Wilt also had a fabulous advantage of being much bigger than everyone else of his time, otherwise I'm certain that a man such as Shaq could have put up godly numbers of the same time, so that's completely debatable. As for Thorpe, yeah, I'll take back what I said, my boyfriend being native american always says Thorpe is the best. See what he did in the Olympics, that is just jawdropping, and the think that he was one of the best football players of all time is even more amazing. He excelled at every sport, basically. Yeah I wasn't thinking about Thorpe.