2017 Forbes Article on the NBA GOAT

I hate all the fluff every article writer ever seems to think they have to shove into something to turn it into a story. Scrolling down, here's the point of the article:

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Only other SG in the top 20?

 

Articles like these are comical. This guy writes an article about another guy saying who the GOAT is and it takes about 5 minutes to read. Give me something to read!

Instead of reading that "article", here's the Medium page where Ben Hinson's actual work is : https://hickamsdictum.com/
Here's his GOAT scoring FAQ : https://hickamsdictum.com/g-o-a-t-scoring-faqs-basketball-3cc519585ee1
Here's is GOAT calculation : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOAT_Index
2017 Playoff GOAT rankings (guess who's #2?) : https://hickamsdictum.com/the-g-o-a-t-index-2017-nba-playoffs-599cfbace863
#2 above nearly makes his '17-'18 MVP : https://hickamsdictum.com/the-g-o-a-t-basketball-index-2017-2018-mvp-rankings-76451128d5b8

 

And the only active players in the list are LeBron James (4) and ...... Vince Carter (38).

 

Forbes is like one step above Yahoo! and that Chinese news agency that comes up all the time with BS Rockets headlines when I do a Google search.

Oh, btw, thank you for your time and research.