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So, basically a nobody?
It's generally considered to be an average player or possibly just below an average player.
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Jordan would’ve demanded $100,023
At 6'6" Michael Jordan came into Chapel Hill running a 4.6 forty, he left running a 4.39. This guy was a pure athlete, a natural athlete that took it several steps further by WORKING HARD. Forget how high he could jump and keep himself in the air - this guy could run - and do it while dribbling the ball. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it since. Lebron James ran a 4.4 but he doesn't glide up and down the court effortlessly like Jordan did with the ball. The guy was a total unstoppable freak. And he added so much size and strength as he got older, he really couldn't be stopped anywhere on the floor. He could do everything, and do it better than everyone else. Consistently.Bruh, never assume what you think I have or haven’t seen. I know the game! Again, I already gave MAJOR RESPECT to Russell multiple times. He’s definitely in my top 3 along with MJ & Kareem (although my personal favorite big man of all time is Olajuwon for multiple reasons), but MJ is the only “little guy” (relatively speaking) who dominated in the land of giants WITHOUT HIS OWN DOMINANT BIG MAN, changed the game internationally, kept other HOF players/teams from winning rings in a far more competitive league (80s-90s-00s were/are FAR more advanced than the 50s-60s) & went 72-10 with THAT ‘95-‘96 roster!! Plus, he’s one of (if not the only player ever) to win DPY AND THE SCORING TITLE IN THE SAME SEASON. And 9x All-DEF!! AT 6’6! In the 80s-90s era. Playing ALL 82 + games!!!Do you know how impressive that is??!?
Bill took both an intellectual and psychological approach to the game.Bill Russell too was a Extraordinary Athlete. While in college he was the 7th ranked High Jumper in the World and ties the 1956 Gold medalist in a meet in California. He
also ran the 440 in 49.4 sec, this mind you in 1955. For a 6'10" person this is otherworldly.
This combined with a sports IQ that I have only seen matched by Brady, and few others. make him the greatest team athlete I have seen in my lifetime.
Jordan is certainly a great player and athlete but Russell dominated his sport like Brady dominated his. He also put more teammates in the HOF than any other player. HE made EVERYBODY he played with better.
Bill took both an intellectual and psychological approach to the game.
He psyched everybody out. He's got more in common with Auerbach than people realize.
There was an SI article that got into Russell's psych-out games. I'll see if I can find it.
Uh-oh. TB12 is OUT of Dan Hanzus’s Superstar Club. Deshaun Watson is IN (that playoff meltdown, I guess, put him over the top). Others IN include Andrew Luck, Ben Roethlisberger, and Cam Newton.
Put down your pitchforks, Patriot Nation. Brady could throw 35 interceptions and get benched in Week 9 and he'll still be the best quarterback who ever lived. But winning another Super Bowl in February didn't change the fact that there were some signs of slippage in the soon-to-be 42-year-old's game in 2018. He struggled with downfield accuracy and seemed skittish in the pocket at times. He missed open receivers. He looked ... human.
NFL Superstar Club: Deshaun Watson gets in, Tom Brady booted