PJ Brown
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Newskoolbulls wrote:
I respect your opinion and I know that some around the league still agree with you, but my eyes tell me Lebron is certainly already as good as Kobe, and Lebron is still on the upward swing of career. If you're talking stats, overall impact on the game, whatever, he's clearly the best player in the league despite being a few years shy of his likely career prime. And he's increasingly pulling off the clutch superhero act one associates with MJ and Kobe and other elite superstars. Kobe is amazing, one of the greats of all time and still one of the uber-greats in the league, but I don't think anyone would talk about him on the MJ level if he had played with Shaq during his developing years, affording him the spotlight he wouldn't have had if he had to sink or swim on his own. Saying you're no MJ isn't meant as an insult--he's an all-time legend.
The thing is, Lebron is an MVP level megastar in his own right and at a younger age than both MJ and Kobe were doing it, which his scary.
PJ Brown wrote:
This is the type of thread where one says things that look pretty silly in a few years. It's funny how so many openly embrace the Kobe as good as MJ hype, which is insulting to any reasonable person's intelligence, but feel the need to dog Lebron. Maybe Lebron isn't MJ, and maybe he won't ever be, but maybe he will--and even if he isn't MJ, he's certainly the closest thing we've seen since. Lebron is the best, better than Kobe, better than anybody in the league or anybody since Jordan, and he's not even peaked yet.
I would take Kobe any day over Lebron. Your pretty much doing the same thing with Lebron.
I respect your opinion and I know that some around the league still agree with you, but my eyes tell me Lebron is certainly already as good as Kobe, and Lebron is still on the upward swing of career. If you're talking stats, overall impact on the game, whatever, he's clearly the best player in the league despite being a few years shy of his likely career prime. And he's increasingly pulling off the clutch superhero act one associates with MJ and Kobe and other elite superstars. Kobe is amazing, one of the greats of all time and still one of the uber-greats in the league, but I don't think anyone would talk about him on the MJ level if he had played with Shaq during his developing years, affording him the spotlight he wouldn't have had if he had to sink or swim on his own. Saying you're no MJ isn't meant as an insult--he's an all-time legend.
The thing is, Lebron is an MVP level megastar in his own right and at a younger age than both MJ and Kobe were doing it, which his scary.