We continue to go the ranking of top the greatest basketball players during the time. Although basketball is a teamwork sport, we are easy to see several outstanding players in a match. They will overcome opponents smoothly and romp with a ball then move it to the net correctly. All actions can be happened within some seconds.

8/ Magic Johnson

As soon as Magic Johnson has started his career, he brightens and looks great and good. Although he was still young, he could win a title for Finals MVP in the NBA Finals in 1980. Actually, in this match, he was a new comer instead of Kareem Abdul Jabbar due to the injury, he has impressive appearance for this team- the Showtime Los Angeles Lakers. It was a sweet start for Magic.

Season by season, Magic has improved experience dramatically then keep his performance until retirement. He got 5 titles in NBA, 3 tiles in Finals MVPs and 3 times for reg. season MVPs. He also was in 10 all NBA selections.

9/ Bill Russell

He played as a defender who led the Boston Celtics team to series of achievements in NBA Championships. Estimated he overcome 11 records.

As his talent, he always dominated the game with defensive skills, so not many people can be beyond him.

Finally, he got 11 times for NBA titles and 5 times for reg. season MVPs.

10/ Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan was a legend in the Chicago Bulls when he got series of records in NBA. His talent was to dominate ball and both sides fast whereas there were opponents around him to prevention.

During his career, he amassed 11 times for All-NBA, 9 times for All-Defensive first team as well 10 titles for getting scores. He was also voted many times for Defensive Player of the Year title.

Basketball is a favorite team sport which is popular with many walks of life. We can play basketball when we are students in high schools or universities. This sport makes connective and supportive each other when playing together.

To review basketball history, we share top the greatest basketball players all the time. In the previous article, we have ever referred to some famous names like Hakeem, Shaquille O’Neal, Tim Duncan and Wilt Chamberlain. In this article, we will continue to tell other names in the rankings.

5/ LeBron James

During his career, he created a memorial story for fans about a talented star. Within 10 seasons in NBA leagues, he can be voted for the ranking of top the greatest basketball in the time with 2 times for NBA titles and 2 times in MVPs finals, other some numbers in statistics.

Even James has been called with a super nickname as “King James” because he had an impression style of a great two-way-basketballer.

6/ Derrick Rose

Some experts review that Derrick Rose was not the best player on the court but he was always a perfect dominator with high IQ in basketball. He had some amazing jump shots and fierce competitiveness which made special and strange with the people.

During 13 year career, he was voted in the top 10 All-NBA ranking all the times. 3 times for All-defense teams. He went his team together to have 3 NBA titles and 2 finals in MVPs.

By these achievements, he was called as “Larry Legend”.

7/ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As well talent of Duncan about consistency in flighting, Kareem was also made deeply impression about his ability to focus a volleyball match.

Before him, Duncan was also famous for term of consistency. Kareem also became a leading scorer all the time in NBA history.