Disrespecting Wilt

What a crock of shit. ESPN has an article today on Dwight Howard becoming the youngest player to reach 5,000 rebounds after last night's game. Yes, he is younger at 23 yrs old than Wilt was when he got number 5,000 (Wilt was 25), but not once in the AP/ESPN article does the author mention that it took Howard MORE THAN FOUR YEARS to accomplish what only took Wilt a little over TWO YEARS to accomplish. You see, back in Wilt's day, they had this thing called college that players would go to before the NBA. Sounds crazy, I know. Wilt didn't start playing in the NBA until he was 23, and got to 5,000 at age 25. Dwight played his first game at age 19, and didn't get to 5,000 until last night, at the age of 23. Doesn't that have to be mentioned in the article somewhere? You know, that Chamberlain was twice as dominant as Howard? The articles I've seen today ("Howard smashes Wilt's record," etc.) leave the impression that Howard has somehow been better than Wilt because he did something younger. It's the same thing with Kobe and Lebron - everytime they become the "youngest" to do something, nobody mentions the fact that they skipped college and went pro straight out of high school. A completely meaningless collection of "records"

OK, I feel better now. And with baseball still several days away and NBA/NHL in the final games on the regular season, where it's hard to guess what the motivations of some of the teams might be, at least there's something posted on here this week.