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PLAYER A CREDENTIALS(all of this done in ONE SEASON!)
-Most Valuable Player
-Defensive Player of the Year
-Rookie of the Year
-Rebounding Champion
-BLOCKS LEADER
-ALL NBA 1st team
-ALL DEFENSE 1ST TEAM

PLAYER B CREDENTIALS(all done in one season)
-Finals MVP
-Most Improved Player Award
-Scoring champion
-ASSISTS LEADER
-ALL NBA 1st Team
-Dunk Contest champion
-3 pt shootout champion

You could trade for 1 player to play on your team, who would it be?

Player A no questions asked. Accomplishing all that as a ROOKIE.

1st player. He's probably a PF or C. A rookie. MVP of the whole league. Best defender too? Easily #1

Player 2 because he gets it done when it counts.

Player A. MVP in rookie year, and can only get better.

I'll take the Kareem / Hakeem / Duncan hybrid rookie.

Player A easily

Also, their resume's are comparable; ROY versus MIP, MVP versus Finals MVP, Rebounding champion versus Scoring champion, 1st team All-NBA versus 1st team All-NBA. Where they differ is why I'd take Player A. Player A was All-Defensive 1st team and the Defensive Player of the Year. Player B was the Dunk Contest Champion and 3point Shootout Champion.

Player A easily, the best defensive anchor in the league, and if he were to be the MVP he'd likely be no slouch on the offensive end either. Then factor in he's just a rookie, not even close.

Player A has the tendencies of a post player, B of a wing.

A is the MVP/DPOY as a post playing rookie. Is anyone really going to choose B? Seriously?

B is like brent barry, yo know slamdunk champ and can shoot 3's like layups

If I was trading for this player and those were his past credentials, then obviously I take player A. If it's a player and those are what he gets with me after I trade for him, then I take player B.

The reason I take player B if those are the stats he has with me, is because if he's the Finals MVP, then we probably would be winning the championship. GM's are graded on championships, not on the stats that individual players put up.

Player A by a mile. The best player in the league already as a rookie? And a big man too boot? Easy choice.

UPDATED

Tried to make it fairer

Added to Player A
-Blocks champ

Added to Player B
-Assists leader

player b led in scoring and assists yikes

i'll still go with A, he's a big man and a rookie

i'd rather have B

B looks like Iverson... A looks like Duncan...

Player B means he won the title.

Storm Surge wrote:UPDATED

Tried to make it fairer

Added to Player A
-Blocks champ

Added to Player B
-Assists leader

Actually it only makes it more tilted towards player A imo.

Dominant bigs are the toughest thing to come by, and here you have probably the best overall player in the league (as judged by winning both MVP and DPOY as a rookie), who is a dominant big man, in his rookie season. There is no comparison between player A and player B. None.

Let's take out all the awards/achievements who aren't all that important. ROY isn't important generally, but in this coincidence it is because it is player A's rookie season were talking about. Dunk champion, 3P champion and most improved for player B is irrelevant IMO, so you're left with someone with Tiny Archibald's credentials in 73-74 had his team won the championship and he had won the finals MVP against someone like Wilt Chamberlain, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson or Bill Russell. That is a no brainer.

JordansBulls wrote:Player B means he won the title.

Tony Parker won the finals MVP and thus a championship. That doesn't mean I'm going to pick him over a better player just because of that.

We have no information about supporting casts on the teams the two players previously were on here, so the information about him winning a championship doesn't tell me a whole lot.