[Stardust]

^ Exactly right. I get a kick how these comparisons get put out with no real sense of what they are asking. George Mikan was the greatest Center of his day. Today, he would probably be a good High School center just because of his size, he may have been on the Bench for some D1 college, and the closest he would have been to the NBA game is if he bought a ticket!

The King was great for his era. You can compare how players were in their generation, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to compare generations. What the King did in his day was unique. If you too today's high schooler and put them against the plodding slow footed athletes of the Kings generations, you would have 1000's of Kentucky teenagers do what the king did! The King may have been way before his time, but he was not to the unique level of today's superstar athletes if compared to how he would play today!