Kobe is the closest thing to Jordan because he emulated his entire life after Jordan. It's obvious. He wanted to be like mike and be better than him. But just like leading his team to the playoffs without the most dominant frontline In The league, he failed at it.
How was he this generations Jordan? Jordan had Pippen. Jordan dominated the low post in the second three peat, to a degree where the Bulls won 3 straight with Luc longley and bill Wellington at centre. Kobe can't even make the playoffs without players like shaq and MVPau+odom+Bynum cleaning up his misses and utterly dominating the low post.
Jordan put up monster advanced stats in each and every one of the six les, not only leading his own team in many of them in both the regular season and playoffs, but often leading the league in those as well. Kobe? Not even once.
Kobe isn't this generations Jordan, he's a healthy tmac with dominant front courts.