Who is the greatest shooting guard in NBA history?
No.1] Jordan
The greatest NBA player in history, and certainly the greatest at his position.
As Fox Sports columnist Charlie Rosen said, choosing Michael Jordan as the best shooting guard in history is as simple as a layup.
Jordan himself was unwilling to admit that he was the greatest player in history, but when selecting the best team in his mind, he still chose himself at the shooting guard position.
No matter how humble Jordan appeared, he could not find anyone who could surpass him at the shooting guard position. If you rate all shooting guards from 1 to 10, Jordan scored 10 and everyone else stopped at 8. This statement seems a bit exaggerated, but NBA superstar Larry Bird once expressed a similar view, but He said "all players," not just shooting guards.
Basketball has developed to this day. If you want to find a player who is most qualified to endorse basketball, it must be Jordan. Similarly, if you want to find a player who is most qualified to represent the shooting guard position, it must be Jordan.
Jordan has extraordinary scoring ability, which is well known. Jordan has become the NBA's scoring champion 10 times; and among these 10 times, 7 have been won consecutively - both of which rank first among all players in NBA history.
Jordan is not the player with the most points in the NBA, but that's because he didn't play long enough (only 15 seasons, and played less than 20 games in two of them). You know, the two people ahead of him, "Skyhook" Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, played for 20 years, and Karl Malone also played for 19 seasons.
Although he is not the total scoring champion, Jordan is the player with the highest scoring average per game in history and is the scoring leader in NBA history. When he retired from the Bulls after the 1997-98 season, Jordan's career scoring average was as high as 31.5 points per game; although he later came back with the Wizards and played for two years, lowering his average, but in 1,072 games After all, Jordan's scoring average is still 30.12 points per game, which is higher than super center Chamberlain's 30.07 points per game.
The above scoring records are only in the regular season. In the more important playoffs, Jordan's total points (5987 points) and points per game (33.4 points) both topped the NBA, and his points per game average was 2.8 points higher than second-place Iverson. .
There are many more scoring records for Jordan, and it is really not necessary to list them one by one. Why can he score so many points? Not only because he could run, fly, rush and collide when he was young, but also because he had a frighteningly accurate mid-range shot. In fact, even in the era when he was flying around in the sky, Jordan's mid-range shot was already quite good, fast, accurate, and very crisp. During the heyday of leading the Bulls to the championship, mid-range shooting became Jordan's most important scoring method. Later in his career, Jordan developed the classic fadeaway jumper from his mid-range jumper. The classic fadeaway jumper is very impressive and more suitable for the Bulls' "triangle offense." Therefore, although Jordan's scoring dropped in the later period, his dominance on the court continued unabated.
Of course, if he could only score, Jordan would not be the Jordan he is now. Many scoring masters like Jordan will always hold back on defense to store energy for offense, but Jordan will not. Not only can he contribute high scores himself, but he can also prevent opponents from scoring, and his performance is equally good on both ends of the offense and defense. In 1988, Jordan won his only Defensive Player of the Year award; since that season, Jordan was selected to the All-Defensive Team of the Year nine times, becoming the player with the most All-Defensive Team selections in NBA history (later Payton Tied with Jordan).
With superhuman physical fitness and extraordinary personal abilities, as well as rare ambition and first-class leadership qualities, Jordan led the Bulls to the Finals six times in the 1990s, winning the championship each time. Returned and was elected Finals MVP for the second time, which is unmatched by any shooting guard in history.
In the 1998 Finals, Jordan used his "last shot" to leave basketball fans around the world with an ultimate perfection, which is difficult for any player in history to accomplish. If Jordan is not number one, who should be number one?
The only question is, Jordan has pushed his success to such an extreme, will anyone be able to surpass him? "There's going to be a player far greater than me," Jordan once said. Is that really the case?