It's time to take another look at the all-time greats.
, conversations and arguments about the NBA's greatest of all time have gotten a little bit stale. Shaquille O'Neal did his part to spice them up a bit by suggesting it's time to put a new name on the table for dissection.
"As the supreme leader of the Big Man Alliance, I demand you fans to start putting Steph Curry in that greatest of all time conversation," O'Neal said during a gamebreak on TNT. "I've played against Mike, played with Kobe, played against and with LeBron, they're all great. But at some point you've got to put Steph Curry in that category.""I've played against Mike, played with/against Kobe/LeBron, but at some point you gotta put Steph in that category"It takes a very big man to admit that a smallish guard is one of the best ever and Shaq is, indeed, a very big man. He gave his bonafides there in terms with seeing a heck of a lot of all the players who could be in this rarified air and stated that Curry has the championship pedigree necessary to enter into the conversation. So please, adjust your all-time big boards accordingly. It doesn't sound like O'Neal believes Curry is No. 1 in the pantheon but it'd be great if we could all throw in that the Warriors star merits consideration.Kyle Koster is an assistant managing editor at Sports Illustrated covering the intersection of sports and media. He was formerly the editor in chief of The Big Lead, where he worked from 2011 to '24. Koster also did turns at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he created the Sports Pros blog, and at Woven Digital.
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