Lebron James or Larry Bird???

[cobbler]

You "guesstimated", yet you were the one being a got about doing research?

rofl

Still wondering how a bunch of 6'7 and 6'8 guys who are 40-50 lbs lighter than their opponent are supposed to be able to match up defensively as you continue to suggest...

Wow... the obligatory " got" grade school comeback. Impressive.

Research? I googled and posted someone else's pretty good effort that pointed out the very same thing I told you off the top of my head. Your 6-8 inch taller comment was nothing but pure fabrication on your part no matter how you spin it. My post has nothing to with weight or athleticism but yet you felt the need to bring that in to somehow make your bs seem more credible.

And again, you just don’t grasp what the difference between mode and average is Look it up. The average was 6'8.7 which is closer to 6'9. That means there were just as many guys 6'10 as there were the 6'7 you keep referring to.

And again, a far cry for the 6'3 to 6'5 in your original bull post. I happened to actually see that era of basketball and the elite in that era could hang in today’s NBA no problem. And your argument about only having a 9 team league is bogus as well but I really don't feel the need to explain that to you as you cannot even grasp simple mathematical concepts.

#17 is going to be soooo sweeeet!

[Thomas82]

Hard to imagine an athletic Bird, he already had his way with anybody defending him.

Which is exactly my point. If he had anywhere remotely close to MJ or Lebron type athletic ability... he would be the best player ever, and would be no questions about it. It would be:

Bird

MJ

Kareem
the rest of the list...

Yeah, that would be NASTY!!

[DMC]

Well, in the end this is all a bunch of coulda woulda shoulda. Point is, athleticism matters, and too many people here are selling it short.

I think a lot of people are choosing skills over athleticism.

You cannot name a player who's highly skilled who doesn't do well. We judge skill by results. You can name plenty who are very athletic and don't do well. There are guys who can snatch a quarter off the top of the backboard and cannot hit a free throw or dribble the ball without traveling or turning it over. The inner city leagues are full of athletic guys, but not a lot of highly skilled ones. A highly skilled player with very limited athleticism (like Nash or Dirk or Tim Duncan) can effect the outcome of the game much more so than a highly athletic player who's not very skilled.

So I think almost everyone here understands that skill > athleticism. Lebron has both in quan y, but he doesn't have Bird like skills. What he does have is a high basketball IQ (nowhere near Bird's but still way up there). By the end of his career, he might have better results however. We'll see. I don't know if Miami can spend like LA can.

[Latarian Milton]

manu's athleticism is underrated just as much as the skills of those monkey ballers imho. it's stupid logic to use someone who can still dunk and fly at age 35 as an example of the lack of athleticism, and if you compare him to his argentinian teammates or opponents of other teams, he's still quite a beast tbh. you can't be a superstar like bron if athleticism is the only thing you live on, and it makes sense the other way round too

[LkrFan]

No im not saying that at all. Bird > Dirk. Although it's funny you keep saying _irk. You might as well say Bir_.

Troof.