With much respect to larry legend, its my opinion that Iverson is better. If you can't measure a players worth by their stats, then why can you measure their worth by titles? Chitownjordan, your claim is bird is better because of the amount of titles he won. That's a bogus guideline to measure how good a player is. Case in point, Charles Barkley has 0 titles, Robert Horry has like 6 rings. Who is a better player? Exactly, Barkley hands down. You can not measure how well a player performed based on rings. Think about all the bench players that are no where near players like Barkley, Malone, Stockton, Alonzo Mourning. John Paxon won a few titles, does that make him better than Steve Nash? No way. Rings and titles are won by the team and coaches, not 1 player. So you saying 1 player is better than the other because of titles is so far off its ridiculous, and I just proved it with the comparisons above. Sure they would all rather have a championship, everybody wants to win. But it doesn't make 1 person better than the other. In drag racing, a car can win 20 races going its top speed 300 mph. Another car comes along, wins no races but goes 310 mph. Which car was faster? Top 3 all time leading scoring averages, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlin, Allen Iverson. Some Iverson Stats Captured his fourth scoring title (30.9 ppg) in 2004- 05, joining Wilt Chamberlain (7 times), Michael Jordan (10 times) and George Gervin (4 times) as the only players in NBA history to capture four or more scoring titles (31.4 ppg in 2001-02, 31.3 ppg in 2000-01 and 26.8 ppg in 1998-99). Became the first player in NBA history since steals have been recorded (1973-74) to finish in the top-5 in scoring (30.7 ppg), steals (2.40), and assists (7.9). 10th fastest player to reach 14,000 points on Jan. 23, 2004 In 62 career playoff games, has averaged 30.6 points per game, the second highest scoring average in NBA Playoff history behind only Michael Jordan (33.4 ppg).
BlogZilla, I think you should no better not to base things entirely on points. Larry Bird averaged 24.3 points, 10.0 boards, 6.3 assists, and 1.74 steals a game. Iverson averages 27.8 points, only 4 rebounds, 6.1 assists, and 2.4 steals. The stats above show that they are both very similar, in which case you must begin to measure their preformance in the playoffs. AI has not won a single championship (not even in the Eastern Conference) while Bird has won three, and was the MVP of two. That goes to show that his 30.6 points per game haven't done much have they?
Iverson is NOTHING compared to Larry Bird. Bird would've been the best player EVER, yea i said it, if he was athletic. He had about the best understanding of the game, of anyone, with the exception of MAYBE Jordan. Bird won those titles against the Lakers. That Lakers team was incredible, and Bird still has all those rings. Larry Bird was everything basketball in a 50 year olds body. If Iverson wins a championship, and his career ends, and he still has top 3 PPG of all time, then make your case, but now... NOT EVEN CLOSE!
Hey blog zilla jordan won those titels with game wining shot thats y i can say that because if it wasnt for jordan that team would of never won. Yeah an Larry Bird is one of the greatest but i still think jordan is.Ok blogzilla let me think of another one ummm how about when jordan scored like 40 when he had the flue i think thats a great player. Yeah iverson is great but when he gets accuased of a really bad crim from the police then that doesnt make a good player.
