KD: Michael Jordan is God-Like because of the lack of Social Media in the 90s

[jilla82]

Jordan is Jordan because he's Jordan.

Meaning he's not where he is only because he's good at basketball.
He can adapt and wants to win.

Which means he would be able to handle social media.

 

[jilla82]

We all saw that nikka as a rare Black figure. He was one Black man, the cacs didn't attack, in fact, they looked at him like a God. nikkas never got that Elvis treatment. shyt, cacs talked shyt about Michael Jackson, everyday

Jordan had whole books written about him talking bad about him.

Those were big stories...
...yall just making stuff up now

 

[NYC Rebel]

Yes he was. We didn't get exposed most of his faults as a kid. shyt, a nikka thought he was faithful till I got older and nikkas talk too much.

We all saw that nikka as a rare Black figure. He was one Black man, the cacs didn't attack, in fact, they looked at him like a God. nikkas never got that Elvis treatment. shyt, cacs talked shyt about Michael Jackson, everyday

I swear…dudes are lying . shyt came in drips in MJs day. Today, its 24/7 sports networks, unschooled “journalists” trying to make a name for themselves at the expense of a Black athlete and social media making any small thing viral.

MJ would have taken some hits and there wasn’t that many Ahmad Rashad propaganda minister‘s there to clean shyt up.

 

[NYC Rebel]

How did MJ so called criticisms present itself? On a once a week nationally syndicated talk when 24/7 sports was 100% limited to ESPN when cable still wasnt in every hood?

A national columnist writing a weekly write up in Sports Illustrated that comes out once a week?

MJ’s republican comments had hoteps back then doing what?

Athletes had it hella easier pre-social media. Old heads refuse to see things as ten times worse compared to back in their day.

 

[BK The Great]

He’s still not on social media like that, he lives a private life and there’s nothing wrong with that. Look what happened then that dude tried to approach him in the parking lot. He had to bounce and not be noticed cause then they’re would’ve been a swarm of people trying to get a autograph from it or something.

 

[Big Boss]

he'd be more god like
Gambling, fukkin, and talkin shyt all night then going out and dropping 50 on plumbers and maytag men off 3 and a half hours of sleep.
Legend before our eyes

 

[Big Boss]

People are trying to rewrite history for the younger people that weren’t there. Jordan was never presented as this great family man or community activist. His “Godlike” persona wasn’t based on his values and morals, it was off of what he accomplished on the court, his style, his toughness and the fact he had sneakers that nikkas would literally kill for.

Let’s keep it a buck. If Mike was KD, he would have left Pippen and Horace Grant and joined the 1990 Pistons.

If you think the media and fans would have still labeled him the GOAT or held back criticism then you are insane. He would get the same treatment KD is getting now. Social media or not.

Facts

 

[Dave24]

@#1 pick actually a lot of cacs have talked shyt about Elvis throughout the years.

 

[ball15life]

Imagine MJ talking shyt 6x and backing it up. He’d be even more legendary in the social media era

You can really argue this. Imagine if all these stories of "(insert player here) talked trash to Jordan during a Bulls loss...only for MJ to come back and drop 50" were on twitter

 

[Miggs]

Foolish statement he still went 6 for 6 and in 8 years and did everything else statistically how would social media change that....bad take.


He'd be more revered now because NBA discourse is stuck on lame talking points like rings and bus drivers and he dominated those 2 things in about every way you could talk about it....

 

[FunkDoc1112]

If MJ was winning as heavily now as he was back then he definitely would've had a huge dikkriding fanbase but what people ITT keep ignoring is that he wouldn't have had the God-like 99.9% approval rating that he had back then.

Look at Kobe as an example, or even Tom Brady who got brought up earlier. Like yeah, most people acknowledge Brady as the GOAT but he has maaaaaaaaad haters too. MJ didn't have as many vocal critics as a Brady or a Kobe. People would've been magnifying his flaws like the gambling and shyt and so he wouldn't have the role model-perception. People would find ways to minimize his wins. The Byron RUssell pushoff would've launched a nonstop storm of arguments over the following week for example.

Hell, look at Steph - he's a squaky-clean role model who's done a lot of winning with few failures to even bring into the discussion (that's the knock with LeBron - a lot of wins but a lot of blemishes, too) and you still got nikkas like @CHICAGO who just hate that man and want to put asterisks on everything he does.

Hate is irrational and has a bigger platform now than then. It's inevitable.

And not only that, but society is more fragmented nowadays AND there's way more access to the NBA than then. Before, you only saw your local team, whatever was on NBC and TNT, and then highlights on ESPN. Now people have access to every waking moment and that takes away the mystique. You also see the negatives more - accessibility has DEFINITELY amplified the criticisms of today's game vs. the past. Back then The embarrassingly terrible plays from lottery teams and even good teams wouldn't make it past their local TV station so nobody outside the state would know about them, whereas now those crappy plays immediatlely become memes.

Like nikkas will post that play of all the Nuggets running to the 3-point line on the fast break at the end of that game and blowing it instead of going to the rim and go "WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR GAME! These players are getting dumber " Like there had never been a doofus low IQ play in the crucial moments of some random February game back in the 90s/00s .Only difference was , you didn't see them.