James Harden at 28 is better than Michael Jordan at 28

sry man, as much as i like james harden, but no, he's not even close...

 

Way too soon to start a conversation about having a conversation comparing the two. It's unfair to James. You must not have seen Jordan play, OP. As several others have essentially said, numbers can be very deceiving.

 

Yep. #23 was on ANOTHER PLANET from James. And I love Harden's game. But having watched MJ, He'd be dominant and better than James in any era.

 

With all due respect OP, it's obvious you did not watch him play.

 

Mad if yall don't stop the madness. Different era of basketball people. So stop the asinine comparison. It's like people are dying of boredom, so they start up nonsense like this.

 

I absolutely respect his abilities as a shooter and his ability to finish, much like Aaron Brooks. He's exceptionally quick with the ball and his shot is one of the best ever. He's a great player, no doubt.

But I don't think he'd be making or even taking many of those shots in an era with hand checking and significantly more physicality.

 

7.5 times a game. behind at least 40 other players

behind Ego even Joe Ingles

Harden is top 4 and Cp3 is top 10

but yeah watching bspn highlights would make one think Curry be up there in # of drives and pts off drives. But he's around 40.

 

I laugh at this era of basketball all the time...Russell Westbrook is a perfect example of todays NBA. That is supposed to impress me? MJ was bigger and more athletic and smarter and more insanely more skilled and one of the best perimeter defenders ever. MJ was even more relentless of an attacker than Russ and even relentless on defense. Russell doesn't even try and play defense lol..neither does Harden. I'd say MJ would just make Harden look like another Drexler, but im not even sure i'd take Harden over Drexler.

Now apparently this era is too good for Kobe also haha..

Yep....MJ and Kobe would struggle against:

Kent Bazemore 6'5'' / 201
Allen Crabbe 6'6'' / 210
Jaylen Brown 6'7" 225
Nic Batum 6'8" 200
Justin Holiday 6'6" 185
JR Smith 6'6" 225 (lmao theres no way he's 6'6 or 225)
Kyle Collinsworth 6'6" 210
Gary Harris 6'4" 210
Avery Bradley 6'2" 180
Klay Thompson 6'7" 210
Eric Gordon 6'4" 215
Victor Oladipo 6'4" 210
Lou Williams 6'1" 175
K Caldwell-Pope 6'5" 205
Andrew Harrison 6'6" 213
Tyler Johnson 6'4" 186
Tony Snell 6'7" 200
Andrew Wiggins 6'8" 199
Jrue Holiday 6'4" 205
Courtney Lee 6'5" 200
Andre Roberson 6'7" 210
Evan Fournier 6'7" 205
JJ Redick 6'4" 190
Devin Booker 6'6" 206
CJ McCollum 6'3" 190
George Hill 6'3" 188
Danny Green 6'6" 215
Demar DeRozan 6'7" 220
Donavon Mitchell 6'3" 211
Bradley Beal 6'5" 205

Ladies and gentleman. Your NBA starting SG's as of today. Michael Jordan and Kobe Braynt would tremble at their feet. Just TOO BIG! TOO STRONG TOO ATHLETIC! TOO SKILLED for MJ and Kobe!

 

Harden or Drexler?

Good Question.

 

He sure spanked this team last time around with those drives. Just stop the hate man. I'd be happy if Curry were suddenly a Rocket.

 

Ron Artest would had just broken Jordan's ribs.

 

With the end of a table leg...

 

That's all he could do to stop a 38 year old mike

 

"So I was in a summer gym. R. Kelly would be there sometimes, Jordan, Barkley was there a couple times, and a lot of other NBA players. There were some really good games—tougher than the NBA games, real tough competition. And Jordan was posting me up. So I was trying to deny him, because when Jordan gets the ball, there was nothing you could do. He was gonna score. So I was trying to deny him and he was holding me, so I kind of tried to lift his arm up with my right hand and I accidentally hit him in the ribs with my elbow. And I accidentally broke his ribs.
After his ribs broke, he had to take off three months. That season, he averaged 25 [points per game] and I always felt like, if that would have never happened, he would have averaged about 35. He was looking so good. He had to take off three months and still averaged 25 points [Complex Editor's note: MJ actually averaged 22.9 PPG that season.]. That hurt me a lot because I'm an MJ fan. I love Jordan."

Ron Artest would take 38 year old Michael Jordan over James Harden.

Artest wasn't wrong. Before he was injured with that knee, he was averaging 25.1 - 6.2 - 5.3 - 1.5 - 0.5 on 42% with bad ribs, back spasms and bad knees. T-Mac was the only player in the NBA at that time averaging 25,6,5. Not even Kobe. And MJ was only improving too. In his last 20 games up to the injury he averaged
27.5 - 6.4 - 5.2 - 1.3 - 0.5 on 44%

In his last 10 games up to the injury he averaged
29.7 - 6.6 - 6.1 - 1.2 - 0.3 on 47%

And he was still better than harden could ever be on defense. Before that season, the Wizards were
- 2nd worst in ppg allowed
- 3rd worst in opponent FG%
- 8th worst in team rebounding

With 38/39 year old MJ being the only significant addition, the Wizards were on pace for top 6 in D. With a healthy Rip, they were on pace for best D in the league and were 15-1 with both MJ and Rip playing together before MJ went down with the knee.

Amazing what could have happened if MJ go to enter out of his retirement fully healthy and in shape and ready to go instead of starting out as a team 2-9 and going through injuries himself and Rip as well.

Here's a more detailed write up of MJ on the Wizards
http://nobodytouchesjordan.blogspot.com/2015/05/section-20-michael-jordans-wizards-years.html

 

Are you telling me harden would have had a hard time dropping a 30 and 10 on these lakers?
no way pedro!

 

I dont know. This nba looks very slow and lacks the quick 3 point game. Every play is back to the basket

 

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