Which #33 is less deserving of being a "Top 50" player?

Marty Conlon sucked. Brett Szabo sucked. Acie Earl sucked. Patrick Ewing?

 

Conlon, Szabo and Earl never wore the #33. Whats your point?

 

STAT TOTAL NBA RANK
Minutes 40,594 13th
Points 24,815 13th
Field Goals Made 9,702 10th
Free Throws Made 5,392 18th
Blocks 2,894 4th



Those are some sucky numbers.

 

First of all...DISPICABLE! I can't believe NY fans just booed Alonzo Mourning when he went up to say a few kinds words about Patrick Ewing at the jersey retirement ceremony. Ridiculous.

As for your question, it's Scottie Pippen. I think he's just been holding Gary Payton's spot for the last couple of years.

 

Pippen.

Migraine faking wussy boy who rode another's tail but was solidly mediocre without a superstar taking all the pressure.

Ewing was a great player. Flawed, but still great. He wasn't as good as Hakeem, but that's not a crime.

 

You forgot a word in your original post. I went ahead and added it in for you.

 

yea except pippen came right back and was MVP of the all-star game after Jordan left.

 

Oooh, the All-Star game! That's important...

 

Ewing hands down, if anyone saw the Blazers game last night, then they'll understand Pippen's importance to the team. He carried the Blazers to victory with a swollen knee.

I thought it would have been funny if someone mentioned the strip club incident to Ewing, I never did like him.

 

Didn't Ewing hit the game winning shot to send the Knicks to the Finals in 1994?

 

Yes he did. Game winning layup.

 

What Pippen did now is irrelevant. Ewing at least led his team to the Finals. Pippen couldn't do it without MJ.

 

One was a franchise center. Someone you could build a team around. We might not like Ewing, and comparing him to Hakeem is just plain stupid. However, he is definitely top fifty of all time.

Pippen would quit on the team if you tried to build one around him.

 

It is funny that this is being talked about as I was thinking that Ewing is someone not worthy of being in the top 50.

I mean I think the guy was overrated for a couple of reasons:

1) He had such a great college career at Georgetown and came into the league with this aura of being such a dominant player because of what he did in college

2) He played in New York....I mean come on, if he had played in Milwaukee or Sacramento or Cleveland or somewhere else that was not a huge market like New York, would he have gotten all the attention that he got??

Plus watching Ewing shoot a basketball was something that was genuinely horrifying.

Now don't get me wrong I despise Quitten and I really think that both of them don't belong in the top 50 but if I had to choose one, I would choose Ewing as the one to boot out.

 

Pippen didn't win w/o MJ and MJ didn't win w/o Pippen, your point?

Even now in the 16th year of his NBA career Pippen has a chance to lead the Blazers to his 7th ring. And plus he'll probably play 2 more years after this, depending upon how he feels at the end of the year.

 

OK, ya'll can start using and anytime now!

I mean, you can't be seriously asking (objectively) if Ewing was a top 50 player?! Of course he was!

NY may have never won a ring with him, but they were contenders throughout his career. And he was one of the more consistent and well-rounded Cs in the history of the game.

I always held a bit of a grudge against him because his Georgetown team beat UH for the Nat'l Championship , but I definitely respected and appreciated his game.