Howard Beck

It doesn't mean he's got more of the other accolades.

He doesn't.

And when all is said and done, Giannis is not going to touch Kareem in the Pantheon, in the all-time, in Bill's pyramid.

Like,

Giannis will be really high, but he's not going to be in Kareem's tier.

That's fine.

For the period of time that each of these guys anchored this franchise, what did they each mean to it?

And what did they leave behind?

At the moment that Giannis leaves, there will be a lot of those same bad feelings that we see every time we see a version of this.

LeBron, KD, everybody.

But I think it's important at a time like this when we're about to see the backlash because of the parting.

to remember what he has meant to them.

So, you know, there were 17 teams in the league when the Bucks win the championship with Kareem.

There's 30 now, obviously.

So it's a different landscape.

You only had to win two rounds to get to the finals back then too.

So there's like the, you know, everything is different and it's always hard to compare eras because of those like just fundamental differences.

But also back then, though Kareem, you know, and maybe was the first to do this, I want out and I wanted to go to New York or LA.

I want a big market.

That's like the norm now, right?