Stephon Marbury on Michael Jordan being the GOAT: 'Jordan shouldn't even be ranked, it should be Kobe, then LeBron'
Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson: Stephon Marbury on GOAT debate: “LeBron’s a great player. Don’t get me wrong. A great, great player. Unbelievable. Amazing. But better than Michael Jordan? – it’s not even the same. It’s just different. In fact, it needs no explanation or explaining because we can’t talk about Jordan’s game. It’s like we need to talk about what people are not. “People wanna rank Jordan? Jordan shouldn’t even be ranked. It should be Kobe, then LeBron and then you can pick guys after that. There’s just no comparison man. It’s not the same. It’s just different worlds. Different mentalities. I don’t know why Jordan’s name is mentioned in the same conversation sometimes. I’ll clear that up real quick…there’s really no need to talk about that.” – Via Scoop B RadioSource: x.com
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👀🇷🇸 Panathinaikos president Dimitris Giannakopoulos believes that excluding Michael Jordan, Nikola Jokic is the best basketball player ever! pic.x.com/lkvp7rjc42 – 11:53 AM
Jorge Sierra @hoopshype
🚨 HOOPSHYPE GOAT RANKING UPDATE 🚨
It’s finally happened: LeBron James moves past Michael Jordan on our list.
Only took 21 years.
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Players who became NBA & Olympic champions in the same season 👀
🇺🇸 LeBron James (2012)
🇺🇸 Michael Jordan (1992)
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🇺🇸 Khris Middleton (2021)
🇺🇸 Jrue Holiday (2021,2024)
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Michael Jordan and Larry Bird combined during the 1992 Olympics (8 games):
13-of-46 from 3PT territory
Steph Curry in the semi-final and Gold Medal game (2 games):
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Mike Vorkunov @MikeVorkunov
No re-do of Michael Jordan in 1992, when he draped an American flag over the Reebok logo on his Team USA jacket. Steph Curry (Under Armour), Anthony Edwards (Adidas), and Joel Embiid (Skechers) wore their Team USA Jackets and left the Nike swoosh untouched nytimes.com/athletic/live-… – 6:11 PM
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Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson: Stephon Marbury on Kareem, Bill Russell, MJ as GOATS: “I mean, as the best player. Those guys, Kareem and Bill Russell – somebody had to give them the basketball to do what they do. Jordan got the ball and that was it. Those guys – Kareem, Bill Russell and Shaq… those are the type of guys that are different specimens on Earth that played the game. Jordan is not. Jordan is NOT from Earth. That’s different. He’s not the same.“ Via Scoop B Radio -via x.com / August 13, 2024
However, Shaquille O’Neal posits that the legend who played for a lot of teams in the league should be given a shot. This is despite Basketball Reference only giving a 7% shot at actually getting in, via The Big Podcast with Shaq. “Despite all the BS, they put us through. You don’t have a championship, you don’t have a ring over here, forget all that. You were a great high school player, you were a great college player, you were a great NBA player, and I think you’re a Hall of Famer and worthy. That’s coming from the heart, not just because you’re on the podcast,” the legendary big man said. -via Clutch Points / July 3, 2024
Stephon Marbury: “Now I’m 19 years old and I’m living where there’s 6% black people and it snows. It’s 10,000 lakes, it’s cold, it’s like 40 below every day in the winter time. It’s Black Ice. It’s so many different challenges in the life of how you live and you know this is a place where I wasn’t familiar with. I grew up in a melting pot in New York where it’s black, white, Chinese, Puerto Rican, all different types of people that I grew up with. And then I leave, I go to school in Atlanta where it’s predominantly black people when I go to Georgia Tech. And then now I leave school and now I go to Minnesota where it’s predominantly white people.” -via YouTube / June 3, 2024
BasketNews: Who would be on your all-time Team USA starting five? Carmelo Anthony: Myself, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, and then I would have to go to Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan would be that but, for USA I would put Charles Barkley. So that like that would be kind of my starting five: Barkley, myself, Durant, LeBron, Kobe. When you say overall I mean what he did with the ’92 team would never be done but the fact that he only played in that the one Olympics I’m looking at guys who had a career in FIBA basketball, and with Barkley, he also played one or two… If I had to use the same rule for MJ then I probably would choose Jason Kidd instead of Barkley. I think a lot of people wouldn’t expect Jason Kidd to be thrown in there but yeah those are those are the five. -via YouTube / August 10, 2024
In that vein, Cassell believes “The Dream” would have had his way with any defender the Bulls had on their roster during that time. Remember, the Bulls didn’t have Dennis Rodman back then, as he joined the organization in 1995. Instead, they had the likes of Horace Grant, Luc Longley, Stacey King, and Will Perdue. “They had Michael Jordan that no one could stop, right? But we had that African that no one could stop,” Cassell told Darius Miles and Quentin Richardson. -via Basketball Network / August 7, 2024
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