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In general, are NFL players more athletic than NBA players? (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=200584)

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Originally Posted by lj4mvp (Post 5402658)

You just don't seem to understand what athleticism actually IS.

LeBron James is quite easily a better athlete than any active player in the NFL. Period.

Apparently...not only is he an amazing athlete......but his entire jock can fit into your mouth.

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Originally Posted by lj4mvp (Post 5402658)

You just don't seem to understand what athleticism actually IS.

LeBron James is quite easily a better athlete than any active player in the NFL. Period.

depends on how you define athlete

both sports use a specific athletic skill set that would leave the player a fish out of water in the other sport.

Lebron james probably wouldn't survive a half season in the NFL

most NFL players are far too muscle bound to keep up at a professional level in the NBA

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Originally Posted by lj4mvp (Post 5402658)

You just don't seem to understand what athleticism actually IS.

LeBron James is quite easily a better athlete than any active player in the NFL. Period.

:shake:

I'm done arguing with you. LBJ is a great athlete, no doubt about it. I doubt he would be the most athletic guy in the NFL though. He very well may be on the upper echelon, but I don't see how you can unequivocally know that he is by watching him play against people that are not as talented as he is. I would bet that if there was an athletic competition, Calvin Johnson would be a better athlete than LeBron.

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Originally Posted by GonzoRox88 (Post 5402157)

Why aren't soccer players in the mix?

They're athletic as hell..and I hate that sport.

Because they are a bunch of dick suckers.

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Originally Posted by BWillie007 (Post 5402332)

Certainly. Lebron James could possibly make it in the NFL, nobody knows for sure. People say he was one of the best WR out of Ohio if he chose to play in college. Yeah, so what? Do you know how many awesome athletes come out of high school going to Oklahoma, USC, LSU, etc and still don't get into the league?

To say that LBJ would dominate in the NFL is ludicrous. You cannot know for sure, and he plays basketball without pads. Some people seem to think if you are really athletic you would play basketball, and not football. While that may be true, not everybody can get the acquired skill to be good at basketball. I can tell you this, the most athletic guys at my high school were football players, and not basketball players. They tried to play basketball but just couldn't hit shots or didn't have the fundamentals. In football you can get away with your sheer athletic talent for a long time, in basketball you see countless nonathletic dudes playing D1 hoops though.

You kind of contradicted yourself here. The best athletes were football players, yet they couldn't shot a basketball through a hoop without anybody guarding them. And they didn't have the fundamentals to run/cut AND dribble a basketball? If NFL athletes are so much better, why did Antonio Gates not get drafted into the NBA, but now plays in the NFL after never playing a down in college football? Surely, that can prove a point. Because for me, Tight Ends/D-Ends are the best athletes in football. Tony Gonzalez didn't get a sniff at an NBA career, nor did Julius Peppers and they are quite the playmakers in the NFL.

The basketball people keep going to a once in a generational player in LeBron James.

If you start measuring things like speed, strength, on the general population, it's not going to be close.

NFL LB's would break those NBA bean poles in half.

who would win in a fight .... no knives, no guns ... NFL or NBA?

I would say that T.O. is one of the more freakish athletes in the NFL..he may have lost a bit over the past 3-4 years, but even he tried playing basketball and he couldn't do anything on the court. All I'm saying is football players who go to a court don't fare so well, but there HAVE been instances of basketball players going to a football field and enjoying success.

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Originally Posted by Laz (Post 5402732)

who would win in a fight .... no knives, no guns ... NFL or NBA?

NHL players.

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Originally Posted by KCCHIEFS27 (Post 5402744)

Basketball involves a lot of skills that take years to develop, no doubt. To evaluate athleticism you need to use a measurement system that doesn't give an advantage to someone that has spent thousands and thousands of hours developing those skills.

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Originally Posted by KCCHIEFS27 (Post 5402744)

What does that have to do with their athletic talent? There are a ton of freak athletes that can't play in the NBA. Like I said, in the NBA there is alot of acquired skill. Passing, shooting, individual moves, ability to position yourself, moving without the ball, etc. Not that there isn't acquired talent in football either, I just feel there is more in NBA and that athletic talent is a bigger deal in MOST positions in the NFL than NBA.

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Originally Posted by cdcox (Post 5402773)

Exactly.

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Originally Posted by cdcox (Post 5402539)

This isn't even really a question for anyone who watched "The Superstars" series in the 1970's. Football players owned that competition. Basketball players were not really competitive although they generally did better than the race car drivers and golfers.

The Jordan era brought a whole different type of athlete to the game, pal.

All of the best brothers from the hood starting playing basketball, not football.