The 100 Best Players in Basketball History, Part 7

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60.   Jack Sikma 120.36 C 1209 .100

The best basketball player I ever met comes in ahead of Laimbeer…ahead of Howard…gets all the way below Nance.

 

59.   Rasheed Wallace 120.36 PF 1286 .094

 Squeezes in between Howard and Laimbeer. 

 

58. Zelmo Beaty 120.6 C 1004 .120

-Right at Baylor, he goes just below. 

57. Dominique Wilkins 121.07 SF 1130 .107

-Right below Beaty, the career value starts to push down Johnston/Macauley

56.   Terry Porter 121.99 PG 1398 .087

Goes in ahead of another point guard, Cheeks.

 

55. Bailey Howell 122.02 PF 1036 .118

Sure looks like a guy going in right above Beaty

 

54.   Wes Unseld 122.79 C 1103 .111

And right between Beaty and ‘Nique is all man Unseld. 

 

53. Jeff Hornacek 123.31 SG 1217 .101

Jeff Hornacek was a better basketball player than Isiah Thomas.  This is a minority opinion.  It’s also supported by the weight of the evidence.  He’s just ahead of Nance. 

 

52. Pau Gasol 123.59 F 950 .130

Easy to slot – he’s right above Elgin Baylor. 

 

51.   George Mikan 125.63 C 509 .247

We are 100 players in and we have a clear cut, no debate, number one – Mikan’s wins/game the first to top .2 and he nears .25.  We’ll need a pretty healthy career value to top his per game advantage. 

 

The top 50 players for career value of all time are coming.  That means after the list you’re about to see, the bottom fifty will drop off; we’ll end up the list of the 100 greatest players ever. 

 

1.       George Mikan

2.       Chris Paul

3.       Dwyane Wade

4.       Paul Arizin

5.       Pau Gasol

6.       Elgin Baylor

7.       Bailey Howell

8.       Zelmo Beaty

9.       Wes Unseld

10.   Dominique Wilkins

11.   Ed Macauley

12.   Neil Johnston

13.   Jeff Hornacek

14.   Larry Nance

15.   Jack Sikma

16.   Vince Carter

17.   Dwight Howard

18.   Rasheed Wallace

19.   Bill Laimbeer

20.   Terry Porter

21.   Maurice Cheeks

22.   Detlef Schrempf

23.   Elton Brand

24.   Manu Ginobli

25.   Kevin Johnson

26.   Eddie Jones

27.   Sam Jones

28.   Allen Iverson

29.   Jerry Lucas

30.   Sam Perkins

31.   Bobby Jones

32.   Otis Thorpe

33.   Sidney Moncrief

34.   Chris Bosh

35.   Hal Greer

36.   Ben Wallace

37.   Tracy McGrady

38.   Alex English

39.   Grant Hill

40.   Tony Parker

41.   Bob Cousy

42.   Dave Cowens

43.   Amare Stoudemire

44.   Alonzo Mourning

45.   Vern Mikkelson

46.   Bill Sharman

47.   Dennis Rodman

48.   Vlade Divac

49.   Hersey Hawkins

50.   Bob McAdoo

 

This is the last we’ll utilize this portion of the list.  Since I stopped the tabulation with 83 career win shares, I’m not warranting that I can calculate the top 150 ever, it could be that a player like Durant with just a tick, as of this writing, under 80 win shares, belongs pretty high up a list of the below fifty.  But that wasn’t the goal here – just to get a top 100, based on battling out the top 150 for overall value.  These players did not make the top 100. Active, and therefore with a shot in the future, in bold. 

 

51.   AC Green

52.   Lenny Wilkens

53.   Shawn Kemp

54.   Jimmy Jones

55.   Jason Terry

56.   Cliff Hagan

57.   Anthony Mason

58.   Chris Mullin

59.   James Worthy

60.   Rashard Lewis

61.   Andre Miller

62.   Marques Johnson

63.   Bobby Dandridge

64.   Chris Webber

65.   Harry Gallatin

66.   Peja Stojakovic

67.   Joe Dumars

68.   Dale Davis

69.   PJ Brown

70.   Mark Jackson

71.   Charles Oakley

72.   Terry Cummings

73.   Sam Cassell

74.   Isiah Thomas

75.   Steve Smith

76.   Glen Rice

77.   Tim Hardaway

78.   Tiny Archibald

79.   Dennis Johnson

80.   Antawn Jamison

81.   Lou Hudson

82.   Dan Majerle

83.   Cedric Maxwell

84.   Michael Finley

85.   Derek Harper

86.   Calvin Murphy

87.   Marcus Camby

88.   George McGinnis

89.   Rod Strickland

90.   Lamar Odom

91.   Earl Monroe

92.   Nate Thurmond

93.   Cliff Robinson

94.   Byron Scott

95.   Dale Ellis

96.   Don Nelson

97.   Gail Goodrich

98.   Paul Silas

99.   Tom Chambers

100.                        Kevin Willis