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Originally posted by BktBallRef
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Originally posted by A Pennsylvania Coach
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Originally posted by Joe
As far as hard working, "many coaches" look at steals
for hussle stats:
While Iverson's steals PG stats may go down as he gets older and slower, right now he's still ahead of some of the most legendary "hard workers" in the history of the game.
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Jordan led the league is steals the first few years he was in the league. He averaged close to 3 steals per game early in his career. I think you're correct that AI's steal total will diminish as he gets older.
In fact, I bet he won't have 2500 after 1072 games. 
BTW, notice where Magic is on the list. Supports my contention that he wasn't as good defensively. Also, Michael blocked 893 shots in his career, compared to only 374 for Magic.
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Yes and yes.
I agree, interesting that Dr. J is well up the list (the only small forward on the list, and I don't think this includes his ABA stats). In fact, a lot of the late 70's, early 80's 76er's show up on the various stat lists:
http://www.nba.com/history/all_time_...sBLKQuery.html
http://www.nba.com/history/all_time_...sFGPQuery.html
Which brings up the question, who had the greatest team ever? Although they only had one great year (Dr. J was getting on when Moses arrived, and then Moses got hurt) I like the 82-83 76ers:
http://www.nba.com/history/season/19821983.html