OvermanKingGainer
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Here's the last point that should remove any doubt. All of these guys `LeBron, Messi, Ronaldo, Brady, Federer` have LEGITIMATE arguments of being the greatest of all time in their Sports. LIKE GOAT GOAT. NO ONE will ever argue that Sidney is the GOAT. Generational player but not even close to the GOAT conversation.
Sid has no worse of a GOAT argument relative to Gretzky than LeBron does relative to Bill Russell. LeBron has a whopping three titles in a league where he's able to play 95% of the minutes available in games. Sid has three in a sport where he's only going to be on the ice for 33% of a playoff game at most. LeBron needed superteams. So did Sid. LeBron had bad series against a player like Kawhi. Sid had a bad series against a player like Bergeron. Both are generational talents who don't quite have the team success of past generational talents (whether that's Gretzky or Orr or Howe or Lemieux or Jordan or Wilt or Russell or KAJ).
The difference is that basketball acknowledges the changes in the game(systems, talent pool etc), changes in the league(no losing record teams making deep playoff runs unlike Gretzky and Russell's eras), advances in pro sports (access to tape, advanced scouting, all players maximizing fitness and skill down to the most underwhelming scrubs) while hockey sweeps them under the rug and pretends the only thing that's changed is "level of dominance".