One of the all-time great Laker players that they hardly talk about anymore

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He’s very unknown for he lakers

The first player to play above the rim

Can’t be great didn’t Exist before Kobi or LeBronThose are the only two that are any good don’t you know that old person say the young ignorant kids

RIP! 🙏🙏🙏

Rip 🙏

Long Live We don’t say RIP 🙏🏾

Rip😭

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He had a dope euro step.

It’s called a finger roll bud

CPGoat #3 he’s talking about the euro step before the finger roll bro

He's the founding father of jelly layups!!! Dude was nice with it.

@Will’s Pain I was coming to say that but I see you are way ahead of the game…definitely nothing new under the sun.

TheRondo14 there is a channel Wilt Chamberlain archive that has a 22 min Elgin highlight

HAVING WATCHED HIM PLAY MANY TIMES I MUST CONFESS, YOU HAVE A POINT!!!

There are several here (YT) to see.

😂😂😂😂😂

And they also completely failed to show highlights that are available of his incredible passing ability.

I'm not a Laker fan but the media disrespect him so much a my personal opinion and I've seen him play he was better than LeBron James better

@@1990758 he did things all the present players did

@@1990758 bruh moment

He should of won mvp

​i agree

Oznerol3 DT agreed Lakers fans and nba fans in general just don't know how dominant he was. He was the LeBron, Kobe, Jordan, Dr J before any of them came in the league. He gets so much shit for not winning a title while he played

Brennan Dipippo I totally agree

Well, his era was dominated by Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell

@The Truth The first great ALL AROUND superstar. And still, one of the greatest ever. If he had played in the mid 70's and beyond, he would be revered like Magic, Larry and MJ. He still is , IMO. In their category, easily.

Eugenia G. No it is only dominated by Wilt..But if we’re talking about teams it’s Celtic Bill Russell will not win 11 rings if he doesn’t have 7 HoF teammates on his team

Maybe Europe got it from Elgin??

I mean you can do anything on basketball.. it's just that in these days , we love to name those certain moves... I'm sure they also did a step back before

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The one at 0:54 was too clean.

He was the first to ever do a eurostep or the originally known as "elgin baylor step".

😂. No. That would go to James Worthy. Elgin Baylor was garbage.

@@jrsmith1998 ok 27 14 4 in 14 years

@@jrsmith1998 and rent free

@@nosukog Baylor went to the finals 8 times and won zero. Matter fact, i believe Wilt and jerry west won the championship the year after baylor retired.

@@jrsmith1998 your crazy elvin baylor was a basketball pioneer college& NBA career

He’s not that good

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​@@adamdalmer4595dude yes he is

I think they gave him a ring for 1972 because he played the first 10 games of the season with them. But he wasn’t officially on the roster that won the finals that year.

He has a ring... the season he retired they gave him a ring.. he didn't earn it though

Jigga My Nigga They gave Elgin Baylor a ring from 1972 but they nba doesn't count him as a nba champion If he had not retired and waited til after season of 1972 he would have been counted as a nba champion

He retired because of his serious knee injury. But if it wasn't for that he surely would have finished the season and made good contributions to that championship team.

It's only recently people say he's underrated. Back when he was playing he was the guy, and everyone in the 70s wanted to play like him.

philly_ sports They say if it wasnt for Baylor there'd be no Dr. J. And if there wasn't a Dr. J there'd be no Jordan. And if there wasn't a Jordan there'd be no Lebron.

@@courteo *Kobe

@@MambaReturn Both Kobe and LeBron.

best to not win mvp is jerry west, best without a ring is baylor yeah

Definitely Baylor for mvp he got robbed

You mean Jerry West

​@@seagull2175Jerry west couldn't do it without baylor

@@Dr-puppenstein Well clearly he did, he won a championship without Elgin Baylor playing a single game in those 1972 playoffs

@@seagull2175 you mean the year wilt averaged 23 rebounds in the finals? Yeah west really carried them😂

​@@Dr-puppensteinwilt chamberlain also won the finals MVP. West was amazing, but wilt did most the work

we've lost way more than 2

Captain Marvel saw that too Filthy

Captain Marvel 0:55 another one

And they said ginobli originated it

Captain Marvel Yea it was off pure instinct.. the move didn't even exist at the time.. That was all reaction..

@@JuniusR they both eurosteps nigga

Chamberlain others in awww. 360,s or 640 yes

As well as the slide (euro) step

Him and Bill would have been perfect teammates

I will even say they are the greatest offensive, perhaps even all around duo ever. Some (Shaq/Kobe, Magic/Kareem, Stockton/Malone, Dr J/Moses are a mid or small with a big. Here were 2 slightly small to mid sized superstars who did it ALL in all areas of the court. And were both great offensive stars. Jordan/Pippen? That was Jordan, then Pippen. Not really equal.

@@Amick44 it was equal pip did all the dirty work mj took care of scoring

@@Papichulo-xc5nd Jordan certainly did his part in other areas too. But pip more often than not, did handle to top opposing wing offensive star.

@@Amick44 yeah and all the stuff that isn’t showed in the stat sheet like taking charges running plays high energy defense etc

exactly our point lol only legit comp there is wilt west baylor lebron played against duncan durant curry klay kawhi harden giannis kobe rose the list goes on and on jordan played bird magic thomas hakeem barkley ewing mutombo payton stockton malone

The Superstars were great but their role players....not so much especially compared to nowadays.

Stephen Oti thats not my point if anything bill faces even tougher competiton obviously there is the lakers but there is hal greer, arguably one of the greatest handles, paul arizin, the og jumpshot, nate archibald greatest undersized pg, the list goes on and on my point was people disrespect bill and take him out of the goat conversation because of his 11 rings. As a matter of fact yes the celtics had kc green, cousy, etc. But before bill got there they had never made the FINALS but as soon as bill got they became the dynasty we know today. Yes maybe his offensive skills werent the greatest, but his defense was timeless. His length, size, was too much for opponents. And people say he wasnt atheltic but thats FAR from the truth. Apparently he had a 48 INCH VERTICAL and you could find clips on youtube of him running the fastbreak with crazy speed as if he were a guard

+Monaf Ahmed HAL GREER HAS THE GREATEST HANDLES LMAAOOOO ok now I see ur one of those delusional guys who think back then was as good as nowadays or when mj played bro bill wilt were definetly ahead of there time I'm taking anything away from how good they were or pistol pete but after them u have basically only baylor west and that's it I say it all the time if bron played in russells time he would average 40 a game and 17 assists 20 boards if jordan played 50 a game curry 50+ shaq 60 30 boards every night ok back then it was cakewalk for russell and he had a insane team around him but other than the lakers there's no one else he really faced that was comp I mean come hal greer seriously allen iverson kyrie jamal crawford magic johnson stockton jordan nash kidd wade kobe parker like seriously come on dude

Stephen Oti first of all, with the hal greer thing, i said ARGUABLY and bill to this day would dominate the nba and regardless of what era he played he would still have the greatest defensive mind because of his length and athleticism and as a matter of a fact yes lebron is great and you argue he plays against tougher competiton thats true in the finals against teams lile the spurs and warriors yet he STILL ends up losing to a mavericks team that had only DIRK and dont tell me kidd cuz he was way past his prime. And jordans competition in the finals wasnt as tough as bill rusells comp. in the finals. Ex. The trail blazers who had who? Clyde and thats it. They also played a busted up and injured lakers team. And jordan and lebron were getting kicked out of the playoffs the first years they came into the league. Jordan could never get past the pistons and lebron couldnt get past the MAGIC who had just one star in DWIGHT. And besides the lakers had the far better team with west, baylor, larusso{not a hall of famer but averaged 20 and 10} and then ARGUABLY the most dominant player in wilt so he should EASILY able to dominate Bill becuase he was much stronger and had 4 or 5 inches of height on bill and yet with that team they STILL go 0-8 in the finals with one of the main reasons being bill locking wilt down even though they had the better team. The celtics had cousy(pass first pg),kc green(not a great offensive player) havlicek(a bench player) and then bill at center(also not one of the greatest offensive minds)

He was a great player and even greater person. That’s saying a lot.

omar arreola no MJ needs to thank Wilt bc he originated the fingeroll and fadeaway

Agreed 100%. I'll also add: Bob Cousy -> Pistol Pete -> Magic -> Steve Nash/Jason Kidd -> Chris Paul

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​@@sambeezy007 did u really put Nash before Jason kidd??

@Davinio No just saying they share the same era

​@@sambeezy007pistol was amazing, I would said that Bird, Isiah, Kyrie and Curry also came from Pistol

Giovanni Castaldo wtf how’d you come up with that

I agree with you. With his young athleticism, definitely.

Keep in mind, most of the players in the 60s have jobs if they are not playing. Elgin Baylor was also an army reserve during his playing career.

@@UselessVoidBobo no duh

@@UselessVoidBobo Yet the players from the 60s were still able to compete with 70s player (when the pay was a lot higher).

Great great player I always rooted for the Lakers to beat the Celtics in the finals so he could get a ring. RIP Elgin🙏🏻

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