could labron james have the numbers he's having playing in micheal jordan's era, ???
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Maybe, maybe not...I just think Lebron has more to ijmprove on like his jump shot.for me it's still not perfect. You can't slash to the basket everytime so you got to have versatility in your game. Well for me Lebron will not put the same number in the era of Jordan. A lot of players that played that era have retired when Lebron came into the picture. He will be left out iof that happened...Not even enter the playoffs
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At this point of his career, Lebron is a very talented offensive player but his defensive skills are lacking. Keep in mind that Jordan did a lot more than just score points. He was also a defensive all-star pretty much every year as well. Does Lebron have potential?..yes, of course he does but he's still just a kid.
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Yes.  He is in his twenties and averaging 30 pts a game.  He is young and has PLENTY of time to grow.  He is just now coming into his talent.  LeBron is the man...
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MJ has better numbers - this is the only season that Kobe even comes close to Jordan's numbers.  This is Kobe's first scoring title, Jordan has won a few.  Jordan is a 6 time finals MVP and so far a much, much better defensive player.  Jordan lead the league in steals once, and was always in the top 10 (not counting his years with the Wizards).  Kobe was only the second best player on his team - so you should be asking who is better, Scottie Pippen or Kobe Bryant.  Those two are in the same league, compare Jordan to Shaq, and Kobe to Pippen cause Shaq won all 3 finals MVP's.\n\nEven Jordan's dunk contest was better than Kobe's.  We still see highlights of Jordan's free-throw dunk, and dunk from the side, but none from Kobe's cause his dunks weren't all that good (that was one of the worst dunk-contestes ever - I think that's why they didn't have one the following year).\n\nI understand Jordan had Pippen, Rodman, Harper, Kuckoc, Kerr, Paxson, Armstrong, and some other good players - but so what - Jordan was still the best and almost always game MVP.  Only in a few playoff games did Pippen score more than Jordan, and only once Kukcoc socred more.  Lots of times Robert Horry or Shaq, and ever Fisher, or Glen Rice, score more than Kobe in the playoffs.\n\nI think Kobe is the best player today, and his single best season may top Jordan's single best season, but it is near impossible for him to top Jordan's career.  Someone would have to win 7 titles and 4 mvp's to top MJ's career.  \n\nDon't you remember a few years ago people were saying Randy Moss will be considered to be better than Jerry Rice, and then a couple years later they said that about TO.  Last year Jerry Rice was on dancing with the start and still had almost more touchdowns than Moss and TO combined - Moss had a crappy year and TO didn't even play.  They may have had one great single season better than any of Rice's seasons, but their career fell way short of Jerry Rice's career.
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Yes, because he has an aggressive streak.  This is missing in the NBA right now from the big men.  Also, he was groomed to be the number 1 pick.  I remember when they were talking about him in the 8th grade.  They won't let him be a flop.  He is suppose to be the one to take the reigns from Shaq.
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Nobody can be like Michael Jordan, you can make comparisons to it, but still MJ was the best and he has a legacy that almost nobody will touch. That being said, Kobe is already living a Jordanesque life in the NBA. Multiple Championships (with Shaq), countless buzzer-beaters, scoring over 35 ppg in a season, leading a team that would be otherwise bad to the playoffs. Keep #8 Kobe, it is YOUR legacy. When kids 20 years from now look back and say, who wore #8 in the NBA that was really good? Of course everyone will say... Kobe Bryant. Live you own NBA life Kobe, you dont need to be like Jordan with almost the same number, people compare the 2 of them anyway.
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Jordan transcended the game just as Oscar Robertson did in his time. To compare them is comparing apples and oranges...the game was different just as the game is played different today than when Jordan dominated. How much triangle offense do we see anymore? Zones in the NBA? Whoda thunk it?!?! There is nobody in the game right now that is transforming the game or taking it to another level. Until that guy comes along, we will all still talk about Jordan. I mean, how many NCAA women did you see dunk the ball in the 90's? Candace has taken the game to the next level. Who do you compare her to, Miller? The game was a lot different then.
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There is no next Jordan.  I can't see someone winning 6 NBA Finals MVP's in a row.\n\nKobe is the most similar player to Jordan that we have ever seen, more similar than James, or Carter, or Iverson, but I think James has more potential than Kobe.  James should have a better career than Kobe, but people who say James is the next Jordan are dumb cause his style isn't even close - he's more of a Magic Johnson - and he doesn't have the Air (Jumping skills) like Jordan or Kobe.
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As much as I love JJ and how well he played for Duke, I dont think he'll hit top 10. It will be very tough for a team to draft him in the top 10 because there are many big men in the draft and thats what teams need. I think he'll probably fall down to 12 or 13. Great shooter but not a great 1 v 1 player.
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yes why ask he has the record to show it he can come off a screen and make it on the run he can take a dribble or 2 and drain it comin from a bigg JJ fan i would say yes he hit a 34 footer agaist someone the other day it said on espn it was a long shot. he's awsome and the best 3 shooter in the ncaa noone can shoot as good as him off the screen
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I hope so!! I have Chauncy Billups and Richard Hamilton on my fantasy basketball team. Plus I've Liked Detroit for along time. Way back in their bad boy days!! Dennis Rodman!! Enough Said!!
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In my honest opinion, I say no. Even if he can score 35 points, the Detroit Pistons defense, which has been dominant for the last three seasons, will be able to keep this series a low scoring game.\n\nLeBron has only six NBA Playoff games experience going into this playoff series. Even if LeBron and the Cleveland Cavaliers don't win the series, LeBron will gain valuable experience.\n\nJust look at Michael Jordan it took him 8 NBA seasons to finally win his first NBA title. In the 1989 and 1990 seasons, he lost to the Detroit Pistons who were known as the bad boys of the NBA because their black-and-blue defense. The 1991 season was finally the year that Jordan won the title.\n\nAll LeBron needs is experience before they can beat the top teams in order to win the NBA title down the road.
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MJ was not the greatest player of all time.\n\nOscar was a better player, as were Wilt, Russell, Kareem, Larry and Magic (Shaq was also more dominant).\n\nNot only did Oscar average a triple-double for a season, he also had the following other seasons...\n\n30.1 ppg /  10.1 rpg /   9.7  apg  (rookie year)  /  1961\n 28.3 ppg  / 10.4 rpg  /  9.5  apg  /  1963\n31.4  ppg  /  9.9  rpg  / 11.0 apg  /  1964\n30,4 ppg  /  9.0  rpg  /  11.5 apg  /  1965\n\nIn 1962, he actually did average a triple double:\n\n30.8 ppg /  12.5 rbg  /  11.4  apg\n\nIn four of his first 5 years, he came within 1 rebound or 1 assist of averaging a triple double.\n\nEDIT-I just ran the numbers... during his first five years (384 games) Oscar averaged 30.3 points, 10.4 rebounds and 10.6 assists PER GAME.\n\n\nJordan played 32 games more than Robertson in his career (1,072 to 1,040), BUT  took almost  FIVE THOUSAND more shots (24,537 FGA for MJ, only 19,620 for the Big O..... so yeah, Jordan scored a little more. Who couldn't, with 5,000 extra shot attempts (plus, there was no three pointer when Oscar played).\n\nOnce again, proves my point that Jordan was the biggest ball hog of all time, bar none.  Jordan even took more shots that Wilt Chamberlain did... MJ took over 1,000 more shots than Wilt depsite playing almost 7,000 FEWER minutes.\n\nAt the time he retired, Oscar was 2nd on the all time scoring list, behind Wilt (about 5,000 points behind Wilt).\n\nHOOP FAN (see next post) - you're right... you'll recall I posted that exact question 2 weeks ago ("why is michael jordan the greatest player ever?"), and NO ONE came up with ONE credible reason why Jordan should be considered the best ever...   so it does appear that with the right combination of Gator Ade, Nike shoes and a few morons over at ESPN, one can BECOME the greatest player ever, even if he was never any such thing on an actual basketball court.
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it was 50.4 points per game, in 1962.\n\n4,029 pts in 80 games. (Jordan's highest scoring season was 3,041 points, almost 1,000 points behind).  Wilt  was 'held' to under 30 points only twice that year, both games, he scored in the twenties...\n\nHe also averaged 48.5 minutes per game that year.  He sat out only 8 minutes during the entire season, but played many more minutes of  overtime.\n\nThink Ilgauskas will ever match that?\n\n\nThe top single season scoring averages:\n\n1 / Wilt Chamberlain /50.36 / 1962\n2 / Wilt Chamberlain / 44.83 / 1963\n3 / Wilt Chamberlain /  38.39 /1961\n4 / Wilt Chamberlain  /37.60 /1960\n5 / Michael Jordan  / 37.09  / 1987\n6 / Wilt Chamberlain  / 36.85 / 1964\n\nElgin Baylor averaged 38 ppg in 1962, but was limited to 48 games that year due (mostly) to military service.\n\nJordan's so called 'scoring' feats are totally dwarfed by Chamberlain.   Wilt retired 33 years ago and he STILL has more 60 point games than everyone else in the history of the NBA combined.  (Wilt had 32, Jordan had only 4). There have been about 57 or 58 sixty point games.\n\nWilt also scored 50 pts in a game 122 times. Jordan did it 37 times.\n\nWilt, of course, had 6 seventy point games, including his 100 point game...a single triple... Jordan's career high was 69 (in overtime...MJ's career non-overtime high was only 64).\n\nWilt was also the only player ever to get more than 20 pts, 20 rebounds and 20 assists in the same game... a double-triple double.\n\nWilt had 7 straight 50 point games, 14 straight 40 point games, 65 straight 30 point games and 126 straight 20 point games.\n\nI could go on, but...\n\n\nkevin e - (see comment below)  ...  you couldn't be more wrong. There have been plenty of 'under 6 ft' players over the last 20 years, there were none when Wilt played.  Nate Archibald, a Hall of Fame guard, was nicknamed 'Tiny'... Archibald was 6'1"....Tiny was also the only player ever to lead the NBA in scoring and assists in the same year.\n\nYou have some tall centers now, but height doesn't mean anything. Ilgauskas is 7'3".  He SUCKS... Yao, at 7'4" ain't much either...\n\nShaq is the ONLY NBA center playing today how who is a sure-fire Hall of Famer. The only other center today who might make the Hall is Alonzo Mourning, but he's a bit of a long shot.  Ben Wallace has NO shot at the Hall of Fame, and he's 2nd team all NBA this year.\n\nThere are a ton of seven foot centers around now, but NONE of them are going to the Hall of Fame, except Shaq... because NONE of them can play basketball...\n\nThe Knicks center, against whom Wilt scored most of his points, was 6'11", just 2 inches shorter than Wilt's 7'1".  Plus, Wilt was always double and triple teamed from his first game in high school until the day he retired.\n\n Did Jordan, or Lebron James, ever score 100 points when the person guarding them was 2 inches shorter?  How about D-Wade?  What's HIS career high?\n\nFunny how you discount Wilt's stats because you (incorrectly) assume that he played against a bunch of short guys... yet you probably believe that Jordan was the greatest, just because he could score points against a bunch of high school kids...\n\nWilt retired in 1973.  The first center to make the Hall of Fame whom Wilt DIDN'T play against was Bill Walton, who was elected to the HOF in 1993, TWENTY years later...Walt Bellamy, another 6'11" short guy, was elected that same year...he was almost an exact contemporary of Wilt's.\n\nIn between, you had a string of Hall of Fame centers such as Bill Russell, Jerry Lucas, Willis Reed, Nate Thurmond, Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes, Dave Cowens, Bob Lanier... \n\nOther centers to make the HOF (after Walton)  whom Wilt played against were Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (another one of those short guys) and Bob McAdoo...\n\nPlus, with fewer teams then, Wilt had to go against Russell 8-10 ti
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Dunno. He has some sweet moves and he's tall as hell...but there are people who are better. You'd need to compare his stats after he plays more games.
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I don't think there might ever be another Jordan for a while, who knows? Some players in the NBA now that are almost at his level are: Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and I can't think of anyone else (I bet there's others though). I really don't think a rookie can match Jordan's level a year or two in the NBA... maybe even three (that's why I was a little hesitant to put LeBron, who is good, but not good enough to be called "King James"... that's just ridiculous!)
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Yes i do agree with you J.J Reddick is a man, but look at all that other players do to spark their team.. Villanova lost without Allan Ray. Anyways, there are tons of spot up shooters in the NBA so i think J.J. should work on other areas of his game (such as defense)