Did Russell play with a rock, and MJ a regular basketball? Is the hoop shorter or bigger now than before? is the court different? No? If the Roman soldier showed up and the modern one picked up a sword and ran circles around him before chopping off his head then yeah the modern soldier would be a better warrior. thats what would happen if Russell showed up in today’s NBA, or MJ, or Kobe’s era.
I'm sorry to be insulting, but are you incapable of understanding the difference between a player who only attends basketball practice and is successfull with mere natural and practiced basketball-only athleteics against a player who squats, does plyometrics, takes supplemental enhancements, studies shooting form videos, and benefits from modern court strategies???
Russel was a good player on a team of good players that has the rules and laws of drafting on its side for that time period.
Also, no Free Agency
Ahh...now you know what it is like arguing with a Trump-bot....
And most importantly they just werent as good as players in the 90's and beyond. This whole argument is silly.
It's the sports forum. If you want to talk politics, there's forum for that as well.
While I've enjoyed your absolute destruction of this fool.... I think I'll add a little voice to what I think is a fact that James, Jordan and Bryant would not be the same people that they were and likely not the players that they were in the 90's and 2000's if they had to have lived in the 40's and 50's. Like you, I think they'd be absolute holy terrors on the basketball court. I mean picture Hal Green (for one) trying to get past Jordan... Hal Greer was a kid during WWII then came of age during the segregated divide in our nation...I can't imagine what type of nonsense he faced day in and day out; Stuff that the 3 I mentioned before never had to have faced on a continual basis...where you can't go into this restaurant and you're not welcome to sleep at that hotel? Would they have had the mental toughness to overcome? I think so. But would there have been a price to pay (none the least of which was having to go to college for James and Bryant) along the way as well. So I don't think it's a star-trek type of teleportation scenario where you could just beam these players onto the floor at Boston Garden and ignore the social elements that were going on at the time. That being said...you're right. The NBA teams back then were closer to NIT invitees today.
LMAO!
My easily comprehendable contention is that if someone is raised without modern training, supplements, and knowledge, they shouldn't be judged by modern standards and compared to modern players. The proper thought experiment is to for a second take away the modern training, supplements, and knowledge that today's players had, and put them back into the day where they actually had to work jobs and only went to basketball practice.
Looks like you're hung up on me.
You can't answer, so you insult. Thanks for letting me know I won.
Link up a credible site that has anyone other than MJ Kobe or Lebron as the GOAT.
Nope, you're disagreeing, with uncompelling arguments for your claim.
This is the last time I'll explain this to you, Bill Russell only played against 8 teams in the first years of his career. To anyone worth their salt, you're exposing yourself as an NBA historian imbecile. It's funny how mis-informed you are about the era, and yet so bull-headed as to you repeat claims you know that are wrong just to try to jab at people who you don't know on a web site. Surely pathetic. Take your anger and spite somewhere else.
Quit saying stupid shit and people will stop calling you stupid. Pretty simple concept
Here's the thing, you're clearly such a clutish, religiously-zealed nut that the term "credible" comes into play. You'll call anything that disagree with your gospel as not credible.. so why should I waste my time? You're an NBA zionist here. Do you have a prayer you recite to your NBA gods at night?
You're saying what stupid people say when they run out of intelligent things to say and then attack the people they can't hang with mentally.
LMAO you just googled NBA centers and pasted their nicknames like you actually watched them play and know context. It's cute.
