Even as a center, while the Denver Nuggets man has achieved a lot, there are those with more accolades. He doesn’t have the hardware to compete with some of the truly great all-time legacies. But Van Gundy, a former NBA coach, thinks he could go all the way to the top. “Well, he might be the best player in the history of the NBA,” Van Gundy told Zach Lowe. “Here’s the thing… I understand the thought that you compare players to how well they did in the era they played in. “But the evolution of athletes… We can probably say that the best 20 basketball players in history have probably played in the last twenty years.”
