Basketball Twitter ruthlessly roasted Paul Pierce over his LeBron James take

Pierce says that LeBron James isn’t in his personal all-time top-7 in NBA history.

Former Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce hasn’t been shy about sharing bold basketball takes since retiring as a player to become a TV analyst, but his list of the top five players in NBA history was met with instant mockery after he shared it on ESPN on Wednesday.

The combination of the release of “The Last Dance’ and the fact that we don’t have sports on the schedule has left NBA talking heads with little else to do than argue over who is the GOAT – but according to Pierce, James isn’t in the conversation because he didn’t “help build” a great organization. Pierce knocked James for “putting together” teams in Miami and Cleveland to win championships – both with Big 3 models borrowed from Pierce’s own Boston Celtics – and left James out of his all-time top five.

Paul Pierce’s top five players of all time, in order: Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant.

After the clip went viral, Pierce later doubled down on Twitter, and shared that LeBron doesn’t even make his top-7. Pierce also listed Larry Bird as being somewhere in his top ten, but didn’t specify where.

NBA Twitter responded by destroying Pierce on Twitter – and there’s plenty of material to draw from, highlighted by this hysterical NBA on TNT conversation between Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith.

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