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I agree with Champ's basic premise that sports have come farther even than most people think... 1950's NFL teams would be humiliated against a 2010 team, no doubts there...
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Ya Kevin McHale had the 2nd most unstoppable post move I've seen, right after Abdul-Jabbar's skyhook... his arms made him effectively 7'4" or something, he had footwork that put Akeem Olajuwon to shame and that dude would score 30 a night these days...
Where I agree with Taro is that in 2010, it seems like half of NBA has Clyde Drexler's hops :- )
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Dividing line for the NBA was the Jordan era.  Teams before that, say the 1970's Warriors or Sonics, weren't going to match up to today's teams.
But IMHO, starting with Jordan and Magic and the Bully Boys Pistons, those teams were playing modern ball...
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If there's a sport wherein the 1950's and even 1930's players might surprise you, I would nominate baseball...  there is a max-out point for how hard the human arm can throw a baseball, and the rest of the sport has been *somewhat* capped by the limits of human pitching, it seems to me...
I'd be pretty surprised if Lefty Grove weren't at least as good, in absolute terms, as Erik Bedard or Cliff Lee...