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Name your favorite athlete and why?

Bucky

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Let's stick with athletes still active or playing.

I would probably have to go with Elena Delle Donne. Besides being a very talented basketball player she is very dedicated to her family. Her sister is blind and deaf and Delle Donne demanded a trade from her current team Chicago to play closer to her sister.

Overall a very good basketball that loves her family. She has been playing basketball with Lyme disease, which makes her story even more incredible.
 

Hm, I'm not that into sports. I can't participate if you limit it to a discussion about active players. I guess, Cam Newton.

I admire your selection and reasons given too.
 
I don't really have one, but I do find Kyrie Irving to be fun to watch play. I don't believe I've ever seen anyone do what he does with the basketball before, except maybe that Curly dude who used to play on the Globetrotters.
 
calamity said:
I don't really have one, but I do find Kyrie Irving to be fun to watch play. I don't believe I've ever seen anyone do what he does with the basketball before, except maybe that Curly dude who used to play on the Globetrotters.
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Not much of a basketball fan I see


 

Roger Federer, hands down.
 
Dak Prescott because he is going to lead the Cowboys to their sixth Super Bowl win.
 
Serena Willioms. Dominant in an all white sport, excepting Venus. An excellent role model.
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My favorite athlete in my lifetime was Larry Bird. Best team basketball player of all time and he helped save the game at a crucial time for it.
 
I got two different answers, I got an answer for my favorite athlete before my lifetime, and the player I got to watch in the modern era. Of all time, Walter Payton will be my favorite player. He was a quality player, but an even better person. And unlike another Chicago based athlete, he didn't turn the city's love for sports into a business. Which is admirable, because the "Sweetness" brand could have been worth Payton's weight in gold.

Now for a player I got to watch firsthand? Steve Nash, the dude was always a pleasure to watch. Despite being in a draft class with the likes of Ray Allen, Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Jermaine O'Neal, and big Z Nash was able to break from the pack with just pure ability. If he lacked somewhere (like his defense) he did his damndest to improve. It was that kind of motivation that allowed a dorky Canadian to stay relevant in the NBA for almost 20 years at a position that only got faster, and better every season.
 
Crovax said:
Not much of a basketball fan I see


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He's retired. So, if we're going to go there, then we have to just end any point guard dish-off exhibition with a clip of Magic Johnson. :roll: But, this is what I'm saying I have never seen before. Dude plays like he has the ball on a string.

 
Michael Jordan. I just don't watch sports nowadays. But back in the day Michael, Magic, and Larry actually made it interesting and fun. It was also at a time when the sport was much more physical.
 
calamity said:
He's retired. So, if we're going to go there, then we have to just end any point guard dish-off exhibition with a clip of Magic Johnson. :roll: But, this is what I'm saying I have never seen before. Dude plays like he has the ball on a string.
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Go watch the jason williams videos he is much better flashy wise (Irving too) than Magic
 
Crovax said:
Go watch the jason williams videos he is much better flashy wise (Irving too) than Magic
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Unfortunately for White Chocolate, dude couldn't shoot worth a damn.
 
PerfectStorm said:
Dak Prescott because he is going to lead the Cowboys to their sixth Super Bowl win.
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I really like Das Prescott as well. He has a lot of Tom Brady in him and is a much smarter qb than those like Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson.
 
Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James.
 
past
Andy Seminick

present
Shohei Otani
 
calamity said:
I don't really have one, but I do find Kyrie Irving to be fun to watch play. I don't believe I've ever seen anyone do what he does with the basketball before, except maybe that Curly dude who used to play on the Globetrotters.
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You never seen hot sauce? From and1?
 
Cisero said:
Roger Federer, hands down.
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and Rafa Nadal. probably the two best players in history, and two of the classiest top stars in the history of sports.
 
Bucky said:
I really like Das Prescott as well. He has a lot of Tom Brady in him and is a much smarter qb than those like Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson.
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Can't help yourself can you?
 
Steve Largent. Pound for pound the best and toughest player I have seen. And despite the fact that I do not agree with his politics, he is a man of faith. And yet he never has worn it on his sleeve. Dude walks the walk.


This play is one of sports all time payback plays. Turns out this tackle was his favorite play in his long career. When he retired, he held every single receiving record. ALL OF THEM

 
Also Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling.

Easily the greatest 1-2 punch in a pitching rotation. Great big game pitchers that got significantly better later in their careers when they left their original incompetent teams (Phillies and Mariners) and paired together to beat a baseball dynasty.
 

Growing up in the 1950's it was Warren Spahn and Hank Aaron. The Boston Braves and later the Milwaukee Braves had their AA farm team in Atlanta known as the Crackers. So following the big club was a natural.

Today, with free agency and all, all the movement between teams of all sports, the one and done in college has made it hard to latch onto a favorite player today. With the Braves stuck in rebuilding, I started watching and following the Cubs last year. So my choice would be between Anthony Rizzo and Chris Bryant. Two very good young players. Which one, flip a coin. Now the Braves have some very good young players, I am sure in a couple of years one or two of them will replace Rizzo and Bryant. That is until free agency raises it ugly head.

But for all time favorites, there is no replacing Spahn and Aaron.
 

The great thing about being a Yankees fan is that they have a rich tradition of drafting and paying upstanding individuals that have a high level of integrity - Jeter, Posada, Rivera, Bernie Williams, the list goes on and on.

They make it a high priority to keep their own which I love. I only root for teams that operate based on a high level of integrity. It's easy to attract players to a franchise with such a rich tradition.
 
Bucky said:
The great thing about being a Yankees fan is that they have a rich tradition of drafting and paying upstanding individuals that have a high level of integrity - Jeter, Posada, Rivera, Bernie Williams, the list goes on and on.
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Cough,, Cough, Alex Rodriguez, Mel Hall, Chad Curtis, Rusty Torres, Steve Howe, Chuck Knoblach, Doc Gooden, Daryl Strawberry, Brien Taylor, Joba Chamberlin, Shawn Chacon, Mark Whiten, Jim Leyritz, Andruw Jones, cough, cough.
 
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