Allen Iverson Reveals His Top Five NBA Players Of All

In a recent interview, Allen Iverson surprised fans by revealing his personal top five greatest basketball players of all time—while notably excluding himself from the list.

“ Michael Jordan , Kobe Bryant , LeBron James , Steph Curry , Shaquille O’Neal,” Iverson told CBS News when asked to give his opinion on the best NBA players in history.

Though he left his own name off the list, the choice of those five reflects both the legends he admired and the rivals he battled.

His placement of Jordan, Bryant, LeBron, Curry, and Shaq evokes the full spectrum of the modern NBA: from Jordan’s mythic dominance to Curry’s revolution in spacing, and from Kobe’s fierce scoring to Shaq’s interior supremacy.