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Elgin was the first modern player. He could shoot from outside, drive the hoop, rebound, pass the ball and block shots at the other end. He had a special gift.

I had that poster. It burned up in our house fire with the rest of my posters and all our stuff.

dying sport?

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He was my hero as a kid. I wish I still had his baseball card. I miss the days of baseball without politics.

Who cares. Barkley is a putz.

His answer is probably Russell, LeBron, Kobe, Jordan and himself That's a winning team....

Player coach

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Worthy was a goggled force of nature on the court

Ted Williams, unless you saw Babe Ruth play, YOU’RE the best baseball player you’ve ever seen!

i drove from st louis to philadelphia in 16hrs. i don't think you could make new york to san francisco in 23hrs.

Auerbach the least objective person to talk to-why he never mentioned he wanted Wilt for the Celtics when he was 17-never got over that Wilt turned him down

It just shows that you don’t have to be a physical specimen to be the best. Attitude and desire.

Ice was nice. Ice could beat you with his soft J or drive by you and hit his beautiful finger roll. 💯🔥

Larry Legend

Greg had the best control and best fielding that ever graced the mound!

legend Pete

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Rob acts like he isn’t wrong the majority of the time 😂. He’s delusional

Most skilled and gifted center to play the game.... I'd pick him and Kareem over any other center that's ever played

Red doesn’t mention that he met Wilt up At Kutchers when Wilt was 17 and begged him to play for Celtics Wilt said no and Red never got over it!!

Bill Russell the real GOAT of the NBA, with Wilt as a close 2nd.

Best player who didn’t win a championship!

Saw this story many years ago, Elgin coulda been one of the players in the story. So the story is many many years ago, All Star game, 2 seconds left in the first half. Cousy and (posssibly Baylor) Cousy flings the ball one second left in the half, from half court, Swish!! All net! He says to the opponent, “You never could play defense‼️” Still gets a chuckle from me today!

Wilt was UNSTOPPABLE in his prime!

Bill Russell's Comp today: Dwight Howard Like Howard, Bill wasn't a great offensive player. He made his bones on defense and rebounding. He scored on layups & put-backs What separates him from players like Howard was his focus on winning, his tenacity, his attitude. Mental toughness. He didn't need to be a great offensive player, maybe because the Celtics didn't need him to be?

I respect him as a great player.With that said,he played with Elgin and Wilt.That makes life so much easier and he kinda dissed my idol Maravich who would have done more with Elgin and Wilt

Great words from a great man about a great man. No wonder a bond was formed there. If you listened to Jerry West being interviewed, being asked about others, the grace and kindness, humility that he always displayed would sound alot like the way James Worthy sounds here. Just class acts. Magic Johnson the same way. Probably not a coincidence.

Winning 6 titles, in 8 years, versus 30 teams, is infinitely harder, and more impressive today, than winning 11 titles, in 13 years, versus 7-9 teams. Especially when you factor in things like free agency, the trade market and salary caps.

Class act, diametrically opposed to Shaq😆

Would love to see a Thomas n Dumars alongside Bird n Mchale rewatch clutch minutes and give a mental breakdown.

I've been saying this for years.

Old-school hoops guys were and are amazing. ❤️🇺🇸💪

I can’t believe that Elgin Baylor is still alive! When I was a kid growing up in the 1960’s, he was one of the greatest players! Glad that he is so honest! I was a Celtics fan then. Both Jerry West and Elgin Baylor were great and worthy opponents. But the Celtics always beat them! I am sorry for the racism and bigotry that Elgin Baylor faced at the University of Seattle. But I agree with Baylor: The Celtics would have NEVER won their Championships without Bill Russell! As they say, the proof is in the pudding: Russell won 11 NBA Titles, Wilt Chamberlain 1! Who was the better player, or, should I say, the best player in NBA history?

Most NBA Hall of Famers like Magic, Jordan, and Barkly, say Larry Bird was the greatest they ever played against. I agree.

"Larry was good." Thanks for explaining how good Larry Bird was.

An all time team deserves an all time balanced game. With today’s great shooters you’d have to have hand checking and no moving or grabbing screens from bigs. And no flopping on post lane defenders so bigs can operate around the basket. You bring that balance back to the game and todays three point shooters while still impactful would not be have the impact they do today. Magic, MJ, Larry, Kareem, and LeBron works for me.

Good to see Elgin healthy and doing well.

grande Larry

Class gentleman. He gave a perfect description of 1950s 1960s Baseball, which I grew up with.

Talks a bit like John Wayne.

hank aaron was an a-hole ! I went to a signing and he sat there and whatever item someone wanted autographed he signed it for $25 . I had 4 baseballs autographed by him and he didnt even look up or say hello ! Id trade 4 of them for 1 willie mays or 1 clemente

You heard it from the goat himself.

"Bad Henry" (Vin Scully used to call him that) mentioned Drysdale as one of the toughest he faced ("you either hit him or he hit you!"...lol). Yet Henry so modestly doesn't mention that of all the pitchers he faced, he had his most home runs off of the Dodger righty. I remember vividly sitting in Chavez Ravine with my dad, me probably 13-14 years old, watching my all time fav Aaron battling Drysdale. Worked Big D to a full count, then fouled off three or four before getting a pitch he liked. Those legendary wrists snapped and the resulting laser line drive rocketed out to center never seemingly rising or falling, just a bullet that richochet'd off the 410' mark in dead center for a double. My dad and I just looked at each other in awe. You gotta remember Drysdale was 6'6, had a mean streak along with his 95mph fastball, and fell off the mound in a sidewinder motion that struck terror in the hearts of right-handed hitters. Yet Aaron had consistent success against Drysdale over the years.

if you weigh in everything, all alltime stats, all finals, all rings and make a math formula balancing it out, no matter how you math it, its always bill russell on first. 11 rings are just too heavy and his stats are just too good relatively to others. and on my list based on that math james is just 4th, jordan 7th together with duncan

Scottie Pippin didn't get the respect. He Deserved. but it upset me when he refused To play when the last play was called For someone besides him. When Michael retired.

Every Ted Williams interview you see he's always full of praise for other great players Always.

Don't get me wrong Russell is phenomenal,most likely the greatest defender ever & second greatest rebounder to Wilt,but it is certainly much easier to concentrate on that when you don't have responsibility to lead a team offensively.Russell averaged 15 points a game at 44% in the regular season & 16 points a game at 43% in the playoffs.Subpar.

For me, Teddy Ballgame is the best pure hitter of all time… his swing was pure beauty… and he had an eye for the ball like no other, maybe Tony Gwynn or DiMaggio compare, but he’s the best… and my favorite player, eventhough I was born in the 1980’s, I’ve always loved Ted Williams.