You might be a victim of the rosy retrospection bias 😂
Players today are objectively more talented than they were before. Centers can pass better than magic and shoot better than bird lol
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Agree. But what is this talent, I don’t think this is progression in human genetics. It is learned skill base determined by the way the game is played. Thus the argument you can’t compare eras.
Humanity is falling apart so it is hard for me to believe athletes are genetically superior to previous athletes.
Agreed. Most are not genetically superior although LeBron, Giannis, and some others clearly are superior genetic freaks. The difference is in skill development.
Yes talent wise the player has to do everything today to be considered for any playing time. If you are weak at any skills, you are a liability. It wasn’t always that way.
Exactly. Which means that on any given play, the level of talent is better overall. So LeBron getting 4 rings in this era is much more impressive than Jordan getting 6 in his era. People also don’t realize that the NBA was in an expansion phase. They added 6 new teams to the league which is 72 new players that weren’t good enough to make a team before. The new teams were easily beat up by the older teams. That inflated stats and team records. Bird and other older players commented on how weak the league was during that era. Also, Jordan was the cash cow for the NBA and Nike for a long time. They invested a lot of money building up that image to make money.
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