rebounds in a season(nba record). He also led the league in assists one time and he only did for fun💀😆 wilt was obviously better. It’s easy for bill to be perceived as the better player when you got like 10 hofs on the team making the team unbeatable.🥱😴

@@kodakwhite1696 it's easy to be perceived as the better player when you are unselfish for your entire career and all you care about is winning. I think Bill made his teammates better more than they made him better.

@@thareelhelloagain Wilt also has the most rebounds in a game at 55. Which he did while playing against Bill.. I like Russell but Wilt is definitely the better individual player

Wilt should have been there along with Russel.

Ye wilt for sure. He didn’t have as many rings but Russell was carried by the six other hall of famers on his team.

@@camdog6205no he did not in 67 were wilt won his only chip against Russell bill Russell wasn’t even playing because of his injury and his 7 hall of farmers collapsed gettin walked in a 5 game span

​@@camdog6205 wilt jugo con mas HOF que Russel

giannis

nah i take it back luka

tbh i love them both but I gotta go with giannis

No it’s still gonna be LeBron bc rn we’re in 2021 and LeBron is the goat

@@babou3191 lebron is going to retire like after 3 years or something

i dont think Lebron was the best player for all of the 2010s some people like myself would say Lebron led 2010-2015, and Steph Curry from 2015-2020

Lucas shut up

its not silly its a good take

You may be right, but only time will tell

She’s more of a cow

He is not the goat MJ is

Respect to Kobe but MJ is just the goat 🐐

Ya'll are really delusional... Give some respect to my childhood idol, I have never had a role model in my childhood, my father was never home, so I had to grasp onto something that would motivate me.

@@sjsiemka Kobe is great but MJ is just better

Lebron is the GOAT until the next generation. That’s how it works the most recent best player it the Goat that’s how it’s always been. Y’all took Kobe’s shine away from with that Jordan BS. People are starting to fight it for Lebron.

@@cheyheyway6244 shut up

@@makaveli6873 Yea the truth hurts

Nah that’s a joke to say Kobe is clearly better

60 is wilt 70 is kareem 80 larry bird

It should be: 50s Mikan 60s Chamberlain 70s Abdul-Jabbar 80s Johnson 90s Jordan 00s Duncan 10s James

@@petealonsosburner no lebron got saved by kyrie and ray allen and he is 5-47 in game tyin shots or game winnin and he is second all time in turnovers

@@marcusmvpgoat1236 are u literally going around replying with this on everyone's comment? Lmfao

@@bosco7799 lol everyone needs to know

to me it says best player in the title and that would be larry. magic even at the time was not considered a better baller than larry, larry was far more complete, but magic clearly had a better team

What year did u think he should won the MVP?

No he didn’t

@@byx8118 03 06 and 07

-100 points -55 rebounds -41' to 44' vert -won a championship against a team with 11 hall of famers Enough said.

It’s Russell

@@alexescutia4805 no.

@@tmn_night8748 “The Celtics also ran the pick-and-roll over and over again, freeing up Sam Jones and John Havlicek for open jumpers as Wilt again showed himself reluctant to leave the paint and cover the shooters who had been freed by Russell’s picks. Alex Hannum screamed from the sidelines for Wilt to switch, but to no avail as Jones, Havlicek, and point guard Larry Siegfried combined for 61 points”.-the rivalry John Taylor

Wilt didn’t show up during the playoffs 👌👌👌 his stats got worse

Dead meme

Bron gon retire too soon. He not playing another decade. Giannis maybe

Bro have u seen him… this guy gonna be windmill dunking at 50💀

Thats rly hard both have differnt play style

He was great but magic won more championships and beat Bird 2 out of 3 times in the finals

@@vernonleewarren280 I agree magic is a great player I just think Larry was a better player. I also think wilt is a way better player then bill

@@jjfgaming6355 I agree with you about Wilt being better in overall ability but Bill Russell always came up big in big games especially in the playoffs and he did what ever it took for his team to win. In the year Wilt averaged over 50 points a game Bill Russell won the MVP. Wilt played considerable worse in the playoffs and in big games. Look it up.

@@vernonleewarren280 Ik how it was I watched and studied from back then and wilt was a better overall player then bill was. You hear of everyone’s top ten usually wilt is on there higher then Russell. I do understand how you guys are looking at it thought and I do agree bill is a great player

Kobe is probably the all time leader in shot attempts. People don't mention that though

Gab riel lupisan “The Celtics also ran the pick-and-roll over and over again, freeing up Sam Jones and John Havlicek for open jumpers as Wilt again showed himself reluctant to leave the paint and cover the shooters who had been freed by Russell’s picks. Alex Hannum screamed from the sidelines for Wilt to switch, but to no avail as Jones, Havlicek, and point guard Larry Siegfried combined for 61 points”.-the rivalry John Taylor

Nope Lebron

Yeah I can agree with you on that, but James will always be my favorite player.

2000s? You mean Kobe? Lol.

@@Riri-oj1zs yes I do

@@Riri-oj1zs nah duncan

arguable, both of them are the Magic-Bird of that Era

Nah he didn’t but ok

kobe won Five kobe is better in 2000s deal with it.

@@iamtheshadows4916 Duncan won 5 too so stfu

@@wtb1000 And he couldn't repeat

@@chriswoodson9406 kobe couldn't without shaq

@@iamtheshadows4916 had shaq and was a second option for most of them

ABA was inferior....

Naah, not really. If you use this argument regarding Bird, his entire career inside and outside the court, he becomes the GOAT right there, he is the only human being who won MVP, COY and executive of the year (also the Olympics for good measure), he literally mastered the sport, the greatest mind

lol u have a jordan-lebron-kobe GOAT trio pic and u supporting duncan over kobe lolol.

Is it honestly even that close? Duncan is 6th all time in VORP, Kobe is 12th. Duncan is 14th all time in PER, Kobe is 27th Duncan is 7th all-time in Win Shares, Kobe is 19th. Duncan is 16th all-time in WS/48, Kobe is 60th

Kobe was definitely the bigger star, and way more fun to watch casually. And even though I think he was "overrated" I'm not at all saying he wasn't great. But more like "top fifteen or so all-time" not "in the discussion for the best ever"

@@Farwell3d so? Who won more rings in the decade, who dominated each other in the playoffs How is Duncan the best when Kobe beat him 4 times that decade in the postseason? You mention all of that but didn’t mention that Kobe and Duncan have almost the same True Shooting percentage

Brian Fowler stats are jus that

Yes. Statistics proves he was the best of the 80s.

2020- giannis

Or Booker or Ja

​@@dannychamberlain6244about Ja.....

@@US_ARMY_25_INF._DIV. he still was a legend to street ball history

Let’s be honest Steph isn’t on lebrons level all time

Don't forget about Moses, the single most underrated legend in the history of the game. Moses Malone imo is even greater than Dr. J. Unfortunately he wasn't flashy and he moved around from team to team so people don't remember his greatness, but he went head to head with Kareem and outplayed him quite often. He's also a three time MVP, putting him in the company of only Jordan, Wilt, Russell, Bird, Magic, Kareem, and Lebron.

Agreed

One in 99 one in 14 3 rings to kobe's 5 Also had great support Parker Ginobili Pop as coach

@@spiritwooo Kobe had 4 in 2000’s and also had great players like Shaq and Pau and Phil Jackson

Kobe was not a robin he was a Batman and Shaq was a Superman and don’t forget Kobe won the 2 championship two without shaq with a trash team Duncan got a good team and also Duncan got one in the 90s Kobe got all his rings in the 2000s Kobe is better player than Duncan Duncan only got a better career than Kobe

Momoneylessproblems “The Celtics also ran the pick-and-roll over and over again, freeing up Sam Jones and John Havlicek for open jumpers as Wilt again showed himself reluctant to leave the paint and cover the shooters who had been freed by Russell’s picks. Alex Hannum screamed from the sidelines for Wilt to switch, but to no avail as Jones, Havlicek, and point guard Larry Siegfried combined for 61 points”.-the rivalry John Taylor

Wise words

Its because bill has more rings

Bill Russell would shut down Wilt Chamberlain in the big games no matter how athletic Wilt Chamberlain was.

Nobody can beat 100 points in a game.

@@peasantgaming8140 Remember that time klay had 38 in a quarter

That's why he is the GOAT