CBS Sports' 50 greatest NBA players of all time: Where do LeBron, Curry rank? With 9 times inclusion in all-NBA first team, he is widely considered as one of the greatest of basketball. Please share with us in the comment section below. 50 George Mikan George Lawrence Mikan Jr., nicknamed Mr. Basketball, was an American professional basketball player for the Chicago American Gears of the National Basketball League and the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBL, the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball Association. But before having the debate, make sure you know the facts that the stats have. The 50 Greatest Players in National Basketball Association History (also referred to as … A well-deserved addition to the list of the top 10 greatest college basketball players of all time, he led Cincinnati to two consecutive Final Fours averaging a total of 32 points and 13 rebounds. There are debates to be made about many of them, Jabbar, Chamberlin and Russell obviously being the cream of this crop. Most notably, the Greatest Basketball Player of All-Time is Michael Jordan and LeBron James is chasing him. What do you think? Oscar Robertson (Cincinnati) Oscar Robertson. On March 19, ESPN launched SportsCenter Special: College Basketball's Greatest of All Time, a 64-player bracket celebrating the best men's and women's players ever. The late Dick Schaap of The Sports Reporters fame thought Bo Jackson, Jim Brown and Wilt Chamberlain were the greatest athletes of all time because if … In today’s talking head, 24-hour sports news cycle there are some assumptions that have become common knowledge. Here was an objective look at the Greatest Basketball Player of All-Time. Which order you put them in, where Jordan and Lebron fall behind them is up for rancorous debate. Johnson’s passing ability was simply surreal, He made the art of passing fashionable in the NBA. Who do you regard as one of the best basketball players in history that isn’t on this list? Find out as we rank the 25 greatest college hoops programs of all time. While Kareem put up a whopping 38,387 points during his playing days, I can’t look past the fact that he spent a good chunk of his career receiving passes from Oscar Robertson and Magic Johnson, the two greatest point guards of all time. Christian Laettner, one of the greatest college basketball players of all time, barely made it past 16-seed Jimmer Fredette, and Zion Williamson beat Danny Manning fairly handily. 50 Greatest Players in NBA History; Top 10 Coaches in NBA History; NBA 35th Anniversary All-Time Team; NBA Silver Anniversary Team; SLAM 500 Greatest NBA Players of All Time; Bill Simmons Hall of Fame Pyramid; ABA All-Time Team; NBA & ABA All-Star Game.