[Stardust]

I know that I am in the minority but IMO, there has never been nor will there ever be a player as dominant as Wilt Chamberlain and it is not even close. In 55 games, Chamberlain scored at least 30 points and grabbed 30 rebounds or more. He was the only NBA player ever to record 40 points and 40 rebounds in a game and he did it on 5 different occasions. Those are records that will never be broken or even threatened in the future.

Wilt was before my time, so all I can go by is limited video and what I have read. What I did not read you say was that Wilt was the greatest, but the most dominate. That I can agree with. During Wilt's era, there was only one player who could compete with Wilt and that was a man who was 4" shorter than the Big Dipper. Wilt played against such inferior big men, he did whatever he wanted, which was definitely the most dominate era that any individual ever had. Wilt was not challenged by anyone until the end of his career. At the end of Wilts days was the very beginning of the "Big Men" era. Wilt, though hampered by injuries, had difficulty with guys like Willis Reed, Wes Unseld (at 6-7) and Bob Lanier all came into the league and had great battles with Wilt in his final days with the Lakers. But there was one big fella that I feel would have matched, possibly surpassed Wilt if he had played during the same era, and that is Kareem. Kareem was not the physical player that Wilt was, but he did not have to be. If you would have put Kareem and his ability to hit a mid-range jumper as well as dominate at the basket during the 60's, Kareem would have been just as good.

Since Kareem played in an era was he was challenged by good big men in at least 3/4's of all of his games, and to be the most prolific scorer of all-time sure makes it hard to argue that Kareem was not more dominate than Wilt when you compare what the two players had to compete against. Like I said, Wilts stats cannot be argued for most dominate, but when you can dominate better competition like Kareem did playing against arguably the greatest era of Centers of all-time, I'd go with Kareem over Wilt.