Raisy
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- Oct 27, 2003
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I have gone on the Jordan debate. Did he score 100? Did they change the rules after and during his playing career. Was there a hack a Jordan ? Is Jordan number one in scoring all time? Does he have the most championships all time? No to all. Could he be the best all time maybe. But if your first team dream team has Bird and Magic on it. Then i cannot give Joradn that label. Wilt i can becasue he changed the game. He forced the NBA to change rules becasue he dominated that much.
Here is the part you must not be able to grasp. Forgive i gave you too much credit in the intellegence department. Generational means the best in a generation. A generation is what say a 15 year span. One player has to dominate for that span. And be clear cut above his peers at that time. If Wilt played with Olajuwon, Ewing, Shaq, Robinson. He would not be a generational talent. I do not see him sticking that far out. If Howe, Gretzky, Orr, Crosby, AO, Lemieux all played in the same span. No way one is a generational. But when only one played at a time he is that generations talent. To be generatioanl you have to revolutionary. Like the slider in baseball. It changed alot of things. Wilt changed basketball, Orr changed hockey and defintly how a defencmen is viewed, Gretzky dominated the stat sheet and no one else. The game changed because he dominated so much. More assists then anyone else has points. Jordan did not revolutionize the two guard spot. Lemieux did not revolutionize the center spot. Did they dominate yes, are they the best of all time in their sports, arguably yes. Do they hold major records, nope. Did they have full careers, nope.
If you can't see that Jordan was a generational talent, then you do not know the sport. The guy was the best ever. Did he score 100pts? No. Could he have? Anytime he wanted to. The guy won the championship in 6 of 8 years. (probably would have one 8 of 8, if not for the brief retirement) The guy led the league in scoring for 10+ years. He won a gold medal for the U.S. The guy revolutionized a style of play. Look at the current players that try to emulate him: Kobe, Vince Carter, Duane Wade, etc.) He was a great defender. The biggest intangible that Jordan had was his will to win. When he wanted to win, he would, he was as close to unstoppable as possible in basketball. Generational talent: Yes. He was the best ever.