Vinsanity submits three GOATS for our consideration.
Eight-time All-Star swingman and first ballot Hall of Famer Vince Carter recently chatted with Bleacher Report's Taylor Rooks for an informative conversation, spanning his entire 22-year NBA career .
As so often happens in these freewheeling, extensive conversations, the chat eventually turned to the 6-foot-6 Half-Man/Half-Amazing's pick for the NBA GOAT . Vinsanity's personal top three list, it turns out, covers two Lakers. He performed against all three players during the course of his own decorated career."I'm truly thankful. I got a chance to play against Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and of course LeBron.
"The approach of MJ was just like Kobe," Carter said. "And he's won... Why is he not in that conversation?" Restricting the GOAT talk to Jordan and James is fairly reductive, but putting Bryant in there ahead of, say, fellow Lakers legends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Magic Johnson and Wilt Chamberlain, as well as Boston Celtics luminaries Bill Russell and Larry Bird and San Antonio Spurs superstar power forward Tim Duncan, could be seen as something of a slight all those legends.
Jordan, James and Abdul-Jabbar, in some order, probably represent the pinnacle of the league. Jordan's reign was briefer than those of the other two, but only Bill Russell and his Celtics enjoyed more sustained, efficient high-volume success in the league — Russell's era also had far fewer teams and far fewer playoff rounds, meaning Jordan had to go through more to win.
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