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2632666, It still matters though b/w 60s an exceptional era in that respect
Posted by ConcreteCharlie, Mon Dec-04-17 11:32 AM
He will have to equal or surpass Jordan to shut *all* his detractors up but two more would go a long way. Right now I think he is just behind Jordan as the greatest non-center ever, so top five-ish. Not much further to climb and it will be tough to close the gap that's there, but he could do it.

Wilt is an exceptional case in an exceptional era. Pretty impossible to go by ring count in an era where one team wins 11 times in 13 years and eight in a row. So guys like Wilt, Oscar, Elgin and Jerry are less vulnerable to the ring-count thing, plus Wilt (and to an extent Oscar's) statistical dominance was on another level, even compared with LeBron.