For some athletes, there reaches a point where they've mastered their craft to such a degree that it requires any comparisons to be one that is outside of the box, so to speak. For example, a young LeBron James was occasionally compared to peak Bo Jackson because of the otherworldly athleticism each man possessed. Mike Tyson once compared watching Roger Federer on the tennis court to watching Muhammad Ali in the boxing ring. Shoot, on a recent podcast, I even compared the isolation ball-handling skills of Allen Iverson to former Kansas City Chiefs return specialist Dante Hall.
Steph Curry? Shohei Ohtani? Jalen Pitre struggles to find comparison for Derek Stingley Jr.
