#player-comparisons

#player-comparisons

If you're not at least old enough to vote, and more likely old enough to buy your own drink if not run for Congress, you probably have no memory of that particular slice of Marlins history. In fact, even if you do clear that age bar, this is one that could have slipped through the cracks. After all, his Marlins career tally of 2.7 WAR over two seasons from 2012 to 2013 is hardly the stuff of legends.

Comparisons mean little to Estevao Willian. The Brazil winger did not even take kindly to being nicknamed Messinho Little Messi earlier in his career. He called the nickname disruptive and made clear that he had no interest in trying to be someone else. I don't like comparisons, the 18-year-old told ESPN Brasil last year. For those who don't know how to deal with it, it's quite disruptive. Me being Estevao is very good.

I took it as a compliment, as a different way of describing my characteristics. I think that that's the way football is going these days, occupying the spaces that we create on the pitch. There's a lot [of comparisons], if I had to name a name, I'd say Calafiori. He starts at full-back and ends up in attack. That's how it is in general with Arsenal. I watch them, I study them,

Wade may be best remembered as LeBron James' second option on a couple of title teams with the Miami Heat, but that perception obscures his dominant work during a 2006 title run after which he won Finals MVP.