bck145;c-9891294 said:
5 Grand;c-9891261 said:
Neither LeBron, Jordan, Kobe, Bird or anybody else scored as many points as Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
Thats the objective of basketball, to score more points than your opponent. Fancy dunks and crossovers aren't important, at the end of the day the only thing that matters is who scored the most points and thats Kareem.
There's more to basketball than just points......assisting someone to score points...getting rebounds to create possessions for points to be scored...playing defense to prevent the other team from scoring
Total points is meaningless.....same way no one's going to say hank Aaron is the best baseball player ever because of home runs when Willie Mays was a much more well rounded player
Double nosign
First of all, you say, "theres more to basketball than just points". Well you're wrong about that. You mention assists, rebounds and defense. But assists, rebounds and defense are irrelevant at the end of the 4th quarter when the buzzer rings. When that buzzer rings at the end of the 4th quarter nobody is checking to see who had the most assists, or the most rebounds, or who played better defense. The only thing anybody cares about at the end of the 4th quarter is which team scored the most points.
Then you bring up Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. Without doing a google search I'm pretty sure that Barry Bonds is the home run leader (I don't really follow baseball like that). But if you were going to put a baseball team together who would you pick, the person with the most home runs, or the most well rounded player? You'd be foolish to pick the most well rounded player over the person who has the most home runs.