How many 90s players are better than Current LeBron?

Narigo · Post #1 » by **Narigo** » Thu Oct 16, 2025 5:50 pm

How many 90s players in their primes are better than current LeBron?

Doug_12 · Post #2 » by **Doug_12** » Thu Oct 16, 2025 9:21 pm

It depends on how many years of their prime shall fall into the '90-es (as it determines the overall pool), but current Lebron is only a borderline All-NBA level player. It would be the same in any particular year in the '90-es as well imo.

Matt15 · Post #3 » by **Matt15** » Thu Oct 16, 2025 9:36 pm

So any 90’s player over current Lebron?

Jordan
Malone
Barkley
Hakeem
D-Rob
Ewing
Magic
Duncan

Also probably
Pippen
Penny
Drexler
Stockton
KJ
Price
Hill
Alonzo

picko · Post #4 » by **picko** » Thu Oct 16, 2025 10:59 pm

We don't know what his 'current level' is - since the season hasn't started - but last year he was All-NBA and finished 6th in the MVP award. The league today is much better than in the 1990s - which is one of the weaker eras for talent due to rapid expansion - so he'd almost certainly be making All-NBA teams and ranking highly for the MVP throughout the 1990s.

In any one season in the 1990s there'd be a handful of players better than LeBron in 2024-25. Collectively over the course of a decade, you'd be looking at around 10 players probably (Jordan, Shaq, Hakeem, Robinson, Barkley, Malone, Magic, Duncan, Pippen and maybe Hill or Drexler).

tone wone · Post #5 » by **tone wone** » Thu Oct 16, 2025 11:51 pm

Going off of last season...

Top 15ish in the early 90s
Top 7ish in the late 90s

Top10alltime · Post #6 » by **Top10alltime** » Fri Oct 17, 2025 5:46 pm

Lebron wasn't top 25 in the league, so about 15-20 90s players

The Explorer · Post #7 » by **The Explorer** » Fri Oct 17, 2025 5:53 pm

Pretty much everyone who is not an end of the bench scrub. Even an average 90s player would do better than take up $52m of payroll to play on only 1 side of the ball and randomly disappear in the middle of the season without explanation

Top10alltime · Post #8 » by **Top10alltime** » Fri Oct 17, 2025 6:22 pm

The Explorer wrote:Pretty much everyone who is not an end of the bench scrub. Even an average 90s player would do better than take up $52m of payroll to play on only 1 side of the ball and randomly disappear in the middle of the season without explanation

You aren't describing Lebron, you are describing Canthony Brickworst

1993Playoffs · Post #9 » by **1993Playoffs** » Fri Oct 17, 2025 6:47 pm

Health is the biggest factor but Just echoing the Earlier comments. He’s top 10-15 right now (all NBA level) so. About top 10 in the early 90s

Firmly in the top 10 in the late 90s. I feel the high level talent wasn’t quite as good later in the decade