Best Basketball Player Ever From Every State

[The Sultan]

Kobe was better than Wilt. Kobe is the best off guard other than MJ.

[The Sultan]

Bill Walton against Diana Taurasi

Kevin Love, Paul George, Harden, Leonard, Reggie Miller, Jason Kidd, Reggie Theus, Paul Pierce, Gary Payton, Russell Westbrook, Gail Goodrich


Taurasi...if this isn't a PC pick I don't know what is.

Why? She is arguably one of the best all time woman's players. If not the best. None of the men you mention approach that.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Kobe was better than Wilt. Kobe is the best off guard other than MJ.

Kobe was from Calabria, hey?

[Cheeks]

Why? She is arguably one of the best all time woman's players. If not the best. None of the men you mention approach that.

Because the statement was best basketball player in the state, not best female basketball player in the state.  If she's the best basketball player in the state she would easily defeat any of the guys I mentioned in.....basketball.   

[Sir Lawrence]

Pete Maravich.  Pennsylvania.  Better choice than Kobe? 

[MU82]

Yea.  In no order, other than the first 2:  MJ, Lebron, Duncan, Kareem, Robertson, Shaq, Kobe, Magic, Russell, and Bird would be how I go.  I think Kobe's greatness in his mid 20s got overshadowed by sharing with Shaq.

Wilt > Shaq

[The Sultan]

Pete Maravich.  Pennsylvania.  Better choice than Kobe? 

Not by a long shot.

[The Sultan]

Because the statement was best basketball player in the state, not best female basketball player in the state.  If she's the best basketball player in the state she would easily defeat any of the guys I mentioned in.....basketball.

[MikeDeanesDarkGlasses]

All Time Starting 5 from Wisconsin:

PG  Terry Porter
SG  Latrell Sprewell
SF   Wes Matthews
PF  Jim Chones
C  Jim McIlvaine

[lawdog77]

Why? She is arguably one of the best all time woman's players. If not the best. None of the men you mention approach that.

Cheryl Miller would be a better choice.

[Lennys Tap]

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Agree. It actually belittles her accomplishments - which were, BTW, awesome. But saying she's better at basketball than NBA Hall of Famers. C'mon.

[Cheeks]

Roll your eyes all you wish, this is a pc move entirely.  Have a best male (XY) and female (XX) player category so it encompasses the two scientific genders.  Otherwise this is silly and cheapens it the way this is done.

[Pakuni]

Thank God someone is here to protect the integrity of clickbait articles on stadiumtalk.com.

[Cheeks]

Thank God someone is here to protect the integrity of clickbait articles on stadiumtalk.com.

Part of the overall dumbing down going on.  Dave Chappelle had a great line about Lebron playing in the WNBA and scoring like 800 points a game.  He was dead on and we continue to play these dumb little societal games in a steady drumbeat of nonsense.  Good for Ricky Gervais to skewer a bunch of them last night.

[Pakuni]

Part of the overall dumbing down going on.  Dave Chappelle had a great line about Lebron playing in the WNBA and scoring like 800 points a game.  He was dead on and we continue to play these dumb little societal games in a steady drumbeat of nonsense.  Good for Ricky Gervais to skewer a bunch of them last night.

The only dumb thing here is someone getting mad about a clickbait list because its criteria doesn't match his own.

Also, no politics please.

[Cheeks]

It's all in humor, which so many people have lost.  There are things women do better than men, and things men do better than women.  Not sure why that is now somehow not to be said.  It's silly. It ignores reality.  I say this as someone who believes women work harder, are amazing employees and smarter than most of the guys that I work with.  Then there is the reality when it comes to sports and some other things, but we must not talk about that any longer to be woke.

https://youtu.be/-EkCR5AzA5s

[Galway Eagle]

Part of the overall dumbing down going on.  Dave Chappelle had a great line about Lebron playing in the WNBA and scoring like 800 points a game.  He was dead on and we continue to play these dumb little societal games in a steady drumbeat of nonsense.  Good for Ricky Gervais to skewer a bunch of them last night.

I can't be the only one who thinks it's hilarious that you champion Ricky Gervais' when he's made a vast living making fun of a good 90% of the views you've espoused on here.

[The Sultan]

Cheeks decides to ruin yet another topic by acting like a insecure little tool.

[CTWarrior]

Because the statement was best basketball player in the state, not best female basketball player in the state.  If she's the best basketball player in the state she would easily defeat any of the guys I mentioned in.....basketball.

It just depends on your view of the question.  I said earlier that Wilt > Kobe and I don't believe Wilt is a better basketball player than Kobe.  I think Wilt was more dominant at the game he was playing in the time he was playing it than Kobe was in his time.  I think that is a reasonable way of looking at it. While of course Taurasi is not better than 1000 guys from California, she is probably better at the game she is playing than the other California guys are at the game they are playing.  You'd still have a good argument for Walton if he managed to stay healthy, btw.

At any rate, this article works as a conversation starter, so it is better than your usual clickbait.

[4everwarriors]

Taught ewe ment Wilt > Kobe in da bedroom, aina?

[BrewCity83]

If Terry Reason isn't in California's top five, the list is garbage.

[Cheeks]

I can't be the only one who thinks it's hilarious that you champion Ricky Gervais' when he's made a vast living making fun of a good 90% of the views you've espoused on here.

Yes, that's what comedians do...just as the best ones also skewer all sides.

[Cheeks]

Cheeks decides to ruin yet another topic by acting like a insecure little tool.

No one ruined anything, stop playing the thread topic victim.

Chappelle brought it home in a humorous fashion...truth in comedy is an elixir for stupidity like the winners in some of this topic. 

[Mutaman]

No one ruined anything, stop playing the thread topic victim.

Chappelle brought it home in a humorous fashion...truth in comedy is an elixir for stupidity like the winners in some of this topic.

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[Billy Hoyle]

Taught ewe ment Wilt > Kobe in da bedroom, aina?

as far as we know, Will at least got consent.