He averaged nearly NINETEEN boards a game in his last year *while Kareem was in the NBA* & Kareem cracked fourteen once in his entire career.

Cracked thirty points maybe 2 or 3 times.

You don't just push Kareem back eight to ten years in history & say that's TWENTY extra points or TEN extra rebounds per game.

That's just silly, Kareem himself wouldn't even try to claim that.

You can make arguments for Cap for a lot of reasons, him winning MVP with a fifteen year gap in between is ridiculous-probably never see it again, he's the all-time points leader, he won a rack of titles, etc.

But to try to pretend that any point in his career he was as individually dominant even relative to his competition as Wilt Chamberlain just comes off as stubbornly riding for your guy in the face of facts & logic.

And the longevity thing is partly because Wilt, like Jim Brown, had gotten his taste of Hollywood, was bored, had dominated his sport, owned every record at the time & done what he felt he needed to do plus pro sports weren't paying like they were now so there wasn't even a financial motivation.

What guy is averaging 18.6 boards, shooting 73% from the field & coming off two Finals appearances then just retiring at 36 in this day & age?