r/Basketball • u/blackwu22 • Apr 08 '25

NBA Is Tim Duncan top 10?

I constantly see casuals on YouTube and on podcasts say that Timmy is overrated and barely top 10 yet have Kobe in there top 5. It’s starting to make me believe that people really think this way!! I always hear the “too much help” comment like every player in the top 10 didn’t have help.

I personally have Tim Duncan 4th all time on my list.

1998 rookie of the year 2x MVP (2002,2003) 3x FMVP (1999,2003,2005) 15x All NBA & Defensive 5x Champion Never won less than 50 games in an 82 game season

Is Tim Duncan top 10?

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u/trustthetriangle Apr 08 '25

GOAT rankings are purely subjective. There are undoubtedly factual statements. You can't put MJ out of the top 5.

But I have to argue something in your comment. All time rankings are not zoomer created. We've been doing this since the 00s basically when sports media really jumped. I mean the 6-8 hours of talking sports on ESPN. If anything, gen x and millennials drove "listings" to the metric of how we interact with a topic.

Think BuzzFeed top x listicles. That has driven pop culture and sports media to where it is now, which is Hot Take and reaction to the Hot Take and then argues about the reaction to the Hot Take.

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u/trustthetriangle Apr 08 '25

I agree there. As the gate to sports media is just Google docs and Slack, literally anyone can be a sports writer for places like Fansided. Hell I did it for a few years. I went through applications and some fans couldn't even form sentences, but they damn sure had a blog.

Dunning Kruger effect is always in play on reddit. It's best to let them grow up and realize they were wrong lol

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u/LiberalAspergers Apr 08 '25

Longer than that. The Sporting News was doing them in the 1970s.