nymets1 wrote:Mark Jackson mentioned that Lebron did shake hands before he subbed out of the game for the final time. Jordan didn't go up against a super team in his days that Lebron has to go up against the Warriors. Since the Warriors added Durant they got 4 all stars. No team in Jordan's era had 4 all stars on the same team and a solid bench.
I wish Lebron could stay in Cleveland if that roster can improve next year so I'm guessing Lebron goes to the 76ers. He can stay in the East and still be close to Cleveland kinda.
Jordan never jumped teams to chase rings or created superteams on his own. In first 3peat he had Pippen and Grant was good player ( two times allstar but mostly because of Jordan, not despite him playing with Jordan, career 11 ppg player) . Other 2 starters were Paxton and B.J. Armstrong, both below 10 ppg career players.
Stacey King, their starting PF in 1993 i think, averaged 5 ppg and 4 rpg.
In same 1992, Knicks who played 7 games series with them had better bench AND better starting lineup overall. Eving, Starks, Jackson, WIlkins and McDaniel. Starks wasn't even starter.
In nba finals Blazers had in regular seson 7 player who averaged ppgs in double digit , at times in his prime super elite Drextler, allstar Porter and guys like Kersey, Robinson, hell Danny Ainge himself off bench.
Next year Knicks were
61 wins team , met with Bulls in eastern conference as 1# seed on East. Bulls beat them in 6 games, than , again in nba finals Bulls didn't have home court adventage because they went against Suns ,who
won 62 games. Suns had FOUR players over 15 ppg , Kevin Johnson and Majerle were all allstars. So team of 3 allstars AND Richard Dumas, rookie who was projected to be star , at times ( 23 y.o), in rookie year averaged 16 ppg ( but hooked on drugs and ruined his career later ).
Yet , Bulls beat them, and that was year when Barkley finally admited Jordan is better than him.
Sorry but Bulls first 3 rings were against teams of allstars where they had MJ, really good but at times really not that great Pippen and solid Horace Grant and group of players nobody really knew nothing about.
When was last time Lebron met actual contender with 1 legit superstar of Ewing's magnitude with 2 other above average players - borderline allstars? Craptors? 35 years old KG and Celtics? Deng ,Rose and Boozer ?
His competition on East has been Paul Geroge, one leg Granger, 7'3 - 0 rpg ,0 ppg Hibbert and Oladipo, Bogdanovic, Turner and Thad Young.
In general, who was superstar that LEbron beat on East that is top 5 player in last 5 years? i really can't name anybody. Mostly becuse East doesn't have player apart from Lebron, that belongs in top 5 category ( maybe Giannis now? )
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