How Good Was Toni Kukoc Actually? 

@Ravensfan4life Basketball HoF. Nba Hall of very good.

@Ravensfan4life man has more awards than fingers. It is the basketball hall of fame not the NBA HoF

Kukoc has a career NBA scoring average of 11.6 points per game. His last four years in the league he averaged 7.6 points per game. His last two years with the Bulls after Jordan left and Kukoc had a chance to lead the team, the team won 13 games the first year and 17 games the next year and the Bulls needless to say, failed to make the playoffs for the first time in years. There is absolutely nothing in Kukoc's NBA resume that would legitimately warrant an NBA Hall of Fame nomination.

@@boci4618 The NBA is the elite of basketball. Those who achieved a lot in Europe but little in the NBA don't deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. To be in the Basketball Hall of Fame means you are elite. If you can only play well in Europe, then you are not elite. The NBA is the varsity of basketball. Europe is JV.

@@akken2112 its the basketball hall of fame not the NBA hall of fame.

Da Vion Haynes-W I wouldn’t say he is a legend

How is he a legend lmao

@@c4rtiisbett3r if he's not a legend, then you don't watch basketball.

@@c4rtiisbett3r He is defintevly legend in Europe

"Barely had problems with teammates" Didn't Pippen and MJ deliberately humiliate him in the Olympics?

There were and there are great players from the region of former Yugoslavia, but he's the most talented player I ever watched.

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C stfu

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C I live in Europe and I have played football all my life. But I still find this irritating. Just let people like whatever sport they want

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C How is this relevant to this comment at all? Go find some Ronaldo pics to drool over.

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C soccer was invented to keep european women entertained while the men cooked.

same, kukoc was my 2nd favorite in bulls after jordan.. he was so sensational that time.. can't even tell without kukoc there would be no 2nd 3 peat in bulls

@@jonsnow3754 I understand. Many people surprise when i tell them C Webb is the I started watching basketball.

Same. I was 7 when he joined the bulls and I spent all I had to buy me a kukoc Jersey.

Yes he is such a clutch player. It is just he is MJ and Scottie, so he doesn't get the attention he deserves.

The Bulls weren't that deep. As proven especially in 97 and 98. Some of the weakest teams on offense to win a title. Pippen was injured on and off. Rodman could defend and rebound but had no offense and clearly wasn't the same after 96. Kukoc was pretty good and well balanced in skills offensively but was not a good defender. Kerr was nothing more than a 3pt guy. Harper could defend but mediocre on offense . Just replaceable roleplayers after that

LeBron would’ve won 11 rings with that team. He would’ve never cracked and retire for 2 years. He would’ve gone to the playoffs 3 years into the league not 5 years. He would’ve won 11

@@zozochichi Absolute nonsense. James couldn't even win three in a row with better overall help and injuries and contract disputes and so forth make it hard win so many in a row. Look how injuries stopped the warriors. Also, Jordan didn't have the same teammates the whole time and he partly retired because of his father's death. Without Jordan, that second threepeat team a borderline playoff team at the very best. Pippen and Rodman missed loads of games in 98

@@zozochichi le bronze got 2 bronze medals with 2 dream teams, mj got 2 gold medals with a college team before turning pro, 1983 and 1984.

Nkateko Macevele yeah Scottie and mj bullied him forever

Kukoc has said he enjoys watching KD play today

Kukoč had amazing careec, amazing. Hall of fame player, 10000%.

@@el_messija2615 respect for spelling his last name properly hehe Cheers!

He was scouted to be Scottie's replacement. Management ruined their relationship ultimately..

Facts, Kukoc being his predecessor too, he always knows his stuff, man, a player like KD... if only he wasn't the weakest superstar of all-time, but even more relevantly than that, why did he bring all that disservice to himself both as a man off the court and as a player on the court even outside the Warriors-betrying Thunder facts, jeez KD....

He didnt wear it because of kukoc stupid he wore it because it was the comletation of the world if you didnt know in the bible the world was completed in 7 days

@@adammea1585 hahahaha he could of chose between 100 different players wearing the #7.

You are secretively TK

Only thing what is missing is the scene of Toni dunking from the free throw line when he was still playing in Split - just to show he's athleticism according to Nowitzki

Tony is overrated. Don't judge a player by titles he won because than Robert Horry > Karl Malone

@@damirdamir1180 he’s extremely underrated lol, he would of easily been a #1-2 option on most teams in the 90s.. he was on a stacked bull teams and was the 3rd/4th option most of the time.

Kukoc wasn't just overrated, he was highly overrated. What did he do when Jordan left the bulls for two years then retired. NOTHING. What did he do in Milwaukee, NOTHING. What did he do in Atlanta? Once again, NOTHING. Kukoc was in Philly for two years and averaged 10.2 points per game. That ain't even hall of fame numbers in grade school basketball. If one is to analyze the NBA, one would be remiss to ignore the racial aspect, this is the USA where race is very, very important. The NBA is a predominately African-American product that is being marketed to a white American audience. That audience has historically had a problem with accepting anything that is overwhelmingly Black unless it is somehow ameliorated. That is just a fact about the USA. This is why the NBA went to Europe. One would be hard pressed to name 10 American born white NBA players who are of all star quality. This was true of the 1990s, 2000s, and today. So, lets go to Eastern Europe to find the much needed white players, and hey, if they're good, we will promote them as being grrrreat. You can find dozens of former African-American NBA players with stats similar to Kukoc's who aren't considered Hall of Fame caliber players. Kukoc is just one of too many examples of white privilege.

@@akken2112 you just about salty about 1994 ny knicks Game 3

@@akken2112 I agree with you, in my opinion he is not top 20 NBA player from Europe. Better than Kukoc are: Bojan Bogdanovic, Drazen Petrovic, Lauri Markkanen, Evan Fournier, Rudy Gobert, Tony Parker, Dennis Schroder, Dirk Nowitzki, Detlef Schrempf, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Danillo Galinari, Marco Belinelli, Andrea Bargnani, Kristaps Porzignis, Domantas Sabonis, Jonas Valanciunas, Arvydas Sabonis, Nikola Vucevic, Rik Smits, Andrei Kirilenko, Nikola Jokic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Vlade Divac, Peja Stojakovic, Luka Doncic, Goran Dragic, Marc Gasol,Pau Gasol, Clint Capella.

You are kids that havent seen him play, and btw beeing white from europe back then it was though not privilaged...kids lol

58 years old. Love Tony. From Chicago. 100% Slovak

yap he is now a NBA hall of famer class of 2021

hes better than pippen.

same feeling when they read your sentence

@Damien Williams Found the bot, what are you on about?

MJ got to keep his teammates contribution down to keep his god status high

Croatia is NOT Eastern Europe though...

@@kani9284 the borders of germany, austria and italy traditionally define the border between eastern and western Europe

@@edwardlomeli5657 Wrong. That is because Scottie and Toni did nothing impressive after their Bulls tenure. Scottie was in Houston and Portland, both highly seeded teams but accomplish nothing. Toni after the bulls was obscure. Kerr on the other hand maintained how he was, a reliable role player, at SAS

Ahem... Luka.

Watch out for Luka, he will be better. Although I am sure Petrovic could have reached greatness in that league had he did not die too soon..

@@mrpatfenis3148 Luka still needs to surpass Dirk, the man who beat a PRIME LEBRON Super team. Lets see Luka beat led team beat GSW.

When he die, he will be.

The Jordan effect and myth killing and robbing some more players as usual, despite Kukoc being damn near a first ballot HOFer and such an impactful player.

Maybe because he is European

@@dusk6159 Why blame MJ?

Just Vibin' they want to preserve the narrative that MJ played with scrubs.

that wasnt the case, krause was lowballing pip because toni was his guy

@@jespacey Sad that the MVP of that team had to get criminally treated like that, but Krause did his job masterfully, raining stars and stacking pieces on that Bulls team handing as many rings to Jordan as possible.

Krause did his job, then spit in the team's face afterward by stating that organizations and not players win championships. He felt HE made the Bulls. He has no honor for the game, and the organization is still cursed because of it.

@Brian Pederson was he also doing his job when essentially fired a coach who had won 5 titles in the last 7 years, which would eventually lead to the breaking up of the most elite team ever?

@Brian Pederson just illustrates that krause wasn't doing a good job at that point anymore. you don't nickle and dime the 2nd best player in the league. specially when you the best best player in the league under the larry bird rule. you don't do things to ruin the team, when the team is literally winning titles every year.

Not saying it is but are you mad they beat your country and said they destroyed them?

Weak posting!

@@mxles8102 nah lel, croatia was few year old country with 4 mil people against US (50 states?) dream team... but Im not talking about that, I am talking about his impact on bulls, never mentioned in the last dance.

Totally agree. Jordan sucks at basketball because some editors in a documentary decided to spend less time talking about Kukoc.

So there was a dance , go for practice .poor , stile good , why Pele never played 4 60606

Bog i batina od igraca

@@tonimarasovic4189 Nije slučajno dobio ovacije od navijača Partizana, i to u osvit svih sranja koja su se dogodila

don't put kerr over Harper

False.

Agree

Apparently better at golf than MJ as well.

i love toni kukoc 🇮🇳👍

Hvala vam puno. ljubavi, iz hrvatske.

No, you wouldn't, because your basketball is already where it belongs, and that's in a trash can.

In Europe yes in the world no

@@croke835 balkan players are taking over the league

Can't believe you didn't mention Dražen Petrović!

@ he did

I could see Serbian from a plane...

francis dy don’t cap

Ikr

Yay

Of course

Agreed.

@Alex Daniel thats not funny

no ... cmon . the yugo team would be awesome and really fun to watch against dream team but cmon

Would be cose game. If Yugo still existed they would beat today's USA for sure.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a team that could beat the '92 Dream Team. I certainly can't think of one.

@@sd3nsd744 u need to know that they had divac, radja, kukoc, drazen,... List goes on they won everything together so i think they could make a really close game

@@sd3nsd744 Let s make a NBA Allstars team and Ex Yugo Team nowadays !

toni newer view it that way

Krause did that! They had to prove a point to Krause that Scottie was not a pawn..

Toni has been through way worse shit than being bullied😂

Mj and scotty were in their prime during barcelona while kukoc would gave been in his 2nd year of college if he was american

I,,??

Repubilika Dugave. You would have taken Kukoc over Radja and Divac.

@Inigo Bantok why kukoc wasnt an all star is beyond me...

HOF is about basketball achievement right? I think his international achievements is enough to be in HOF.

Soon He is already listed for class 2021 Hall of Famer

KD is a big student of basketball, way more clever that he sometimes makes it look to be

KD would be one of the most deserving players and students if only he wasn't the weakest superstar and with all his problems as a man and (off the court) player. But definitely his player abilities and game studying are a guarantee of elite, especially he wouldn't miss his predecessor.

Completely agree, he sacrificed his game to ultimately be a role player for MJ. Toni did not play his natural position once Duringnhis tenure in the nba. Toni is an incredible Facilitator and Ball handler, that was his game. If Toni had his own team during his prime you would of easily seen 22PPG/7AST/7RBD splits.