ESPN's 'The Last Dance' -- ongoing discussion

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Re: ESPN's 'The Last Dance' -- ongoing discussion 

Post#1061 » by The Rodzilla » Mon May 18, 2020 1:48 pm

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Sgt Major wrote:Lol he didn't find Kukoc in a forest or a desert. Toni played for Yugoslavia and, later, Croatia and Yugoslavian team that won three Euroleague titles in a row, so he wasn't really a hidden gem. The Balkans gave a lot of excellent players that left their mark in the NBA and Toni is still the best among them.


every other nba team didn't pick him


Ignorance is harmful.


not explaining why someone is ignorant is harmful

jordan obviously didn't think anything of him and wanted to prove a point that he was nothing, so lets go with that
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Post#1062 » by BodieB » Mon May 18, 2020 1:49 pm

So apparently Lebron fans are melting down but all I ever see in these posts is Jordan fans talking about Lebron. What's with this hypocrisy?
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Post#1063 » by -TheDocOfDenial » Mon May 18, 2020 1:52 pm

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-TheDocOfDenial wrote:ESPN is the worldwide hate for LeBron yet they just had him #2 all time over Magic and Kareem, two players who had a lot more career success while having all time peaks themselves.

ESPN the same company that has had multiple LeBron trackers and employ writers who put out hit pieces from LeBron.

The meltdown is due to the fact that this series has elevated Jordan even higher than LeBron and his fans can't handle that a new generation of kids will think what the majority of NBA fans already knew and thought, LeBron is not the GOAT.


they track LeBron so they can hate on him, they want all the dirt they can get

"Lebron had corn flakes for breakfast which means that he doesn't have the killer instinct like Jordan did"



You do realize how ridiculous you sound right now right? ESPN pumps out LeBron content at a much greater pace than any other NBA player and does these MJ comparisons to generate views. Not my fault LeBron comes up on the short end of the stick compared to MJ. If they ranked LeBron like 11th on the all time list I might be inclined to believe you though.
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Re: ESPN's 'The Last Dance' -- ongoing discussion 

Post#1064 » by jc23 » Mon May 18, 2020 1:53 pm

https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2020/05/espn-to-exclusively-televise-game-6-the-movie-this-wednesday/

seems like espn just wants to keep the train rollin but ill watch. Be nice to watch the game in HD, doubt that will be the case.
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Post#1065 » by The Rodzilla » Mon May 18, 2020 2:03 pm

-TheDocOfDenial wrote:You do realize how ridiculous you sound right now right? ESPN pumps out LeBron content at a much greater pace than any other NBA player and does these MJ comparisons to generate views. Not my fault LeBron comes up on the short end of the stick compared to MJ. If they ranked LeBron like 11th on the all time list I might be inclined to believe you though.


they do the comparisons to MJ to generate sales for Jordan branded shoes

MJ is too old now to play basketball so the only way to keep reminding people how great MJ was is to keep reminding people how great MJ was

of course they cover LeBron and give him credit, but they are on the same mission as skip bayless
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Post#1066 » by jc23 » Mon May 18, 2020 2:05 pm

BodieB wrote:So apparently Lebron fans are melting down but all I ever see in these posts is Jordan fans talking about Lebron. What's with this hypocrisy?


It just takes one troll post to set a thread off for a few pages and thats what i have seen for the most part. But you got jordan troll fans too, the troll disease does not discriminate.
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Post#1067 » by -TheDocOfDenial » Mon May 18, 2020 2:08 pm

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-TheDocOfDenial wrote:You do realize how ridiculous you sound right now right? ESPN pumps out LeBron content at a much greater pace than any other NBA player and does these MJ comparisons to generate views. Not my fault LeBron comes up on the short end of the stick compared to MJ. If they ranked LeBron like 11th on the all time list I might be inclined to believe you though.


they do the comparisons to MJ to generate sales for Jordan branded shoes

MJ is too old now to play basketball so the only way to keep reminding people how great MJ was is to keep reminding people how great MJ was

of course they cover LeBron and give him credit, but they are on the same mission as skip bayless


Yea because ESPN makes money off Jordan brand sales and not TV RATINGS FOR CURRENT NBA GAMES.
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Post#1068 » by Sprewell4Three » Mon May 18, 2020 2:09 pm

Kukoc was very good but there’s not many instances that really stood out to me. MJ , Scottie and Rodman were the ones that stood out to me the most from what I remember.
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Post#1069 » by The Rodzilla » Mon May 18, 2020 2:21 pm

-TheDocOfDenial wrote:
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-TheDocOfDenial wrote:You do realize how ridiculous you sound right now right? ESPN pumps out LeBron content at a much greater pace than any other NBA player and does these MJ comparisons to generate views. Not my fault LeBron comes up on the short end of the stick compared to MJ. If they ranked LeBron like 11th on the all time list I might be inclined to believe you though.


they do the comparisons to MJ to generate sales for Jordan branded shoes

MJ is too old now to play basketball so the only way to keep reminding people how great MJ was is to keep reminding people how great MJ was

of course they cover LeBron and give him credit, but they are on the same mission as skip bayless


Yea because ESPN makes money off Jordan brand sales and not TV RATINGS FOR CURRENT NBA GAMES.


they might make money off jordan brand sales

multiple espn personalities have confirmed that MJ calls them up and tells them what to say
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Post#1070 » by Sgt Major » Mon May 18, 2020 2:21 pm

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every other nba team didn't pick him


Ignorance is harmful.


not explaining why someone is ignorant is harmful

jordan obviously didn't think anything of him and wanted to prove a point that he was nothing, so lets go with that


Not your ignorance, but that the other GMs had back in the day, by not looking for European talents.

Jordan's first impression of Toni, before he even met the man, was that he was the guy who was Krause's pick to replace Pippen so that's why he went after him in the beginning. Toni obviously stood up to that challenge and made himself an important part of the Bulls.
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Post#1071 » by -TheDocOfDenial » Mon May 18, 2020 2:23 pm

The Rodzilla wrote:
-TheDocOfDenial wrote:
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they do the comparisons to MJ to generate sales for Jordan branded shoes

MJ is too old now to play basketball so the only way to keep reminding people how great MJ was is to keep reminding people how great MJ was

of course they cover LeBron and give him credit, but they are on the same mission as skip bayless


Yea because ESPN makes money off Jordan brand sales and not TV RATINGS FOR CURRENT NBA GAMES.


they might make money off jordan brand sales

multiple espn personalities have confirmed that MJ calls them up and tells them what to say


As opposed to LeBron calling up his buddies dave and windy to put out his pieces on kyrie or leak the 2018 hand injury.
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Post#1072 » by The Rodzilla » Mon May 18, 2020 2:28 pm

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Yea because ESPN makes money off Jordan brand sales and not TV RATINGS FOR CURRENT NBA GAMES.


they might make money off jordan brand sales

multiple espn personalities have confirmed that MJ calls them up and tells them what to say


As opposed to LeBron calling up his buddies dave and windy to put out his pieces on kyrie or leak the 2018 hand injury.


that's like when fox news had the colmes guys to act like they were being fair and balanced

the ESPN is completely in favour of jordan, enjoy the game 6 movie and then daily discussion about why LeBron is not as good as jordan
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Re: ESPN's 'The Last Dance' -- ongoing discussion 

Post#1073 » by prolific passer » Mon May 18, 2020 2:33 pm

I'm nba TV and fs1 are kicking themselves for not picking up the documentary. Probably nbc sports as well considering Jordan's success came when the nba was on nbc.
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Post#1074 » by -TheDocOfDenial » Mon May 18, 2020 2:33 pm

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they might make money off jordan brand sales

multiple espn personalities have confirmed that MJ calls them up and tells them what to say


As opposed to LeBron calling up his buddies dave and windy to put out his pieces on kyrie or leak the 2018 hand injury.


that's like when fox news had the colmes guys to act like they were being fair and balanced

the ESPN is completely in favour of jordan, enjoy the game 6 movie and then daily discussion about why LeBron is not as good as jordan


I will, because my life is not fixated on deluding myself and proving to others that LeBron is indeed better than Jordan.
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Post#1075 » by The Rodzilla » Mon May 18, 2020 2:41 pm

-TheDocOfDenial wrote:I will, because my life is not fixated on deluding myself and proving to others that LeBron is indeed better than Jordan.


my life is excellent and I almost had sex last week
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Post#1076 » by The Rodzilla » Mon May 18, 2020 3:00 pm

also they tried to attack dennis rodman for going to WCW instead of practice and were acting as if the nwo situation wasn't as important

the nWo wolfpac was making so many moves, bringing in lex luger and sting so it was an emergency situation for nWo Hollywood, they needed to stop the momentum and it worked because DDP was also about to join the wolfpac until rodman came out and hit him with the chair in the back
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Post#1077 » by HMFFL » Mon May 18, 2020 3:10 pm

Toni and Steve Kerr were shown enough. Each of them had plenty of time and talked up for their parts to the dynasty's success.

Jordan had this to say about Jerry Krause:

When Krause passed in 2017, Jordan issued a statement calling him “a key figure in the Bulls’ dynasty” who “meant so much to the Bulls, the White Sox and the entire city of Chicago” before offering condolences to Krause’s family.

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Post#1078 » by HMFFL » Mon May 18, 2020 3:25 pm

The Rodzilla wrote:the ESPN is completely in favour of jordan, enjoy the game 6 movie and then daily discussion about why LeBron is not as good as jordan


A few years back I stopped watching ESPN because of how bias they're towards Lebron James.
The Last Dance comes out during the situation in the world right now and you act as if ESPN is always/has been about Jordan.


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Post#1079 » by The_Brecht » Mon May 18, 2020 3:54 pm

It's really fun to just appreciate greatness when you watch it.
Some of you should really try it.
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Post#1080 » by Sprewell4Three » Mon May 18, 2020 3:57 pm

So we all come to the agreement that Jordan was hard on his teammates because of the battles he had to go through with the Pistons?

Those Pistons teams really shaped MJs killer mentality during the 90s. He said it himself in 96 that players were joking around during training camp and MJ didn’t appreciate that because he knew that wouldn’t cut it when the Bulls faced tough teams like Knicks and Pacers.

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