Top Best Defensive Players Of All-Time

[Ofek99]

as a fan of Defensive basketball
i saw lot of players who doing awesome defense

here are my top Defensive players of today and of all time

Today
Anthony Davis
John Wall
Joakim Noah
[]Potential to be Great defender[] Kawhi Leonard
Rudy Gobert
Deandre Jordan
Westbrook
Draymond Green
Danny Green

All-Time
Gary Payton
Michael Jordan
Tim Duncan
Hakeem Olajuwon
Bill Russell
Dennis Rodman
Bruce Bowen
Shaq
Scottie Pippin
David Robinson

[JAWSFreelao]

Currently Active:
1) Anthony Davis.
2) Serge Ibaka.
3) Roy Hibbert.
4) DeAndre Jordan.
5) Rudy Gobert.

Retired:
1) Bill Russell.
2) Hakeem Olajuwon.
3) Dennis Rodman.
4) (Not retired but still) Kevin Garnett.
5) Marcus Camby.

[shadowgrin]

Hasskeem Wiltside.

[NovU]

We need to go by position or we have list full of bigs only.

[Alpha_]

Hassan Whiteside!

[JAWSFreelao]

Gotta say: Draymond Green is shooting up my personal chart. I don't follow classic hoops very much but in terms of present players, I'd say he's inside my top 15/.

[Moz]

Currently Active:
Joey Crawford

Retired:
Tim Donaghy

[shadowgrin]

[[Q]]

Not really fair to not separate perimeter & big men:
Payton
Pippen
Dennis Johnson
Bowen
Battier

Olajuwon
Russell
Mutombo
Rodman
Wilt

[shadowgrin]

Craig Ehlo
Gerrard Wilkins
Rubern Patterson

Hasheem Thabeet
Keith Closs
Michael Olowokandi

[Kevin]

Craig Ehlo
Gerrard Wilkins
Rubern Patterson

Hasheem Thabeet
Keith Closs
Michael Olowokandi

Thabeet.

[Ofek99]

first off. it can be even more than 5
and 2nd : updated my fav Defenders with players i forgot and now remembered them

[stereoxide]

Rubern Patterson

The god damn Kobe Stopper!

[NovU]

Dunno much about old era that I wasn't born fast enough to watch. So mine's since 3pt era.

ACTIVE:
Chris Paul
Kawhi Leonard

ACTIVE BIGs:
Roy Hibbert
Tim Duncan
LeBron James (positionless defender)

HAS BEENs:
Scottie Pippen
Shane Battier
Ron Harper
Kobe Bryant (for a couple seasons, he was right up there among the best)

HAS BEEN BIGs:
Shaq O'neal
David Robinson (yeah, he sucked in playoffs)
Ben Wallace
Yaosming
Dennis Rodman (possibly the best in this list)
Jackie Moon

[Jeffx]

Nate Thurmond - one of the best ever. Kareem will tell you.

[NovU]

Who that?

I just checked who that is actually and wowzers, jeffx. He did hold his own against Wilt even to consider just Wilt's prime. And we know who wilt was, bigger and more athletic version of Shaquille O'neal.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... =chambwi01

phpBB [video]

[Moz]

No love for Jimmy Buckets even the bandwaggonerds? Also NovU should be lynched by his fellow Heat comrades for dismissing Zo and instead putting Yao "of course I can block shots look at Manute Bol" Ming on his list...

[Alpha_]

Bill Russell

[Jeffx]

Who that?

I just checked who that is actually and wowzers, jeffx. He did hold his own against Wilt even to consider just Wilt's prime. And we know who wilt was, bigger and more athletic version of Shaquille O'neal.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... =chambwi01

phpBB [video]

Kareem always said Thurmond was the toughest cat he played against.

[benji]

as a fan of Defensive basketball
i saw lot of players who doing awesome defense

here are my top Defensive players of today and of all time
Shaq

Shaq O'neal

[NovU]

What?

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/LAL/2000.html

[benji]

We're giving away All-Time honors for one and a half seasons now?

[atlwarrior]

Past Defenders Stockton, Battier, Ron Artest, MJ, Bruce Bowen, Pippen, Joe Dumars, Tayshaun Prince 2003-07, Allen Iverson, Eric Snow, Raja Bell, Jason Kidd, Glove

Todays Perimeter Defenders: Paul George, Kawhi Leonard, CP3, Demarre Carroll, Jimmy Butler, Deng, D-Wade, LeBron

Past Bigs: Dikembe Mutombo, Admiral, Rodman, Big Ben, Shaq (not even fair but numbers never lie), Mourning, Kareem, Bill Russell

Todays Bigs: Anthony Davis, Marc Gasol, Joakim Noah, Whiteside, Deandre Jordan, Tyson Chandler, Dwight Howard, Gobert, Ibaka, Dreymond Green (One of my personal favs), Tim Duncan (even now still a great shot blocker)

Of course I missed some but you guys did too

[Mandich]

Nobody mentioned Cooper?

Also Bruce Bowen, because if it isn't dirty, it isn't defense.

I don't know about Shaq. Personally I think he was quite naive as a defender, but he was such a dominant figure that he did clog the paint and his numbers also help the case. Perhaps an underrated defeneder, but I wouldn't go as far as saying an all-time great.

Shaq (not even fair but numbers never lie)

Lol are you kidding me? Just watch the Spg category. Harden is 6th.

[shadowgrin]

Mark Eaton
Shawn Bradley

Eddie Jones
Doug Christie