Clyde, Mike, LeBron - 4, 3, 2

[BenDavis503]

Pretty cool article. I enjoyed reading it. And it requires no balls.

Lots of cool videos about lots of great players. All on this page. Great article.

I thought it was pretty cool that Clyde is considered the 4th most athletic player in NBA history. At least according to this guy. Whoever he is. I don't care (for all you 'what credibility does this writer have' people). I just thought this was cool.

http://www.nba.com/2010/news/features/steve_aschburner/01/08/athletes/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt1

 

[Rhal]

There was a reason he was nicknamed clyde the glyde.

 

[Luther]

Whoever wrote this article is not a fan of Mr. Bryant.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

7. David Robinson
All it took was one day in the gym with Robinson for San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich to glimpse the Spurs' sparkling future. "The first thing you see with David is his athleticism," Popovich told reporters this summer prior to Robinson's Class of 2009 Hall of Fame induction. "Just imagine him as a young man, walking in and doing a handstand from one end to the other. At 7-foot-1 or whatever he is. He did a handstand! From one end line to the other! Then he runs the floor and beats everybody in the sprints. Then they're throwing balls up to him and he's dunking over everybody -- after a full-speed run, he plants his feet and has the balance and the coordination to go up and dunk it over people. It took one practice and everybody knew that this was a different deal."

Robinson is my favorite non-blazer of all time.

 

[chris_in_pdx]

I'm glad that he recognized that Wilt was and still is the greatest freak of nature ever to play in professional sports in the USA, maybe in the world. The impact he had on the game transcends dominance. If a man like this lived in today's culture, he'd be bigger than Jordan, Tiger, LeBron, and anyone the NFL could contribute combined.

 

[¹²³]

Whoever wrote this article is not a fan of Mr. Bryant.

And Shaq.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

There was a reason he was nicknamed clyde the glyde.

He could dunk on a 12' 1" rim... they did a "crank the rim" thing one summer in the mid 80's, and that was his highest, as I recall.

 

[MARIS61]

Wilkins says it all:

Wilkins makes it sound as if being a great athlete was almost a prerequisite for playing in the NBA back in his day. "We had a lot of them. A lot!" he told me prior to a recent Hawks game. "Dr. J [Julius Erving]. Shawn Kemp. [James] Worthy. [Larry] Nance. Excluding myself, of course. ... [Clyde] Drexler. Jerome Kersey, Derrick McKey. Billy Ray Bates. David Thompson. I mean, I could go on and on for days. Aw man, there's too many. Too many."

 

[Boob-No-More]

I'm glad that he recognized that Wilt was and still is the greatest freak of nature ever to play in professional sports in the USA, maybe in the world. The impact he had on the game transcends dominance. If a man like this lived in today's culture, he'd be bigger than Jordan, Tiger, LeBron, and anyone the NFL could contribute combined.

Agreed 100%. People talk about once a generation athletes. Wilt was a once a century, perhaps even a once a millenium althlete. He was an absolutely amazing combination of size, speed, strength and leaping ability. Unfortunately, if he was alive today everyone would suspect him of using performance enhancing drugs as it would be hard to believe he could be that big, strong and athletic without some kind of "help".

BNM

 

[PtldPlatypus]

He could dunk on a 12' 1" rim... they did a "crank the rim" thing one summer in the mid 80's, and that was his highest, as I recall.

It was 11'1"

 

[BlazerCaravan]

It was 11'1"

THanks for the catch... my memory is old and busted.

Ten years from now, it'll be a 14 foot rim.