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"No bird soars too high, If he soars with his own wings." - William Blake FAN ACCOUNT NOT AFFILIATED IN ANY WAY WITH MICHAEL JORDAN, JORDAN BRAND, OR NIKE.
Joined May 2021
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"total career value". Lebron James is literally an entire Kevin Durant career away from Michael Jordan. That's how wide the gap is between them.
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That's what happens when you spend hours pointlessly practicing volume 3s instead of developing your midrange game like Bird, Jordan, Kobe, and KD. Lebron has no bag and got absolutely clamped by a much smaller Canadian kid who came back from a torn ACL. Poetic justice.
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You know what @Giannis_An34 didn't say he was gonna do?. Demand a trade, demand his teammates get traded for upgrades, or run away to another franchise to join a Superteam. Winning the right way is hard. Giannis accepted responsibility for losing like a true man and a leader.
“Michael Jordan played 15 years, won 6 championships. The other 9 years were a failure?". Giannis on the Bucks 2022-2023 season
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Kobe Bryant is still the best player since Michael Jordan retired in 1999. Nobody can ever prove otherwise.
If Twitter was around 22 years ago…the whole world would be tweeting Kobe is the best player in the world and the best they’ve seen since Mike right now! . 45 and 10 at age 22 against the Twin Tower Spurs a game after putting up 48 against the Kings in Game 7. What’s spacing?
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"If you're not going to compete, I will dominate you.".- Michael Jordan. "It’s a competition, and my mission is to destroy you." .- Kobe Bryant. "I just wanna kill everything in front of me, man.".- Anthony Edwards. ". it's just basketball.".- Overrated Lebron James
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Prime Larry Bird was actually much more athletic than Nikola Jokic. Bird would absolutely annihilate everyone in today's NBA.
The best part about a totally slow, fat, and unathletic white guy in Nikola Jokic becoming the NBA’s Best Player, is that there’s been a full market correction on the Legacy of another totally slow and unathletic white guy in Larry Bird. The Casuals, who clearly never watched
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Michael Jordan built the Bulls Dynasty. Lebron James helped build the Spurs and Warriors dynasties. Big difference.
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Michael Jordan remains the most consistently dominant playoff performer in sports history. Never outplayed by anyone in a playoff series. Never upset by a lower seed in the playoffs. Only lost one playoff series as a legit championship contender, the 1990 ECF. Unstoppable.
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Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman remain the only Hall of Fame trio since Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, and KC Jones to win more than two championships and never lose a single playoff series together. Perfect 12-0 in playoff series from 1996 to 1998. Unmatched since.
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Back then, we used to celebrate Threepeats. Now kids are out there celebrating four titles in TEN TRIES and call it "greatness".
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The unquestioned greatest point guard, floor leader, and passer in @NBA history…. @MagicJohnson . One of the Top 5 greatest players of all time. Much more skilled and competitive overall than anyone today.
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Light years more skilled than anyone today. This is why Michael Jordan would easily average 40+ points on 55+% shooting in this trash era.
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Michael Jordan never lost 7 straight playoff games to anyone. MJ was also never swept in a 7-game series. Michael Jordan remains the unquestioned greatest, most consistent playoff performer in sports history. Nobody today comes remotely close.
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Context.
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The most devastating, consistent, and dynamic offensive weapon in @NBA history…. Michael Jordan.
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Lebron got what he deserved. 100% his fault for getting swept. No excuses. Nobody to blame but him. Jordan was never swept in a 7 game series and never lost to a team with less than 54 wins. 1986 and 1987 Celtics would sweep Lebron by 40+ a game. Proven fact.
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6'9" Lebron James has played 1,397 regular season games in 20 seasons, and has accumulated 1,637 offensive rebounds in those games. That's still 31 fewer offensive rebounds than 6'6" Michael Jordan grabbed in 325 fewer games, in an era dominated by centers and power forwards.
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Happy Birthday to the indisputable greatest NBA player since Michael Jordan retired from the Chicago Bulls, @kobebryant🐍💍💍💍💍💍🏅🏅
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Lebron James has never hit a single game-tying or game-winning shot at the end of an elimination, clinching, or Finals game. Not one. Ever. That's why he needed Ray and Kyrie to save his overrated ass. Michael Jordan was the greatest, most clutch player ever in that situation.
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The greatest, most iconic clutch shot in NBA history.
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Lebron has still never hit a potential game-tying or go-ahead shot in the final 25 seconds of an elimination game. 0-2 now. Michael Jordan, the unquestioned GOAT, shot 100% in that same situation. Go cry now.
LEBRON JAMES YEAR 20 PLAYOFF RUN.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. Everyone counted him out🙏. 👑24.5 PPG.👑9.9 RPG.👑6.5 APG. King James led a team that started 2-10 to the WCF and proved why he is the GOAT🐐. We are proud of you KING. THE LEBRON CHAPTER CONTINUES👑. #lakeshow
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THIS Y'ALLS KANG??????. LMAOOOOOO.
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Michael Jordan - 🐐. Overrated Lebron James - 🗑️. Case closed.
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Michael Jordan is still THE greatest finisher at the rim in @NBA history. Greatest midair body control of all time. Deepest bag ever. So much more skilled than anyone today.
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Michael Jordan swept prime Shaq and Penny at their absolute athletic peaks. Prime overrated Lebron James got cooked by old Jason Terry and little JJ Barea. Let that sink in, losers.
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Remember kids, Michael Jordan was never outplayed by anyone in a playoff series, was never the reason the Bulls lost a series, and was never upset in the playoffs. all in a bigger, tougher era. Michael Jordan remains the single most dominant playoff performer in sports history.
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"My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.". - Michael Jordan
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Michael Jordan was a much more intense competitor in PRACTICE than any player today is in actual playoff and Finals games. Only winning mattered to him. That’s why MJ is the GOAT.
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Happy Birthday to Michael Jordan, the greatest player in NBA history and one of the fiercest competitors of all time. 60 years young. 6-0. One championship for every decade of existence. "The Best There Ever Was. The Best There Ever Will Be."
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Remember kids, Michael Jordan was more likely to score 40+ points than score less than 20 points. Lebron James is much more likely to score less than 20 points (235 games) than score 40+ points (69 games). In the playoffs, Lebron has 29 games of less than 20 points. MJ had 6.
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Michael Jordan didn't need anyone to feed him the ball. MJ could create his own shot off the dribble and create midair separation from defenders to get a clean look better than anyone in NBA history. MJ also won more titles with less help than any other superstar ever.
@thisaintitCuddy @TiltedWilt @KrushaCranium @AirJordans2323 @Jumpman23 @KDTrey5 @KingJames But we talking NBA, apart from FMVPs, where is Jordan better than Kareem??.
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Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant are undoubtedly the two greatest players of the last three plus decades of NBA history. No one on Earth can argue otherwise.
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Michael Jordan always shook hands when the Bulls lost a playoff series. Every single time. Real winners know how to handle losing. Cowards run and hide instead of showing good sportsmanship. MJ’s 1990s Bulls would easily sweep Lebron without mercy. Proven fact.
No hand shake from Lakers.
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Remember kids, you've never watched any player as skilled and ruthlessly dominant as Michael Jordan in your entire lives. Greatest 3 level scorer ever. The most dynamic and consistent offensive weapon in NBA history. The best there ever was. The best there ever will be.
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Still the most beautiful basketball shoe ever created. The iconic white/black/concord Air Jordan XI.
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If the @USABasketball men fail to win the Gold Medal in Paris there will only be one person to blame. This bagless fraud right here. Gotdamn. FACT - 40-year-old Wizards Michael Jordan would beat this bozo 1-on-1 a hundred times out of a hundred.
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Michael Jordan treated every single game like an In Season Tournament game. Superstars during the 1980s and 1990s didn’t need any further incentives to actually compete and play hard during the regular season. That’s why it was the greatest and most entertaining era ever.
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All due respect to SGA but prime @KobeBryant would literally average 55+ points on 60% shooting just for comparing him to someone who hasn’t accomplished anything. This era is TRASH. You kids are idiots.
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How good was Michael Jordan’s defense?. “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.What I use in the battle for the mind.Hit hard like it supposed.Pullin' no blows to the nose.Like uncle L said I'm rippin' up shows…”. @PublicEnemyFTP @MrChuckD @FlavorFlav
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Michael Jordan remains the most entertaining and exciting athlete in the history of sports.
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Nikola Jokic will be considered greater than overrated Lebron James when it's all said and done. After all, Jokic already has more legit rings than overrated Lebron does. Jokic never ran to a Superteam or had any of his teammates traded for upgrades. Jokic won the hard way.
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June 14, 1998.1998 NBA Finals Game 6.Chicago Bulls at Utah Jazz.Delta Center, Salt Lake City. Michael Jordan.45 points.15-35 PG 42.9%.3-7 3P 42.9%.12-15 FT 80%.4 Steals. Bulls 87, Jazz 86 . MJ single-handedly delivers the greatest, most clutch performance in NBA Finals history.
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1990s NBA wasn't faster, but it was bigger, stronger, and more athletic overall. dominated by elite scoring true centers and power forwards who could run up and down and score in transition as well as control the paint. Today's NBA is dominated by undersized shooting guards
In no way, shape or form was the 1990’s a bigger, faster & more athletic era🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂.
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Real recognizes real. Kevin Durant is a true student of the game and knows who the greatest scorer and player of all time actually is.
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Haha damn right. Lebron HAS NO BAG and no midrange game whatsoever. Jordan would’ve won that game, no question.
I've never seen Michael Jordan get his shot blocked and eliminated and swept all on one last second shot. 😂😂.
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Michael Jordan never lost a single playoff series as a defending champion. His Bulls went a perfect 16-0 in playoff series from 1992 to 1998 while defending the title. MJ is the only athlete in the history of major sports to accomplish this. Most unbeatable champion ever.
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If you’ve never watched Michael Jordan play then you’ve never seen the greatest basketball player of all time play. It’s really that simple. Nobody today comes remotely close to MJ and the competition he faced.
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Think it's time we start admitting that Anthony Edwards is better than overrated Lebron James.💯
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It's hilarious watching overrated Lebron in the process of getting swept by a mediocre defensive team like the Nuggets. Just more proof that overrated Lebron would win zero MVPs and zero championships in the bigger, stronger, way more physical 1990s, the best defensive era ever.
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Congrats to overrated @KingJames on 40,000 points. Greatest stat padding fraud in the history of sports. Too bad Michael Jordan would've crushed you.
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Lebron couldn't even clear Tony Parker or Jason Terry when everything was on the line. If Lebron clamps and outscores them - which Jordan certainly would've done - his team wins the title in 2007 and 2011. Remember kids, Michael Jordan would cut overrated Lebron's heart out.
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Nah, dawg.
@ClutchPoints @PodcastPShow Lebron James is the greatest, Stephen A is just trying to get a reaction.
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Nobody cares. Quality over quantity.
@ApexJones22 Lebron James has won more playoff games than Jordan ever played in.
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Nope. In 2010 Dwyane Wade was the second best shooting guard after Kobe and had just led the league in scoring in 2008-09. Chris Bosh was the best free agent big man available and had just averaged career highs in points and rebounds with 24 ppg and 10.8 rebs. Kevin Love was
@Whodat4lyfe1 @maxkellerman @samthemanlive kobe had shaq tim duncan had 3 hofs in their peak mj had pippen (top 10 player itl at the time) all these stars had help but lebron does it and he needs them? ad is probably the only top 10 player lebron has ever had as a teammate MAYBE kyrie lmfao.
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Make Michael Jordan 6'9" and 250+ lbs and he still wins 6 championships and 5 MVPs. Make Lebron James 6'6" and 215 lbs and he's in the G-League. That's the difference.
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Overrated Lebron James couldn't guard Kobe Bryant at all. even after the 3 major surgeries. Other than the left hand push shot in the lane, these are all MJ's moves or variations of them.
2013 Kobe was doing whatever he wanted on the basketball court before that injury. The game had become so easy for him. The most advanced performer in the history of the game.
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Lebron James missed 27 games this season. Michael Jordan missed 22 games total in his two seasons as a Wizard. Jordan kept trying to play in 2001-02 despite severe tendonitis, a torn right meniscus, and a permanently damaged right index finger. After offseason knee surgery, MJ
@olympicbean MJ was the better basketball player but LeBron is a much better athlete at the same age.
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"Me, Mike, and Scottie could lock up Lebron. His game is too simple. He's just big.". - @dennisrodman on @KingJames
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As a true competitor and winner like Michael Jordan, John Stockton is absolutely right. Overrated @KingJames is a coward and proven fraud who took shortcuts to stack the deck and traveled the easiest path possible to cheap meaningless rings nobody cares about.
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Luka Doncic is the greatest player Kyrie Irving has ever played with.
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Michael Jordan played in all 82 regular season games 9 times. Played 81 games in 1988-89, 80 in 1991-92, and 78 in 1992-93. Never missed a single game from March 19, 1995 to June 14, 1998. 179 playoff games. All 82 games at age 39-40. Most durable superstar since Wilt.
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Dwight Howard had back surgery during the 2012 offseason and played through back and shoulder pain. Pau Gasol tore the plantar fascia in his right foot in February and missed 33 games. Steve Nash missed 32 games because of a degenerative nerve condition in his back and legs.
@PgLang__ @AirJordans2323 The lakers that year barely made the playoffs and they had Dwight and pau, one who was a first ballot hall of famer and the other will be.
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This is exactly why @MuggsyBogues is a true @NBA expert analyst. He played during the two greatest, most talented, most competitive decades ever - the 1980s and 1990s. Everything Muggsy said is 100% true.
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This final play further exemplifies Lebron's fatal flaw. He can't score unless he has a wide open lane or an open 3. No bag whatsoever. Lebron has STILL never hit a game-tying or go ahead shot at the end of an elimination game. Hilariously awful.
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The fact that Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant are both on this list twice is wild.
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Imagine thinking this unskilled fraud is somehow “better” than the great Michael Jordan. Couldn’t even reach double digits against washed Jason Kidd and Shawn Marion taking turns with single coverage daring him to shoot. Greatest Of All TRASH.
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Chris Bosh and Ray Allen saved the Heat from the very brink of elimination in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals. Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love made the clutch offensive and defensive plays to beat the Warriors at the end of Game 7 of the 2016 Finals. Lebron stood and watched both times.
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If Michael Jordan “couldn’t go left” as these idiotic ignorant kids who never even watched MJ play FALSELY claim, why is the left side of the floor on this shot chart so gotdamn full?. This wasn’t even peak shooting MJ. Stop doing drugs, kids. Go cry now.
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Yay longevity!. Nobody has given the opposing team more possessions than the biggest fraud in sports history.
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Scottie Pippen was the only one to make an All-NBA team. Dennis Rodman made All-Defense First Team once with the Bulls. Michael Jordan won more titles with less help than any other superstar ever, against great competition during the toughest defensive era ever. MJ = 🐐
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Nobody today will ever come close to being as dominant as Michael Jordan, most dynamic and consistent two-way perimeter player in NBA history.
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Kobe Bryant was better than Lebron James and should subsequently rank higher than Lebron all-time. No one on Earth can ever disprove this fact.
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Michael Jordan took a raw, undisciplined, unknown kid from Central Arkansas under his wing and molded him into a first ballot HOFer and Top 50 player. Lebron James begged Pelinka for a future HOFer, Triple Double King, and Top 75 player. then made him feel like unwanted trash.
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Now imagine Bill Laimbeer, Rick Mahorn, Dennis Rodman, Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason, Karl Malone, Alonzo Mourning, and Shaq hitting overrated @KingJames at full force instead of the much skinnier, weaker, and lighter Wemby accidentally grazing him.
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Michael Jordan remains the greatest two-way player ever. - 10 Scoring Titles.- 9 Defensive First Teams .- 3 Steals Titles.- 200+ steals and 100+ blocks in the same season twice.- Top 6 in Defensive Win Shares 8 times.- 1st in Defensive Box Plus/Minus twice, Top 8 eight times
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1990s NBA was bigger, stronger, more athletic, and way more physical than today’s almost unwatchable pop-a-shot sissy league. Shooting volume 3s makes the game LESS ATHLETIC and weak. Allow hand checking and get rid of defensive 3 seconds. Encourage players to get in the post.
Adam Silver believes the NBA became too ‘physical’ in the 90s . (Via @shobasketball / h/t @RTNBA ) .
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Remember kids, real competitors don't quit on their teammates after losing miserably in the playoffs and then run away to form superteams with other established stars. Michael Jordan never played on a player-created "superteam". Lebron James started the Superteam Era in 2010.
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Lebron really has no bag. He settles for 3s and relies on a wide open lane with no camping defensive bigs and smaller, weaker, scared defenders in order to score. Scottie Pippen, Penny Hardaway, and Grant Hill all had more developed post and midrange games than Lebron James.
Never forget when LeBron James got clamped up by a UPS delivery driver on a 10 day contract
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Michael Jordan single-handedly saved @Nike in 1984. Overrated @KingJames would've never been able to sign that immense Nike shoe contract out of high school if it wasn't for MJ revolutionizing athlete endorsement deals in the 1980s and 1990s. MJ made overrated Lebron rich.
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Michael Jordan is the greatest left-handed driver and left-handed finisher in @NBA history. That’s all right AND left-handed players. This clip doesn’t include the countless left-handed drives MJ finished with his right. MJ drove better left than anyone today drives right.
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Lebron is physically incapable of doing this. He isn't skilled enough and too heavy to create adequate lateral separation midair off an abrupt crossover. That's why Lebron always needs a running start. Only Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant could execute this fadeaway consistently.
@LAteamfan33 @AirJordans2323 @Jumpman23 @KDTrey5 @KingJames One can definitely argue that Jordan is the better player skill wise. That’s where my GOAT argument lies. You don’t even have to do a deep dive to see how Jordan is a better player than LeBron.
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If you honestly think this non-competitive crybaby fraud is somehow that "GOAT", congratulations. You're a stupid bastard.
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Preach @stephenasmith. PREACH. Just hope overrated @KingJames and @KlutchSports don’t try to get you fired.
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Just a reminder that Lebron James has never hit a single clutch shot at the end of a one possession playoff game when the pressure is at its highest. Not one. Ever. Michael Jordan was the greatest ever in those situations. Just another reason why MJ is objectively superior.
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Imagine playing 553 more games and 20,844 more minutes than Michael Jordan and still being an entire Kevin Durant career away from accomplishing what MJ did with much less help against way tougher competition. MJ has both quantity AND quality overwhelmingly on his side.
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Nope. If Michael Jordan had Lebron's help he certainly would've won at least 10 championships. Lebron played with Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love, Anthony Davis, and Russell Westbrook among others. All elite scorers during their careers. Michael Jordan
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Props to @espn for showing four episodes of #TheLastDance tonight in what would've been the primetime slot for Lakers @ Nuggets Game 5, had Lebron not choked and quit in the second half of Game 4. Disney is showcasing authentic greatness tonight instead of a manufactured fraud.
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So stupid. Jordan was older with the Wizards than Lebron is right now and was never 100% healthy the entire time. MJ played all 82 games at age 39-40 after missing 22 games the previous season because of a torn meniscus which required offseason surgery. Lebron missed 27 games.
In their Twilight years: (Lakers/Wizards). LeBron — Jordan —.27.4 PPG 21.2 PPG.8.1 RPG 5.9 RPG.8.0 APG 4.4 APG.1.2 SPG 1.5 SPG .51/35/71% 43/24/80%. 1x Champ 0x Champ
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The two best players of the last 30 years. Nobody today comes remotely close.
Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant wearing Air Jordans in the 2003 NBA All-Star game.
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