Bud Grant, Mikan’s Lakers teammate from 1949-51, and Pro Football and Canadian Football Hall of Famer, who coached in four Super Bowls and multiple NFL Hall of Famers, thinks so. “I’ve played pro football, coached pro football, played pro basketball and played a lot of baseball, so I’ve been around athletes my entire life,” said Grant, 94, in a telephone interview with The Athletic, “and I don’t know (current athletes) personally, but I follow a lot of sports, I know something about all those sports having played them and, in my career, George Mikan was the greatest competitor I’ve ever been around.”