Six NBA titles, six NBA Finals MVPs, and five MVPs. There are many fans and pundits who believe that Michael Jordan is the best basketball player of all-time, and they might be right.

• The Boston Celtics had a legacy of winning long before Larry Bird got there, but when you won as many the championships as they had, the bar is set pretty high. Bird not only cleared it, but he also set a new level for Celtics fans.
  

• Bill Russell is not always in the conversation when basketball fans talk about the greatest player ever, but there are many reasons why they should.
  

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won everywhere he went.

Earvin "Magic" Johnson became the Los Angeles Lakers' face during their "showtime" years, which considering the number of other personalities, was no small accomplishment.

You can’t talk about scoring in basketball without mentioning Wilt Chamberlain, one of the most prolific scorers in the history of the game. Chamberlain, a seven-time scoring champion, is the only player in NBA history to score 100 points in a game and the only player to finish a season averaging over 50 points per game.