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I agree with you for the most part on eras and physical advantages, and I'm on Lebron being the best all-time, but I actually think Bird would have been better in this era than in the one he played in. He was a 40% 3pt shooter and they would have let him jack up a lot more 3s nowadays. He wasn't quite the outside shooter of someone like Klay Thompson, but he was much better going to the rim (and a much better defender). Figure they double or more the number of threes he shoots each game to 6 or 7, Bird might have averaged above 30 for several years. Question becomes whether could hold up inside with 280 lb guys banging on him.
I loved Bird, he's easily my all time favorite NBA player so I'm not ragging on him. I think he'd have a harder time getting the ball and getting open looks in today's NBA.
Similarly I could imagine a scenario where the NFL changes significantly in 30 years to the point that the pocket doesn't even exist due to improvements in pass rushing training/technique and the game operates very differently and in that scenario, as much as I love the guy, Brady wouldn't make it if you teleported him into that future.
I dunno it's all just subjective stuff but I really don't like it when people my age and older chalk it all up to recency bias.