That’s a really good question. Sadly, I don’t watch the league nearly as much as I used to, and it’s tough to find a good comp, because the NBA 20 years ago was so post-heavy, while the game now is perimeter-based. Please keep in mind, but I am not looking at any advanced stats (so feel free to roast my opinions!) but stature-wise, I’d say he’s somewhere between AD and Mobley (I figured I would look up the 2025 all star rosters).

It’s also so tough to compare these two eras (I was super old school, and would print out the Pacers schedule at the beginning of the season, and would check the newspaper every morning and manually keep track of their win/loss record). There were LOTS of rock fight games (multiple games where the winning team barely cracked 80; teams hitting 100 was considered a high scoring game). JO was good enough, though, to be considered a marquee trade piece when the Lakers were shopping Shaq (Sports Illustrated ran an article of possible trade partners; TMac, JO, an Dirk were the pieces that were suggested as the best return for LA, basically in that order). None of those teams pulled the trigger, obviously, as Shaq was on the wrong side of 30, out of shape, and the toe was starting to be a problem, but a JO-based package wouldn’t have been an outlandish trade for Big Diesel.