NBA Power Rankings: The Most Stylish Ballers in League History

NBA Power Rankings: The NBA season is hitting its final leg. There is a plethora of articles out there to fill you in on who is good (Heat, Spurs, Lakers, Celtics, Bulls and Magic) and who is not (the rest of the NBA). 

I want to take a step back and look at something that caught my eye recently. These NBA guys are straight pimping the style game. This is nothing new, mind you. 

The NBA has always been a league of fashionable sophisticates. If you don't believe me, take a look at the following high fliers in this rundown of style. 

30. Andrew Bynum

I have been laid out with an injury before. Let me tell you, I did not look this good. I would have been best described as stanky. 

Bynum should be a fashion model. I don't think you can get hurt that way. 

29. Bill Bradley

The former Knicks player, U.S. Senator, and Rhodes Scholar was also a pretty snazzy dresser. The man made goofy white guy look amazing.

Okay, maybe it was not amazing, but well-groomed.  

28. Darryl Dawkins

Chocolate Thunder was once known for his rim-rattling dunks. Now he is known for his extremely loud outfits. 

He is the Craig Sager of retired athletes. 

27. Isiah Thomas

Zeke has always looked sharp, from his playing days to his general manger stint with the Knicks. It is much more important for him to look good now, though. 

The suit suffers when Thomas is constantly shaking his head in disgust at the mess he made. 

26. Dave DeBusschere

Dave DeBusschere was a Hall of Fame player that would slay the ladies with his style. He was part of the championship Knicks team in '70 and '73, that strutted their stuff all over Manhattan. 

25. Dennis Rodman

Sometimes the most important item in the style game is making your own. I will give it to Rodman, he definitely had his own. 

He is the only man to have worn every single piece of men's clothing imaginable, as well as women's. 

24. Bill Russell

I had to include my man Bill Russell. Anytime I spot him in the crowd, he is dressed in a nice suit. It hearkens back to the days when men actually dressed up to go out. 

I guess if you are going to spend thousands of dollars on a seat, you might as well dress the part. 

23. Karl Malone

If we are going to wax stylish, we have to mention the cowboy hat. Who wears one better than any other human on earth? That's right, Karl Malone. 

Malone is a big, bad Hall of Fame legend and a down-to-earth athlete. You can thank his garb for that. 

22. Willis Reed

Will Smith was not the original Big Willie Style. That would go to Willis Reed. He would look so good on the New York streets that it was impossible for any other man to get noticed. 

21. Kevin Garnett

KG has never been the most easygoing basketball player. Even in street clothes he looks like he wants to strangle someone. 

But if he did, that would be the fliest looking mug shot ever. This man certainly knows how to put the threads together. 

20. Phil Jackson

That leather-coated don with the hippie hair is the Zen Master himself. Jackson threw in the towel on being hip, and now he just wears extremely expensive suits. 

The kind of three-piece suits that would send your kids to college. 

19. Dikembe Mutombo

You may not be able to understand a word that comes out of his mouth, but damn can he dress. The finger-wagging shot-blocker has always cleaned up nice. 

18. Paul Pierce

The energetic Celtics leader is suave and debonair on the red carpet. Now if we could just do something about his peach fuzz. The only thing to complete his look would be a razor. 

17. Lamar Odom

If you are going to live amongst the glitz and glamor of Hollywood, you need to dress the part. You might say that this is a suit that only a Kardashian could love, but that's only because your sweats are considered "going out" attire. 

16. Bill Walton

That is about as clean as it got back in the day for Bill Walton. Style is all about the individual. If you believe in yourself, you can do no wrong. I think it was Buddha that once...

Sorry, anytime I see Walton, I start regurgitating hippie. 

15. Julius Erving

Dr. J has always dressed well. You need to look good when you are known as the good doctor. Erving took the flair he had on the court and delivered it with zeal in his everyday clothes. 

14. Alonzo Mourning

Go ahead and tell me one item on this man that is not pimp status. He has every last item you need, right down to the gold handkerchief. 

The man would make ordering a Big Mac look good. 

13. Dwyane Wade

Do you remember that period where it was cool to dress like some guy named Poindexter? Well, Dwyane Wade absolutely sold it.

No man has ever pulled off a bow tie like this.  

12. Tony Parker

Those French guys certainly know how to dress. They also know how to run the point on a championship team. 

I can't resist. 

They also know how to inappropriately text a former teammates wife lurid comments, leading to a messy divorce. I feel better now, actually. 

11. Gilbert Arenas

Agent Zero has had plenty of time to find his niche in the sideline clothing department. He was suspended for the better part of the year last season. 

He makes the three-piece suit look sane, something he may not be. 

10. Kobe Bryant

There really is nothing that the Black Mamba does not excel at. You can add dressing like a king to the list. I have to say his wife does make the outfit that much more enticing. 

9. LeBron James

If you are going to be glossed with the moniker of The King, you need to look like royalty at all times. LeBron James has taken his talents to this blazer quite well. 

8. Dwight Howard

If anyone else told you, "I am just going to wear a sweater to the game," you would show up in your own ketchup-stained hoodie. 

If Dwight Howard tells you that, you better wear a dress shirt. 

7. Artis Gilmore

Yes. That is a fur coat. And no, you are no longer as cool as you thought you were. Gilmore just broke your ankles in the looking good department.

6. Baron Davis

Baron Davis may no longer be the best point guard in the NBA, but he very well could be the best dressed. He makes geeky chic work in this league. 

I also want to send much love to his beard. That thing is almost as good as James Harden's.

5. Chris Webber

Chris Webber has always been a trendsetter. He started the baggy shorts and black socks phase while at Michigan. 

You can bet he is always dressed to the nines when he is out in public. There really is not anything to hate about Chris. Well, except for his predilection to call timeouts. 

4. Michael Jordan

It is easy to be stylish when you make anything look fantastic. I would look like a creamsicle had exploded on me if I slid this on. 

Jordan sells it. And I was beginning to think all he wore were Hanes t-shirts. 

3. Shaquille O'Neal

It must be hard to find something that fits someone with the dimensions of a small mountain, but a bank account like Shaq's delivers. 

The man simply knows how to bring it. He is never over the top, just classy. Dennis Rodman could take a few lessons. 

2. Wilt Chamberlain

Nowadays, you would take that shirt and bury it out back. But at the time, it was the cat's meow, or whatever hip saying the kids are all about these days. 

Wilt knew a thing or two about style. He would be the first to tell you that he had many ladies around to dress him. 

1. Walt Frazier

It is not enough to look good on the court, you have to sell it off the hardwood as well. Frazier is the straight business. He carries on his legacy of dapper to this day. 

You only wish you had this style. 

Honorable Mention: Dick Motta

I had to include this as a warning to all clothes wearers out there. If you are not careful, your pants line can quickly invade nipple territory. 

Please do not let this happen if you wish to maintain an air of sophistication.