{"id":4308,"date":"2023-02-07T19:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2023-02-07T19:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T19:22:38","slug":"lebron-may-be-the-scoring-leader-but-wilt-was-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=4308","title":{"rendered":"LeBron may be the scoring leader, but Wilt was the best"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TERRY MOSHER<\/p>\n

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TOP OF THE TOWN<\/strong> \u2011 LeBron James soon will be the all-time scorer in NBA history, and I don\u2019t like it. LeBron is a good business man, a good actor, and a good basketball player, in that order. He also has given back to his community, so is a good guy. But I do not want him to be the all-time top scorer. I don\u2019t know why. I just don\u2019t. He is not the all-time best player. I still think Wilt Chamberlain, a 7-foot-1 center with a wingspan of 7-8, was the best ever. Do you know Wilt averaged 30 points a game over his career and if he had played as many games as LeBron would have just over 42,000 points and have been the all-time scoring leader in league. He averaged 50.4 points the 1961 season and in the 1962 season scored 100 points while playing with the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks. \u00a0He averaged 22.9 rebounds for his career covering 14 seasons. He grabbed 55 rebounds in one game, Nov. 24, 1960 against the Boston Celtics and Bill Russell, who had 18 rebounds. So no matter who comes along, Wilt will always be my pick for the best player ever. He could do anything he wanted to do, assist, rebound and score. And nobody could stop him. \u2026One of the things I want to watch this next NFL season is how Sean Payton\u2019s impact will be felt on Russell Wilson. Wilson had his own rat pack around him while with the Seahawks, including his own quarterback coach. He also walked along like he was a diva, owned a house worth millions, and generally acted like he was entitled.\u00a0 Payton has already promised to hold firm on having just his own coaches around and will not treat Wilson as a special being with special honors. I\u2019m going to watch how that all plays out. It\u2019s going to be a clash of wills. I\u2019m betting on Payton. \u2026 So Mark Cuban believes he can conquer the riddle that is the talented but troubled Kyrie Irving. That\u2019s another watch I will focus on. Irving is a great basketball player and just as great for making trouble. If Cuban can tie a rope around Irving and keep him focused the Mavericks may have something. I\u2019m very doubtful, though. Irving seems to have the ability to stir up things without trying very much. It will be interesting to see, also, how he plays with Luka Doncic, the great scoring machine for the Mavericks. Everybody is anxiously waiting to see what Aaron Rodgers will do. Will he in free agency join the Jets, or maybe the Raiders. Or will he stay in Green Bay? I\u2019m getting on Green Bay. His salary is $50 million and that is a lot of money even for the NFL. What team can fit that under their salary cap? Talk about Wilson feeling he is entitled. What around Rodgers? You know, money does funny things to good people. I covered the Seattle Mariners for 30 years and there were only two players in all that time that big money didn\u2019t affect \u2013 Alvin Davis and Edgar Martinez. The great Tom Seaver once told me he was shocked when he had to carry his own luggage on road trips. He had moved on from playing to broadcasting and it was shock to his system to learn the team no longer took care of his luggage on trips. He had to carry them himself. He was not being critical or entitled, but found it amusing he was now on his own. I knew how he felt because I went on back-to-back Pac-8 trips in the middle 1970s where everything was done for me. I caved almost immediately and the second I got home Mary told me I had to take out the garbage. For about 5 seconds I was stunned. I thought to myself, \u201cWho me?\u201d Then reality set in. The garbage got taken out. That\u2019s it for today. Stay safe.<\/p>\n

Be well pal.<\/p>\n

Be careful out there.<\/p>\n

Have a great day.<\/p>\n

You are loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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