Indeed.One thing I'll say for sure -- this is around where Kobe should be, and the general twentysomething NBA fans who put Kobe top 10, or incredibly, top 3, are out of their minds.
I mean, this is maybe why people underrate him? I watched a game at the Garden from the second row (we may have been in the B's penalty box) where he put up 41. Dunks and free throws, force of nature without a mirage of 'basketball' skill. That's what rules allowed back then. Legal, but man, uninspiring.Shaq has somehow become really underrated. He bulldozed his way to a back-to-back-to-back titles
He became a player over time, but he was way more Mikan than Hakeem.