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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
I'm not comparing him to Kobe. Other people are bringing him up when I've already acknowledged LeBron is past him.
And no, I doubt LeBron passes MJ. And based on what we've seen, it is not very, very real unless he plays every playoff series the way he has against the Pacers. And no, his road to the playoffs the past 2 years is outrageously bad, especially when you consider how cold and unprepared OKC was.
LeBron has nothing to put him up against Jordan yet. You are talking about a guy who was regularly putting up 30's, 40's, and often times 50's, and won 6 championships (against much tougher competition). He has a VERY long way to go to beat Jordan.
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Not sure what you're talking about. These games aren't sustainable. You can't do that in every playoff game. He breaks these games out when they're needed. Against indy last year, he had a 40, 19, 9 game after bosh went out; the 45 point outburst came when the whole world was getting ready to kill him and the heat for getting eliminated. Dude stepped up, and stepped up BIG.
OKC had durant/westbrook/harden - that's 3 superstar talents + the defensive player of the year and they got spanked.
By what metric are you suggesting "tougher" competition? Last I checked, the thibodeau style defenses common in the nba now that specialize in making it hard for individual scorers to go off weren't exactly common in Jordan's era.