Compared with the past, in modern basketball, the position barriers of each player are more and more blurred, and the evolution of tactics requires some players to have multi-faceted capabilities, so in this case, players who can play multiple positions are also extremely popular, and this article will take stock of the top ten swing people in the NBA who can play multiple positions.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > tenth place Andrei Iguodala</h1>
As early as the 76ers, Iguodala's positioning in the team was to stare at the outside gate of the opposing arrow figure, because he was a potential new star in the team plus his initials were the same as the team boss at the time, Aaron Iverson, so people also affectionately called Iguodala "Little AI".
After Iverson's departure, Iguodala took over the role of Philadelphia's core player in order, but his style was always a jigsaw puzzle player positioning, so he did not succeed during his time as the leader of the 76ers, and after the transfer to the Golden State Warriors, Iguodala ushered in his second spring, especially in the 2015 Finals, Kerr unexpectedly used five small lineups, and Iguodala, who has always been a small forward, also toped the team's main interior line, and finally the Warriors successfully won the championship at the same time. Iguodala was also named the Most Valuable Player of the Finals.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > ninth place Lamar Odom</h1>
2.08 meters tall Odom is a very delicate big man, when he debuted he once became the main organizer of the team, when many people thought that Odom would be the best person to inherit the role of legendary superstar Magic Johnson, plus Odom is used to using his left hand to control the ball, so the outside world often uses "left-handed magician" to describe him.
Although his subsequent achievements are far from those of the occultists, after transferring to the Lakers, Odom has become one of the most reliable helpers beside Kobe Bryant, on the one hand, as one of the Lakers' three towers, he is a very powerful interior general of the team, on the other hand, he can also make a temporary cameo role as a defender when the team changes, and Odom's contribution in the two consecutive championships of the Lakers in 2009 and 2010 can not be ignored.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > eighth place Ben Simmons</h1>
Unlike some big men who often make cameo appearances as point guards, Simmons, who is nearly 7 feet tall, completely takes the point guard as his first position, and his tall stature gives him a good vision, and with the blessing of this physical condition, Simmons can deliver wonderful assists that are difficult for ordinary small point guards to pass.
But while getting used to the role of point guard, Simmons can also switch his playing mode to an interior fighter, the third position or even the fourth position is not a problem for him, close to 110 kg of weight so that he does not fall behind when facing some pure interior players, it can be said that Simmons is the player with the largest position span among the active players.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > seventh place Kevin Durant</h1>
In the rookie season, although Durant has a relatively tall body and excellent projection ability, due to his thin body, the supersonic team is more to use him as a tall number two position, easily will not let him break into the inside line for hand-to-hand combat, according to the old teammate Jeff Green recalled, Durant at that time with his own one-on-one bullfighting, often can not withstand their own offense.
However, after Durant maintained his technical strength at the same time, but also raised his own strength to a new height, the most intuitive is that his limbs have a visible strength, so since 2010, Durant in the attack has been able to be fearless of any confrontation, four times crowned scoring king also shows that he is a perfect player without offensive dead ends.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > sixth place James Harden</h1>
In the Thunder, Harden's role was behind Dewey to lead the team's second team of the substitute guard role, in the 2011-2012 season he was awarded the league's best sixth man role, but at that time because of the existence of Durant and Westbrook two superstars, Harden was only a more single-functioning scoring sixth-man role, there was no more room for change in position.
After the transfer of the Rockets, Harden became the core of the team with unlimited firing rights, at this time people found that in addition to scoring, Harden's dominance of the ball is also first-class, so after D'Antoni took office, he boldly used Harden as the team's main point guard, and Harden also returned the coach's trust with many large triple-doubles, including the unprecedented 60+ triple-double data.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > fifth place Dior</h1>
Dior, who is 2.03 meters tall, can be described as a strange person in the NBA, in his youth Dior was thin, but with a quite spirited style of play and excellent ball feeling, the coach often left the team's main point guard position to him, and Dior did quite well, and after the transfer of the Suns in 2005, Dior was placed in the third position by coach D'Antoni, and when the main point guard Nash was not present, he was the actual team brain.
That season coincided with the injury reimbursement of the Suns' main center Stoudemire Jr., so D'Antoni boldly changed sides and put Dior in the fifth position of the team to replace Xiaosi's vacancy, and Dior called out the 13+6+6 data that season, becoming the fastest improving player of the season.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > fourth place LeBron James</h1>
The strong James looks like a violent striker who is good at charging, but he also has a top ball dealer, so when he first debuted, the Cavaliers once put him in the position of the team's chief point guard, and James can obviously be seamless with the number one position, but most of the Cavaliers, James is still the main small forward position.
After the transfer of the Heat, due to the new requirements of the tactics, James must appear more on the inside line, so James has no complaints about the fourth position in the Heat's small lineup, and fights with the opponent's heavy interior line every night, but after the Lakers, James once again returned to his debut position as a point guard, and James, who is over 35 years old, can still play well, and even became the league's assist king last season.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > the third letter brother</h1>
Alphabet Brother is not a star with a high pick, so at the beginning of his career, the team also has a lot of arbitrariness in terms of position, when Alphabet Brother once appeared as a substitute guard for the Bucks.
However, as this piece of jade gradually emits its own light, Alphabet Brother has also made significant progress every year, the experience of playing point guard in the early years has made him have delicate techniques that ordinary strikers do not have, and the height of more than 2.1 meters plus slender limbs allows Alphabet Brother to make three-step dunks outside the three-point line at will, and the two consecutive MVPs in the past two seasons are also the best affirmation for him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > second place Kevin Garnett</h1>
Garnett's official height is 2.11 meters, but this is clearly a statistic with doubtful authenticity, and according to his photos with some other interior stars, Garnett's real height is at least 4 centimeters higher than his profile height. In fact, Garnett also admitted that he had falsely reported his height, and the reason was that he did not want to play as a center.
However, the outstanding height did not have a negative impact on Garnett's skill and agility, and at the beginning of his career Garnett was the team's starting small forward, and during his MVP season we can see the spectacle of this seven-foot big man dribbling through the half, and it is extremely difficult to be snatched. After the transfer to the Green Army, for the highest honor, Garnett no longer struggled with whether to play the center position, in fact, in the 2008 championship, Garnett was the most core figure of the Celtics' inner defensive system, which is completely the work of the team's center.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" > first magician Johnson</h1>
Unlike the normal changes of the above players, the magician's change of position is completely hasty, and the span of the position he plays is also staggering.
In the sixth game of the 1980 Finals, the Lakers' starting point guard Abdul-Jabbar was injured and absent, and the team's main point guard Magic was pushed into the team's center position, that game The Magician made a big fuss in the center position and cut 42 points, 15 rebounds and 7 assists, and finally the Lakers also defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in the series, and the Magician also became the most valuable player in the Finals as a rookie.