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Nuvendil on 09 June 2019
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Chris Hu said:
Dark_Lord_2008 said:
Jordan the G.O.A.T had to wait until 28 to win his first NBA championship because he played on losing teams and had to wait for his team to have decent players.
Jordan is the G.O.A.T and everyone else is trying to catch up to his 10 NBA scoring titles, 6 Finals MVPs and 5 MVPs and 6 NBA championships.
You must win more than 10 NBA scoring titles and win more than 6 NBA Finals MVPs and more than 5 MVPs to be G.O.A.T. Jordan played in a tough era and his scoring averages would be a lot more if he played in today's soft basketball era. He frequently got smashed and no foul calls. Get up and play on you idiot is what the other players, crowd and the referee. None of today's cheap foul calls for nothing way back in Jordan's days.

All this G.O.A.T talk in basketball or any other team sport is silly.  You can only be a G.O.A.T in individual sports.  In team sports nobody can play all the positions available.  Also as far as stats goes nobody put up better numbers then Wilt in the NBA nobody is going to top his 100 point game nobody is going to top his minutes played in a single season nobody is going to top his single season and single game rebounds record nobody is going to top his career rebound numbers nobody is going to top his single season scoring average.

And no one is touching most of his accuracy records either.

DeAndre Jordan got close to his single season FG%, but there are still his records for consecutive field goal attempts without a recorded miss (he has the #1 and #2 spots with 35 and 32 respectively), most field goal attempts in a game, no misses (he holds the top three spots with 18 of 18, 16 of 16, and 15 of 15).  

And his versatility as a center was absurd.  He had 53 triple doubles in just two seasons, more than double what any other center has had in their career.

But rattling off awards or rattling off stats or rattling of championships is ground level discussion on this topic.  And saying someone needs to be a scoring machine to be the GOAT is basement level.