Chris Paul is absolutely the best PG in the league. The "best-of" list includes Tony Parker, Russell Westbrook, Stephen Curry, Deron WIlliams, healthy Derrick Rose There are some young guns coming up like Kyrie Irving, Jrue Holiday, Mike Conley, Ricky Rubio, Damian Lillard and John Wall.
Rondo is somewhere in the Top 10. Chris Paul is undeniably a superior player...
Problem is, point guards don't really win titles in this league. The last team to win a championship with a point guard as their best player would be the 80s Pistons and isiah Thomas. It's a big man and scorer's league.
So upgrading to Chris Paul would be nice, but it wouldn't be enough.
Yes, top five is definitely in the top ten. Tony Parker, Chauncey Billups, Jason Kidd, and even 2008 Rajon Rondo are all very, very good point guards who have won titles recently. You may say that point guards don't win titles on their own, but it sure is helpful to have a good one.
By the way, how do you not count Magic's Lakers as a team whose best player was their point guard?
One of these teams with an elite point guard is due to win a title in the near future. Here's hoping Danny can put the right pieces together over the course of the next few years so that team can end up being Rondo's Celtics.
I can't tell if you just ignored what I wrote or didn't understand it.
Billups wasn't the best player on his team despite the nonsense Finals MVP award. The Wallace brothers were that team... Rip Hamilton was the allstar scorer.
You are crediting Jason Kidd for Dirk Nowitski's championship? K?
You're crediting role-player Rondo for the title won by Kevin Garnett and his sidekick allstar hall-of-famers Pierce and Ray ALlen?
Comeonn...
Again... the last team to win a title with a point guard as the best player was the 1980s Pistons with Isiah Thomas. That happened AFTER 6'9 Magic Johnson won his.
Nothing I said was inaccurate.
Yes, it's nice to have a good point guard. SUre, I'd love to have Chris Paul. I'm just sayin, you'd need more. Rondo sure as heck isn't winning a title as the best player... Chris Paul is proving unlikely to do that as well... despite being vastly superior to Rondo.