Tim Duncan is one of the best NBA players of all time, like firmly in the top 10 imo, but because the way he played was neither particularly flashy nor particularly innovative and he as a person also wasn't those things people tend to underrate him. His nickname was The Big Fundamental, for ref.
Oh, yeah Carlos Beltran had this issue, he was just really good at everything, not extraordinary at anything Hell, Trout was like that at first
Beltran is probably a hall of famer (ignoring a few things) but I can’t stand him
The thing about Tim was he *was* extraordinary, but in a way that really was just what if we trained a robot to play basketball perfectly. There is nothing charismatic about him. He has negative aura. But god damn was he great.
I like this, but I feel like it is too dismissive of Grant’s place in US history beyond the Civil War
I'm talking as a general specifically. My thoughts on him the political figure would not lead me to compare him to Duncan lmao