"The NBA 75 stars were voted for by the Blue Ribbon panel of media, current and retired players, coaches, directors and senior management in 2021 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NBA, but the final result was that a total of 76 people were selected because of the same vote of players."
Roughly divide the NBA's 75 big stars by active years:
50s: Alikin, Cousy, McCann, Patit, Shays, Sharman
(Pictured) George McCann
Bob Cousy
60s: Baylor, Chamberlain, Cunningham, Di Boxue, Greer, Jones, Lucas, Robertson, Russell, West, Wickens
Chamberlain and Russell
(Pictured) "Logo Man" West
(Pictured) "Triple-double monster" Robertson
70s: Archibald, Barry, Bean, Covance, Dr. J, Fraser, Havlicek, Hayes, Maravich, McAdoo, El Monroe, Reed, Thurmond, Anson, Wharton
(Pictured) "Dr. J" Owen
80s: Abdul-Jabbar, Bird, Gervin, Johnson, Moses Malone, McHale, Parrish, Thomas, Wilkins, Worthy
(Pictured) "Skyhook" Abdul-Jabbar
The magician and the big bird
'90s: Barkley, Drexler, Ewing, Jordan, Karl Mallon, Miller, Olajuwon, Payton, Pippen, Robinson, Rodman, Stockton
(Pictured) Bull Dynasty
(Pictured) Barkley
00s: Ray Allen, Bryant, Duncan, Garnett, Iverson, Kidd, Nash, Nowitzki, O'Neill, Pierce
10s: Alphabet, Anthony, Curry, Davis, Durant, Harden, James, Leonard, Lillard, Paul, Wade, Westbrook
"The NBA 50 Stars is a list of 50 stars voted by a Blue Ribbon panel of the media, retired players (75 voted for active players), coaches, directors and senior management in 1996 to celebrate the NBA's 50th anniversary."
Among them, there are 11 active players:
Barkley, Drexler, Ewing, Jordan, Karl Malone, O'Neill, Olajuwon, Parish, Pippen, Robinson, Stockton
The NBA is 75 big, and the current players also happen to be 11 (kind of interesting):
Alphabet Brother, Anthony, Curry, Davis, Durant, Harden, James, Leonard, Lillard, Paul, Westbrook
The NBA's 75 Big Stars will retain all the 50 stars previously selected, which means that 25 years later, only 26 people have been added to the official list, divided by active years:
70s: McAdoo
80s: Wilkins
90s: Miller, Payton, Rodman
00s: Ray Allen, Bryant, Duncan, Garnett, Iverson, Kidd, Nash, Nowitzki, Pierce
10s: Alphabet, Anthony, Curry, Davis, Durant, Harden, James, Leonard, Lillard, Paul, Wade, Westbrook
When the 75 list was just announced, Lillard's voice was very high that he was not worthy of being selected, and many netizens commented that Howard was more worthy of being selected. Is that really the case?
When we sort out the new list, we will find that the stars selected or added to the 75 in the 80s and 10s are all well-known names, and the NBA is still carefully selected.
The real abrupt and strange is the McAdoo, who was added in the 70s. This McAdoo, who was active in the 70s, has the following basic information:
20 years of career, 14 years in the NBA, 6 years in Italy;
2 championships, 1 MVP, 5 All-Stars, 1 first team, 1 second team, 3 scoring champions, 3 championships as a coach in the Heat;
NBA career stats, 18,787 points, 8,048 rebounds, 1,147 blocks.
Howard's achievements as of 2021:
is entering the 18th year of his career, went to the 76ers to play for 1 year, ready to return to the Lakers;
1 championship (non-core player), 2 Finals experience, no MVP, 8 All-Star selection, 5 first-team teams, 1 second-team, 2 third-team teams, 3 defensive player of the year, 5 rebounding kings, 2 blocking kings;
NBA career stats, 19107 points, 14271 rebounds, 1641 assists, 1047 steals, 2192 blocks.
As of the end of the 2022 season, Howard averaged about 32 minutes per game in his career, averaged about 12 rebounds, and averaged about 2 blocks, making him an "outstanding and great defender".
McAdoo is better at scoring than Howard, but far less rebounding and blocks than the latter, and his awards are 2 championships and 1 MVP, and the number of All-NBA teams is not as good as Howard.
The lack of the best team is probably the reason why McAdoo was not selected into the top 50 but made up for the 75: although it is not great and eye-catching, but look at the history and calculate carefully, this man still plays very well!
In fact, it is also the so-called "thick ancient and thin modern". Competing with McAdoo, no one felt wrong with Howard being selected, but the NBA felt that McAdoo, an old-timer, should be given a spot, and Howard was sacrificed...
Howard, as a senior, is with Lillardby, who has achieved as of 2021:
Entering its 10th NBA season;
1 Western Conference finals, no MVP, 6 All-Star selections, 1 first team, 4 second teams, 1 third team;
NBA career stats, 16,813 points, 2,856 rebounds, 4,514 assists, 665 steals, 210 blocks.
Howard's achievements as of 2021:
is entering the 18th year of his career, went to the 76ers to play for 1 year, ready to return to the Lakers;
1 championship (non-core player), 2 Finals experience, no MVP, 8 All-Star selection, 5 first-team teams, 1 second-team, 2 third-team teams, 3 defensive player of the year, 5 rebounding kings, 2 blocking kings;
NBA career stats, 19107 points, 14271 rebounds, 1641 assists, 1047 steals, 2192 blocks.
At the time of the announcement of the 75th Congress, combined with the career achievements of the two, it seemed a very reasonable thing to feel that Lillard should not go to Howard.
The reason why we are upset for Howard is precisely because we have seen the peak of "Warcraft" with our own eyes, we know that he was once very strong, and we know that the hard honors he accumulated in those years were to win the 75th for himself.
But I don't know if you thought about a question, the NBA wants to choose 75 big stars, 8 more years of NBA than Lillard, Howard, who has been blue-collar for many years, has played in the NBA as a star player for a few years?
The 14-15 season was a watershed moment in Howard's NBA career.
Since this season, he has not been an All-Star, and his popularity has continued to decline. Being selected multiple All-Stars means that a player is a star, and not being selected at the beginning indicates that a player's popularity is declining. In the NBA, popularity and performance are directly proportional, and Howard's performance has continued to decline since this season.
He hasn't made the All-Star Team since this season. He played just 41 games in the regular season, averaging 29.8 minutes per game, dropping below 30 minutes for the first time in his career, and he was still the best second team in '14 and was only 29 when he declined in '15.
This season, he averaged 16 points + 10 rebounds per game, and at his peak averaged about 20 points + 14 rebounds per game. What is the concept of this decline? It is now equivalent to Embiid, who has weakened from a strengthened defense and a weaker offense, directly to the level of Valanciunas and Adebayo.
As we all know, Valanciunas and Adebayo are people who will definitely not be able to enter the NBA star list, and those who will most likely not enter the Hall of Fame, and Howard has dropped to this level in 15 years.
15 years is the year that Howard began to decline across the board, and in fact, his rebounding ability began to continue to decline in 13 years, and in the first year of his transfer to the Rockets, that is, in 14 years, his blocking statistics began to rise and fall.
Simply put, there is no strong ability to hold the ball autonomously, there is no excellent passing ability after being wrapped, and the scoring mainly depends on Howard who feeds the ball to the box by teammates, supporting him to play the Magic's system of beating James to tears, based on his historical defensive ability - with four teammates who can't defend but project "big and four".
His defense deteriorated in 13 years, and the environment in which the team revolved around him as the tactical core and he could do whatever he wanted on the court faded long before he thought he was a star and could be a star wherever he went.
Since the '14-'15 season, Howard is no longer a top player, and that year the Warriors won the championship, and some things are clearly connected.
The small-ball trend germinated when the Heat won two consecutive championships, and at that time Howard did not think about transformation, practicing three-point practice passing, or practicing well low footwork, he did not change.
When the Warriors led the small-ball trend, and other teams in the league began to learn to play small-ball, playing infinitely variable defenses in order to beat the Warriors, Howard found himself behind in this basketball revolution.
He has no range, no low-post technology, can only be a functional player, eat cake, protect the frame, and as a blue-collar center, modern basketball's frequent offensive and defensive conversion requires the ability to turn back and run, he is still a traditional center body, seems bulky and not light enough.
When the small ball first had a trend, he did not deal with Kobe and Harden, he felt that the team should play around himself, but often did not get the guard to feed him, and the decline in defensive dominance exacerbated this trend of marginalization.
Until his attendance decreased due to injury; By the time the ball came completely, he was considered a burden, traded by the team, and before he could react, he had gone from being an All-Star ticket winner to a low-quality blue-collar player who was wandering around and not wanting Jordan Jr. and not him.
Although he made a full comeback with the Hornets in '18, his technical ability did not make the team choose to renew his contract at the end of the season.
In this era, to become a star insider, it is either the ability of Alphabet Brother to break through with the ball, or the diverse offensive methods of Embiid and Downs, or the guard-level organizational ability of Jokic. In today's NBA, there are only these four people who can be called stars, and almost all the other 210cm elders are blue-collar.
Howard entered the NBA in 04, starting from a high starting point and high talent, starting with 18+12 top interior player data at the beginning of the 07 season, and by the 15th season, he dropped to the level of Gobert and Valanciunas at 16+10, played a total of 8 years of good ball, and was a star for 8 years.
Maddie is Durant's template, a guard swingman who is good at scoring, entered the industry in '97, averaged 20 points per game in '01, and his average fell to 15.6 points per game in '09, and since then he is no longer a top player, and has played well for 8 years, and the star has been doing it for 8 years.
As of the end of the 2022 season, Lillard averaged more than 35 minutes per game every season, with an average of more than 4 rebounds, an average of 6 more assists, an average of 1 interception, and a stable score of around 25 per game, which has always been the standard star data.
Although he has not been as strong as the first gear like Jandu, he has been a star for 10 years, and he will be 11 years in 23 seasons.
He was born in 90 years and is 32 years old this year, although he is not young, but it is no surprise that he can play a 3 to 4 years of Ming Planet, that is, when a star player for nearly 15 years, blessing has been playing for the Blazers, sky-high contracts are bound to each other, as long as he chooses to retire in the Blazers, he can completely play as a star until retirement, playing 20 years of Ming Planet is not impossible.
Howard is worse than Lillard in stability and reputation.
Howard is at his peak than Lillard, the scene is explosive, and the interior defense dominance is all-time, but the NBA in '18 has only played 8 years of top stars, from the 15-season state to the 21-year 75 roster announcement, he has been blue-collar ordinary for 7 years.
He was once so good at replacing James alone, and then the small-ball era felt so ordinary that if he were selected as a 75 star for a long time, the NBA might feel that the reputation of the roster would be affected.
For example, although the controversial Wei Shao's playing style is considered unwinnable, his personal data has been good, and in 21 years, others have been making triple-doubles with the Wizards, and there is no problem with being selected into the 75th in the same year.
Being selected into the Big 75 is a higher personal honor in basketball history than being inducted into the Hall of Fame, and being selected for the latter does not necessarily make the former, but those who are selected for the former will certainly be admitted to the Hall of Fame.
This may be the reason why Howard wanted to die when he learned that he was not selected for the 75th year, and it was indeed too weighty.
However, Howard's entry into the Hall of Fame is stable, referring to the 75th to supplement McAdoo's 70s, and the result is that you don't bother to check his information when you hear such a person.
When Howard retired for twenty years, when fans at that time had no concept of traditional interiors, when the NBA was preparing to select 100 big stars, probably everyone would think of Howard and add Howard.
Young fans saw Howard in, just as we see McAdoo induction:
"Who is this person, check it, wow, the honor is good, the score does not seem to be very explosive, harm, respect the seniors, if you are selected, you will be selected."
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