Yup, I was right. You're a damn senile old timer on a wheel chair. Even Big Baby and Kendrick Perkins would ruin Wilt. Players today are bigger, better, stronger, and have better nutritionists/trainers. It really doesn't take a genius to figure that out. And Shaq would stomp on Wilt easily. And if your coke bottled glasses isn't broken, you should be able to see Shaq's bicep is just as big as Wilt's leg! Shaq would literally destroy Wilt and break him in half! Only idiotic old timers would be nuthugging on weaker athletes in the old era.

Bill Russell can't even bench 250lbs. And a lot of today's high school kids can easily bench over 250lbs. Therefore, even a NBA scrub today like Erick Dampier would throw Bill Russell around like a weak little rag doll.

What's next from you? You're going to claim Jerry West is better than Michael Jordan?

Yea, you know nothing about sports. Put some WD-40 on your wheel chair.

And that's the flaw in your argument. If Russell, Wilt et al had the benefits of today's knowledge about training and nutrition, they would no doubt be better developed physically than they were.

This is the basic problem with trying to compare athletes of different eras. A more apt comparison is to their peers. Russell and Wilt were dominant players in their time, a label which is seldom applied to most of the players you cite except by fat-mouthed assclowns.

In the 1968 Olympics, Bob Beamon exceeded the world record in the long jump by almost two feet. This was so unexpected that the optical device used to measure jumps was not designed to measure a jump of such length. It was an astounding feat, perhaps the greatest in the history of track and field if not in all of sports, and this is not diminished by the fact that his record has since been bested by others.

No it's not. It's a well known fact that today's athletes have better skills, size, strength, speed, over the scrubs back in the old days. Like I said, old timers are threatened by the present day athletes because they'll always say "oh but back then, we were better!" No you're not, please get back on your wheel chair. Fuck old timers.

I mean give me a fucking break! Some idiot senile old pricks actually have the balls (wrinkled ones) to claim Jerry West was better than Michael Jordan. Hahahaha! That's a fucking joke! I mean seriously, give me a mother fucking break! Again, fuck old timers.

you neglect to remember its a team game and russell was the ultimate team player. if you knew anyhing about basketball it is not just strength-in most sports-have yo heard of tony manderich? strongest man in football was thrown around by reggie white and the rest of the league-case closed

Correction: Wilt developed a very effective turnaround and standard 15 foot jumper. And in his 100 point game he was 24 for 24 from the foul line.

Wilt also had a similar attitude as Bob Gibson, the pitcher for the Cardinals. Gibson said the inside half of the plate was his, Wilt told opposing centers the paint was his. And if they violated it he put 'em on their ass. Same goes for Gibson -- go ahead and crowd the plate and wind up with a heater in your side.

The operative term is "domination". Wilt had it, so did Gibson. Not sure if Rodman was such a "dominate" force. Strong, undoubtedly. Dominate?

And, as an aside, Larry Smith was the only player to hold Larry Bird scoreless in a game.

Fuck old timers athletes.

Wilt, Bill Russell, fuck those old timers. I saw many many videos and clips of those old timer dorks played, and it did NOT impress me one fucking bit! It was like watching one okay skilled player playing against other sorry ass scrub players. I'm telling all those old timer fans, Bill Russell and Wilt will be playing 3rd stringer if they were playing in the best NBA era of the 80's to mid 90's. Shaq will break Wilt in half. Erick Dampier will push Bill Russell's skinny little 220lbs body around like a bully.