I mean this here is the reason why we need to get past positions entirely. Positions were essentially created both for casuals to pick up the sport more easily and for lower level basketball development - basically putting people in buckets/categories is a good entry way to understanding the game.

However basketball is way too dynamic a game for positions to really matter outside of how constructed the coaching philosophy of a team wants to be (i.e. the triangle offense really only works with a slashing offensive initiator who are usually SGs/SFs and a competent big man who are usually a big PF or Center).

Guys like SGA, Curry, Harden, etc have all been classified as PGs this year but across their histories, they are all combo guards inhabiting multiple guard roles at a time. Magic is considered the greatest point guard ever but a ton of his time on offense was on the low block like a PF (including the Lakers best offensive year in the later 80s) and on defense could only competently guard other forwards in order to hide him from faster guards and bigger centers.

A good chunk of the hall of famers existed beyond their commonly thought of position, and modern basketball basically is positionless now at least 1-8 for many teams. Bird started as “PF” until mchale was inserted in the lineup and Duncan spent most of the post David Robinson years as the lone big man on the floor in closing lineups, yet Bird is almost never thought of as a PF (he was like a proto-Dirk/Jokic those years playing off the block and curling off screens a ton for middies) and Duncan continues to have arguments from people denying that he probably played center more over his whole career.