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Everything that the NBA is today, is because of everything that has happened in it's history. That is why the history of the NBA is very important and therefore, not irrelevant.
Also, the addition of the 3 point line (which was actually invented in 1961) is an arbitrary time frame to denote the "modern NBA" that folks who are too lazy to actually learn the history of the game use to try to back their point.
Things that happened prior to modern technology aren't irrelevant just because the technology didn't exist. Part of the reason the NBA was on tape delay back then was because the technology didn't exist to be able to watch every single NBA game like we have today. That doesn't make what happened prior to that technology irrelevant.
As for the players today vs. back then. Much of the athletic differences that we see are simply the result of training and health techniques that didn't exist or weren't known at that time. For example, there was a time when basketball players were told not to lift weights. It was believed that it would create too much bulk and they would lose the flexibility that is necessary in basketball. At the time, there was a certain amount of truth to that because many of the current training techniques didn't exist. Eventually, people learned how to isolate muscle groups and increase strength without adding bulk.
To think that great players of the past would not avail themselves of the training techniques, nutrition and supplements that players use today and thus wouldn't be every bit as good as the greats of today, just shows how shortsighted you truly are.
