I'm doing a 24 man tournament for the Best Defensive Player in the NBA since 1985. Me and my friend, Eternal (he used to post at HHI and was a co-writer along with me for The Proud Franchise) decided who were the 24 best defenders since '85. There were some tough omissions. We have already given the top 8 players byes for the play in round. The next 16 duke it out to see who faces that top 8. The top 8 are:

Hakeem Olajuwon
Dikembe Mutombo
Scottie Pippen
Gary Payton
Michael Jordan
Dennis Rodman
Tim Duncan
Dwight Howard

Even though there are some younger posters who may not remember some of the players that will be in the polls, I feel like some or most of us can still go back that far and remember some of these dudes. Judge these guys to the best of your ability. You can judge them on their whole careers, their primes, or both. It's your choice. I will post each players' accolades and achievements however don't let them be the only factors in your decision making process.



Marcus Camby

-One defensive player of the year (2007)
-Two time All Defensive first team (2007, 2008)
-Two time All Defensive second team (2005, 2006)
-12th all time in total career blocks (2309)
-11th all time in career blocks per game (2.5)
-Highest block total was in 2008 with 285 blocks along with his highest blocks per game average 3.6 bpa.
-Had the highest defensive rating in the NBA in 2001 (90.6)
-Had the most steals in his career in 2010 with 95.
-Had his highest steals per game average in 2004 with 1.4.




Alonzo Mourning

-Two time NBA Defensive Player of the Year (1999, 2000)
-Two time All NBA Defensive First Team (1999, 2000)
-11th in career blocks with 2356.
-6th in career blocks per game with 2.8 bpg.
-Highest block total in one season was 294 blocks in 2000.
-Highest block per game in one season was 3.9 in 1999.
-Had the highest defensive rating in the NBA in 1997 with 95.3.
-Had his most total steals in one season with 70 in 1996 as well as his best steal per game average at 1.0 spg.

Since dwight is a poor man's alonzo defensively and camby is overrated and stole my boy TImmy D's defensive player of the year awards I would have to go big Zo

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Alonzo Mourning

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Kevin Garnett

corey brewer

oliver miller

Camby because longevity counts.



PEACE

zo. gut feeling. good matchup.

yeah but he has never been an elite man defender, even nene's ass was a better post defender when they played together in Denver.

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Mourning easily.

Wheres Avery Bradley?

This is getting creepy


PEACE

Worse then Kel/Rubio?

See I read that wrong. I thought you were genuinely interested in where Avery Bradley is at the moment you posted. My initial instinct was to answer that he's probably getting ready for the Heat game tonight, but boy am I glad I didnt. Wouldnt I have looked foolish? So thats my bad on misunderstanding your intent.

But, what's really kinda crazy is that your obsession with him has developed to the point that had that actually been the case, and you were really asking us WHERE IS AVERY BRADLEY RIGHT NOW? I NEED TO KNOW!...I think most folks would have just accepted that as a condition of your current state.



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Avery Bradley vs Imam Shumpert

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Shumpert and can gaurd more positions/people, but Bradley is better.

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He makes bringing the ball up the court extremely hard and even when not forcing TO makes other team waste around 10 seconds just to get into a play.

if the question is a no brainer, i'll throw up an obvious lol. its like when garnett blocked the shot after the whistle...

dont fucking bring rubio into this. he is DOY, GOD, BCC, OMG

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Zo

kg should of gotten bye.

It was so sick when old man Zo went ham with Miami in the finals.

rubio was greg's dream before me. as previously rumored my unconditional gay awe is allegedly based around him playing with the most exciting and fast rising team in the history of sports

its bad enough new york couldnt pull off the disinformation ESPN machine to scare ricky's mom with the lack of shopping in minnesota to get him in the cesspool that is the knicks


from now on respect the pop and write Greg/Rubio


thanks for your cooperation

Zo wins.