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OJ and King Kelly are/were both good for their eras, but give some thought to the following:

One player who graduated the same year (1956 I believe) as Coleman was Oscar Robertson. The Big O was from Indianapolis and was Indiana's Mr. Basketball, just like King Kelly was Mr. Basketball in Kentucky. Robertson said in his autobiography that his Indiana team had to play Kentucky in the Indiana-Kentucky All-Star game, and that he had looked forward to going up against Coleman because there had been so much hype leading up to the game about which player was the best. Well, Robertson scored over 30 points and Coleman had something like 3 points for the game. The second game was about the same.

It would be a good bet to say that neither Coleman or OJ are in the same status with the Big O, which kind of knocks down the theory of "players were good for their era" argument. The Big O was good regardless of the era. Put him in his heyday and give him the same training and conditioning as today's players and he would lay some smack down on OJ and many more modern day players. Heck, he is the only player to have averaged a triple-double in NBA history.