This is LeBron James, Not Michael Jordan. LeBron James made a mistake 4 years ago. He left every player’s dream and desire: the frontline for the team you grew up around, you grew up watching. But that wasn’t his mistake. He went to a team, with an aging 2 guard, a soft power forward and a head coach who didn’t deserve the job. But that wasn’t his mistake. He promised 7 or more rings, and now I think we are starting to find his mistake. He left to chase glory, he left to chase rings, he left to chase Jordan. And that was his mistake. Let’s end the conversation right now. There will never be another Jordan. There will most likely never be another team who wins two three peats in a decade, without a true dominant big man. Whatever it was will or fight, Jordan had in him. Wherever it came from, it allowed him to do something that no player had done before. Bill and Wilt, they were already big; Magic, Larry, John, the bad boy pistons, Pistol Pete, Oscar, name whoever you want, there were teams all complete with a Big man who could play. Now maybe the Bulls’ success was all due to an all-star who took a back seat, a coach who is the only coach to lead a team to a 3 peat in the last 25 years or so. (Btw he’s done it 3 separate times, and almost did it a fourth time just recently). But needless to say there will never be another Michael Jordan. Will there ever be another Magic? Will there ever be another Wilt? Will there ever be another Bird? Another Kobe? Another LeBron? No. And I believe this is something LeBron is finally starting to understand. He can’t compete with Jordan, but he can compete with Tim, Kevin, Melo, Kevin again, Russell, Chris, Blake, whoever else you want to name and most importantly he can compete with LeBron. LeBron has a chance to something no one has done in Cleveland. If successful, he would have won a championship on two different teams. That’s something Jordan, Magic, Bird never did. Magic and Bird never led the team in their hometown, LeBron can. What LeBron can’t do is catch Jordan’s legacy, but he shouldn’t have too. We as fans and supporters shouldn’t ask him too. It’s not fair to any of these guys, these stars playing right now to look at them and say “Yeah, you’re good, but you are no Jordan.” Comments like this is what made LeBron leave four years ago. It has Melo jumping around trying to find a team that works. If Kevin doesn’t win a championship soon, he’ll start hearing talk about what he doesn’t have and we will forget what he does have. And it all comes back to Jordan. It all comes back to us demanding superstars be the greatest, that they chase a legacy that can’t reach. It all comes back to us for wanting more, when we have men doing things a very rare percentage of the population can do. I haven’t ran the numbers but I’m pretty sure it’s something like less than .3% of the population makes an NBA roster every year, which means that most likely .002% of the population actually reaches superstar. Look, I hate the Cleveland organization, I hate their fans, I hate their owner. They disgust me. For 7 years Lebron sat and waited, no, sat and begged for them to put together a team, to give him something to win with and the best they gave him was Mo Williams? Along with that, they also put into his head that he could be the greatest, he could beat Jordan. He was given unfair scrutiny, asked for unfair demands, and then was publicly bashed for trying to accomplish something they told him too. Beat Jordan. LeBron says he’s coming back home because he is deeply connected to that part of Ohio. He is. His camps never stopped, his donations never died down, and most importantly, his love never died down. He was trying to give his hometown something to claim, something to be proud of, and something they asked him for. He just didn’t do it with a team that refused to give him the right pieces until he left. Now he has that chance again. And as fans, as spectators we owe Lebron something. He grew up, he manned up, and he went home. He went back to an organization that spat in his face, burned his jersey, booed him, hated him and he went home to win them a Championship. And that is noble and that is what this game is all about.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:06:27 +0000
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