Saturday, April 3, 2021

Who Was Better?

 It's an age-old debate.  No, we don't mean Lebron-MJ or Bird-Magic.  This post refers to.....


18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wilt. Only player to cause a rule change because of his domination

Anonymous said...

Wilt was very much a dominant force but he did not make his teammates better like Kareem did throughout his career. Wilt could stand in the low post and score 50 points if they fed him the ball and his team would lose. Jabbar was more of a team player especially after he became bigger and stronger. The objective was to win championships and to make your team better...Jabbar.

Anonymous said...

6:14 Not true. The NCAA banned the dunk because of Kareem, years after Wilt.

Anonymous said...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the greatest basketball player in history IMHO.

Wilt was great, MJ and Kobe were great, and LBJ is great.

However Kareem has three NCAA championships and 6 NBA championships. He is the
highest scoring player in NBA history by about 4,000 points over the second highest.

I’m not saying Kareem is my favorite player ever but his totals are unimpeachable.

Anonymous said...

I'd take Bill Russell's two NCAA titles and 11 NBA titles over Jabbar's three NCAA titles and 6 NBA titles.

Anonymous said...

638
I guess that is why Wilt once led the league in assists, huh?
721
He played 20 damn seasons. That might just explain those career stats.

Anonymous said...

Wilt.

And not only because of the other “stats” that he once self-proclaimed, but at least in part because of it.

Anonymous said...

Kareem was clearly the better basketball player, not sure why this is even a debate.
Men lie.
Women lie.
Numbers don’t lie.

Anonymous said...

@9:37PM

Bill Russell never played in the modern era.

Anonymous said...

9:37 PM - Just what years do you consider the “modern era”?

Anonymous said...

Sorry, meant to ask 3:21AM what years are in the “modern era”?

Anonymous said...

It's really simple to decide this debate. Which one had the best touchdown to interception ratio.

Anonymous said...

Modern Era is generally considered at the post ABA/NBA merger, circa 1974 or so. Of course, since had checking and hard fouls were allowed until the zone defenses of the early 2000’s created the really modern “snowflake” era, one might argue there are two modern eras. Either way, Wilt was a product of the pre-modern era as was Bill Russell. Kareem played in both, for what its worth.

Anonymous said...

Imagine still being this obsessed with sportsball when your country has been completely usurped by the zionist deepstate.

StarRider said...

The >Zionist< deep state no less.

Titles play into it, but you can't base a player's greatness completely on the number of championships...switching sports, I know, but Marino? Sanders?

I'm a little torn, no denying Kareem's greatness in considering his whole career, but there were periods in his career I don't think he was the best player in the NBA, and maybe not even the best player on his own team. Be that as it may, there's actually a whole Wikipedia page devoted to nothing but basketball records held/shared by Chamberlain, and I mean it is a LONG list, and some of them will obviously never be broken (Wilt averaged 22.9 rebounds...for his CAREER). 50.4 ppg during the 1961-62 season. Unbelievable, incomprehensible numbers. Interesting comparison, and it was fun to revisit some of these stats.

Anonymous said...

Definitely Kareem, he also had better cannabis.

Anonymous said...

WOW! Great post KF. I have never seen that video footage. Regardless of who you think is better, BOTH of them changed the game and did things in their times that no big man had ever done.

Anonymous said...

Actually, bill walton the one year he was heathy with Portland. The best ever. For a year. Block a shot, catch the ball in the air and make a bullet pass to the other end for a layup before his feet touched the ground. Over and over



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