Russell to LeBron: "Thank you for leaving me off your Mt. Rushmore."

except*

[QUOTE=Magic 32]and that would apply to Lebron :roll: :roll: :roll:[/QUOTE]
n-n-n-no he doesn't count! :lol

Kareem > Russell

[QUOTE=Akrazotile]Shaquille O'Neal was the MDE in a much more competitive era.[/QUOTE]

Wilt was the most dominant ever.

[QUOTE=Akrazotile]The dude was a very good basketball player in his day. Ok. Awesome. He also played in a nine team league full of white tax accountants. Wow. That's great. [/Quote]

And Wilt, Oscar, Baylor, West, Petit and Hondo. All guys who have top 20 credentials. There was also HOF centers like Thurmond, Bellamy and Lanier.

[QUOTE=Akrazotile]Bill Russell was the most dominant out of a group of, what, 500,000 kids who grew up playing basketball? Bran is the best player out of like a billion.[/quote]

No, that was Wilt. And there's every reason to think it would still be Wilt today given his physical size and abilities.

[QUOTE=FrobeShaw]triple double and his stats

putting more stock into individual greatness over winning?

there is a weak argument there but it exists[/QUOTE]
Several guys who put up better seasons than Oscar. Kareem, Wilt, Jordan, Shaq. Oscar wasn't individually superior to all his peers, he was never in the convo for best player.

[QUOTE=IGOTGAME]He really wasn't. 10 guys played the game of basketball all around better than he did. .[/QUOTE]
10 guys? Are you delusional?:oldlol:

A triple double in a season. Show me 10 people who did that.

[QUOTE=IGOTGAME]Several guys who put up better seasons than Oscar. Kareem, Wilt, Jordan, Shaq. Oscar wasn't individually superior to all his peers, he was never in the convo for best player.[/QUOTE]

he put up the only triple double seasons in history and somehow he wasn't superior

this guy :oldlol:

[QUOTE=navy]10 guys? Are you delusional?:oldlol:[/QUOTE]

Jordan
Magic
Bird
Duncan
Hakeem
Kareem
Wilt
Shaq
Kobe
Russell

[QUOTE=IGOTGAME]He really wasn't. 10 guys played the game of basketball all around better than he did. Oscar was never the best player in the lg or seriously in the argument.[/QUOTE]

Care to name those 10 players? Oscar has 43 more career tripple doubles than the next player on the list (obviously Magic). Oscar won an MVP btw, so he was considered the best player that year. Thing is that he played during the era of Rusell and Wilt, who have 9 MVPs between them.

[QUOTE=IGOTGAME]Jordan
Magic
Bird
Duncan
Hakeem
Kareem
Wilt
Shaq
Kobe
Russell[/QUOTE]
:roll:


30/12/11 for a season.And this niqqa names Kobe Bryant? :roll:

[QUOTE=IllegalD]Bill Russell to LeBron James during the pre-game (per Craig Sager):

[I]"Thank you for leaving me off your Mount Rushmore. Im glad you did. Basketball is a team game. Its not for individual honors. I won back-to-back state championships in highschool. Back-to-back NCAA championships in college. I won an NBA championship my first year in the league. An NBA championship my last year. 9 in between. And that, Mr. James, is etched in stone."[/I]

:applause:

:bowdown:[/QUOTE]


Damn. Just...damn.

I saw Kobe included Russell on his Mt. Rushmore during a press conference today. Mamba knew what was up. :oldlol:

[QUOTE=CavaliersFTW][B][U]It's more amazing how uninformed Lebron's opinion is. We're talking about a guy who stopped wearing #23 'out of respect for MJ' then goes on to wear #6, Bill Russell's number, one of only a small handful of guys who ever played who is arguably as great or GREATER than MJ!?

FAIL.[/U][/B]

Lebron is an idiot when it comes to NBA history, I remember him interviewing Dr. J and he was asking him stupid questions that Dr. J kept correcting him on 'how did it feel to be the first to do ____" .... "I wasn't the first, Connie Hawkins and Elgin Baylor were doing that before me" ... (Lebron changes subject). Guy is just plain oblivious to the games history, he deserved to get ethered by Bill Russell :roll:[/QUOTE]

:applause:

[QUOTE=IGOTGAME]He really wasn't. 10 guys played the game of basketball all around better than he did. Oscar was never the best player in the lg or seriously in the argument.[/QUOTE]
One thing Russell, Wilt and Kareem all agree with is that Oscar was one of the best ever. He averaged a triple double for over five years.

Everybody should have a mount rushmore that they fit in on. That's the best way to join legends.

[QUOTE=Marchesk]Care to name those 10 players? Oscar has 43 more career tripple doubles than the next player on the list (obviously Magic). Oscar won an MVP btw, so he was considered the best player that year. Thing is that he played during the era of Rusell and Wilt, who have 9 MVPs between them.[/QUOTE]
So he played in an era where they were two players flat out considered better at basketball than him...ok, thanks for reiterating my point.

The authentic "I'm not even supposed to be here" black superstar, just got owned by a civil rights leader. :roll:

This is comedy at its best :oldlol:

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