"No bird soars too high,
If he soars with his own wings."
- William Blake
FAN ACCOUNT NOT AFFILIATED IN ANY WAY WITH MICHAEL JORDAN, JORDAN BRAND, OR NIKE.
"Coming into the 1987-88 season, no team in the NBA was more compelling than the Chicago Bulls.
They had a winning foundation, and possessed the two most electrifying words in all of sports...
Michael Jordan."
- Jim Durham, Chicago Bulls Play-By-Play Announcer
The GOAT debate is all about what you value. In terms of longevity and total career value lebron wins, but Jordan wins easily in terms of who was the best in their prime years.
That's what happens when you spend hours pointlessly practicing volume 3s instead of developing your midrange game like Bird, Jordan, Kobe, and KD.
Lebron has no bag and got absolutely clamped by a much smaller Canadian kid who came back from a torn ACL.
Poetic justice.
You know what
@Giannis_An34
didn't say he was gonna do?
Demand a trade, demand his teammates get traded for upgrades, or run away to another franchise to join a Superteam.
Winning the right way is hard.
Giannis accepted responsibility for losing like a true man and a leader.…
If Twitter was around 22 years ago…the whole world would be tweeting Kobe is the best player in the world and the best they’ve seen since Mike right now!
45 and 10 at age 22 against the Twin Tower Spurs a game after putting up 48 against the Kings in Game 7. What’s spacing?
"If you're not going to compete, I will dominate you."
- Michael Jordan
"It’s a competition, and my mission is to destroy you."
- Kobe Bryant
"I just wanna kill everything in front of me, man."
- Anthony Edwards
"...it's just basketball."
- Overrated Lebron James
The best part about a totally slow, fat, and unathletic white guy in Nikola Jokic becoming the NBA’s Best Player, is that there’s been a full market correction on the Legacy of another totally slow and unathletic white guy in Larry Bird.
The Casuals, who clearly never watched…
Michael Jordan remains the most consistently dominant playoff performer in sports history.
Never outplayed by anyone in a playoff series.
Never upset by a lower seed in the playoffs.
Only lost one playoff series as a legit championship contender, the 1990 ECF.
Unstoppable.
Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman remain the only Hall of Fame trio since Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, and KC Jones to win more than two championships and never lose a single playoff series together.
Perfect 12-0 in playoff series from 1996 to 1998.
Unmatched since.
Michael Jordan never lost 7 straight playoff games to anyone.
MJ was also never swept in a 7-game series.
Michael Jordan remains the unquestioned greatest, most consistent playoff performer in sports history.
Nobody today comes remotely close.
Lebron got what he deserved.
100% his fault for getting swept.
No excuses. Nobody to blame but him.
Jordan was never swept in a 7 game series and never lost to a team with less than 54 wins.
1986 and 1987 Celtics would sweep Lebron by 40+ a game.
Proven fact.
6'9" Lebron James has played 1,397 regular season games in 20 seasons, and has accumulated 1,637 offensive rebounds in those games.
That's still 31 fewer offensive rebounds than 6'6" Michael Jordan grabbed in 325 fewer games, in an era dominated by centers and power forwards.
Lebron James has never hit a single game-tying or game-winning shot at the end of an elimination, clinching, or Finals game.
Not one. Ever.
That's why he needed Ray and Kyrie to save his overrated ass.
Michael Jordan was the greatest, most clutch player ever in that situation.
Lebron has still never hit a potential game-tying or go-ahead shot in the final 25 seconds of an elimination game.
0-2 now.
Michael Jordan, the unquestioned GOAT, shot 100% in that same situation.
Go cry now.
LEBRON JAMES YEAR 20 PLAYOFF RUN
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Everyone counted him out🙏
👑24.5 PPG
👑9.9 RPG
👑6.5 APG
King James led a team that started 2-10 to the WCF and proved why he is the GOAT🐐
We are proud of you KING
THE LEBRON CHAPTER CONTINUES👑
#lakeshow
Remember kids, Michael Jordan was never outplayed by anyone in a playoff series, was never the reason the Bulls lost a series, and was never upset in the playoffs...all in a bigger, tougher era.
Michael Jordan remains the single most dominant playoff performer in sports history.
Happy Birthday to Michael Jordan, the greatest player in NBA history and one of the fiercest competitors of all time.
60 years young.
6-0.
One championship for every decade of existence.
"The Best There Ever Was. The Best There Ever Will Be."
Remember kids, Michael Jordan was more likely to score 40+ points than score less than 20 points.
Lebron James is much more likely to score less than 20 points (235 games) than score 40+ points (69 games).
In the playoffs, Lebron has 29 games of less than 20 points.
MJ had 6.
Michael Jordan didn't need anyone to feed him the ball.
MJ could create his own shot off the dribble and create midair separation from defenders to get a clean look better than anyone in NBA history.
MJ also won more titles with less help than any other superstar ever.
Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant are undoubtedly the two greatest players of the last three plus decades of NBA history.
No one on Earth can argue otherwise.
Michael Jordan always shook hands when the Bulls lost a playoff series.
Every single time.
Real winners know how to handle losing.
Cowards run and hide instead of showing good sportsmanship.
MJ’s 1990s Bulls would easily sweep Lebron without mercy.
Proven fact.
Remember kids, you've never watched any player as skilled and ruthlessly dominant as Michael Jordan in your entire lives.
Greatest 3 level scorer ever.
The most dynamic and consistent offensive weapon in NBA history.
The best there ever was.
The best there ever will be.
Michael Jordan treated every single game like an In Season Tournament game.
Superstars during the 1980s and 1990s didn’t need any further incentives to actually compete and play hard during the regular season.
That’s why it was the greatest and most entertaining era ever.
Nikola Jokic will be considered greater than overrated Lebron James when it's all said and done.
After all, Jokic already has more legit rings than overrated Lebron does.
Jokic never ran to a Superteam or had any of his teammates traded for upgrades.
Jokic won the hard way.
June 14, 1998
1998 NBA Finals Game 6
Chicago Bulls at Utah Jazz
Delta Center, Salt Lake City
Michael Jordan
45 points
15-35 PG 42.9%
3-7 3P 42.9%
12-15 FT 80%
4 Steals
Bulls 87, Jazz 86
MJ single-handedly delivers the greatest, most clutch performance in NBA Finals history.…
1990s NBA wasn't faster, but it was bigger, stronger, and more athletic overall...dominated by elite scoring true centers and power forwards who could run up and down and score in transition as well as control the paint.
Today's NBA is dominated by undersized shooting guards…
Michael Jordan never lost a single playoff series as a defending champion.
His Bulls went a perfect 16-0 in playoff series from 1992 to 1998 while defending the title.
MJ is the only athlete in the history of major sports to accomplish this.
Most unbeatable champion ever.
It's hilarious watching overrated Lebron in the process of getting swept by a mediocre defensive team like the Nuggets.
Just more proof that overrated Lebron would win zero MVPs and zero championships in the bigger, stronger, way more physical 1990s, the best defensive era ever.
Lebron couldn't even clear Tony Parker or Jason Terry when everything was on the line.
If Lebron clamps and outscores them - which Jordan certainly would've done - his team wins the title in 2007 and 2011.
Remember kids, Michael Jordan would cut overrated Lebron's heart out.
Nope.
In 2010 Dwyane Wade was the second best shooting guard after Kobe and had just led the league in scoring in 2008-09. Chris Bosh was the best free agent big man available and had just averaged career highs in points and rebounds with 24 ppg and 10.8 rebs.
Kevin Love was…
@Whodat4lyfe1
@maxkellerman
@samthemanlive
kobe had shaq tim duncan had 3 hofs in their peak mj had pippen (top 10 player itl at the time) all these stars had help but lebron does it and he needs them? ad is probably the only top 10 player lebron has ever had as a teammate MAYBE kyrie lmfao
Make Michael Jordan 6'9" and 250+ lbs and he still wins 6 championships and 5 MVPs.
Make Lebron James 6'6" and 215 lbs and he's in the G-League.
That's the difference.
Overrated Lebron James couldn't guard Kobe Bryant at all...even after the 3 major surgeries.
Other than the left hand push shot in the lane, these are all MJ's moves or variations of them.
2013 Kobe was doing whatever he wanted on the basketball court before that injury. The game had become so easy for him. The most advanced performer in the history of the game.
Lebron James missed 27 games this season.
Michael Jordan missed 22 games total in his two seasons as a Wizard.
Jordan kept trying to play in 2001-02 despite severe tendonitis, a torn right meniscus, and a permanently damaged right index finger.
After offseason knee surgery, MJ…
This final play further exemplifies Lebron's fatal flaw.
He can't score unless he has a wide open lane or an open 3.
No bag whatsoever.
Lebron has STILL never hit a game-tying or go ahead shot at the end of an elimination game.
Hilariously awful.
Dwight Howard had back surgery during the 2012 offseason and played through back and shoulder pain.
Pau Gasol tore the plantar fascia in his right foot in February and missed 33 games.
Steve Nash missed 32 games because of a degenerative nerve condition in his back and legs.…
@PgLang__
@AirJordans2323
The lakers that year barely made the playoffs and they had Dwight and pau, one who was a first ballot hall of famer and the other will be
Michael Jordan played in all 82 regular season games 9 times.
Played 81 games in 1988-89, 80 in 1991-92, and 78 in 1992-93.
Never missed a single game from March 19, 1995 to June 14, 1998.
179 playoff games.
All 82 games at age 39-40.
Most durable superstar since Wilt.
Michael Jordan is THE greatest finisher at the rim in NBA history…best midair body control and hang time ever.
Dr. J is second.
Everyone else is fighting for third place.
Chris Bosh and Ray Allen saved the Heat from the very brink of elimination in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals.
Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love made the clutch offensive and defensive plays to beat the Warriors at the end of Game 7 of the 2016 Finals.
Lebron stood and watched both times.
If Michael Jordan “couldn’t go left” as these idiotic ignorant kids who never even watched MJ play FALSELY claim, why is the left side of the floor on this shot chart so gotdamn full?
This wasn’t even peak shooting MJ.
Stop doing drugs, kids.
Go cry now.
Scottie Pippen was the only one to make an All-NBA team.
Dennis Rodman made All-Defense First Team once with the Bulls.
Michael Jordan won more titles with less help than any other superstar ever, against great competition during the toughest defensive era ever.
MJ = 🐐
Michael Jordan took a raw, undisciplined, unknown kid from Central Arkansas under his wing and molded him into a first ballot HOFer and Top 50 player.
Lebron James begged Pelinka for a future HOFer, Triple Double King, and Top 75 player...then made him feel like unwanted trash.
Michael Jordan remains the greatest two-way player ever.
- 10 Scoring Titles
- 9 Defensive First Teams
- 3 Steals Titles
- 200+ steals and 100+ blocks in the same season twice
- Top 6 in Defensive Win Shares 8 times
- 1st in Defensive Box Plus/Minus twice, Top 8 eight times
1990s NBA was bigger, stronger, more athletic, and way more physical than today’s almost unwatchable pop-a-shot sissy league.
Shooting volume 3s makes the game LESS ATHLETIC and weak.
Allow hand checking and get rid of defensive 3 seconds. Encourage players to get in the post…
Lebron really has no bag.
He settles for 3s and relies on a wide open lane with no camping defensive bigs and smaller, weaker, scared defenders in order to score.
Scottie Pippen, Penny Hardaway, and Grant Hill all had more developed post and midrange games than Lebron James.
Remember kids, real competitors don't quit on their teammates after losing miserably in the playoffs and then run away to form superteams with other established stars.
Michael Jordan never played on a player-created "superteam".
Lebron James started the Superteam Era in 2010.
Lebron is physically incapable of doing this. He isn't skilled enough and too heavy to create adequate lateral separation midair off an abrupt crossover. That's why Lebron always needs a running start.
Only Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant could execute this fadeaway consistently.
Michael Jordan is the greatest left-handed driver and left-handed finisher in
@NBA
history.
That’s all right AND left-handed players.
This clip doesn’t include the countless left-handed drives MJ finished with his right.
MJ drove better left than anyone today drives right.
Just a reminder that Lebron James has never hit a single clutch shot at the end of a one possession playoff game when the pressure is at its highest.
Not one.
Ever.
Michael Jordan was the greatest ever in those situations.
Just another reason why MJ is objectively superior.
Nope.
If Michael Jordan had Lebron's help he certainly would've won at least 10 championships.
Lebron played with Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love, Anthony Davis, and Russell Westbrook among others.
All elite scorers during their careers.
Michael Jordan…
So stupid.
Jordan was older with the Wizards than Lebron is right now and was never 100% healthy the entire time.
MJ played all 82 games at age 39-40 after missing 22 games the previous season because of a torn meniscus which required offseason surgery.
Lebron missed 27 games…
Props to
@espn
for showing four episodes of
#TheLastDance
tonight in what would've been the primetime slot for Lakers @ Nuggets Game 5, had Lebron not choked and quit in the second half of Game 4.
Disney is showcasing authentic greatness tonight instead of a manufactured fraud.
Top 10 NBA Players of All Time
1. Michael Jordan
2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
3. Larry Bird & Magic Johnson (tie)
5. Bill Russell
6. Kobe Bryant
7. Tim Duncan
8. Lebron James
9. Wilt Chamberlain
10. Hakeem Olajuwon
Michael Jordan remains the unquestioned greatest playoff performer in sports history.
And he did it all without ever playing with another elite scorer or dominant big man to draw defensive attention away from him.
One of the many reasons why Michael Jordan, the true GOAT, is objectively superior to overrated Lebron James.
MJ never settled for passive 3s like overrated Lebron.
MJ relentlessly punished teams with higher percentage shots and got his opponents in foul trouble and the…
LeBron James has missed 19 straight 3-pointers in the 4th quarter dating back to Game 2 of the 1st Round this year.
That's the longest streak by any player in the last 25 postseasons.
Of all the Hall of Famers in NBA history to win 30 playoff series or more, Michael Jordan has the highest winning percentage ever.
30 out of 37 playoff series - 81.1%
24-0 with homecourt advantage.
16-0 as a defending champion.
11-5 without a concurrent All-Star teammate.
It would be premature and stupid to break up
@jaytatum0
and
@FCHWPO
.
Jaylen Brown is still only 26, gonna be 27 in October.
Jayson Tatum just turned 25.
Brad Stevens should continue building around them.
@StephenCurry30
was 27 and
@KlayThompson
was 25 when they won their…
Watching overrated
@KingJames
get swept yet AGAIN is almost as enjoyable as watching overrated Lebronazi cowards lose every single argument over and over while they circle jerk each other to oblivion.
You're getting exactly what you deserve you lying bastards.
Adios, losers.
Time to bust out the good ol' fake cast for the Game 4 presser, overrated
@KingJames
you FRAUD.
No all-time great was ever swept TWICE with a roster this talented.
One more
@nuggets
win and overrated Lebron is officially eliminated from Top 20 All-Time consideration forever.
This is exactly why Michael Jordan would easily average 40+ ppg on 55+% shooting against these cupcake defenses in this smallball era.
Midrange areas aren't contested like this at all today.
There isn't one shred of real evidence to suggest that overrated
@KingJames
- the biggest choking statpadding fraud in sports history - is somehow "better" than the great Michael Jordan in ANY significant aspect of basketball.
Anyone who disagrees CAN and WILL be proven wrong.
Michael Jordan never cared about longevity or all-time career stats.
He played all out in every game to compete and win, whether he had help or not.
He sought to step on your throat and cut your heart out.
MJ wanted to kick your ass, not team up with you.
Cold-blooded killer.
Remember kids, Michael Jordan would clamp overrated Lebron James every time and would never let that overrated clown even dribble.
Jordan would beat Lebron 1-on-1 a hundred times out of a hundred.
Already proven fact.
Skill and lateral quickness always beats size and weight.
NBA started tracking shots in 1996-97.
Michael Jordan played through a badly sprained wrist and dislocated index finger in 1997-98. He suffered permanent damage to that finger in January 1999.
From 1996-2003, MJ ranked
#1
in clutch shooting with 5 seconds left...9-22, or 40.9%.
No Lebron team would ever come close to beating the 1997 and 1998 Utah Jazz.
They beat Olajuwon, Barkley, Drexler, Shaq, David Robinson, and Tim Duncan all in a two year span.
Lebron couldn't even outplay Tony Parker, Jason Terry, and JJ Barea when it mattered most.
Jazz in 4.
Magic Johnson was still in his MVP prime in 1990-91.
He had just won MVP in 1990 and was the runner-up to MVP Michael Jordan in 1991.
That's why the 1991 Finals were so captivating - the two greatest guards in NBA history in their primes competing all out against each other.
Remember kids, it's cool if Lebron James is your favorite player.
Good for you.
It's even okay if you believe that Lebron is somehow the Greatest Of All Time.
You have every right to be a loser.
From 2003-04 to today, Lebron James has attempted exactly 107 shots during the last 5 seconds of a one possession game to either tie or take the lead.
He's only made 19 of them.
That's a putrid 17.8% in the clutch, with only 12.5% from 3.
Remember kids...data over mythology.
There is only one logical answer.
No player in NBA history had as much team success in conjunction with as many individual accolades as Michael Jordan...and he did it with less offensive help with any other superstar ever.
If you gave MJ anything close to adequate help, the…
Nope.
Michael Jordan is the unquestioned most clutch athlete in sports history.
Overrated Lebron James has shot an abysmal 0% in the last 25 seconds of clinching, elimination, and Finals games with a chance to tie or take the lead.
Go cry now.
@dyNASTYchad
@shendy456
How is it possible that LeBron doesnt succeed more than he fails in clutch moments when he has the most game winners in the playoffs at the best percetange? He's also number 1 or 2 all time in 4th quarter points in the playoffs. So how is he not clutch??
Hey remember that one time when Michael Jordan had four teammates averaging double figures in a playoff series but was absolutely clamped at the end of critical Game 4, which resulted in a humiliating sweep?
Oh yeah.
Michael Jordan never played with another elite scorer or a dominant big man in his entire career.
He was constantly double and triple teamed as a result, and STILL led the league in scoring more times than anyone ever, during the toughest defensive era in NBA history.
Go cry.
@shendy456
Lol. Mj stans don't understand that mj took more shots which led to him leading league in scoring. He wasn't a better shooter than lebron, so leading the league in ppg isn't that great of a thing. Kareem was also a better shooter. That's why mj isn't the goat.
Lebron didn't have a "broken hand".
It was a bruise.
You can't play intense NBA playoff basketball with an actual broken hand without a hard cast on, it's literally impossible.
Lebron put the cast on in the postgame interview for show, as an excuse for getting swept miserably.
Michael Jordan remains the greatest all-around two-way player in NBA history.
Best offensive and defensive guard of all time.
No flaws whatsoever in his game.
Nobody today compares to him.
Lebron James has never won anything without running away, manipulating free agency, and actively getting his teammates traded in order to team up with other established superstars.
His entire fake "GOAT" legacy is a contrived sham and pure media fabrication fueled by marketing.