The 1960s Celtics would win at least 1 championship this era

[MikelArteta]

the 3 pointer didn't even exist back then and many of these dudes had offseason jobs so they couldn't train year round like players do today

 

[ISO]

No. The majority of the roster even if given the modern advancements wouldn’t even make the league.

If you take them as they were constituted in the 60’s definitely not the players are flat out not as athletic or physically fit and they got primitive skillsets. Some players would have to reconstruct their jumpers and work on ball handling. The only thing I’ll give players then is they had great conditioning.

Bill Russell was an elite athlete, defensive savant, good passing big man so I’ll say he could be a good player in any era.

 

[Rekkapryde]

In order to make this fair you would have to give these guys modern NBA training and diet, it's too tough to say.

and rules. what's considered a crossover now is a straight up carry then and would be called a travel. they'd probably call the euro step a travel too. And the crab dribble

 

[Rekkapryde]

No. The majority of the roster even if given the modern advancements wouldn’t even make the league.

If you take them as they were constituted in the 60’s definitely not the players are flat out not as athletic or physically fit and they got primitive skillsets. Some players would have to reconstruct their jumpers and work on ball handling. The only thing I’ll give players then is they had great conditioning.

Bill Russell was an elite athlete, defensive savant, good passing big man so I’ll say he could be a good player in any era.

Yeah, Wilt and Russell of yesteryear would be fine in any era. The rest of the "good" players would potentially be okay if they had the same advancements, training, etc. that they do now. But the bums of then on teams now? fukk no.

 

[FS4LFE]

These nikkas were mail men and had part time jobs fukk outta here

 

[Cyber]

I don't think they were measured with shoes back then so they're all taller than their listed heights

Damn near everything that's prevalent now either didn't exist then or was illegal

They would have to adapt to modern NBA, that team was built for that period of basketball

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Russell would still be a great player, the question is would he have same defensive impact.

Like his defense was literally carrying inefficient team
offenses to championships

He won defensive player of the year 4 straight times when i was simulating 2k20

 

[Jmare007]

All I know is that if Draymon Green was a defensive force in this era, Bill Russell would've been a beast in this day and age.

No fukking clue how the rest of that Celtics roster would've adapted/evolved to this era and conditions because I've never bothered looking at film nor reading about them

 

[LebronsHairline]

Give them nikkas/crackas modern courts, shoes, heating in the fukking arenas and change the rules to today theyd be fine

 

[Swagnificent]

Then that wouldn’t be them

Damn if LeBron played played in the 40’s could he handle the racism?

LeBron wouldn't be LeBron in the 40s either. That would be some other guy if he was born into and grew up there.

 

[Swagnificent]

No. The majority of the roster even if given the modern advancements wouldn’t even make the league.

If you take them as they were constituted in the 60’s definitely not the players are flat out not as athletic or physically fit and they got primitive skillsets. Some players would have to reconstruct their jumpers and work on ball handling. The only thing I’ll give players then is they had great conditioning.

Bill Russell was an elite athlete, defensive savant, good passing big man so I’ll say he could be a good player in any era.

If they grew up just like we grew up, why would their skill sets still be primitive? They would be watching the same players we grew up watching. They would be training just like the players of today.

 

[Swagnificent]

Yeah, Wilt and Russell of yesteryear would be fine in any era. The rest of the "good" players would potentially be okay if they had the same advancements, training, etc. that they do now. But the bums of then on teams now? fukk no.

The bums of today are also bums so I don't get the point?

 

[ISO]

If they grew up just like we grew up, why would their skill sets still be primitive? They would be watching the same players we grew up watching. They would be training just like the players of today.

The basketball talent pool would be much larger.

Right now there’s American players playing overseas. Right now there’s guys that played D1 and work a 9-to-5 that would be star NBA players in the 1960’s.

Guys like Kendall Marshall, Marshon Brooks, Jordan Crawford, and Kay Felder are out the league.

 

[Cyber]

The basketball talent pool would be much larger.

Right now there’s American players playing overseas. Right now there’s guys that played D1 and work a 9-to-5 that would be star NBA players in the 1960’s.

Guys like Kendall Marshall, Marshon Brooks, Jordan Crawford, and Kay Felder are out the league.

You don't think the league having around 120-130 roster spots wouldn't have made a difference to counter the larger global talent pool? Tom Sanders said in a video that he was initially competing with 22 other guys for a spot on the Celtics roster. The Celtics of the 60s would often have 20-25 PPG scorers on other teams join their bench, they were very strong

Over 700 players made the league last year, the last decade had a ton of years with 650+ making it at some point which wasn't the case (or even close to being the case) in previous decades even with 29 teams

Nevermind that they didn't have the perks of today's NBA and that today's NBA players would have to play a very different game back then

 

[Cladyclad]

None of them would get drafted

you read that right