dantheman9758
All Star
The corporate mindset of America DEMANDS that we see progress in everything that is happening now. Therefore, ESPN and Sports Journalists must always present the present as the "best" from a business standpoint and eventually backpeddle and repent all prior claims of the previous "GOAT's" they sold us in years past. This means that despite people calling MJ the GOAT 15 years ago, and Bird and Magic 20 years ago, and Kareem and Dr. J 30 years ago, and Wilt and Russell 40 years ago, they now avoid discussing those players and if they must do a segment on them they won't say much more than "great for their time" and if a past player has an extremely strong case for being better than a current one (Like Russell's 11 rings... how the f*ck u argue with that when rings are deemed so important in the current ESPN script!?) they will readily hunt for and point out signs of weakness and stretch them out of proportion to make their once heralded "GOAT"'s seem somewhat lesser than the current crop of players. One shot over Craig Ehlo = "Jordan's competition". One grainy photograph of a 6-7 forward in the 60's caught in a mismatch guarding Wilt = "Wilt's center competition" - one questioanable fg% = "Bill Russell wasn't dominant on both ends of the floor". Typically, a sports marketing business or journalist won't promote, sell, or buy into the idea that players of the past were doing similarly amazing feats as the great players presented too us on Sports center this past week. That would mean we haven't made enough progress.
so Bird would be better than Bron? KD? 
he might not even be seeing Paul George or Rudy Gay word to Kolo.
