Top 10 Most Athletic NBA Players of All time

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A countdown of the Top 10 Most Athletic NBA Players of All Time. Relive highlights from some of the best athletes to ever play. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOW I JUDGED THE LIST: Athleticism obviously cannot be measured in stats like some other areas of the game. Instead, it is more of an aesthetic thing like dunking or ball handling. An athletic player doesn't necessarily have to have great skills to be on the list. Just to be athletic. To measure out the list, I created a chart with about 50 of the the most athletic players that I could think of. I judged them all on the key areas of athleticism which are (in order of importance) vertical, quickness, speed agility, strength, body explosiveness, body coordination, endurance, and durability. I then used this formula to calculate a players pure athleticism rating: (vert*0.9)+(quickness*0.85)+(speed*0.8)+(Agility*0.75)+(strength*0.7)+(bodyexp*0.625)+(bodcoord*0.625)+(endur*0.5)+(durab*0.4) = Players PURE athleticism. As you can see, I value a players vertical ability more than their agility and their quickness more than their strength, because in my mind, those things are more important in the sport of basketball. There is a problem though. Guards on the chart frequently had higher Pure Athleticism ratings than big men. This is because naturally the smaller the player, the quicker, more explosive, and overall more athletic they will be. To combat this, I went in and made a new formula which to into account a player's height and weight also along with their pre determined pure athleticism rating. The results are as followed in this list. Here is part of the chart to show you I actually did the work :) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNTAT3WVAAAXBAF.png:large --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Honorable Mention 11) Gerald Green 12) Vince Carter 13) Steve Francis 14) Zach LaVine 15) JaMario Moon 16) Andre Iguodala 17) Darrell Griffith 18) Julius Erving 19) Spud Webb 20) Baron Davis 21) Nate Robinson 22) Bernard King 23) Muggsy Bougues 24) Dwight Howard 25) Darryl Dawkins 26) John Wall 27) Bill Russell 28) Shaquille O'neal 29) Larry Nance 30) Rudy Gay 31) J.R Smith 32) Tracy McGrady 33) Kobe Bryant 34) DeAndre Jordan 35) Stromile Swift 36) Serge Ibaka 37) Eric Bledsoe 38) Kenny Walker 39) Amare Stoudemire 40) Isiah Rider 41) Terrence Ross 42) Andrew Wiggins 43) Josh Smith 44) James White 45) DeMar DeRozan 46) Harold Miner 47) Dee Brown 48) Dwyane Wade 49) JaVale McGee 50) Gerald Wallace 51) Rick Davis 52) Paul George 53) Kenyon Martin 54) Jason Richardson 55) Desmond Mason 56) Jeff Green 57) Kenneth Faried 58) Charles Barkley 59) David Robinson 60) Allen Iverson 61) Kirk Snyder 62) Will Bynum 63) Scottie Pippen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Song: Kanye West - Amazing (instrumental)