Different answers to different questions

If you were asking me who as the GOAT (Greatest of all Time) in college basketball, or of the NBA, then my answer probably be Alcindor/Jabbar (although I might give the pro nod to Wilt). However, if you were asking me the MVP, then it would be Russell, without any doubt. He was not the greatest individual player, but he was the player who made his team better by the biggest margin, thereby making himself invaluable to them. Russell could make the sum of the parts be greater than the whole better than anyone I ever saw.