Rank the All Time Great Power Forwards

[TheComebackKid]

Rank the all time great power forwards. Stats are based on 5 year peak averages. Go.


Charles Barkley

26.0pts / 12.1rbs / 4.0asts / 1.6stls / 1.0blks

1x NBA MVP
1x Conf Champion
1x Rebound Champion
11x All Star
11x All NBA
1x All Star MVP
2x Olympian

Tim Duncan

23.3pts / 12.5rbs / 3.4asts / 0.8stls / 2.5blks

5x NBA Champion
6x Conf Champion
2x NBA MVP
3x Finals MVP
15x All Star
15x All NBA
15x All Defense
1x All Star MVP
Rookie of the Year
1x Olympian

Kevin Garnett

22.7pts / 13.3rbs / 5.0asts / 1.4stls / 1.6blks

1x NBA Champion
2x Conf. Champion
1x NBA MVP
1x Defenses Player of the Year
4x Rebound Champion
15x All Star
9x All NBA
12x All Defense
1x All Star MVP
1x Olympian

Elvin Hayes

21.8pts / 13.7rbs / 1.9asts / 1.3stls / 2.6blks

1x NBA Champion
3x Conf. Champion
12x All Star
6x All NBA
2x All Defense
2x Rebound Champion
1x Scoring Champion

Karl Malone

29.0pts/ 11.4rbs / 2.8asts / 1.4stls / 0.7blks

2x NBA MVP
2x Conf. Champion
14x All Star
14x All NBA
4x All Defense
2x All Star MVP
2x Olympian

Kevin McHale

22.7pts / 8.6rbs / 2.4asts / 0.4stls / 1.8blks

3x NBA Champion
5x Conf Champion
7x All Star
6x All Defense
1x All NBA
2x 6th Man of the Year

Dirk Nowitzki

25.3pts / 8.9rbs / 3.0asts / 0.8stls / 1.0blks

1x NBA Champion
2x Conf. Champion
1x NBA MVP
1x NBA Finals MVP
13x All Star
12x All NBA

Bob Pettit

26.5pts / 17.2rbs / 2.9asts

2x NBA MVP
1x NBA Champion
4x Conf. Champion
11x All Star
11x All NBA
4x All Star MVP
2x Scoring Champion
Rookie of the Year

Dennis Rodman

7.0pts / 17.3rbs / 2.2asts / 0.7stls / 0.6blks

5x NBA Champion
6x Conf Champion
2x Defensive Player of the Year
7x Rebound Champion
2x All Star
2x All NBA
8x All Defense

 

[TheComebackKid]

1. Tim Duncan
2. Bob Pettit
3. Karl Malone
4. Kevin Garnett
5. Charles Barkley
6. Dirk Nowitzki
7. Elvin Hayes
8. Kevin McHale
9. Dennis Rodman

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Garnett is too high

Mchale is too low

 

[jrams]

Los Booz is objectively 24th all time PF.

 

[My Spot]

Andrew DeClercq
Udonis Haslem
Al Horford

 

[Michaelangelo]

Horace Grant
Robert Horry
Slava Medvedenko

 

[therealdope]

 

[RR]

Duncan was better

 

[therealdope]

Duncan was better

 

[RR]

 

[Chad R. Thundercock]

Yeah, I'm going to say Duncan is better because at least he didn't impregnate a 13 year old.

 

[volodya]

Lavar Ball

 

[Chad R. Thundercock]

Lavar Ball

2.2 ppg GOAT. Chuck got nothing on him.

 

[prod2821]

f off dope Duncan > Failman

1. Duncan
2. Malone
3. Pettit
4. McHale
5. Barkley
6. Hayes
7. Dirk
8. Garnett
9. Rodman

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

I got Tim Duncan.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

What is the difference between a power forward and a true center really? It seems like a PF is just slightly shorter and can move a little better than a center.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

I got Tim Duncan.

I thought he is the center. Then who is the center?

 

[iwhoopedbatman]

Duncan is #1 if we're calling him a PF.

Barkley > Malone. Malone stayed in phenomenal shape, never missed games and played forever. So their career numbers don't compare well for Barkley. They were basically exact contemporaries. Until Barkley slowed down and started sucking, there wasn't a question who was better. He scored with more ease (without the greatest passer ever setting him up his entire career) and rebounded better. Malone's longevity brings into question who really had the 'greater' career, but if we're asking who was better during their prime, it's Barkley without having to think about it. Malone was a little better defensively, but he wasn't Duncan or Garnett defensively either.

Lol at Petit. Honestly all NBA analysis should be pre and post 1980 (I guess we could call the '76 merger the dividing line). The game changed so much around this time, and competition improved so much that the eras before and after aren't really comparable. And using stats across eras to compare them is beyond laughable. But Petit, while objectively great for his time, does not compare as a player to the players from the last 40 years. He was one of the best big men in the world in his time and he shot about 43% from the field. As a PF (not that they called it that then, but he was clearly a big man). And no, that's not because they played super awesome defense back then. The professional game in his time was played at a level below current high school ball.

 

[My Spot]

Duncan was better

Did he slam Hollywood Hogan?

 

[My Spot]

I'm partial to Barkley because he had to make up for his height and actually has a higher PER and VORP than Duncan.