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If you had to rank their careers, who is higher on the historical rankings. What would be your order?

durantbird wrote:If you had to rank their careers, who is higher on the historical rankings. What would be your order?

1. Horford
2. Love
3. Griffin

It's interesting because at peak is was arguably the opposite order, but at this point given the stark differences in longevity and their roles deep into their career I feel pretty solid about the order listed.

I'll also say that I would vote Horford into the HOF but don't think I would for the other two.

If I had to pick for my team, I would go...

1. Horford - HoFer, a good bigman with some nice defense, leadership, and team presence.
2. Kevin Love - A higher IQ scorer and rebounder, lacks defense but great at putting up some numbers. Got his ring with Cleveland, perennial all star type.
3. Blake Griffin - Lost out on this one, but I was a fan during his Clips days, looked like a top PF next to Chris Paul.

Horford
Love
Griffin

Horford has probably the lowest floor play. You can put him on teams where he doesn't fit in on either end and it sputters.


Love and Griffin had more brute force offensive talent to still be clearly valuable even next to a center with no skill who clogs the lane(Jordan, Thompson).


However, Horford just keeps churning on. And his prime in the playoffs was pretty consistently valuable on both ends.

Griffin probably had a 5 year prime. And only made himself into a good role player at the very end of his career. A lot of gaps of insignificant basketball for him.

Love to me has a much longer prime and but unfortunately is getting disrespected and misused by coaches late n his career. He's easily starting caliber if Vucevic still is. Actually look up Love's per minute numbers the past few years. He's got a lot left. And I won't let coaching narratives put shade on that.

At this point---the way he's extended his usefulness for such a lengthy and durable career, was a key cog on a title team late in his career, so well-respected by his teammates and peers (quality locker-room presence), etc---I think Al Horford is the clear #1.

I'd probably put Kevin Love #2, though reasonably close.