I interpreted the OP’s question the same way you did. Will we look back in 10 years and say, The University of Kentucky—that’s where Shai Gilgeous-Alexander went to school? The same way we associate UNC with MJ.
Would that be due to his longevity, actually advancing in the playoffs more often, or going to 9 straight finals?
Ridiculous take. You don’t play 20+ years at as high a level as LeBron has without having an insane work ethic.
This is the correct answer. Twenty years after his last last retirement, MJs retro shoes still outsell current NBA players.
Yeah yeah yeah…
Ok I respect that take on AD. Could change over the next year though. AD will always pump UK. SGA couple pump cal or Canada. So I get it
There’s only one Michael Jordan and his name is Michael Jordan.
Honestly, I'm not sure you'll ever hear much mention of him being a UK guy. He wasn't a great player in college and he was only here for a year. MJ was 2 time NPOY and has one of the most iconic shots in NCAA Tournament history.
Ridiculous take. You don’t play 20+ years at best effort without your body failing. Never ask LeBron to make change for a $1. He never has 4 quarters on him.
Well, golly, I guess that explains why Wake Forest (Duncan), Texas (Durant), Davidson (Curry), Arizona State (Harden), Georgetown (Iverson), UCLA (Westbrook), Santa Clara (Nash) and Memphis (Rose) all vaulted "to the top of the CBB world." Apparently that's just what an MVP automatically does for a school. LOL.
I wouldn’t say AD has slid at all, he is still playing at an elite level he’s just never gotten over the MVP hump. He’s never gotten the respect he deserves IMO. He was the reason the Lakers won the title in the bubble. Absolutely the best defender and averaged like 28/12/3. Now that the Mavs are getting Cooper Flagg if they resign Kyrie and their roster stays healthy they will be a contender again.
You’re talking about schools that had flash in the pan seasons some no better than SGAs one season. At the end of this I still don’t understand you other than you are very passionate about this for some reason. It doesn’t hurt to be the all time greatest program and for the first time have an nba mvp as an alum and if he were to win a title and play his way into consistency he would be a solid hall of famer. That doesn’t help us is your position. I’m deluding myself by thinking SGAs nba success is good for UK basketball and BBn. BBN needs to embrace SGA with everything it has and yeah we were a sweet sixteen team that year but we probably don’t make the tournament without SGA surprising everyone and showing out.
Way to early to tell, If Shai averages 30 a game on 50% shooting most of his career, wins 6 titles/6 MVPs and 5 regular season MVP’s then we can talk. I still think Jordan was on a different plane than anyone. Dude retired during his absolute peak. He really should have two more titles, and a couple more MVPs easy.
He’s on the backside of his career with consistent injuries. I think he’s well past his high peak. He could be a solid role player for a team to win a couple titles but if AD has to be healthy all season for it to happen I wouldn’t bet on it
He’s actually played more games the last 3 years than he has In a long time. He is far more that a role player even now. You can pencil him in for 25/11/3 assists/1 steal/ and a couple blocks a game. He is ridiculously consistent. He gets a bad rap from his 2nd and 3rd Laker seasons. He only played half the games those two years. Every other year in the league he’s played more than 56 games and above 60 in a vast majority of them.
I applaud your last sentence - the world needs more civility! Good on you. But.......to say Lebron is the best clutch player of all time is an example of using statistics to build a case for whatever you want. We've seen Lebron falter too many times in too many critical situations to take such a claim seriously. For me personally, his fate was sealed - in terms of comparisons to Jordan, the most competitive (psychotic?) player in world history - when he disappeared vs the Celtics in the 2010 playoffs. Just laid down.
I’m not saying he isn’t skilled. I think he is as skilled as anyone that ever played the game. The rest of the work ethic, killer instinct etc is lacking. He can beat teams when he wants to.
Claiming Lebron lacks “work ethic” is just plain stupid.
Lebron Wants to win and wants to be a good teammate. Jordan wanted to win more than breathing and would tear the heart out of a teammate to do it.
That’s a really good point. Outside of UK and die hard CBB fans, who would know that SGA went to UK. I mean he was only in Lexington for 6 months. As opposed to Jordan who was at UNC for 3 years. And it was advertised as nauseam in the early years that he went to UNC, played for Dean Smith, still wore Carolina blue shorts under his Bulls uniform, etc.
That’s really neat, but you’re delusional if you think Jordan didn’t constantly whine to refs too.
North Carolina at Chapel Hill was an established great program going back to their only legitimate national championship under Frank McGuire. Dean E. Smith had some great teams prior to 1968. After that while winning national championships, every one of them had ineligible players due to Dean E. Smith’s academic bullshit scam scheme. Michael Jordan is one of the greatest of all time.
