July 10, 200619 yr Question, how in the hell is Dwight Howard NOT in the top 5? Yao Ming!? http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...=simmons/060707 FWIW Kirk Hinrich was #28. 6. Dwight Howard Not even Moses Malone was tossing up 28-26s at age 20. We need Linda Cohn back on the 2 a.m. SportsCenter so she can start calling him "D-Ho." 4. Yao Ming Was making The Leap after the All-Star Break (25.7 points and 11.6 boards per game) before breaking his foot in early April. What a shame. And we forget that he's only 25 -- for instance, Shaq peaked at 28, Hakeem peaked at 30, David Robinson peaked at 29, Ewing and Moses peaked at 27, Kareem peaked with his almost unprecedented triple-whammy at age 33 (an MVP season, Finals MVP and award-winning cameo as Roger Murdock in "Airplane" in 1980), Paul Mokeski's mustache/perm combo peaked at 28, Mike Gminski's beard peaked at 29, and Shawn Bradley didn't peak as a dunking test dummy until 28. True centers take awhile. Everyone forgets this. We're getting a 28-12 from Yao one of these years. It's coming.
July 11, 200619 yr Simmons was fairly down on the Ben Wallace signing. He thinks Wallace is basically Tyson Chandler with 2 more rebounds per game. I don't agree, but Simmons usually knows what he's talking about in the NBA.
July 11, 200619 yr The guys in Nashville have been bashing the Bulls signing as well. Calling Wallace 3 years past his prime and way over paid. It has tempered my excitement from when we first got him.
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