In my opinion no, not compared to the normal NBA player. Compared to us he is super man. In college he was more athletic than the majority of people he played against.

Larry Legend saw the floor like no other forward. Larry felt the pace of the game like no other forward. Larry was a basketball savant. A large Steve Nash in my mind. Larry had hands, Larry knew positioning, Larry's reaction time was incredibly fast. Larry hated to lose. I hated Larry but respected his talents.

There is a little reaction time experiment anyone can do:

1. Hold thumb and forefinger 1 cm apart.
2. Have a geeky friend (pgardn) hold a cm ruler just above thumb and forefinger in a vertical position.
3. Have geeky friend drop ruler at an unknown time and you try to catch it between thumb and fore finger.
4. Make sure experimentee (yourself) does not anticipate drop. Just watches drop from your geeky friend. Have your geeky friend fake it if your are trying to anticipate instead of watching for the drop.
5. Do this about 10 times and measure where you catch the ruler, in cm. Throw out the two largest and smallest numbers . TAke average of the six "good data" numbers left.
6. TAke the average number, multiply by 20, divide by 9.81, then take the square root of this number.
7. The number should be around 0.2, and this is your reaction time in seconds.

This is the time it takes for your eyes to receive the reflected light off the ruler, processing in the CNS, message sent back to muscles in thumb and forefinger, thumb and forefinger contract catching ruler. A fairly eventful biological process.

Larry would be well under 0.2 s. People my age will be well above... 0.27 seconds or so.

8. Report your findings back to me. PM me and I will share results with the rest of the board.
9. We will all write a paper and submit it to a Journal that no one reads except for people like me.