Top 10 Most Overrated NBA Players of All Time
LeBron Raymone James is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Throughout his career, LeBron has played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat, and the Lakers, winning a total of four NBA championships. LeBron James is the most overrated player of this era. Imagine Kobe playing with KG and T-Mac in their prime - easy, huh? That's just what LeBron did. And he was playing in the Eastern Conference, if you know what that means.
But what the F... this boy left Miami after a terrible defeat by the Spurs? Knowing that D-Wade was starting to physically decline? Yeah, act like he's trying to bring one championship to Cleveland. They got Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving - again, another big 3!
You still think he's one of the greatest players? Take a look at what he's been through. CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!
Carmelo Kyam Anthony is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association.
Vincent Lamar "Vince" Carter is an American professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association.
Jeremy Shu-How Lin is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association. Flash-in-the-pan, got a string of wins against sad sack teams. Whoopee.
Derrick Martell Rose is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. If he never got injured, he'd potentially be one of the best of all time. Like top 15 probably.
His 2011 season is nice, but it's not an all-time great season. He doesn't deserve to go to the Hall of Fame and no, he was not on a top 5 PG ever trajectory before his injuries.
Plays too fast and out of control.
Giannis Antetokounmpo is a Greek professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association.
Kyrie Andrew Irving is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association. He has played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Boston Celtics, and the Nets.
Kobe Bryant (1978 - 2020) was an American retired professional basketball player. He played his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. Kobe Bryant has won 5 NBA championships with the Lakers and was the all-time leading scorer in Lakers franchise history... read more He isn't as clutch as people say, and even though he hit some very difficult shots, he has missed a ton of them too. He generally isn't the GOAT, just as he isn't the 2nd best player of all time.
A guy who won 5 championships but wasn't the best player on the team in 3 of them can't be called a top 2 player. He was also extremely inefficient and a terrible teammate. Personally, I think he is a top 5 player of all time, just not top 2.
He is the most overrated player of all time. His career field goal percentage is 45%. His clutch percentage is around 32%.
He has always been surrounded by great players during his championship runs. When he wasn't, his team missed the playoffs.
Allen Ezail Iverson is an American retired professional basketball player who played for 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association. An inefficient shot chucker who is immortalized due to the 2001 season where he shouldn't have won MVP over Shaq. He "dragged" an elite defensive team to the Finals, a team that had the DPOY, 6MOTY, and COTY, by the way. The refs helped push him there too.
Take away that season and there's virtually nothing to go off of. Not top 50 all time.
If he would actually practice, he could have become a good player. Now he is not even a top fifty player.
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Anthony Marshon Davis Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association.
Moses Eugene Malone was an American basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association from 1974 through 1995. The center was named the NBA Most Valuable Player three times and was a 12-time NBA All-Star and an eight-time All-NBA selection... read more
Gilbert Jay Arenas Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Arenas attended Grant High School in the Valley Glen district of Los Angeles, and accepted a scholarship offer to the University of Arizona late in his junior year.
Dwight David Howard is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association. Could dunk and block and not much else. 42 percent from the line. Really?
He should have retired after the dunk contest years ago.
Wardell Stephen Curry II is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is widely considered to be one of the greatest shooters in NBA history, if not the greatest. He is one of the most beloved stars in the NBA today, as... read more He's trash compared to LeBron. For sure not one of the greats. Only bandwagoners like him. And no, I'm not a LeBron or Cavs fan. I'm a Lakers fan. It's just dumb always running into people who say Steph is the greatest of all time.
Avg 13 points and 10 rebounds for his career? Not Hall of Fame numbers. He did have 1 good year resulting in a team championship and gets NBA credit for his college years.
James Edward Harden, Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association. The only thing he is good at is getting fouled and making his beard look perfect.
Flops badly on defense. Take away free throws, and he averages 20 a game. Good but not MVP.
Travels, flops to get foul calls, and he doesn't even shoot good percentages. Takes way too many contested threes.
Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball executive and retired professional basketball player who played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. How can a guy who is 7-6 average just 9.2 rebounds and 1.9 blocks throughout his career? Dennis Rodman was 6-7 and averaged 13.1 rebounds for his career. The only reason he was so good was because of his height.
He was so bad! I don't even know how or why he is in the Hall of Fame.
This man is so bad. His height is it really.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials MJ, is an American retired professional basketball player. Widely viewed as the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan made six NBA Finals appearances in his career, winning the NBA championship each time. Take away Scottie Pippen, and he has no titles! Did not win until Scottie Pippen came, and Phil Jackson took over as coach.
He had Scottie Pippen and Phil Jackson on his team. He also got swept in the first round without those two.
Great player, but everyone acts like he is God. I do not think he is the GOAT.
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal, nicknamed Shaq, is a retired American professional basketball player who is currently an analyst on the television program Inside the NBA. He is known for his fun, friendly personality, and is one of the most beloved athletes of all time. Overhyped to the point where he is only for use as children's entertainment.
He was just big. He had no skills. If he had gotten sick and lost weight, they would have kicked him out of the league.
Russell Westbrook Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. Overrated as crap. Can't even make a shot to save his life.
Blake Austin Griffin is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association.
William Felton "Bill" Russell was an American retired professional basketball player. Russell played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association from 1956 to 1969. Amazing defender, arguably the best of all time, but his poor offensive ability is too much to overlook in my opinion. The only reason I say he is overrated is because people say he is a top 5 or even top 3 player of all time.
Joakim Simon Noah is a professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association.
Patrick Aloysius Ewing (born August 5, 1962) is a Jamaican-American retired Hall of Fame basketball player and current head coach of the Georgetown University men's basketball team.
Dirk Werner Nowitzki is a German professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association. To people who do not play basketball, Dirk is underrated. But to those who know how to play, he is completely overrated. He got hot one postseason and won the Finals. Other than that, he is just good at receiving votes telling him he is great, but his performance on the court tells a different tale.
Great on offense, weak on defense and rebounding. I personally have never seen a 7-footer weaker on defense and rebounding than Dirk, other than Yao.
Dirk is not overrated, or every superstar is. His best help was Jason Terry and Shawn Marion. That was his team besides him. He got beat in a rigged 2006 Finals.
Look at his competition: Shaq, Dwyane Wade, and the Heat. Then the Heat in the big 3 era. All other champions didn't carry trash to the playoffs for an entire career.
