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2017 Annual JazzFanz All-Time NBA Draft

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The real GOAT
6X Champion
6X MVP

In his second year in the NBA put his team on his back and won a championship as the finals MVP. It was a great run. They only lost two games in the playoffs that year. He averaged 32 points and 16 boards that year. As a rookie averaged 32 points and 16 boards in the playoffs. He put up video game numbers while dominating. All this in an era when he was getting beat up every game. They let them play. He would be unstoppable with todays rules.

I would post more but Jazz fans is down and hard to get going.
 
I thought long and hard about this. Some of my top choices are already taken - Wilt, Kareem, maybe Michael. But really, this is all about winning. And one person did more of that than anybody else is sports history.

With the 10th selection, Gandalfe chooses: BILL RUSSELL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40iKnaUjz_w

11× NBA champion (1957, 1959–1966, 1968, 1969) (more than any other player or coach ever)
2× NBA champion coach (1968, 1969)
5× NBA Most Valuable Player (1958, 1961–1963, 1965)
12× NBA All-Star (1958–1969)
NBA All-Star Game MVP (1963)
3× All-NBA First Team (1959, 1963, 1965)
8× All-NBA Second Team (1958, 1960–1962, 1964, 1966–1968)
NBA All-Defensive First Team (1969)
4× NBA rebounding champion (1958, 1959, 1964, 1965)
NBA 50th Anniversary Team
NBA playoffs all-time rebounding leader
NBA 35th Anniversary Team
NBA 25th Anniversary Team
No. 6 retired by the Boston Celtics
2× NCAA champion (1955, 1956)
NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player (1955)
Olympic Gold Medalist (1956)
UPI College Player of the Year (1956)
2× Helms Player of the Year (1955, 1956)
2× Consensus first-team All-American (1955, 1956)
WCC Player of the Year (1956)
No. 6 retired by University of San Francisco

1st in NBA history in Defensive Win Shares (133.6)
2nd in NBA history in both total rebounds (21620) and RPG (22.5)
2nd in NBA history in MPG (42.3)
If they counted blocks during his career, he'd be way up there in those, too.

Former NBA player and head coach, Don Nelson, described Bill Russell in a quote that says, "There are two types of superstars. One makes himself look good at the expense of the other guys on the floor. But there's another type who makes the players around him look better than they are, and that's the type Russell was."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9GITJ8X7E
 
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Let's try to keep it moving along here tonight and tomorrow. We could all use this camaraderie.
 
AND WITH THE 12th PICK.....

Larry Legend


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3× NBA champion (1981, 1984, 1986)
2× NBA Finals MVP (1984, 1986)
3× NBA Most Valuable Player (1984–1986)
12× NBA All-Star (1980–1988, 1990–1992)
NBA All-Star Game MVP (1982)
9× All-NBA First Team (1980–1988)
All-NBA Second Team (1990)
3× NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1982–1984)
NBA Rookie of the Year (1980)
NBA All-Rookie First Team (1980)
3× Three-point Shootout champion (1986–1988)
NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
No. 33 retired by Boston Celtics
John R. Wooden Award (1979)
Naismith College Player of the Year (1979)
AP National Player of the Year (1979)
Oscar Robertson Trophy (1979)
Adolph Rupp Trophy (1979)
NABC Player of the Year (1979)
2× MVC Player of the Year (1978–1979)
2× Consensus first team All-American (1978–1979)


I know the Celtics aren't the flavor of the day but this is my Boi! Larry Legend! The GREATEST SF in the history of the NBA.

He represents everything that GH is not!
 
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