Curry at 1 feels right or nah?

Two of Jordan's four playoff series wins over Cleveland ended on his own game-winner. The Shot over Craig Ehlo in 1989, then the jumper that won Game 4 and finished a sweep in 1993. That's why he's first.

Anthony Davis led the NBA in blocks three times in the 2010s, in 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2017-18, all with New Orleans. He's on my third tier with Giannis and Paul George, and I'd have a hard time moving any of those three.

Dirk Nowitzki was a ranked junior tennis player in Germany before he settled on basketball. At 15 he caught the eye of Holger Geschwindner, a former German national team player, and a year later they were training every day. Fourth on my power forwards.

Houston's lead at the top is 1,417 threes over Golden State. The 2018-19 Rockets made 1,323 all by themselves and took more threes than twos, 3,721 to 3,442.

Spud Webb is still the shortest player ever to win the dunk contest, and he did it in 1986 in Dallas, his hometown. The defending champ he beat in the final was his own Hawks teammate, Dominique Wilkins. That's who's No. 1 on this card.

OKC outscored teams by 12.9 a game in 2024-25, the best mark in NBA history and more than half a point clear of the 1971-72 Lakers. Then they won the title, so the number wasn't lying.

Detroit had 856 steals, 60 more than anybody else. Ausar Thompson had 146 of them, third in the league behind Cason Wallace and Dyson Daniels.

The Brooklyn row is where it turned. He started 54 games for the Nets in 2013-14, more than in any other season he played, and Golden State signed him that July.

Kobe, Derrick Rose and the rest weighing in on where LeBron should go in 2010 LeBron picked Miami, and Rose got his answer on the floor the next season. He became the youngest MVP ever at 22 and took the Bulls to 62 wins. Then the Heat beat Chicago in five in the East finals.

Wilt scored 70 or more six times in his career. I gave him one spot, the 100, or he'd have taken six of the ten.

Eight of the 15 names on my 2000s pyramid won a title in that decade. Dirk, LeBron, Kidd and Dwight all had to wait for theirs. Nash, Iverson and McGrady never got one.

The 1972-73 Celtics won 68, still the most in franchise history, and lost the East finals to the Knicks after Havlicek tore a muscle in his shoulder in Game 3. New York won the title. It didn't win another until this June.

Chris Paul's 21st season was 16 games off the Clippers bench. This card counts any season with at least one game, and that was enough to pull him level with Parish, Dirk, Garnett and Kevin Willis.

Hakeem was the first player born outside the US to win MVP, and he did it in 1993-94, the same year he won Defensive Player of the Year and the title. He starts over 2001 Shaq, and that's saying something.

That one legged fadeaway from Dirk 🎨 I think it's the reason he lasted as long as he did. A shot falling away off one foot doesn't need much lift, so it held up long after the rest of him slowed down. He played 21 seasons, all in Dallas, which broke Kobe's record of 20 with one team, and he retired sixth on the all time scoring list.

The season Phil Jackson went 72-10, Brian Winters' expansion Grizzlies lost 23 straight, a single-season record at the time. Vancouver won the first two games in franchise history and only 13 more after that.

James Worthy might be the most underrated Laker ever. Big Game James had a Finals MVP and still gets lost behind Magic and Kareem.

Game 1 of the 1992 Finals, Jordan scored 35 in the first half with six threes, both records. Then came the shrug. Clyde Drexler has spent more than 30 years as the other guy in that clip.

Cleveland traded him to the Clippers in February 2011 with Jamario Moon for Baron Davis and a first-round pick. The pick came up No. 1 and became Kyrie Irving.

Giannis goes from half court to the rim on one dribble 😱 Somebody 6 foot 11 covering that much ground is still hard to process. The rest of his game caught up fast too. In 2016-17 he led Milwaukee in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks, and he was the first player ever to finish top 20 in the league in all five. That got him Most Improved. xitter.cf/BleacherReport/s…