The Jordan myth ?

[DMC]

Funny, no one has to write that much to prove anyone else isn't the GOAT.

It reads like some Christian apologist word wrangling and hyperbole.

[Juggity]

He was a supporting player. James Worthy was the All-American (not Jordan). Worthy was the ACC player of the year, the NCAA regional MVP, the Final 4 MVP and the leading scorer of the NCAA Championship game (28 pts to Jordan's 16). Jordan hit the shot to put UNC on top, and Worthy stole the ball to secure the victory. After that season, Worthy went to the NBA. With Jordan as the leader of the team (he was The Sporting News player of the year the next 2 seasons), Jordan's Tar Heels achieved a #1 and a #2 seed, but failed to live up to their seed, losing in the Sweet 16 and the Elite 8.

Comic sans makes me

Want to wrest with great vigor

My eyes from my head

[Huey Freeman]

Anytime you have to write an entire book on why someone is not the greatest at whatever. Usually that means the person writing it is a jealous ass hater with nothing better to do. I dont care how many good points this er has in it. Of course if you write a damn book its gonna have a few good points in it. Any article that has Magic Johnson and Larry Bird better than MJ is a complete joke.

[DMC]

Comic sans makes me

Want to wrest with great vigor

My eyes from my head

Must have been written by Dan Gilbert.

[nowhereman523]

Clicked here.

Laughed at the ninja turtle sig.

Did not read because it was in Comic Sans.

Probably won't revisit this thread.

[lefty]

Anytime you have to write an entire book on why someone is not the greatest at whatever. Usually that means the person writing it is a jealous ass hater with nothing better to do. I dont care how many good points this er has in it. Of course if you write a damn book its gonna have a few good points in it. Any article that has Magic Johnson and Larry Bird better than MJ is a complete joke.

Magic and Bird are better than Jordan








:-)

[Frenzy]

Magic and Bird are better than Jordan








:-)

Apple s on both.

[Killakobe81]

Best two way player i have ever seen ...early on. just like Kobe, his defense for most of his career vastly overrated. That was the part of the article I agreed with most.


Most of the rest is crazy talk. Maybe he is not a GOAT athlete ut he was so far ahead of his contemporaries (hang-time, first-step) that it doesnt matter that he was not an athletic freak like Wilt or Lebron ...

Plus though he is not on Walton, Alcindor or even Laettener ... as colllegian to say he was overrated is a stretch. Dude was a national player of the year in a BEASTLY ACC ...

[Deuce Bigalow]

Wilt and Oscar in the top 2
FAIL

[lefty]

descent troll job by the author

but there is a serious flaw, as there usually is

no one claims jordan was the best at every aspect of the game, he was the best finisher, he could deal with tremendous pressure and still gut out a win, 6 for 6 in the finals, with 6 finals mvps speaks for itself, with the game on the line who would you give the ball to instead of jordan? kareem? oscar? lol kobe? lol wilt? LOL russel(lol getting championships against 6' honkies, lol rich mans ben wallace)

yes you need a good team to win a championship, gee really? pippen might have had a good regular season in jordans absence, and made wcf, but he still predictably failed in the end, there is a fine line between victory and defeat, thats why most people crown jordan as the best ever because no one has that most imprtant intangible (balls of steel in the clutch), to the extent that he had, on top of all his other skills

Interesting post