Daniel Christian
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Basketball is the greatest sport of all time and Magic Johnson is the greatest player to ever touch a basketball. I think. I switch off between him and Jordan every 20 seconds, sorry for the indeciveness.

I have no personal preference between the NBA or NCAA. They are both basketball, so I love both.

I became an Atlanta Hawks Featured Columnist at Bleacher Report on December 12th, 2011.

I'm a huge Atlanta Sports fan. I love the Hawks, Falcons, and Braves (in that order), and will root for them until the day I die. I was raised a Duke fan, but I'm also a fan of Syracuse and Georgia Tech.

My favorite article I've done is a debate with Featured Columnist Adam Fromal as we both state our cases for the best Hawk of all time:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/819718-dominique-wilkins-vs-bob-pettit-who-is-the-atlanta-hawks-best-player-ever

I was an intern at Bleacher Report over the Fall of 2011 and am very thankful for the opportunity. I recommend the internship to all aspiring writers. It is quite a bit of work, but it will certainly improve your writing.

Everyone has different opinions on this, but my top 10 basketball players of all time:
1. Magic Johnson
2. Michael Jordan
3. Bill Russell
4. Kareem Abdul-Jabar
5. Larry Bird
6. Wilt Chamberlain
7. Hakeem Olajuwon
8. Oscar Robertson
9. Kobe Bryant
10. Dr. J
We all know Dominique Wilkins is really #1... (I wish).
For me, 1-6 is set, not necessarily in order, but as a top 6. After that it becomes rather blurry.

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Dominique Wilkins, Mookie Blaylock, Doc Rivers, Spud Webb, Jeff Teague, Chris Paul, Magic Johnson, Jamal Anderson, Billy White Shoes, Terrance Mathis, Jessie Tuggle, Matt Ryan, Roddy White, Hank Aaron, Chipper Jones, Andruw Jones, Greg Maddux, John Smoltz, Jason Heyward, Art Heyman, Johnny Dawkins, Grant Hill, JJ Reddick, Nate James, Jay Williams,Chris Duhon, Dahntay Jones, Jonny Flynn, Scoop Jardine, Jarrett Jack, Thaddeus Young, and LeBron James

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Braves, Duke Blue Devils, Syracuse Orange, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

  • Favorite Coaches

    Mike Krzyzewski, Doc Rivers, Hubie Brown, Mike Fratello, Larry Drew, Mike Smith, Dan Reeves, Jim Boeheim, Bobby Cremins, Bobby Cox (not a coach, but an all time great manager).

  • All Time Sports Moment

    2010 Duke National Title/ Hawks taking Celtics to 7 games in 2008

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    Duke over GT in 2010 ACC Championship/ Heat-Hawks game in Philips Arena (3/18/11) when LeBron exploded for 43 on 73% shooting

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    100 points in a game by Wilt

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Hank Aaron

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Magic

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Federer

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    ACC

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  • Kwame Fisher-Jones posted 212 days ago

    Kwame Fisher-Jones

    Daniel appreciate the love and kind words.

    Great question about LeBron extremely tough to answer. Right now I would say LeBron is the most skilled player in the NBA, but struggles because he is not a fluid scorer. He has yet to have a coach challenge him to refine his scoring. Pat Riley would have been great for him in that regard. He is by far the best perimeter defender in the game and is arguably the best. People tend to believe his passing is the best part of his game, really it is his I.Q. He is similar to Magic and Bird in that sense that he knows the game so well.

    All-time is tough because he, along with Wade, are about to change the game. LeBron is adding a post- up game not to score but to facilitate. He is implementing the triangle offense into his game which should allow him to utilize his best attributes.

    Hope this answers your question. Thanks again for love

  • Wilson Zavala posted 213 days ago

    Wilson Zavala

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/919845-cain-velasquez-vs-junior-dos-santos-will-change-mma-forever?search_query=ufc%20mainstream

  • Sammy Kinsler posted 235 days ago

    Sammy Kinsler

    nice articles tho

  • Sammy Kinsler posted 235 days ago

    Sammy Kinsler

    Duke Sucks

  • Ken Nelson posted 264 days ago

    Ken Nelson

    Anytime, man.

  • Kunal Mishra posted 277 days ago

    Kunal Mishra

    Magic better than Michael? No way!

  • J. Jackson posted 281 days ago

    J. Jackson

    Also please tell your Hawks to stay away from Chris Paul and Dwight Horward in the upcoming free agency LOL.

  • J. Jackson posted 281 days ago

    J. Jackson

    Hey,Daniel, can't wait until u write something new, I think u have a lot of insight about the greatest game on earth basketball. Also about your top 10 list don't u think Wilt and Russell are little overrated they played in a time when the centers were the size of a SF in today's game,there was very little talent and the defensive schemes were not that complex, and there weren't any 3 sec violation calls which is the reason why Wilt got to park in the lane and just dunk. To me Shaq was a lot better than both of them he dominated in the 90' and 2000's which had a lot of talent. In his day he had competition who was Wilt and Russell's competition other than each other. It was a great list though and you may be right about Magic Johnson being the best to ever touch a basketball.

  • Brennan Scotland posted 287 days ago

    Brennan Scotland

    Although, I went ahead and performed a coup de grace on that Carlos Iglesia fellow.

  • Brennan Scotland posted 287 days ago

    Brennan Scotland

    Thank you for effectively discrediting my article's predictable ney-sayers. I logged on to deconstruct their banal responses, only to find that you had already cleaned it up and set the truth free for me. Well-played, I owe you.

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