How many times do we have to argue about this. The solution is simple. Jordan is #1, and Kobe is second to only Jordan.
No doubt Kobe is a great player but its not really close becasue he has yet to win a ring as the best player on his team. I will say this doe hes the closest thing we have had since Mike.
now you know how I feel dude! You can put the names of only a handful of people that could guard Jordan one-on-one. Joe Dumars, Maxwell For Kobe, you really didn't know about the Shaq factor til this year, cause the defense has to acknowledge Shaq in the post cause you want to prevent him from dunking. Paul Pierce, Shane Batier, and Kobe's selfishness, Ron Artest?
That logic doesn't make sense. How many teams win a championship when there best player leaves? If anything the Bulls winning 55 games without Jordans shows that his teammates were better then people think.
There was more to that Bulls team than just Pippen and Jordan if they managed to win 55 games without Jordan. Now take Kobe off the Lakers and they probably don't win 30 games. Now I'm not saying Kobe is better then Jordan because he is not but it seems like everyone wants to act like The Bulls were pathetic without Jordan.
Isn't it typical that no teammates are around, MJ slides out of the way and 3 opposing players get avalanched in broken glass?
I'd like to attribute that to good coaching considering its the same Coach (Phil). we've all seen Lamar Odom become a better player when the heat is off of him with the Gasol trade. Grant was serviceable post Jordan Pippen showed he was not a 'leader' post Jordan, not an elite player, but an elite role player BJ armstrong sucked post jordan (golden state) Rodman, he was good before/after jordan Kukoc, was one demisional post jordan Longley/Cartwright - blah ----- I'm not going to put the Rockets role players post Dream, you know that story.
hello, kobe better than jordan? anyone that thinks such is delusional. jordan is the greatest ever. the famous jordan v. stackhouse/maxwell game. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gUMHZbvnMAA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gUMHZbvnMAA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> "You do not look at Michael Jordan in the eye because he'll take that as a challenge and he'll dominate you. You do not make him mad. Whenever I played against him, I just looked at the ground." (Jayson Williams, NJ Nets.)
its the Stackhouse game (it even says so), Maxwell was moved to PG by John Lucas. All those points are mainly on Stackhouse since he opened his mouth about beating MJ at practice at UNC.
