What if Russell Westbrook and Oscar Robertson were challenging for triple-doubles at the same time?
Could Anthony Davis have held his own against the legendary centers who roamed NBA hardwood before the advent of the three-point line? What would Stephen Curry have done against all the retired players who have criticized him and his Golden State Warriors in recent years?
These are questions we'll never truly get to answer. No one (to our knowledge) has invented a time machine, and any future creation of such a device would probably focus on more pressing inquiries first.
But we can pretend.
Here, we're taking modern NBA superstars and putting them in a past decade, looking to provide educated speculation about how they'd perform in such a scenario.
Who would emerge as their biggest contemporary rival? Which player from that era would serve as the best comparison? Would they be better off now or then?
And, most importantly, how would they do?
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