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Originally Posted by 8bus
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I don’t want a long derail here, but Wilt was taller with more reach, much faster, more athletic and stronger and with a higher vertical leap. There’s film from one of his college games where his chin is well above the rim. Wilt was a high jumper and track star (440 or half mile as I recall it). And his conditioning was unreal - during one season in the NBA, he sat for exactly eight minutes all season and averaged 48.5 minutes a game. And in over a thousand NBA games, he never once fouled out.
I think Zion is once in a generation, and has a great chance to have a Barkley-like career and end up in the HOF. He’s great fun to watch. But Wilt’s skills were, and are, hard to believe.