Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd feels three active NBA players already belong on the league’s all-time top five list.<\/p>\n
Kidd named the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry and Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Joki\u0107 as members of his all-time top five in a Thursday appearance on the Dan Patrick Show.<\/p>\n
He ranked Michael Jordan as his No. 1 player of all time, followed by LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.<\/p>\n
“And then if you had to end it today, it would be Joker and Steph,” Kidd said about his top five.<\/p>\n
Kidd added that he would name Kevin Durant, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Tim Duncan and Shaquille O’Neal as top-10 players.<\/p>\n
Three members of Kidd’s top-ten list are still active in the NBA playoffs, although Durant has been sidelined by an ankle injury.<\/p>\n
The Houston Rockets staved off elimination without Durant with a Wednesday night Game 5 win over James and the Los Angeles Lakers, who still lead the first-round series 3-2.<\/p>\n
Joki\u0107 helped keep the Nuggets’ postseason hopes alive in his team’s own must-win Game 5 on Monday. He will need to help Denver win again Thursday night in order to push the series to Game 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd feels three active NBA players already belong on the league’s all-time top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-639384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}