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Wilt Davis
Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
Seeing as how some wonder if Bird would be too slow to handle today's super athletes.
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College star
Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
Wigginstans are really reaching here
Top 5-6 GOAT vs one of the lowest skilled #1 pick of all times....
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Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
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#Polish Hammer
Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
Originally Posted by Marchesk
Seeing as how some wonder if Bird would be too slow to handle today's super athletes.
As i remember correctly that's what have been told about Bird before he came to the NBA back then either.
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Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
You know that saying "there are no stupid questions"?
OP proving it wrong.
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Wilt Davis
Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
Originally Posted by uber
As i remember correctly that's what have been told about Bird before he came to the NBA back then either.
Probably so. Were there any questions about Magic as a guard being quick or athletic enough?
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Wilt Davis
Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
Originally Posted by HurricaneKid
You know that saying "there are no stupid questions"?
OP proving it wrong.
Should I have asked, would you draft Love or Wiggins? Would that make it more even?
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Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
Embiid would have been #1 pick if not for health problems.
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Decent college freshman
Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
As i remember correctly that's what have been told about Bird before he came to the NBA back then either.
Alex Hannum, May 1979
Red Auerbach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcB43C0dawQ&t=19m14s
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Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
Originally Posted by JohnMax
Embiid would have been #1 pick if not for health problems.
He should still have been #1.
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Gambling expert
Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
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Curry fam
Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
Originally Posted by PHILA
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Wilt Davis
Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
Originally Posted by StephHamann
I'm just a messenger, but hilarious clip.
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College star
Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
Bird killed these playes, time and time again (just in case you don't know them)...
Bobby Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NxCr-3L8J4
Michael Cooper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7K-oa2bDFY
Larry Nance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdBDOyzh8T8
Orlando Woolridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ-CH_dHw8Q
Sidney Moncrief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ADAo3W4Hos
Kenny Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5pVmmjLPlg
Xavier McDaniel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibgXpouwhgk
Buck Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLLDjCLXtU0
Jerome Kersey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLA8pj8yW58
As for the more well known names, he did this to them...
Dennis Rodman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5BJGCh_eCY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJd4H4QvUck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-42c470-MjM
Michael Jordan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKoXZ1f00Mc
Julius Erving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugW1oJuG7eo
Scottie Pippen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcXp3PSRGvw
James Worthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKx8hWaG_2o
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjyfWn5uq5I
Hakeem Olajuwon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WivGOEznCU
... then you also got Paul Pressey, Dominique Wilkins, Rodney McCray, Horace Grant, Tom Chambers, Cliff Robinson (all-defensive in the 00's), Terry Cummings, so on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msEmcemLR7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksp82aw-jqg
Lots of all-time great defenders and/or athletes, along with better bigs in the paint, and with more physicality going on, plus less superstar treatment...
I'm sorry but today's era couldn't "offer" as much in order to stop Bird, if anything Larry would've had it "easier" nowadays.
If you'd pick Wiggins you would be making the same mistake that some coaches, players, gm's and so on did back in the day, then Bird just proved them all dead wrong, having a top5 peak of all-time, playing unreal basketball.
In fact, Bird's athleticism is very underrated, he was a pretty solid athlete before serious injuries, all of that stuff was just to add to the "myth", being white and unathletic and whatnot.
Larry was 6'9'', played at over 220 lbs, was very mobile, two of the quickest hands ever, very coordinated, great footwork, very strong, deciptively quick especially in small spaces, same vertical as Karl Malone's, could run on the break, had some nice dunks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX8ipponmSc
Last edited by SHAQisGOAT; 09-09-2014 at 02:27 PM.
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I rule the local playground
Re: Would you draft Bird or Wiggins today?
Are you kidding?
Look up Larry Bird's college career. Dude was a god and the only game they lost in his final year was against Magic Johnson's team in the title game. Guy was scoring a ton more than Wiggins and transformed his school's basketball program single handedly. No way Wiggins is getting the nod over Bird.
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