Comments on: ESPN Wrong To Say MJ’s Legacy Not A Negative http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/2010/05/26/espn-wrong-to-say-mjs-legacy-not-a-negative/ A New York Knicks Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sun, 30 Dec 2012 05:58:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Alex David, aka Short White Boy http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/2010/05/26/espn-wrong-to-say-mjs-legacy-not-a-negative/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 Alex David, aka Short White Boy Thu, 27 May 2010 09:23:48 +0000 http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/?p=1064#comment-1051 Zach, Whadaya mean I ain't qualified to say what will matter to LeBron? I totally am -- I've got an advanced degree in OtherPeople'sBrainsOlogy. Yes, LeBron will always be compared to Jordan no matter where he goes, but at least in other cities he can still be the man. In Los Angeles, Kobe is God. You can say well, but he did that in the shadow of Magic Johnson so it can be done, but no one ever compared him to Magic. Perhaps it's 'cuz Magic's game is so different, or maybe it's 'cuz as great as Magic & Bird & others were, they weren't considered the best ever like Jordan. If Kobe played in Chicago, the He's-Still-Not-As-Good-As-MJ comments would loom over him regularly, versus out in LA he's able to just get pure adulation. Like the fact the Lakers just lost two straight to the Suns would become about how MJ never would've let that happen, rather than what it rightly was: a team collapse. Zach,
Whadaya mean I ain’t qualified to say what will matter to LeBron? I totally am — I’ve got an advanced degree in OtherPeople’sBrainsOlogy.

Yes, LeBron will always be compared to Jordan no matter where he goes, but at least in other cities he can still be the man. In Los Angeles, Kobe is God. You can say well, but he did that in the shadow of Magic Johnson so it can be done, but no one ever compared him to Magic. Perhaps it’s ‘cuz Magic’s game is so different, or maybe it’s ‘cuz as great as Magic & Bird & others were, they weren’t considered the best ever like Jordan.

If Kobe played in Chicago, the He’s-Still-Not-As-Good-As-MJ comments would loom over him regularly, versus out in LA he’s able to just get pure adulation. Like the fact the Lakers just lost two straight to the Suns would become about how MJ never would’ve let that happen, rather than what it rightly was: a team collapse.

]]> By: Zack http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/2010/05/26/espn-wrong-to-say-mjs-legacy-not-a-negative/comment-page-1/#comment-1049 Zack Thu, 27 May 2010 04:10:43 +0000 http://bucketsoverbroadway.com/?p=1064#comment-1049 I don't think you are qualified to say what will and won't matter to LeBron. No one is but Lebron. However, the fact remains that wherever LeBron goes he will ALWAYS be compared to Michael Jordan. You don't think that hypothetically if Lebron were to go play in New York and win only 1 title, people wouldn't look back at his career and say, sure it was nice, but MJ was better? LeBron playing on the Bulls or any other team in the league won't magically wish away comparisons to MJ. He can't run from them, because throughout his entire career he's been compared to MJ. Kobe Bryant plays for the Lakers, not the Bulls, yet people talk frequently about how he needs to get 6 rings or more to be considered the greatest of all time. I don’t think you are qualified to say what will and won’t matter to LeBron. No one is but Lebron. However, the fact remains that wherever LeBron goes he will ALWAYS be compared to Michael Jordan. You don’t think that hypothetically if Lebron were to go play in New York and win only 1 title, people wouldn’t look back at his career and say, sure it was nice, but MJ was better? LeBron playing on the Bulls or any other team in the league won’t magically wish away comparisons to MJ. He can’t run from them, because throughout his entire career he’s been compared to MJ. Kobe Bryant plays for the Lakers, not the Bulls, yet people talk frequently about how he needs to get 6 rings or more to be considered the greatest of all time.

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