Jason Kidd and Steve Nash are two of the greatest point guards of all time, and both had successful stints with the Dallas Mavericks. Kidd was drafted by the team in 1994 before he was traded away in 1996 to the Phoenix Suns for a package that included Michael Finley.

We asked our legion of B/R NBA experts, writers and editors to take a list of the best 500 current and former NBA stars and whittle it down to their top 100, ranked. It’s an impossible task, especially when confronted with the reality of comparing players from different eras.