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re: Is the all time home run record really the most prestigious record in sports?
Posted on 4/9/14 at 2:15 am to genro
Posted on 4/9/14 at 2:15 am to genro
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But there's aslo a quality of quirkiness too, it's an oddity, a product of a strange transitional era with the right guy in the right place at the right time.
Eh, you can make that case for a lot of records, tbh. Not really relevant to cut down its prestige, IMO.
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Wilt's 100-point game is not really equivalent to a hypothetical (and this far, nonexistant) 100-point game anytime from about 1974 til the foreseeable future in pro basketball.
Yes, the game has changed, but the record is just as impressive. It's not like players haven't gone off for massive scoring barrages since. The Admiral put up 70 points once. Kobe put up 80 plus.
This post was edited on 4/9/14 at 2:17 am
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Posted on 4/9/14 at 2:28 am to TbirdSpur2010
Wilt was just so much better than everyone and the league was so lopsided it was just silly. And basketball was just that, a silly, non-televised 5th most popular sport. Almost a sideshow. It was closer to entertainment than sporting competition(at least for Wilt and many others).
You say the game has changed but it's not really about that. I just think if you just stripped away the seriousness of it all, someone would've done it.
And of course, it you dropped Hakeem or Kobe into a marginal semipro league with racial quotas and a bunch of ragtag teams from little industrial towns, well I bet they could manage 100 points. But that's neither here nor there.
You say the game has changed but it's not really about that. I just think if you just stripped away the seriousness of it all, someone would've done it.
And of course, it you dropped Hakeem or Kobe into a marginal semipro league with racial quotas and a bunch of ragtag teams from little industrial towns, well I bet they could manage 100 points. But that's neither here nor there.
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