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#3 Jamaal Wilkes
Jamaal Wilkes is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and had a tremendous NBA career, even if he never was the best player on his teams. His career started in the 1974-75 NBA season with the Golden State Warriors.
In 1975, the small forward went on to win the Rookie of the Year award and then was the second-leading scorer for the team in the NBA Finals, as Golden State won the 1975 title (the first of four championships in Wilkes' career).
Rick Barry was the best player on that Warriors' team, but the 22-year-old Wilkes was already one of the best players on the roster. Wilkes averaged 12 points and 10 rebounds in the series.
After making the All-Star team as a sophomore, Wilkes had a great third season with Golden State before signing with the LA Lakers. With LA, Wilkes won three more championships and performed well behind Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Wilkes had one of the most overlooked games ever in the 1980 NBA Finals. After Abdul-Jabbar's injury, the story of game six of the 1980 NBA Finals was Magic Johnson playing at center. Of course, Johnson sealed the series by scoring 42 points, grabbing 15 rebounds, and dishing out seven assists. However, Wilkes had a monstrous game that day. He scored 37 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in 42 minutes of action.
#2 Kobe Bryant
The late, great Kobe Bryant had a legendary NBA career with the LA Lakers. Bryant got to the LA Lakers in 1996 as a rookie fresh from high school. After five NBA championships and 33,643 points, he became arguably the greatest player in the Lakers' history.
Bryant also won two NBA Finals MVPs, a regular-season MVP, and led the league in points twice in his career. Moreover, he went to 18 All-Star games and received 15 All-NBA and 12 All-Defensive selections.
Bryant averaged 25 points, five assists, and five rebounds in his NBA career.
He will always be an NBA legend, and his career was simply incredible to witness.
#1 Michael Jordan
Arguably the greatest player in NBA history for many, Michael Jordan is easily the greatest player in NBA history with a height of 6'6''. 'His Airness' put together one of the greatest resumes in the history of basketball with his six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s.
Apart from leading the Bulls to two three-peats during the 1990s, Jordan won five regular-season MVPs and six NBA Finals MVPs (a record).
He also had memorable performances in several games of the NBA Finals, which were pivotal to Chicago's success (such as the fourth game of the 1993 NBA Finals or the sixth game of the 1998 series).
In his career, Jordan scored 32,292 points and is the all-time leader in points averaged per game with 30.1.
He received 11 All-NBA and nine All-Defensive selections in his career, and even won one Defensive Player of the Year award.
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