Rasheed Wallace on LeBron James playing in his era“I don’t think he would be as successful as he is"

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Did you watch the videos

He didn't say Mike couldn't play in the 80s, Mike played in the 80s

He said the Bulls didn't have any competitive and was stacked team

he Predictable the NBA being an international league

and he said the Bulls had the two best American players, the Best player from Croatia, and the best Player from Austraila

the team was stacked

and Larry pointed out the expansion teams hurt the league by spreading out the talent so teams weren't as good,

the point was, Michael Jordan's championship era he had no competition

Michael Jordan was in his prime in the 80s, that's when he was air jordan, he would go off in games but the team would always lose early in the playoffs, he couldn't win shyt in his prime, becuase the 80s had a lot of good teams,but when they got old the league was different in the 90s

Jordan didn't have to face nowhere near the level of competition on his path to the rings, he beat the old ass lakers, that was the best team he beat in the finals

he was on by far the best team in the league, it wasn't even close and there was another team close that could compete, that was the point

My older brothers(they are 41 and 46) get heated when I tell them Lebron may have less rings, but has played and beaten FAAAR better teams in the finals than Jordan ever did. 13-14 Spurs and the Warriors would have dominated any team Jordan beat in the Finals, EASILY.
 

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People hold the 2007 finals loss against Lebron everyday and he was 22 then. MJ didn’t add much to his game from 88 to 91, Scottie Pippen was the difference.

Jordan was always good. He never had a Finals as bad as Bron in 2007 or 2011. He just needed his team to catch up to him. No comparison.
 

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You’re being obtuse now. What happened in the Finals that year breh. He got smashed. That’s the point. He would still be good. Just not dominant. There was no superteams back then.
He played against an at the time 4 championship winning squad with three hall of famers, one of the best coaches of all time and arguably the greatest power forward ever at 22 after beating title winning contender in Detroit.

also, the finals is at most seven games. Lebron would have been dominate every where else but potentially 7 games? Which is a lie. Lebron looked “bad” one finals ever and that was on the super team people hold against him. He’s been arguably the best player on the court every other final
 

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Jordan was a rookie in 1984. Why would he be competing with Bird, Magic, Isiah and Moses? He was 21 years old :dead: He was ready at 28 in 1991 when he hit his prime. And he took over after that. Dummies don’t even realize that Isiah Thomas was born in 1961. His championship window is the same age range (1988-1990 which made him 27-29).
Because you have to nitpick when comparing G.O.A.T.s. Jordan's contemporaries were competing for / winning championships around that age.
 

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Jordan was always good. He never had a Finals as bad as Bron in 2007 or 2011. He just needed his team to catch up to him. No comparison.

So MJ needed a better team around him to win and couldn’t have without it. I want you to type, to me, the times where MJ lead his team to a series win over a better team.
 

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He played against an at the time 4 championship winning squad with three hall of famers, one of the best coaches of all time and arguably the greatest power forward ever at 22 after beating title winning contender in Detroit.

also, the finals is at most seven games. Lebron would have been dominate every where else but potentially 7 games? Which is a lie. Lebron looked “bad” one finals ever and that was on the super team people hold against him. He’s been arguably the best player on the court every other final

I don’t understand what you’re trying to prove breh. You’re trying to take this argument everywhere. My argument is LeBron would be just a good player without superteams. Every Finals he’s played in outside of 2007 and 2018 has been with a super team. Those two years he wasn’t he got smashed. There’s no evidence he would’ve been as dominant without one. Why are you arguing and more importantly why are you arguing with NBA players. They have a right to feel that way about him. Get over it man.
 

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My older brothers(they are 41 and 46) get heated when I tell them Lebron may have less rings, but has played and beaten FAAAR better teams in the finals than Jordan ever did. 13-14 Spurs and the Warriors would have dominated any team Jordan beat in the Finals, EASILY.

Every team Lebron played in the finals until 2020 was better than every team MJ played in the finals
 

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So MJ needed a better team around him to win and couldn’t have without it. I want you to type, to me, the times where MJ lead his team to a series win over a better team.

Another deranged Bron Stan with a disingenuous take. Now suddenly the Lakers and the Pistons weren’t good teams when Jordan beat them. Everybody suddenly became old and worthless the exact moment Jordan beat them. Every argument yall make, makes people dislike yall more and more. Stop the crying and whining breh. There’s nothing you can say on here. GOAT conversations are not won on the internet. Tell him to go win 2-3 more rings.
 
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