Re: Greatest Basketball Players of All Time
"Russell's clearly the best team sport athlete of all time."
I don't get it. Russell played with a helluva lot of HOFers. He was a good player on a very good team.
Yogi Berra joined the Yankees i 1947. They won the Championship in 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, and 1962. And they won the AL pennant in 1955, 1957, 1960, 1963 and, with Berra as manager, in 1964. They had one bad year in 1959. The other two times they didn't make the World Series, they won 94 games (1948) and 103 games (1954). Fourteen pennants in sixteen years from 1949 to 1964. Stengel said the secret to his success was never playing a big game without "my man," meaning Berra.
Was Yogi the greatest team player in baseball history?
My personal ranking:
1) Wilt
2) MJ
3) Magic
4) Big O
5) Kareem
6) Dr. J
7) Bird
8) Baylor
9) Russell
10) West
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