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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/08/magazine/kevin-garnett-interview.html Necessary bump.

1 - you're underrating the athleticism already of the guys at the top. 2 - you're leaving out the most athletic guys at the position. Players skill today is so high, they got you talking nonsense about their athleticism and the collective athleticism in the NBA is so high, it makes you think no...

lol, ok man.

If Spencer Dinwiddie played back in the late 80s, early-mid 90s, yall would be using him as an example of how athletic the league was back then. Today, he's just a guy athletically. Which is the point.

Heard players of today just aren't as athletic as yester-year. I guess yall right.

Didn't Durant on OKC beat Kawhi on San Antonio in the playoffs? I'm just saying, yall acting like these top players aren't playing guys that play very much like MJ and Pip. This is such an old man in the barbershop thread. No one is discounting their greatness. They can play in any era. But...

:ibis-roflmao-sm3: @ y'all like "these new players never saw players like Jordan or Pippen" some blatant disrespect right to my mans face while this man sitting right there like

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Splash Bros would just be raining 3 balls. While Chicago had Rodman, Golden State had two of him in Iggy and Draymond. Good luck with all that on ball defending when Steph pulls up for 3 one step after he gets across mid-court. The game is so different now...they made some BIG DEAL in Ep3...

But what about ANTONIO MCDYESS?!?!

Big fan of THE LAST DANCE last night... Michael Jordan and the Bulls didn't touch a weight room until 1990. lol

This is the most old man in a barbershop thread I've ever read.

I don't disagree with you, most of it is **** you'd expect from late 1800s social darwinists. He legit goes into APE INDEX in the NBA Chapter. However, I feel his best points are in the technology being used by today's athlete as well as on the "field"...when he outlines the differences...

Plenty of role players got significant contracts in the mid-90s. Sean Elliott, old af AC Green, washed Danny Manning, Horace Grant, Jayson Williams. Late 80s, early 90s, the ridiculous Jon Koncak contract.

No one is more athletic than Shawn Kemp bro. Aaron Gordon does not exist.

Read The Sports Gene.

No man, I understand the premise...its just asinine. Its old man barbershop nonsense. If you can't see that data right in front of your eyes, idk what to tell you. How about you show me some data driven evidence that shows athletes of yesteryear were better. No man, I am not. The game is...

When you were talking about Moneyball, that "the bad-bodied hitter who walks a ton and hits" was Scott Hatteberg. Evidence - look up speed score. You can see how much faster the league is getting before your very eyes in only a short period of time. In just 2015 there were 3 players with...

When D$ threw baseball into the mix and using Scott Hatteberg my mind nearly melted. FWIW - Scott Hatteberg was a multiple sport athlete in HS. Baseball today has astronomical exit velos and power distance, players are much faster with sprint speed never being higher...on top of sprint speed...

Those that say the athletes have gotten worse are so far off the reservation. Athletes across the board are bigger, stronger, faster, more athletic. They've also become very specialized where skillsets have improved just as much as everyone's athleticism so there is a heavy focus throughout...