Unlike some of his NBA peers from yesteryear, Dominique Wilkins doesn't begrudge where the game of basketball is going.
"These guys are great players today, make no mistake about that," Wilkins told Bleacher Report. "It's just that we played the game differently. It was a different era of basketball, a different brand of basketball, and that's OK. There's change in every sport. We're not by ourselves in the NBA."
The combatants in this year's NBA Finals have made that much clear. Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors shattered pretty much every three-point mark in the book on the way to a record 73 wins. The Cleveland Cavaliers, with an offense orchestrated brilliantly by LeBron James, devoured the Eastern Conference from beyond the arc on the way to a second straight trip to the championship round.
Wilkins witnessed the impact of the three-point line on his own career. He went from making two of 11 treys as a rookie in 1982-83 to draining 120 of 316 (38 percent) a decade later.
Nowadays, the Hall of Famer and two-time Slam Dunk champion wears ...
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Article written by Josh Martin