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Date: June 25th, 2026 11:52 AM Author: Hyperventilating pit
The GOAT Candidates
Michael Jordan: ≈ 11.4 inches span / 9.75 inches length. Widely cited by coaches like Phil Jackson as a massive physical advantage that allowed him to palm and maneuver the basketball like a grapefruit.
LeBron James: ≈ 9.25 inches span / 9 inches length. Though technically smaller than Jordan's, his exceptional ball security and passing ability more than compensate for the slight difference.
Kobe Bryant: ≈ 9 inches length. Considered "small" for an elite shooting guard, but his flawless footwork and fundamentals made him an all-time great.
Wilt Chamberlain: ≈ 11.5 inches span / 9.5 inches length. Helped him dominate scoring and rebounding before the modern era.
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Date: June 27th, 2026 12:06 AM Author: bateful orchestra pit keepsake machete
Those were team games against bigs that were nowhere near as fast, as strong, and as mobile--upwardly or laterally--as Wilt. 1 on 1, Jordan gets chumped. Easily. His era's rules, late Wilt era rules, and especially early era Wilt rules (no goaltending = ☠️💀☠️), and it's hardly even a game
Wilt wasn't just quick agile, or skilled "for a big," he was all of those things for a player of any size. He gets slept on in goat conversations because of the TEAM aspect. But in pure 1v1 capability, he's in a league of his own
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Date: June 28th, 2026 1:28 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Property Headpube
Interesting wilt advocacy ITT. My view is that ppl just don't feel comfortable going earlier than magic/bird in making comparisons to today's game. They reach back past then to pluck out the guys who clearly should be on the all-time goat lists (wilt, russell, kareem, west, maravich), but nobody really knows where to put them.
And the Jordan reverence is more than just team success (although he certainly has that, bill russell, IIRC, crushes him). Dude's cultural impact was unmatched. I was going to use the example "it's like saying JFK was a forgettable potus on the order of william henry harrison," but the more I thought about it, jordan was a bigger cultural juggernaut than jfk. For a generation of kids it didn't matter if you were a white dork from huntsville alabama, you were a jordan-bulls fan who watched his games and pretended that you too naturally stuck your tongue out while driving to the hoop on cletus dinwiddie's driveway.
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Date: June 25th, 2026 7:57 PM Author: maize histrionic parlour
Interesting
You always hear about his desire to win and grit and insane competitiveness
But might all be due to the fact that he has the hands of a 7'6'' man...
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