Originally posted by Ninerjohn:You asked and I gave you my opinion. I believe Wilt was the better and more dominant player and Russell benefited more from having an amazing team around him when he played the 76ers. MVPs are meaningless in this discussion. Obviously Bill , playing on great Celtics teams, was more likely to win MVPs. I think its actually remarkable that Wilt has only 1 less to be honest.
Not taking anything away from Russell by the way. He was certainly a top 10 player
BTW.. where do you put Lebron? I am not going to go back and look at your posts.
mvps are very relevant to the discussion. If wilt were that much better as the head to head stats suggest, he would have had more titles and mvps.
Sorry I didn't mean to attack your opinion, I did ask for it. Not saying I'm right or you're wrong , just stating my position.
I currently have LeBron 4-5 behind Kareem bill and Jordan and tied with magic who I believe is a good comparison for him in many ways.