The Complete “20 Greatest Nuggets”
By Eric Meyer
Now that my series on the 20 greatest Denver Nuggets of all time is complete I thought I would recap the 20 in one post. Below is the 20 greatest in order from #1 to #20. I have also included the names of a few players who almost made the top 20 but just didn’t make the cut in my eyes. If you have a complete top 20 that you want to put in the comments, I would love to see it to compare our opinions of the greatest players ever to wear a Nuggets uniform.
Here’s the top 20 in order:
Number 1 Alex English
Number 2 David Thompson
Number 3 Dan Issel
Number 4 Dikembe Mutombo
Number 5 Carmelo Anthony
Number 6 Fat Lever
Number 7 Laphonso Ellis
Number 8 Ty Lawson
Number 9 Calvin Natt
Number 10 Andre Miller
Number 11 Kiki Vandewege
Number 12 Nene Hilario
Number 13 T.R. Dunn
Number 14 Marcus Camby
Number 15 Antonio McDeyess
Number 16 Mahmoud Abdul Rauf (Chris Jackson)
Number 17 Reggie Williams
Number 18 Michael Adams
Number 19 Walter Davis
Number 20 Juwan Howard
The following players were on the tail end of my list when I first threw it together back in June but did not make the final list of 20:
Chauncey Billups, Wayne Cooper, Kenyon Martin, Byron Beck, Bobby Jones, and Ralph Simpson. Billups, Cooper and Martin were not on it due to my final decisions of the 18-20 spots and Beck, Jones and Simpson were not on the list because I never really saw them play. It would have been hard to make that determination without actually having seen them in action.
I will be posting 3 stories of the greatest Head Coaches in Nuggets history in the coming days as well so look for that to start later this week. Go ahead and give me your top 20 in the comments and I will respond and maybe we can get some fun dialogue going.