At a time when the NBA's point guard position is alive with present and future promise, it's backcourt comrade, the shooting guard slot, is slogging through tough times.
Quality 2-guard play still exists, but not like it did during the 1990s through mid-2000s, which was the golden age of shooting guards. Clyde Drexler, Michael Jordan, Joe Dumars and Reggie Miller helped pave the way for Ray Allen, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter, Manu Ginobili and Dwyane Wade, among so many others.
Bryant, Carter, Ginobili and Wade represent the last of that regime, each of them gradually ebbing toward retirement. The administration they leave behind is nowhere near as deep, even if the likes of James Harden and Jimmy Butler have helped keep it afloat.
Might that change? Could the NBA be within reasonable proximity of a shooting guard renaissance? Is the currently feeble state of backcourt swingmen perhaps exaggerated?
Bleacher Report's Jonathan Wasserman and yours truly are back at it again, this time trying to figure out what the future has in store for the Association's ostensibly dwind ...
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Is the Future of the NBA’s Shooting Guard Position in Good Hands?
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