Jamal514
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Kobe is still more impressive though. He's still the main guy on the Lakers. Selanne and Jagr, while still good for old guys, are complimentary players at the moment.
does Kobe Bryant has the most longevity of any athelete in sports?
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Kobe is still more impressive though. He's still the main guy on the Lakers. Selanne and Jagr, while still good for old guys, are complimentary players at the moment.
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At 33 and 34, Jagr scored 123 points and 96 points
and he was the best player on the Rangers at the time. He's 40 still playing at a high level in a more physically demanding sport.
Going toe to toe with the best of today at damn near 50
that's more impressive to me given how much abuse nfl players do to their bodies. ray lewis is a freak
Pac died in 96, the least we could get were some sports icons from that year.
I'm honestly amazed that Ray's lasted this long. You can't not fukk with this nikka at this point, I wanna see the Ravens win it just so him and Ed Reed can go out on top.
The War Report
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You never heard of Ricky Henderson?
the g.o.a.t leadoff hitter of ALL time. cant believe i didnt think of him, he was my favorite player of the 90s along with barry bonds
Rocket Scientist
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As of now the most PRODUCTIVE longetivity of any NBA player yes and still at a high level. Derek Jeter had a monster year last year at age 38, He's been with the Yanks since 95,shoot Mariano still a top 5 closer at 43.Jagr&Selane hold it down in hockey based on age&experience. In NFL Ray Lewis still hitting cats 16 years later and even tho kickers are ignored. Jason Hanson (the longest tenured football player with one team in the history of the NFL)been kicking field goals for the Lions since 1992 (Barry Sanders 4th year in the league) 
BLAZO da GAWD
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Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Alessandro Del Piero, etc
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Rest In Power Kobe
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Paolo Maldini is probably the closest one to Kobe. Him and Francesco Baresi. 20 years
Physically demanding is relative, jumping all the time, running front and back indoors or like soccer players playing for a consecutive 90 minutes etc. Taking hits to the body is the least concern for long term injuries. Knees and shyt like that is the worst, that's why tennis probably is more "physically demanding" than hockey and players playing past their 20s in higher divisions being very rare. Obviously hockey has the thing where one hit can fukk you up instantly, but it's like saying that Nascar is the hardest sport since you can break 10 bones from one crash.
And really Jagr having 54 points will be like kobe avg 13 points 6 years from now with guaranteed playtime, if you wanna compare stats across sports.
It's just to check how many games dudes play per season, looking at great hockey players all play 70+ games per season most of the close to 80 or 82.
Just looking at random players...
