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badgerfan (5)
04/24/2008
Very dominant in his time.

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eleutheromaniac (0)
01/23/2005
Baylor didn't play defense like Jordan (although I think Jordan's defense, like the rest of his game, is overrated), but he was three-times the rebounder Jordan was. And considering he played without a three-point line and had to share the ball with West, I'd say he was a better scorer as well. Overall, Baylor was better than Jordan and at least as good as Oscar.

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LT Jaeger (0)
11/20/2003
Baylor was the first guy to ever score 70 points in one game. He once averaged 19.8 rebounds and 34.8 points per game in the same season, at 6'5; another year, he went for 38.3 per game. The guy jumped like Doc or MJ; he was double teamed constantly, and was flat-out unstoppable. While he never won a title, not many players outside of Boston did either. Its kind of like arguing Pete Maravich wasn't a good college player because UCLA won all the NCAA tourneys back then.

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Bill Adair (0)
06/10/2003
Baylor was the Michael Jordan of his day. He led no teams to an championship, but if Jordan had played for the Bulls during that era, he wouldn't have either. And Jordan would have had to invent that going up in the air and creating from there style of play - which is what Baylor orginated. RJ, better defense; Baylor, better passer and rebounder; in scoring equal. Bill Adair

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vb14086 (0)
05/16/2003
Elgin Baylor was the finest palyer I have seen in the 35 years I have watched basketball. Before his knee injury, he was an unstoppable player and as teammate Tom Hawkins said, 'He could post up Bill Russell, pass like Magic and dribble as well as the best gueards in the league. Wilt once said in an interview (when taling about how many players he'd seen dunking over Kareem), 'no one dunked over me - I still get nightmares thinking about the time Elgin Baylor did' Bill Russell said that he has what he calls his 'firsts' - never saying which player he thinks is the best, he said Jordan and Baylor were the 2 in his list of 'firts'.

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SixerFan03 (0)
05/07/2003
Elgin Baylor is never talked about when people talk about the best ever. He was an unstoppable scorer, and a great rebounder.

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