Imagine if Michael Jordan had been a few inches taller.
That’s not the hypothetical you typically hear. More often, it’s Allen Iverson. Or, it’s Giannis Antetokounmpo with Steph Curry’s jump shot. More broadly, the formula usually involves fixing a player’s lone imperfection to make them the perfect basketball player.
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Michael Jordan was tall enough. Imagine if he’d been taller. He would have been the perfect basketball player.
As it stands, there has never been a perfect basketball player.
There’s no prototype, but there are prototypes. Jordan was the prototypical scoring guard. LeBron James is the prototypical point forward. The…
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