Re: Why Jordan is not the greatest player of all time.

["David J. Boutte" <djboutte@dorsai.org>]

> 
> In *2* years, Larry Bird brought the Celtics a championship. Before
> Larry came to the Celts in 1979-80, the Celts were 29-53. The first year
> he was with them, they won 50+ games (as I recall). That's a 20+
> turnaround because of 1 guy. (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong about the
> specific games won/lost.) 
> 
> And in 1980-81, the Celts went all the way. All this in a league that
> wasn't diluted by expansion and included Dr. J AND Magic Johnson. Who is
> out there to harass Jordan on his "superstar" level. No one.
> 
> This is my reasoning for why Larry Bird is the greatest PLAYER of all
> time. Michael Jordan is probably the greatest ATHLETE of all NBA time,
> possibly the greatest SCORER. But it took him almost 4 times as long to
> win a title as it did Bird.
> 
> Rich (bleeding green in Oklahoma)


Using your logic, you'd have to consider Bill Russell as the greatest 
player of all time.