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Sman2011
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I'm thinking that the answer is yes. Here's a guy who was considered the King before he entered the league, and the league/media has marketed him that way ever since.
The league now astonishingly is trying to create a MJ/Lebron debate, but if you look at his accomplishments so far (and his failures) it becomes obvious that he's nothing close to being in Mj's league or even Kobe's.
Here's why Lebron is probably the most overrated player in league history:
Let's look at all Lebron's failures first compared to JOrdan's.
Jordan's failures or underachievements:
Personally I can't think of any Mj failures. He won 6 rings. 6 Finals Mvp's. 2 Gold medals. Hit every clutch shot imaginable....And never lost in International play to inferior talent. And never lost to an inferior NBA team in the playoffs. In fact, MJ has never lost in the playoffs when having home court advantage.
Lebron's Failures:
2 Bronze medals which is a HUGE embarrassment to U.S.A basketball....Shot 33 pct in the finals Against the Spurs getting Swept in 2007.....2008, played horribly in 2008 playoffs against Boston in 7 game series, shooting 34 pct in the series....Failed to get to the finals twice in Cleveland while having the best team/home court advantage in 2009 & 2010 losing to lesser teams in Boston and Orlando....This was despite having a 67 win team and 60 win team...2011 completely COLLAPSED & Humiliated himself in 2011 Finals against Dallas..
Somehow the media and Lebron fans don't count his many failures against him. It's as if they never happened....LOL...
Lebron's SUCCESSES ...Yes he has some success in the league. However when you look closely at them, they're almost all either tainted, exaggerated or built around pure media hype...
4 nba mvp's...Sounds nice, but this is an award that is voted on by a biased PC media...Awards voted on by media is pretty trite, compared to awards that are actually earned on the court....The MVP more than any other award has been completely tarnished beyond repair. Consider that Steve Nash has 2 mvp's, and Nowitzki 1 mvp (3 combined), and Shaq and Kobe have (2 combined)...This makes the Mvp award essentially worthless. Kobe and Shaq should have 8 Mvp's combined. Enough said.
2 Finals wins.....Seriously how hard is to win championships when you have 3 top players all in their prime decide to form and NBA allstar team to chase rings. And 5 great role players that hitched along for the ride to win rings as well (Battier, Allen, Birdman, Miller, Lewis)...
Plus the 2 rings are tainted as well. One of the rings was during an ASTERISK season, (partial season, no training camp, no exhibiiton season). And the other ring, Lebron CHOKED his balls off in game 6 ONLY to be saved by Ray Allen....
Furthermore Lebron's finals appearences are a complete Embarrassment compared to MJ's....Statisitcally, lebron has never scored 40 points. He's never averaged 30 points. In 4 finals he's never shot 50 pct. Lebron has only shot over 50 pct in 5 games out of 22 finals games...Lebron holds the record for biggest underachievement (finals dropoff) from the regular season in 2011 playoffs..(as he dropped 11 points off his regular season average down to 16 pts against Dallas)...
Mj one averaged 41 pts in the finals. Mj never averaged under 30 pts in the finals. Lebron has never even averaged 30 pts in the finals...This is laughable. Enough said.
Lebron also now considered a great defensive player LOL...The media says Lebron can guard 1-5 positions...WHAT? The guy is an average to good defenisve player at best. He has trouble guarding the 3 spot. Anyone who watched the playoffs this year saw he couldn't guard George. He couldn't guard Danny Green.....During the regular season he constantly got lit up by the best SF's (Melo, George, Durant, Deng)...
Lebron's defensive stats are mediocre. He doesn't block shots (less than 1 a game). He doesn't make a lot of steals less then 2 a game. Plus he doesn't play physical defense/man to man defense as evident by the fact that he doesn't get called for fouls...Yet the media wants to call him a great defender? Why? Nothing supports this.
Jordan used to get over 2.7 steals a game. Sometimes over 3 steals a game. Jordan used to actually get more blocked shots. And there's no comparison to the way Jordan or Kobe plays locked down defense compared to Lebron who is pretty soft defensively.
Yet the media will replay 1 defensive block (in garbage time) against a slow, unathletic white guy, and pretend Lebron is great defensively...
Statistically Lebron puts up great REGULAR season numbers. However his entire career has been 1 choke after another. 1 disappointment after another....
Another OVERRATED accomplishment Lebron gets credit for....Taking a garbage Cleveland team to the finals in 2007....First of all, he got Swept in the finals shooting 34 pct. Secondly, the East was awful that year. Thirdly, did lebron really carry a garbage team to the finals? Well if so, what were Lebron's stats in carrying them to the finals? 40 pts a game? Nope. 25.1 pts a game, shooting 41 pct in the playoffs. Apparently the team wasn't garbage if all it took was 25.1 pts a game on lousy shooting to get them in the finals.
Jordan and Kobe won LEGIT rings, with the same organization, with teams built around them....They never secretly got together with other SUPERSTARS in their prime to chase rings.
They Earned their rings and they never shyed away from the big moments like Lebron has their entire career.
Considering that Lebron's 2 rings are completely tainted: An Asterisk. And a bailout by Ray allen. Considering how taking the 2007 Garbage Cavs team to the finals is a myth. Considering that the season mvp's are meaningless. Considering that he's not a great defender at all. Considering that lebron has been awful under pressure his entire career. Considering that he embarrased himself in 2011 finals and nearly choked away 2013 finals only to be bailed out by Ray Allen....I say YES it's ridiculous to compare Lebron a guy who's failed and choked and underacheived so many times to MJ.
Till Lebron wins some legit rings, without choking under pressure, without Wade/Bosh/Ray Allen, No ONES IMPRESSED...
And FORGET about comparing him to MJ....That's long over. Maybe the media forgives Lebron for his many chokes, and bronze medals, but any true basketball historian doesn't...
The guy is simply the Most overrated, over Hyped player in league history.
Sorry, but the stats don't lie...
Deal with it!!!
Peace!!!
The league now astonishingly is trying to create a MJ/Lebron debate, but if you look at his accomplishments so far (and his failures) it becomes obvious that he's nothing close to being in Mj's league or even Kobe's.
Here's why Lebron is probably the most overrated player in league history:
Let's look at all Lebron's failures first compared to JOrdan's.
Jordan's failures or underachievements:
Personally I can't think of any Mj failures. He won 6 rings. 6 Finals Mvp's. 2 Gold medals. Hit every clutch shot imaginable....And never lost in International play to inferior talent. And never lost to an inferior NBA team in the playoffs. In fact, MJ has never lost in the playoffs when having home court advantage.
Lebron's Failures:
2 Bronze medals which is a HUGE embarrassment to U.S.A basketball....Shot 33 pct in the finals Against the Spurs getting Swept in 2007.....2008, played horribly in 2008 playoffs against Boston in 7 game series, shooting 34 pct in the series....Failed to get to the finals twice in Cleveland while having the best team/home court advantage in 2009 & 2010 losing to lesser teams in Boston and Orlando....This was despite having a 67 win team and 60 win team...2011 completely COLLAPSED & Humiliated himself in 2011 Finals against Dallas..
Somehow the media and Lebron fans don't count his many failures against him. It's as if they never happened....LOL...
Lebron's SUCCESSES ...Yes he has some success in the league. However when you look closely at them, they're almost all either tainted, exaggerated or built around pure media hype...
4 nba mvp's...Sounds nice, but this is an award that is voted on by a biased PC media...Awards voted on by media is pretty trite, compared to awards that are actually earned on the court....The MVP more than any other award has been completely tarnished beyond repair. Consider that Steve Nash has 2 mvp's, and Nowitzki 1 mvp (3 combined), and Shaq and Kobe have (2 combined)...This makes the Mvp award essentially worthless. Kobe and Shaq should have 8 Mvp's combined. Enough said.
2 Finals wins.....Seriously how hard is to win championships when you have 3 top players all in their prime decide to form and NBA allstar team to chase rings. And 5 great role players that hitched along for the ride to win rings as well (Battier, Allen, Birdman, Miller, Lewis)...
Plus the 2 rings are tainted as well. One of the rings was during an ASTERISK season, (partial season, no training camp, no exhibiiton season). And the other ring, Lebron CHOKED his balls off in game 6 ONLY to be saved by Ray Allen....
Furthermore Lebron's finals appearences are a complete Embarrassment compared to MJ's....Statisitcally, lebron has never scored 40 points. He's never averaged 30 points. In 4 finals he's never shot 50 pct. Lebron has only shot over 50 pct in 5 games out of 22 finals games...Lebron holds the record for biggest underachievement (finals dropoff) from the regular season in 2011 playoffs..(as he dropped 11 points off his regular season average down to 16 pts against Dallas)...
Mj one averaged 41 pts in the finals. Mj never averaged under 30 pts in the finals. Lebron has never even averaged 30 pts in the finals...This is laughable. Enough said.
Lebron also now considered a great defensive player LOL...The media says Lebron can guard 1-5 positions...WHAT? The guy is an average to good defenisve player at best. He has trouble guarding the 3 spot. Anyone who watched the playoffs this year saw he couldn't guard George. He couldn't guard Danny Green.....During the regular season he constantly got lit up by the best SF's (Melo, George, Durant, Deng)...
Lebron's defensive stats are mediocre. He doesn't block shots (less than 1 a game). He doesn't make a lot of steals less then 2 a game. Plus he doesn't play physical defense/man to man defense as evident by the fact that he doesn't get called for fouls...Yet the media wants to call him a great defender? Why? Nothing supports this.
Jordan used to get over 2.7 steals a game. Sometimes over 3 steals a game. Jordan used to actually get more blocked shots. And there's no comparison to the way Jordan or Kobe plays locked down defense compared to Lebron who is pretty soft defensively.
Yet the media will replay 1 defensive block (in garbage time) against a slow, unathletic white guy, and pretend Lebron is great defensively...
Statistically Lebron puts up great REGULAR season numbers. However his entire career has been 1 choke after another. 1 disappointment after another....
Another OVERRATED accomplishment Lebron gets credit for....Taking a garbage Cleveland team to the finals in 2007....First of all, he got Swept in the finals shooting 34 pct. Secondly, the East was awful that year. Thirdly, did lebron really carry a garbage team to the finals? Well if so, what were Lebron's stats in carrying them to the finals? 40 pts a game? Nope. 25.1 pts a game, shooting 41 pct in the playoffs. Apparently the team wasn't garbage if all it took was 25.1 pts a game on lousy shooting to get them in the finals.
Jordan and Kobe won LEGIT rings, with the same organization, with teams built around them....They never secretly got together with other SUPERSTARS in their prime to chase rings.
They Earned their rings and they never shyed away from the big moments like Lebron has their entire career.
Considering that Lebron's 2 rings are completely tainted: An Asterisk. And a bailout by Ray allen. Considering how taking the 2007 Garbage Cavs team to the finals is a myth. Considering that the season mvp's are meaningless. Considering that he's not a great defender at all. Considering that lebron has been awful under pressure his entire career. Considering that he embarrased himself in 2011 finals and nearly choked away 2013 finals only to be bailed out by Ray Allen....I say YES it's ridiculous to compare Lebron a guy who's failed and choked and underacheived so many times to MJ.
Till Lebron wins some legit rings, without choking under pressure, without Wade/Bosh/Ray Allen, No ONES IMPRESSED...
And FORGET about comparing him to MJ....That's long over. Maybe the media forgives Lebron for his many chokes, and bronze medals, but any true basketball historian doesn't...
The guy is simply the Most overrated, over Hyped player in league history.
Sorry, but the stats don't lie...
Deal with it!!!
Peace!!!