![]() Now, get ready to yell and scream about these rankings. The league is just now realizing how important spacing the floor is, but that doesn't mean 3s are more valuable now than they were 30 years ago. Winning a ring is difficult and takes a team effort. Titles matter, of course, but I won't hold it against a player if he came up short of a championship - not too much, anyway. Coincidentally enough, rings fall in line behind defense. So, nows the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. Next comes defense, because it wins championships. In 2014, the world avoided a global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers - plus, frankly, some very good luck. In fact, being able to put together an extended run of dominance trumps everything else. Then comes longevity, which is absolutely important. If you were able to do it all, you'll rank higher on this list. In that same vein, versatility is the second-most important quality for an all-timer. ![]() It's not enough to have reached your peak for just a season or two, but a decent stretch of destroying the competition means more to me than maintaining an elite level of play that never quite reached that next stratosphere. ![]() If everything else is equal, dominance matters to me above everything else. With the NBA season less than three weeks away, and after LeBron James skyrocketed up the all-time list with his epic Finals performance this summer, it's time to debate the 25 best players to play the game. Most basketball fans love arguing about who ranks where among the game's very best, but few actually commit to a list of the top players ever. Dwyane Wade's recent comments that LeBron James can never surpass Michael Jordan as the NBA's greatest player of all-time got us thinking. ![]()
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