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Dwyane Wade vs Julius Erving

Who you got higher:
All time?
Peak?
Prime?

Erving
Wade
Wade

Will probably expand later.

Erving has a pretty good argument in this comp.

One_and_Done wrote:Erving has a pretty good argument in this comp.

Depends on how you intersect with his ABA years, I think, although even then he had a pretty nice NBA career as well. Had an NBA MVP, had the Fo Fo Fo ring with Moses, bunch of very good years, like 5 seasons in the top-5 of the MVP vote in the NBA. Nasty shotblocker.

I'd go Erving for all 3; his Nets peak was probably beyond anything Wade ever managed and his health was consistently far better for the other two categories. Wade was great and played in a tougher era; Julius was the best in his league and quite probably the 2nd best (to Kareem) in the world at his peak.

Erving
Wade
Wade

Peak is an interesting discussion, but the rest is not remotely close to me.

Edit: in Julius favor of course.

Erving for all prime/career clearly.

I could see arguments for both on peak. See it 50-50.

Erving. His ABA prime with scoring titles, MVP’s and titles is better than peak Wade. He took his 76ers to the Finals his first year in the NBA and again in ‘80, ‘82 and ‘83. Wade was better as a Pippen type player: a great second banana and not an alpha.

Hair Jordan wrote:Wade was better as a Pippen type player: a great second banana and not an alpha.

There are ignorant comments, and then there are statements like this

Some history: the world "met" Wade in 2006 when he dragged the Heat to the title. But, the world was meant to meet him in 2005 when he was on his way to carrying a barely mobile Shaq to the Finals, with the Heat only losing in seven in the ECFs after Wade himself got hurt and was barely mobile.

Go back to the year before that when rookie Wade hit the gamewinner in his first playoff game ever or Game 5 of that series when he hit another one. Or go to the following round when Wade punished DPOY Ron Artest (Metta World Peace) and the league #1 seed Pacers, barely losing the series in Game 6.

Or jump ahead to 2011, the one season in LeBron's prime when LeBron was only a co-alpha. Let's just say that it wasn't Wade who failed in his alpha role in the Finals.

In 2012, Wade voluntarily stepped aside because, not because he couldn't still lead, but because LeBron had proved he couldn't follow. But, as soon as LeBron skipped town, Wade went right back to his old role (at least in crunch-time), which culminated in a run to Game 7 of the 2015 ECSFs. And when Wade came back to the Heat in 2017, even coming off the bench, he still functioned as the alpha.

Please never, ever speak on Wade again. Seriously, if this is your true opinion, you know less than nothing about him.

Hair Jordan wrote:Erving. His ABA prime with scoring titles, MVP’s and titles is better than peak Wade. He took his 76ers to the Finals his first year in the NBA and again in ‘80, ‘82 and ‘83. Wade was better as a Pippen type player: a great second banana and not an alpha.

Is this a joke?

jagz wrote:In 2012, Wade voluntarily stepped aside because, not because he couldn't still lead, but because LeBron had proved he couldn't follow.

I think it was more that Lebron was a lot better, to be honest.