No player besides Wilt carried that kind of expectation.

Personally I don't agree that this is what he was supposed to do then or now, or that he's the best ever yet. But if those are the expectations then at a minimum he is the most talented player ever, if not the best ever, because carrying this kind of weight is unprecedented.

Also I think people continue to sleep on just how rotten that 07 roster was. They had better teams later that lost in the second round.