...picture a 7'1" 300 lb guy today with nearly an 8 ft wingspan, a 46+ inch vertical who could run a 4.4 sec 40 and max bench 500 lbs growing up learning to play basketball in today's era? Wilt's game was limited by the era he grew up in and so a lot of his freakish athleticism when untapped because he was taught to play a back to the basket game and grew up playing against diminished competition.

It's crazy to think what his game would be like if he grew up playing today, learned to handle the ball like a guard, shoot from 3, played AAU ball and other elite levels of competition early on, could go to expensive camps and get specialized skill training/development, access to Youtube, etc. I remember people thinking it was a big deal when Dr J took off running and dunked it from the FT line. Wilt could do that as a freshman in college and didn't need to get the running start at it (that's a standing broad jump of more than 15 feet, the NFL combine record is 12'3").

It's crazy to think, look what the Bucks do with Giannis and then kick it up a few notches.