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2650628, Again, you aren't getting it
Posted by auragin_boi, Fri Apr-13-18 01:55 PM
I'm not disagreeing with the greatness of the players listed. I'm pointing out your reasoning for disqualifying Jordan is biased at best dumb at worst.

Russell never won without 4 other HOF's on his team. He was easily one of the top 3 largest guys in that era (when the avg C was like 6'8").

https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_1957.html
^^^Look at those damn rosters dude. It's only 8 so won't take long.
Hell, Wilt was the only 7 footer for a while.

Floyd fought Pac, Cotto about 4 yrs later than it would have made competitive sense. Could have also picked better fights than Berto and Maidana.

Tiger has been pro for 22 yrs and he hasn't been dominant since 2009, which was 9 yrs ago. Do the math there.

^^^My point in all of this is, none of these men had perfect careers (well Floyd so his is the most arguable) and there are reasons to demerit all of their domination to an extent but to say who Jordan's coach was or teammates were or who he didn't beat with a lesser team determines his greatness (when he destroyed all comers individually and dominated the league only second to Russell's C's when he DID get enough talent around him...all while being a guard at that) is just a biased (or stupid) disqualifier.

If you want to disqualify Jordan from this list...pick better reasons.