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People who say Kobe is better than Jordon have to be young dudes that just dont know better. Its not even close.

Personally, I think it’s very hard to say 96 Jordan was better than 93 Jordan.
Check the tape. Remember, Gary Payton shut down 96 Jordan for three games in the Finals once George Karl realized it might be a good idea to have his best defender guard the best offensive player on the other team. Nobody was shutting down 93 Jordan.

I like how Coach Pop and Doc Rivers have been resting some of their key starters, despite still having something to play for. Last night, though I would have liked the Knicks to sweep the Bulls in the last regular season game at MSG, I didn’t like Chauncey or Melo going back in with 7 minutes to go. Tomorrow night I’m hoping Amar’e, Melo, and Chauncey don’t even play in Boston. The extra rest will be worth it.

93 Jordan was the most complete player ever. There was nothing he couldn’t do. 96 Jordan was definitely a step slower, couldn’t jump as high, but was smarter, more patient. I’d also point out that the League was tougher in 93 than in 96, and that the 93 Suns were way better than the 96 Sonics.

they should have SAS and CHI both pick a number between 1 an 10. or have thibs and pop do rock/paper/scissors, best out of 3.

My only problem is that its ok to say Lebron will go down as the greatest but if you even say Kobe in the same sentence as MJ then its blasphemy. Its also crazy to say its not even close. Yes MJ is better but its not night and day. The guy hasn’t been this successful for no reason. Even Phil Jackson has said he hasn’t seen a player ever do the things Kobe can do. I think he has the best insight out of anyone.

Wasn’t comparing Boozer and Zo game, just the fact that they both like to scream a lot rather if they made the play or not.

the gap between the Sonics and Suns was not THAT large.
Payton > KJ
Barkley > Kemp
Detlef > Marjele
Dumas > Hawkins
McMillian = Ainge
That Sonics team could have given the Bulls way more problems if Karl hadn’t prevented Payton from guarding Jordan those first three games. Kemp was given Rodman the business, and if Payton slows down Jordan, that shifts a lot of burden to Pip and Kukoc. But Karl was worried about tiring Payton out, and let his team get into a crazy hole. Since I was rooting for the Sonics that year, I’ll never forgive him.

I think the toughest squad the bulls faced in the Finals was that 96 Sonic squad because they had big advantages at two spots; PG and PF.
The 91 Lakers were good but Magic was on his last leg, same with Worthy and any team that fields Floppy Divac as their big man basically paved a golden road for MJ’s drives to the rim.
The 92 Blazers were a good squad but Clyde was the only star. The 93 Suns focused too much on offense and rarely played defense. The 97/98 Jazz squads were very good but Malone never dominated Rodman the way he should and Stockton never was the kind of player to dominate a game with his scoring.
Like AP said if Karl had put GP on MJ at the very beginning of the series, I truly believe the sonics would have beaten the Bulls.

You mean ’06 Kobe.
And you forgot 45% FG

@Enigmatic…Kobe had like two of the greatest scoring seasons since Chamberlain with the games of consecutive 40 pts, 50 pts, the 62 pts in three quarters and the 81 point game. No one had ish on Kobe those two years. Imagine if he actually had a team instead of Brown, Walton, Parker and Cook.

You guys think Jordan could of took a team of Smush Parker, Luke Walton, Brian Cook, and Kwame Brown deep into the playoffs? Kobe was robbed of two of the greatest seasons ever by a player with that roster.

Kobe had a good season this year but it wasn’t great. I think the knee surgery and not being able to work on his game during the summer affected him. I know he’s not MJ but it’s not day and night. The legend of MJ is greater than MJ. The Magic did eliminate him from the 95 playoffs. His age was showing when he came bk from baseball.

It is night and day…..using the 95 playoffs as a barometer of Mike’s level of play after taking off a year and a half is as stupid as you using the Smush, Luke, Kwame analogy as “waster” years for Kobe and let’s be real….you’re a Kobe stan. You have no leahway to be judged as fair in this sort of debate. Enigmatic also doused you with gasoline with his 1:15p comment. Stop.

Kobe lost in the first round that year.
That ain’t deep.
Jordan took a team to the playoffs, that had gone 27-55 the year before, in his rookie season.
And that wasn’t age when he came back, that was rustiness.

matic, they were only 38-44 his rookie season though.
but i wont mentio—uh…heh.

night and dusk.

Mj >Kobe. not close.

BTW…kobe isn’t my favorite player in the league.

kobe is nice…but mj will ALWAYS be better.

Stupid debate… MJ > Kobe. Kobe > than all but 9 other NBA players.

Kobe’s averaged 30 points 3 times in his career. Jordan averaged 30 for his WHOLE career. Don’t give me the “he was always the man” crap. Even with Kobe on these current Lakers Jordan is better, in every way.

@nbk..no one overrated kobe or said kobe was better. What the hell are you talking about? We aren’t just talking about numbers either bc Kobe couldn’t put those numbers up playing with the team he played for. That’s a fact.

MJ was greater than Kobe at every part of the game. Kobe probably has a better 3 point shot than MJ had, but thats all. Im a huge Kobe fan, but seriously, MJ was the best athlete ever, in ALL SPORTS. Why do you think the pistons back in the early 90′s created the term ‘The Jordan Rules.’ It’s because he was that good, they had a play named after him, to try and double and triple team his ass out of the game, ‘cos he was truly unstoppable. I don’t hear any ‘Kobe Rules’ ever being created. MJ is number 1, Kobe is around 4 or 5. Rant over.

Nbk, you killed it with the 1:58 comment (but f*ck PER lol)