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Nuvendil on 22 June 2016
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Pinkie_pie said:
Dark_Lord_2008 said:
The watered down 1990s was a huge step down from the great 1970s/80s basketball era. Greats like Kareem-Abdul Jabbar, Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Julius Erving, Bernard King, Larry Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin Mchale, George Gervin, etc. Jordan was a stand out star in a weak 1990s era featuring 6 expansion teams. Marketing and media hype pushed the Jordan is God in Nike sneakers myth.

So you think the 80s was better than the 90s is because there were more hall of famers and legends. And you also think todays era is better than the 90s? The level of elite superstars in the nba was higher in the 90s than it is today. At least 20 players in the top 50 greatest of all time played in the 90s. It seems to me you're just a jordan hater because he was the standout among the all time greats in the 90s

Well I don't think the 2000s are unanimously better.  Nor the 80s myself.  But I do feel that nearly every era has it's area where it is stronger than most others when you look at it's elites list.  90s certainly has better centers than the 2000s and onwards.  But better than the 80s, 70s, or even the late 60s?  I should think not.  Kareem, Wilt, Russell are the big three of those eras and all make it on to top 10 lists regularly with ease.  Kareem and Wilt are the most common proposed alternatives to Jordan as the GOAT. 

I'll say the current era has the better sharpshooters, that's pretty much undeniable.  90s is actually a big jack of all trades era.  There's Shaq that came in to rep the centers, Jordan for the shooting guards.  But other than them not many primarily 90s players have a snowballs chance for a top 10 spot on most lists that I can think of.  But a lot of them make top 50s or 100s.  Every era is different, with officiating and chance changing the make up of the league.  Unanimously declaring one era better in every single way than all others and then using that to venerate one set of players and then downplay all others is a narrowminded and simplistic way of approaching a highly complex discussion.