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Originally Posted by PoorMansCamaro
To bad Russell, Kareem, Wilt, David Robinson, Baylor, Stockton, Magic, Jackson, and Oscar Robinson couldn't be one player...
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Obviously you missed the point entirely.
How can any one player be named the greatest of all time without putting some sort of qualifier on it?
I mean if you say the greatest champion of all time or the greatest scorer, then a conversation can be had and maybe even an consensus can be reached.
But, to just say one player is the greatest of all time in a team sport....sorry, it can't be done. As I pointed out, in his sport (because he certainly wasn't the greatest of all time in baseball), Jordan wasn't the greatest in any of the statistical categories. Was he good? Absolutely. When the game was on the line, who did you want to have the ball in his hands? Jordan, no doubt (well, the Bulls did anyway, no one else wanted him to have it). Those kinds of things make a player great. Consistently winning makes a player great. Leading makes a player great. Greatest of all time though....that's not something you can really determine.