Ball Don't Lie

[fatmenace]

BDL ranked the best players of the decade. On the one hand, seeing Duncan number one puts me in their corner with the farm fuzzies. On the other hand, seeing McGrady anywhere near the top 10 and seeing Shaq missing from the top five is sort of absurd. Nonetheless, it's a good five minute time waster.

sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/The-10-best-NBA-players-of-the-last-decade?urn=nba,194287

[gk]

I think I agree with you in theory about McGrady, but who would you put there instead? Without doing any research, Chauncy Billups?

I'd also bump Shaq to the top 3, maybe #1.

[fatmenace]

Billups deserves to be on there. Shaq and KG should swap places (let's keep TD number one). I'd put Ginobili ahead of TM. Heck, Marcus Camby deserves to be ahead on TM. McGrady has a famous name, just nothing to go along with it. What about Paul Pierce? Certainly no one would argue McGrady was better than him. Carmelo Anthony has been in the league, what, six years now? He's had a better decade than TM. So has Dwight Howard. There are plenty of players who have only been in the league a few years who had a better decade than TM did in ten years.