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How many 90s players are better than Current LeBron?
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 5:50 pm
by Narigo
How many 90s players in their primes are better than current LeBron?
Re: How many 90s players are better than Current LeBron?
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 9:21 pm
by Doug_12
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.
Re: How many 90s players are better than Current LeBron?
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 9:36 pm
by Matt15
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
Re: How many 90s players are better than Current LeBron?
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 10:59 pm
by picko
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).
Re: How many 90s players are better than Current LeBron?
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 11:51 pm
by tone wone
Going off of last season...
Top 15ish in the early 90s
Top 7ish in the late 90s
Re: How many 90s players are better than Current LeBron?
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 5:46 pm
by Top10alltime
Lebron wasn't top 25 in the league, so about 15-20 90s players
Re: How many 90s players are better than Current LeBron?
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 5:53 pm
by The Explorer
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
Re: How many 90s players are better than Current LeBron?
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 6:22 pm
by Top10alltime
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
Re: How many 90s players are better than Current LeBron?
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 6:47 pm
by 1993Playoffs
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