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Get out of here with this.Originally Posted by Greezee
I'm just going to focus on Kareem stats. His stats are inflated? GET OUT OF HERE WITH THAT BS! Kareem played with damn near all of the greats. He played against Mike/Bird/Originally Posted by shoeking2101
This is so weak. Obviously, Wilt's stats, Kareem's Stats, and Bill's stats, achievements, etc. are inflated because of the competition that they went up against. Neither of them went up against the competition that Mike did, or Lebron for that matter. (Whom I believe is playing against the toughest competition of all time at the moment, that's an argument for another post though)
McHale/Ewing/Isiah/Hakeem/Dominique/Malone/Stockton/Barkley/and countless others and sat them all down. Did you think before you posted? Maybe during the first half of didn't have THAT much comp, but he played against tough competition. A lot of people say there wasn't that much comp during abc era because they weren't around to witness it. 25 years
from now future generations will be saying the same thing about the era now. You are blaming the Era for what a player has done and that is not fair.
As the NBA has progressed the league has gotten more athletic. They may have been just as skilled/more skilled back in the day but they were not nearly as athletic (as a whole) as the league today. Athleticism is harder to compete against because it's not something that can be developed over a career.
Kareem is still Kareem but his comp was without a doubt easier than the comp of today (overall).