Greatest Team Player Ever

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Who do you think is/was the greatest team player in sports?

I would have to say Bill Russel could be a possible candidate. He seemed to do what his team needed when they needed it. He could score, rebound, shut down the other teams big man.

 
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Michael Jordan, he could distribute the ball and made all the teammates around him look great. Scottie Pippen was nothing before or after Jordan. He took them from a good team to an championship when he started getting the ball around.
 
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(mattvols @ Apr 18 said:
Michael Jordan, he could distribute the ball and made all the teammates around him look great. Scottie Pippen was nothing before or after Jordan. He took them from a good team to an championship when he started getting the ball around.
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How much better did he make Granville Waiters, Dennis Hopson, and Brad Sellers? What did Jordan ever win without Pippen?
 
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I'll give MJ a little bit of a pass on the early years. No matter how good he was, he had to have SOME sort of supporting cast. Besides, you can make that argument against just about anybody since most good team players play on good teams.

Russell had Cousy/Hondo/Heinsohn/Jones. Magic had Kareem etc....
 
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In baseball: George Brett
In football: Marshall Faulk comes to mind but I would have to go with Ronnie Lott or John Taylor in that category
In basketball: Bill Russell, however, most recently Dennis Rodman (except his last 3 years where he was in and out of the league)
 
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John Stockton had an awful lot of assists.
Yogi Berra in baseball.
I agree with Ronnie Lott and Magic Johnson, but if you include Rodman you must mention Kurt Rambis and Bill Lambear(spelling). I think these 3 would fit more appropriately in, to quote Cheney(Temple), the greatest "goons" ever.
 
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Rambis, Lambear, Rodman, Barkley, etc. understood something very few pro basketball players understand today...THEY HAD 6 FOULS AND THEY WERE GOING TO GIVE AT LEAST 4 OUT EVERY GAME! Players didn't stroll down the lane back then like they do these days, because they knew that a HARD foul was waiting for them. This led to a more fundamentally sound basketball game, more passes, more beating defenses by moving off the ball, etc.
 
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(therealUT @ Apr 18 said:
In baseball: George Brett
In football: Marshall Faulk comes to mind but I would have to go with Ronnie Lott or John Taylor in that category
In basketball: Bill Russell, however, most recently Dennis Rodman (except his last 3 years where he was in and out of the league)
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Amazing. You and I agree on two of three. Brett is one of my two or three favorite players ever. There ar many guys who fit the bill in this category.
Baseball:Barry Larkin, Paul O'Neill, John Smoltz, Darren Daulton(pre-insanity), Derek Jeter, Joe Morgan, and Roger Clemens.
Football: Brett Favre, Marvin Harrison, Walter Payton, Matt Millen, Fred Biletnikoff, Ray Lewis, Mike Webster, and Darren Woodson.
Basketball: Charles Oakley, Tim Hardaway, Derek Harper, Mario Elie, Avery Johnson, Dan Roundfield, and both Terry Porters.
These lists are in no way exhaustive, they're just the first guys who came to mind.
 
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(hvwarrior58 @ Apr 18 said:
Hat, I take it you don't read much into the Mark Chmura comments on Brett Favre?
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I generally disregard the comments of pedophiles.
 
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wow all these people who live in tennessee and no one mentions eddie george?? Carried the load at rb for the titans for YEARS. 400+ carries every year and he was when he was getting 1500 yards he didnt praise himself, he bought he o-line all 4 wheelers. Not to mention his presence in the locker room was greatly missed once he left. great team player.
 
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(hvwarrior58 @ Apr 18 said:
I thought the charges on him were thrown out?
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He was a 30+ year old NFL player in a hot tub with some underage girls. That's bad enough.
 
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Yeah, I bet hes the only pro sports figure that has ever been in that position. Just because he might be a pedophile, doesn't mean that he is lying about Favre. I'm not passing judgment on either side about what was said though.
 
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(hatvol96 @ Apr 18 said:
Amazing. You and I agree on two of three. Brett is one of my two or three favorite players ever. There ar many guys who fit the bill in this category.
Baseball:Barry Larkin, Paul O'Neill, John Smoltz, Darren Daulton(pre-insanity), Derek Jeter, Joe Morgan, and Roger Clemens.
Football: Brett Favre, Marvin Harrison, Walter Payton, Matt Millen, Fred Biletnikoff, Ray Lewis, Mike Webster, and Darren Woodson.
Basketball: Charles Oakley, Tim Hardaway, Derek Harper, Mario Elie, Avery Johnson, Dan Roundfield, and both Terry Porters.
These lists are in no way exhaustive, they're just the first guys who came to mind.
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Props to you sir for mentioning the greatness of Tim Hardaway
 
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best team player....hm....interesting topic...

bball....Magic and Larry are up there...
football....Walter Peyton immediately comes to mind, as does Jerry Rice.
baseball...don't know...tough one. So many individual stats and accolades handed out, it's hard to nail that down...but guys like George Brett and Derek Jeter are what i would call team players....lead by example.
 
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Sid Bream. I can still remember the crowd chanting Sid! Sid! Sid! at the old Atl.-Fulton Co. Stadium and I'll never forget Game 7 of the NLCS in 1992.

 
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