To learn more or opt-out, read our ESPN has ranked its Top 74 NBA Players of All-Time, and four Hoyas have made the list.Dikembe Mutombo makes the list at 73, Alonzo Mourning is 63rd, Patrick Ewing 37th, and Allen Iverson is 29th.

The 6-foot-6 legend took the league by storm the moment he set foot on an NBA hardwood. There was a season in which Chamberlain never left a basketball game to rest, averaging 48.5 minutes a game. He won the Slam Dunk Contest as a rookie and was a member of the All-Rookie Team. 33 won three straight MVP awards, the only player in league history to accomplish the feat. He is also one of the highest scoring small forwards in the game and the best rebounder of the lot with 13.5 rebounds per game.Despite retiring prematurely nine games into the 1971-72 season and thereby missing out on winning a title, the Lakers fittingly gave him a championship ring since he played in nine games.Career Averages: 21.1 points, 10.6 rebounds, 2.5 assistsAll-NBA: 4x First Team, 2x Second Team, 4x Third TeamIn the unofficial “Golden Age of Centers” in the 90s, David Robinson was one of the best of that era. He’s a two-time ABA champion, three-time ABA MVP, five-time ABA All-Star and he scored 11,662 points in the ABA’s short existence.As it is, he accomplished quite a lot in his 11-year NBA career.Career Averages: 17.8 points, 10.0 rebounds, 3.7 assistsAll-NBA: 4x First Team, 3x Second Team, 2x Third TeamBelieve it or not, the Kid is now retired and is arguably in the top 20 greatest of all time. At 7-foot-1 and more than 300 pounds, O’Neal dominated the paint with his unusual combination of strength, skill and speed.O’Neal nabbed the Rookie of the Year award in 1992 and he never looked back since then. He played for Dirk Werner Nowitzki (German pronunciation: [ˈdɪʁk ˈvɛʁnɐ noˈvɪtski]) (born June 19, 1978) is a German retired professional basketball player.

His five championships cemented him as one of the greatest players to play the game.At 6-foot-9, Johnson was the biggest point guard that had ever graced the basketball court until the Sixers’ Ben Simmons came along.

He averaged more assists per game than most, if not all, of his fellow shooting guards.It wasn’t until he won his first championship that he was taken seriously as one of the greatest players in the game. But don’t let his boy-next-door looks fool you. Here is our latest power rankings. He didn’t pattern his game after Jordan the same way Kobe Bryant did since Drexler came to the NBA ahead of His Airness, but Glide played above the stratosphere as well. A player who was at number 12 at the center spot, for example, made the cut while my ninth best shooting guard was left out. Robertson is the precursor to LeBron James but no one has played a more complete all-around game in history than the Big O.Career Averages: 25.0 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.7 assistsAll-NBA: 11x First Team, 2x Second Team, 2x Third TeamSome say he’s the greatest Laker of all time and after playing incredibly great for 20 years, Kobe Bryant deserves to at least be part of the argument. During his playing days, he added three championship banners to the rafters of the old Boston Garden and brought in legions of fans from the NCAA to the NBA along with Magic Johnson, his chief rival and now close friend.Many have said that there will never be another Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson etc. Luka Doncic became the youngest player in NBA history to record a 30-20-10 triple-double (besting some guy named Oscar Robertson by a year and a … They eventually lost Game 6 but who knows if the Sonics could have won the series had he guarded His Airness from the start?Career Averages: 24.6 points, 6.7 rebounds, 2.5 assistsAll-NBA: 1x First Team, 4x Second Team, 2x Third TeamThe Human Highlight Reel not only had a cool nickname but he had a game that truly warranted the moniker.

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He played his entire 20-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Center from Newark, New Jersey, United States of America Shaquille Rashaun "Shaq" O'Neal ( shə-KEEL; SHAK; born March 6, 1972) is a retired professional American basketball player who is a sports analyst on the television program Inside the Point guard and Power forward from Lansing, Michigan, United States of America Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is an American retired professional basketball player and former president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers of the Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon (; Yoruba: [olaɟuwɔ̃]; born January 21, 1963), formerly spelled (& still pronounced as) Akeem Olajuwon, is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player. NBA Power Rankings: First Impressions of All 22 Teams in the Bubble. When Julius Erving simply could not win a title with 76ers, the addition of the 6-foot-10 center was the final piece that gave Dr. J his highly-coveted championship ring and it was Malone who took home the Finals MVP award.Career Averages: 27.0 points, 5.8 rebounds, 6.7 assistsJerry West was the best shooting guard during the NBA’s Golden Era. Stockton would still be the NBA's all-time assist leader even if he had not played his final six seasons. Anyone can vote on the best NBA players here, which means these players are truly fan favorites. He lives up to the hype and the mystique. The Stilt suffered from the perception that he wasn’t as good as advertised when time and time again his teams would be eliminated by Russell’s Celtics. 11 championship rings. Though he may have padded his stats in order to get to that averaged, averaging a triple-double for a season is nonetheless an amazing feat.