re: Is the all time home run record really the most prestigious record in sports?

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Wilt was just so much better than everyone and the league was so lopsided it was just silly.

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The NBA has been lopsided for much of its history. Just look at the title counts of the heat and lakers. Their erstwhile dominance was born of that era.

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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).

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None of which changes the significance and impressiveness of Wilt's 100 point game.

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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.

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I don't know where you're going with that one.

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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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