Enes Kanter works out for the Jazz
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Weezur
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Have you actually even seen him play?
EDIT- Nvm, I thought he was playing before TV for some reason.
addictionary
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Wilt was an Harlem Globetrotter before he joined the league.
MVP
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7'1 footer with 50 inch vertical. Never averaged less then 18 reb per season. The only player in NBA to average over 20 reb a game per season ( 9 straight seasons) . Numbers like that a mind boggling and telling just how superior Wilt was at that time. Just watch these blocks here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF8yJ1J1W7Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF8yJ1J1W7Q
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I don't think so
Is there any video of Wilt's 50" vertical?
Asking just out of curiosity. I'm totally fine with Wilt>Hakeem thinking. It is a classic debate and many people think that way.
Anyways... I sure hope Wilt... I mean Kanter's shoulder is fine for this season and that he's still working out for the Jazz.
I don't think so too.
The guy was 7'1"(216 cm), 50"(127 cm) vertical would put his head 1'3" above the rim, 11'3"(343 cm).
In best videos of him, his head is barely level with the rim, just like todays athletic freaks.
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Ok, maybe it was few inches less
What's unfortunate is that most people regard the great leapers as being only the short guys who could dunk," said the 7-1 1/16 Wilt Chamberlain. "My sergeant [vertical leap] was higher than Michael Jordan's. When I went to Kansas, they had a 12-foot basket in the gym, because Dr. Phog Allen was advocating the 12-foot basket. I used to dunk on that basket. It was an effort, but I could do it. Ostler, Scott (1989-02-12). "The Leaping Legends of Basketball". The Los Angeles Times.
Wilt Chamberlain claims that his sergeant, during his prime, was "46 to 48 inches, easy."
Doesn't that white kid dunker on Youtube have a 50 or 52?
There are people with 50" vertical, it is not unseen. I just don't believe Wilt had it.
He was the most dominant player in leagues with 6-6 centers and 10-12 teams.
addictionary
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Trying to pick up the "one" player that rises above all the others is a difficult thing to do and in my opinion it is not suitable to compare players that have many decades between each other's class. Wilt can still be called the most dominant by considering him "something else" in his own era. In terms of physical dominance, he was legitimately a destroyer. But dominance is a wide word. Talent-wise? Which kind of talent? Are talent and success the same thing? These kind of questions always keeps me from picking the best or the most dominant ever. Maybe there is some unspoken or common knowledge meaning for them, but I know that I'm not aware of such. In conclusion of this lame post, I would like to say that we should compare players with their own age only and nothing more.
So, we can't say "Wilt is the most dominant player ever", right?
addictionary
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No you can.
I don't understand. Are Jordan's, Lebron's or Shaq's dominances less valuable than Wilt's dominance which had happened in a ridiculously weaker competition?
addictionary
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No no no. E.g. put Shaq in competition with Wilt. Would Wilt dominate that much? Or Jordan against Russell. It would look unreal. What I'm saying is, leave players in the time-space dimension they are in. Also, if a player like Lebron was in Jordan's time, (skipping the part that Lebron looked up to him) Jordan wouldn't be considered that kickace stand alone dude.
So we are looking at the difference between a player and his opponents to judge his dominance but we don't look who he dominated?
So Wilt had much bigger gap upon the opponents thus he has the biggest dominance?