Listing Dominique Wilkins as French is a bit of a stretch- he was born to a US military family stationed in France. Lived most of his life in the US and played internationally for the USA.
If Wilt were just an average free throw shooter, he would have had over 8000. It's the one area of his game that makes others contender for the GOAT. He was probably the 2nd most dominate defensive player of his era.
i did the calculations a few months ago, and Wilt wasnt an average FT shooter, he was *terrible*, he and shaq, both horible FT shooters, shot 53% for their careers... I crunched the numbers, and if the shot say, a still low 67% they would have had 2-3 ppg added to their career averages and 3,000 points added to their career totals
@@Defender78 meant if he "were" simply average please excuse the typo. The crazy bit is that he is on this list while being absolutely miserable from the line.
Deandre jordan is the modern day wilt chamberlain. Great in his time against the plumbers and firemen in the league back then of course. But today he would not be a superstar. Maybe an all star game once or twice.
@@johncraig4820 yes. Most players had day jobs up until 1980. So the competition for those “legends” wasn’t too good. It was decent back then but you can find decent players in high school today. You could actually find much better competition in high school today than there was in the pros back then.
These list have toldme stat wise I am going hakim at c Malone at pf.pippen at sf and Jordan at sg and Stockton at pg..I got blocks steals and assisted buckets. Not sure how anyone beats me
Y'all keep asking about Shaq. He was too busy fouling offensively to get one on his opponent. He ran through people and fouled nearly every shot he took.
