There have been many interviews with famous sports personalities, and in fact there have been thousands of Michael Jordon. But this interview just recently expresses why so many continue pointing to him as one of THOSE players.
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Michael Jordan himself said those words today, and there was a cheer in a room full of reporters.
People loved it.
You could feel, right then, that this quote would be played again and again.
But keep listening. He meant what he said, but he certainly did not mean it in the sense that he was trying to close the book on history. He was not declaring his supremacy over the best players of today or tomorrow.
What Jordan went on to explain, in response to Howard Beck’s question about Kobe Bryant and LeBron James (somewhere Dwyane Wade just got angry) was that there may well one day be players who are better than him, and he even allowed that there may already be.
His point was that there will not be another Michael Jordan. As in, the times have changed, the teams have changed, and the media has changed … so no one will do it like he did. But Jordan left the door wide open to someone being better than him.
When he hears that idea, he says, “I receive it as an opinion.” He points out that he never played against Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain and the like. “To say I’m better than these people is not for me to decide.”
[via ESPN]
And he’s right. There will be many basketball players. But how many with his work ethic, positive attitude and of course abilities. The coming together of everything that makes/made Michael Jordon the man for so many years.
I am not a huge NBA fan… in fact I’d say college ball trumps it any day. The showboating, bad press, outrageous egos. Yes Michael Jordon speaking plainly put the NBA in a better light then its been in, in YEARS.
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