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2. Everyone will realize they were comparing the wrong guy to MJ
For the past decade, the media has not been able to resist the temptation to compare Kobe Bryant to Michael Jordan, no matter how one-sided the comparison. Don't get me wrong -- Kobe is a great player and will go down as the second-best to ever play his position. But the Jordan stuff was mostly to generate chatter.
Here's the irony: For nearly half a decade, we've had the Next Jordan in our midst: LeBron James. He's mentioned as MJ's heir and they share the same jersey number, but I've yet to hear one person compare LeBron James to Jordan beyond that. Perhaps it's a result of their different body types and styles, but it's a far more valid comparison than the Kobe ones.
Well, better late than never. This is the year that everyone will wake up and realize LeBron is that caliber of player. He's threatening to break Jordan's modern-stat-era PER record (there were no individual turnover records kept when Wilt Chamberlain played, so we can't say for sure how he'd rate), he seems likely to win his first MVP award and he might very well win his first championship.
He also is clearly the best player in the league and, at 24, appears to have several more years of this caliber ahead of him. So this summer might be a fair time to start asking how many MVP awards, scoring titles, championships, etc., he can earn. And that, inevitably, will lead to comparisons with the only perimeter player in history who can rival his accomplishments at this age -- Jordan.
That is, if anybody can shut up about 2010 for five seconds.
Seems like many NT'ers get personal whenever I bring up LeBron.
Dudes saying I'm slurping and what not. Not really.
Oh well.
Let's try not to compare LBJ and Kobe.
How about LBJ and MJ?
Oh yeah, can we NOT do the player A vs player B thing here? Seriously.
Also no way in hell I'm a Kobe hater. He's prolly my top 50 fav player in the NBA.