{"id":402043,"date":"2026-01-09T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402043\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:21:07","slug":"isiah-thomas-michael-leads-in-no-statistical-basketball-category-yet-we-say-theres-an-argument-about-him-being-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402043\/","title":{"rendered":"Isiah Thomas: Michael leads in no statistical basketball category, yet we say there&#8217;s an argument about him being the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isiah Thomas: In no sports category, when we talk about track, we talk about tennis, we talk about football, baseball \u2014 the arguably best players or athletes in those sports, they hold the world records. You know, I know we talk about Jordan, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XMkD7gRyl8E\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he leads in no statistical basketball category \u2014 but yet we say there&#039;s an argument about him being the best;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he leads in no statistical basketball category \u2014 but yet we say there&#8217;s an argument about him being the best<\/a>. But then when you look at Kareem, and you look at LeBron \u2014 those guys lead in several statistical categories \u2014 but yet we say somebody else is better. And, you know, I&#8217;m just giving you the evidence, right? Here&#8217;s the evidence. And what \u2014 you know, 15 years from now, when the next generation comes along, and they talk about how great LeBron James was, and how great Kevin Durant was, and Steph Curry was \u2014 it won\u2019t even be a conversation or a debate. Your generation right now is the only one&#8230; Y\u2019all say we hating on y\u2019all \u2014 y\u2019all hating on yourselves! Every time we ask you who your top 10 is, you list 10 guys from the &#8217;80s. You don&#8217;t list none of your guys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XMkD7gRyl8E\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isiah Thomas: In no sports category, when we talk about track, we talk about tennis, we talk about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,212362,7216,85,213622,17205],"class_list":{"0":"post-402043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-isiah-thomas","12":"tag-kevin-durant","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-statistical-categories","15":"tag-steph-curry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}