Would ROOKIE Michael Jordan be the best player today?

[How Sway?]

Rookie Jordan = in my book

if russ had jordan or lebron's court awareness and vision he'd be top 5 DoA

 

[How Sway?]

Mike at 40 was averaging like 20-22 a game but a young Michael Jordan would struggle and be clamped down

The coli brehs

IIRC he was averaging like 25 during the 01-02 season before the all star break and an injury soon after.

 

[Truefan31]

This.

No one in basketball history came in and sustained what and who they were as a skill player like mj.

Everyone else it was a forgone conclusion. Mj made everyone as a rookie realize he was better than anyone who ever picked up a basketball ever.
Again, the ring argument was formulated by Boston beat writers to keep bird as rue roo draw via perception. Yet reality is bird was saying mike as a rookie was god in a pair of basketball shoes.

Plus I saw that very next playoff game live, too. Including games leading up to that in the regular season.

To visually attest to mj was the truth as the goat, even back then.

I guarantee if you watch every mj game from the McDonald's game through college to the NBA. It will be crystal clear mike was the best skill player in the history of the game.


Art Barr

Art Barr

Yup. They all knew he was gonna be a problem from the jump. You see how pumped mj was to beat them nba heads.

Blessed to watch mj live. Again, 30 years later and there's nobody with the body control of mj. Hell I gotta go back to mj just to watch a real ball fake

 

[Art Barr]

I'd do anything to watch mj vs lebron. Lebron gets flustered by being called a bytch I bet mike would terrorize his ass. Mike was always with the shyts. Wish we had him miced up

Adrian dantley was a ho ass nikka.
My sifu used to terrorize that nikka and fukk his girl at notre dame.


Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

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Probably more than Jordan dropped on prime Rodman. Yáll talking like Kawhi Leonard is somebody that Jordan couldn't do shyt with. Yet Jordan had no problem with Dennis Rodman. Rodman, who was an NBA Hall of Famer, was a 2 time NBA defensive player of the year. He had six 1st team NBA selections. One 2nd team selection and two 3rd team selections.

Dennis Rodman

How would Kawhi Leonard be able to do something to Michael Jordan that a 9 time all NBA defensive player (6 times 1st team and 3 times 2nd team) like Dennis Johnson couldn't do. Jordan torched Johnson.

Dennis Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rodman himself said of Jordan; that if you could guard Jordan then you could guard anybody. Rodman also stated that LeBron would have been an average player in the 1980's and 1990's.

Dennis Rodman is sick of people complimenting LeBron James


For some you that have never seen the Michael Jordan documentary "Come Fly with Me" there are some interesting statements made about Jordan by people like Bobby Knight, Dean Smith, Karl Malone and Hall of Fame Coach Chuck Daly.

Looking at the VHS of come fly with me right now in the rack and real talk about kawhi.

Kawhi was not stopping no Jordan.


Art Barr

 

[Thegospel]

kawhi just got lit up by kd. kd>>Jordan on offense?

 

[Luck]

shyt low key piss me off... Ain't a nikka on gods green earth touchin the gawd and this from a nikka who blatantly arrogantly cocky and don't honor any man above myself.


I watched this nikka play and no nikka I watched play since comes close Lebron in his own shyt especially after what he just did but he too passive to ever be close to 23.

Facts...

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

I'd do anything to watch mj vs lebron. Lebron gets flustered by being called a bytch I bet mike would terrorize his ass. Mike was always with the shyts. Wish we had him miced up

That slow motion lay up at 1:24

FILTHY!


Nobody has that kind of athletic grace anymore....Stop comparing people to that man

 

[Thegospel]

Not to mention lebron got to watch mj mistakes and capitalize. That's why I laugh at fakkits like laimbeer talkin about bron knew from the start to trust teammates. No shyt dummy, he was a mj Stan. It's a lot easier to come after than being the first and Kobe and bron had the answers to the test and still couldn't get a 100. They got an A nonetheless though

 

[Art Barr]

That slow motion lay up at 1:24

FILTHY!


Nobody has that kind of athletic grace anymore....Stop comparing people to that man

Treated Zeke goof ass.

Was this when mike ran point?


Art Barr

 

[Truefan31]

That slow motion lay up at 1:24

FILTHY!


Nobody has that kind of athletic grace anymore....Stop comparing people to that man

Like I said his body control was unreal. Still nobody close.

Mj went to the hole no fear against players like dream, drob, Ewing, etc but I guess he'd be scared of bogut n Thompson

 

[itsyoung!!]

We're getting close to the point where Prime Michael Jordan might not be as great as Prime Lebron James.

That's a very unpopular idea, but it's a discussion that will have to be had.
So no, I don't think a Rookie MJ would be the best player today.

nah, we are not close to that point.

 

[ManBearPig]

kawhi just got lit up by kd. kd>>Jordan on offense?

Prime Jordan or rookie Jordan?

KD was harder to defend than Rookie MJ for sure.

 

[I AM WARHOL]

You have. Duncan, Shaq, Blake Griffin, LeBron even - all of these cats (to different degrees) pretty much made a seamless transition right into the league.

None of them were as good as Michael straight out of the gate. They were fantastic but Mike was on another level

 

[Truefan31]

MJ the GOAT