This is a comment as much on the individual as on "which sports are designed in such a way that one human being can have an array of talents that allows him to be consistently victorious." Basketball is near the top, if not at the top, among the sports that are well-known.
If baseball were a sport with five-man teams, I find it hard to believe a five-man Yankee squad would not have won the championship every year Babe Ruth played in his prime.
Actually I don't think that's true. Look at LeBron James. He went a long time before he won a championship and he had to leave his home town to do it. He needed a great supporting cast to help him.
Micheal Jordan was the same with Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman.
Bill Russell didn't have quite the same quality of players around him.
I was in Boston (high school and college) in those days, and the Russell/Chamberlin contests were epic. As great as Russell was, I still think Chamberlain was the greatest basketball player of all time.
But it’s a team sport, and Russell had better team mates than Chamberlain.
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This is a comment as much on the individual as on "which sports are designed in such a way that one human being can have an array of talents that allows him to be consistently victorious." Basketball is near the top, if not at the top, among the sports that are well-known.
If baseball were a sport with five-man teams, I find it hard to believe a five-man Yankee squad would not have won the championship every year Babe Ruth played in his prime.
Actually I don't think that's true. Look at LeBron James. He went a long time before he won a championship and he had to leave his home town to do it. He needed a great supporting cast to help him.
Micheal Jordan was the same with Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman.
Bill Russell didn't have quite the same quality of players around him.
I was in Boston (high school and college) in those days, and the Russell/Chamberlin contests were epic. As great as Russell was, I still think Chamberlain was the greatest basketball player of all time.
But it’s a team sport, and Russell had better team mates than Chamberlain.
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