Garnett vs Wade vs Pippen, who has the better legacy?

JordansBulls · Post #1 » by **JordansBulls** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:22 pm

Kevin Garnett vs Dwyane Wade vs Scottie Pippen, who has the better legacy?

All players were selected #5 in their respective drafts. Garnett was selected #5 in 1995, Wade #5 in 2003 and Pippen #5 in 1987, which player was the better player and has the better legacy?

Baller 24 · Post #2 » by **Baller 24** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:45 pm

Dwayne Wade is still in his prime, its hard to determine who the better player is when a player is still far from being over. Pippen with the better legacy, as being the sidekick to MJ with the 6 championships, and he was a great perimeter player, playmaker, and silent scorer. But Kevin Garnett IMO is the better player out of all 3.

shawngoat23 · Post #3 » by **shawngoat23** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:06 pm

Pippen has the greatest legacy. Six rings and popularized the versatile point forward type (although he wasn't the first).

You might be able to make the case that the other two are better (it's close in my opinion), but in terms of legacy, I don't think it's a comparison.

Post #4 » by **NO-KG-AI** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:50 pm

Wade is too hard to rank right now, he's too new...

As for Garnett and Pippen, I don't think Pippen is really close to Garnett as a player, especially if we are talking peak.

Pippen was never a high volume or efficiency scorer, even next to Mike, his defense was great as a perimeter defender, but he's still not near the impact defensively as Garnett has.

Scottie was a wonderful point forward, but KG was a guy getting 5-6 APG as a big man.

Scottie was a nice rebounding SF, but Garnett was a dominant rebounder, 4 straight rebounding titles, something only Wilt, Moses, and Rodman have done...

I can't see a compelling argument for why he is a better player or has a better legacy, other than playing next to Michael Jordan.

mhd · Post #5 » by **mhd** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:31 pm

KG has never been the best at his position his entire career (Tim Duncan).
Pippen was the best SF in the NBA from around 90-99.
Name me any player and say "lose the best player on the team and now win". Scottie did that in 1994.
Pippen has far more of a legacy than KG will.

guy1 · Post #6 » by **guy1** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:40 pm

mhd wrote:KG has never been the best at his position his entire career (Tim Duncan).
Pippen was the best SF in the NBA from around 90-99.
Name me any player and say "lose the best player on the team and now win". Scottie did that in 1994.
Pippen has far more of a legacy than KG will.

I'd probably say Grant Hill was the best SF by 1998. Either way, Pippen didn't have a guy like Duncan to compete with for best SF, so that argument means nothing. And sure Scottie led his team to a winning record, but KG was leading the Twolves to 50 win seasons in the West with nobodies on his team for a good amount of years.

I'd probably say KG is the better player, but as of now Pippen's 6 rings really help. But since KG has an MVP and has won a title and Pippen was never really a franchise player, I would say its a tie. But I think KG will surpass him eventually.

I don't know why Wade is in this argument. He's great and all, but he just hasn't played enough.

schaffy · Post #7 » by **schaffy** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:45 am

mhd wrote:KG has never been the best at his position his entire career (Tim Duncan).
Pippen was the best SF in the NBA from around 90-99.
Name me any player and say "lose the best player on the team and now win". Scottie did that in 1994.
Pippen has far more of a legacy than KG will.

Oh, thats fair, penalize KG for playing during the same time as perhaps the greatest PF ever. Yea, okay. :roll: