{"id":202,"date":"2013-06-06T22:07:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T22:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=202"},"modified":"2013-06-06T22:07:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T22:07:56","slug":"magic-michael-larry-lebron-and-wilt-are-our-best-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Magic, Michael, Larry, LeBron and Wilt are our best of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a national debate going on right now over who are the best basketball players in history, by position. \u00a0There is a qualifier to this debate. It is difficult to rank players who play in different generations. Having said that, here is The Sports Paper&#8217;s selections:<\/p>\n<p>Point Guard &#8212; Magic Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Shooting Guard &#8212; Michael Jordan<\/p>\n<p>Small Forward &#8212; Larry Bird<\/p>\n<p>Power Forward &#8212; LeBron James<\/p>\n<p>Center &#8212; Wilt Chamberlain<\/p>\n<p>Bench &#8212; Bob Cousy, Bob Pettit, Bill Russell, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Kobe Bryant, Dr. J. (Julius Erving).<\/p>\n<p>Want to join the debate? Send your selections to bigmosher@msn.com and we&#8217;ll post the final results.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, and have a great day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There is a national debate going on right now over who are the best basketball players in history, by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}