The thing is, 1998 might have been his most impressive year. His skills were declining yet he led a team that was actually pretty bad to a Championship. Pippen was hurt most of the season and was barely getting through the playoffs with a wrecked back. Rodman's production fell off the face of the Earth. For the talk of how bad Lebron's supporting cast was, his team's starting lineup had a higher PER than Jordan's.
The Pacers and Jazz were better teams than the Bulls that year and yet he had some huge clutch moments to win the Championship. Revisionist history makes us look back and think Jordan had it easy during this run, but a few of those years he sort of took home a title against good competition on his own.
Lebron is a phenomenal talent and probably has more talent than Jordan ever had from a physical standpoint. But he's not a winner as cliche as that sounds. He got knocked out by a lower seed two consecutive years (something that never happened to Jordan). He didn't make his teammates better and didn't excel in the biggest moments. I understand what you're saying about ratings as a 25 year old Lebron would probably beat a 34 year old Jordan 1-on-1, but put MJ on that Cavs team last year and the have a ring.
10-08-2010, 06:53 AM
