Who's the true GOAT? Who was truly far-and-away the most

Well on was done on ice and the other wasnt. Hockey is a far more difficult sport to master

>>74712689
If Gretzky never scored a goal he'd still be the All time points leader

>>74712722
All football is gay and scoring in today's NFL is marginally easier

>Who was truly far-and-away the most dominant athlete of his sport?

Jordan. Talk all you want about Gretzky, Messi, Montana or Brady, but no one person has ever been as much of an icon and a giant in their sport as Jordan is for Basketball.

I guess only Pele is comparable to Jordan, and only because of FIFA marketing.

>>74712806
Hockey isn't as marketable as a sport (as evidenced by viewership comparatively) so I don't think it's fair to compare based on personality, social status or branding. More popular sports have a huge edge (in this case basketball and soccer)

>>74712689
Jordan won with a pile of literal who's while Gretzky only won with the most stacked team in sports history.

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>>74712689
Gretz nearly 1000 pts more than #2

why do people have to compare them all the time? Can't they just accept they are both GOAT athletes?

>>74712689

Gretzky because he is white

If you're talking dominance then it's Gretzky he is undileniably the goat. But Jordan was bigger than life in the 90s. You couldn't go an hour without seeing his billboard, ad on TV, his face on magazines or any product, hearing about him. He was the biggest name on the planet

>>74713537
>90s bulls
>whos

what the fuck?

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>>74712689
>Jordan
>Not LaGOAT Ball

>>74714019
Pippen was the only other player there for all six titles. It was a revolving door of role players.

Edmonton won the Stanley cup the year after Gretzky left. That's how much he meant to that team

Why don't Americans rate Kareem Abdul Jabbar?

POGBA

>>74714255
>Doesn't mention Rodman
>Doesn't mention Steve Kerr

The bulls had a great fucking team + Jordan.

>>74714255
Nearly everyone in the Bulls made it to the HoF. Stop trolling.

>>74714371
Rodman and Kerr were only on the Bulls for the last 3 titles, not the first 3 you retard

>>74714460
it was more of a response to:

>It was a revolving door of role players.

Almost every fucking player on that team was a playmaker. You are acting like Pippen and Jordan carried that team. The lead them but they still were fucking stacked.

>>74714371
Both only there for half of it
>>74714396
Literally only pippen and rodman

>>74714532
>Playmakers

No they were not. Your nostalgia is off

>>74713711
>Played in the same era
>Sports are played with 5 men
>Usually share an arena
>hurrdurr why compare?

>>74714799
yeah, why?

>>74714832
Because we like to argue. Why do you have to be a dick about it?

>>74712806

Jordan may be more marketable but he's not in Gretzky's class compared to other NBA players.

In fact there are good arguments for like 5 other players who might be the GOAT, not Jordan.

>>74715040
argue all you want

I remember only a few years ago there were threads every day comparing Le Bron and Jordan.

Whatever happened to those?

>>74712689

well considering Gretzki is the #1 hockey player of all time, and Jordan is #2 or #3, Gretzky is the GOAT

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>>74715262

This guy made everyone realize Lebron wasn't the best in the world anymore and killed his hype.

>>74715170
Wilt, Kareem, LeBron, Magic Johnson. there's definitely more too. Definitely Gretzky

>>74712689
Did Gretzky win three consecutive Stanley Cups (carrying the team in all of them), RETIRE FOR TWO YEARS (during which his team didn't win shit) and then start playing again, winning another three consecutive Stanley Cups (being just as dominant)?

The argument that Jordan had a stacked team is fucking bullshit. Pippen was really good, Rodman was decent, rest were good players but not championship level.

>>74715373
>>74715262

You mean the guy Lebron cucked?

He made Lebron a hero. The vast majority of /sp/ likes Lebron now. We don't talk about Lebron much anymore because we're all rooting for him to be the GOAT so we don't post troll threads anymore.

>>74713537
96-98 Bulls are OP.

>>74712689
Gretzky. By far.

>If he never scored a single goal he'd still be the all time points leader

let that sink in.

The Golden Bear is #2 btw

>>74712740
>implying
Gretzky didn't even want to play hockey, he grew up wanting to play baseball but hockey was so fucking easy he just went with that instead.

>>74712689
Donald Bradman

>>74712762
he is also the only person in nhl history to score 200 points in a season. a feat he accomplished 4 times.

messi

>>74714255
The Oilers haven't won more than 41 games in a season since they traded Gretzky. The 1990 cup team was a far different beast than the 1988. The 1988 team went 16-2 in the playoffs, the best record since the modern playoff format was established. The 1990 team went down 3-1 in the first round.

>>74712689
People do compare LeBron to Jordan whether or not it's deserved. Or Bird. Etc..
Nobody compares anybody to Gretzky except on the absolutely rarity of occasions where somebody just wants to tip a fedora

>>74721244
Better than any other athlete in any other sport by a mile. Nobody gets close to his domination.