How big is the gap between James and Jordan? The real situation is unimaginable

It has not been updated for a long time recently. Many of the top brothers on the list asked me where I went. The reason was that I had a minor cornea surgery and had been resting for more than half a month. Now it has been completely cured. I can continue to write articles for all the top brothers on the list. Oli gives it!

During this period of rest, many top brothers on the list sent me private messages. I think the question raised by one of the older brothers named "Innocent Tianya" is very good and representative. He asked, "James always regarded himself as GOAT and was ridiculed by fans and players. He has not experienced the Jordan era, so he wants to know how big the gap is between James and Jordan."

How to say the difference between these two people seems very small, but in fact it is unimaginable. For example, I have watched the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty". These two people are The gap is the difference between Zheng Chunhua and Ji Chunhua. Wang Yan, the former fourth brother, said Zheng Chunhua was dead. This should be replaced by Ji Chunhua. If you don’t dismantle your bones, you will stick your glue firmly...

This topic is actually a topic that Fireworks Jun has always wanted to write, but he has never started writing. After he recovered, he will just swing his first knife to James. Fireworks Jun mainly compares the gap between James and Jordan from three aspects. In terms of the arena, the spiritual core and off-field influence. Let’s first look at the first comparison content -

1: stadium comparison.

Let’s give you honors first, which is the most intuitive. Jordan has 6 championships, 6 FMVPs, 5 regular season MVPs, 10 scoring champions, James has 4 championships, 4 FMVPs, 4 regular season MVPs, 1 scoring champion. As for other small honors, they can’t make any moves on such occasions.

Not to mention anything else, in terms of honor competition alone, the gap between James and Jordan is very obvious. There is at least one gap between Kevin Durant and Allen Iverson. The former has 2 championships, 2FMVP + 1 regular season MVP and 4 scoring champions, the latter has 1 MVP + 4 scoring champions, and James + Durant and Iverson combined to barely tie Jordan in honor. Therefore, in this link, James lost completely, and even Jordan could not get the edge.

But at this time, Zhan Mi always stood up and said, why don’t you mention James’ 411 project? Jordan is the highest mountain in the NBA, and James is the longest river in the NBA!

What river is there?

Freshly sand river.

Evaluating a player's true strength and historical status, the intercepting of the highest level that a player can reach in the peak season. Long service life does not mean strong ability. The turtle can live for a thousand years, but no one has ever said that the turtle is Goat in the Beast. Someone wants to say that when Carter was inducted into the Hall of Fame and retired from the Raptors' Nets, many people mentioned that he was the first-time NBA at that time. Why did James not work well? What level is

Carter? What are the levels of James and Jordan?

The honors in Carter's hands are only available in two sets and three sets. This honor cannot be on the table in front of James and Jordan. At the Raptors' jersey retirement ceremony, Ticarter has to mention his four All-Star vote kings and violent aesthetic dunks and other unenergized honors, what else can he mention without mentioning his long-term service?

Tell me why he broke up with the Raptors back then and how he lost his goal to the Raptors' home fans?

Besides, James has never been able to compare with Jordan, and he has already been slapped in the left face. If you mention 411 at this time, it is equivalent to James stretching his right face over again. Let's just say that, Jordan's career has been 15 years (only 13 years of serious play, but his Wizards' career does not count), and won six championships. James' career is about to break through 23 years, with 4 championships. Let's not talk about other messy things. Just look at this, who do you think is good?

Of course, the stadium factor is not only a competition of honors, but also a specific stadium performance. In this regard, we have to mention a crucial factor, that is -

Beauty!

Yes, you read that right, it's just beauty.

Any sport must have enough beauty. In addition to the results, those who like to watch running should also like to watch the athlete's smooth running posture and the beauty of muscle force. Those who like to watch volleyball will always appreciate the beauty of the athlete's smash and blocking when jumping at the limit. Those who like to watch boxing should also appreciate the violent aesthetics of the athlete's punches and muscle collisions, not to mention gymnastics, synchronized swimming, and artistic gymnastics are purely sports events that serve beauty.

Love beauty is human nature. I have never seen anything before. When fans see it, they feel disgusted. They either want to pull or vomit. They can develop the exercise of urinating when they see it.

Jordan plays very beautifully. He dribbles smoothly and makes sharp breakthroughs, while his dunks are both powerful and elegant. Before Carter emerged, Jordan has always occupied the throne of the king of dunks. His dunk posture has even become the exclusive logo of some sports brands!

But what is more important is Jordan's picturesque shooting. His shooting posture is the most standard and beautiful posture in two-stage shooting. In that era when the entertainment media was not developed and ordinary people could not look down on several games a year, countless teenagers born in the 1980s and 1990s would learn to imitate Jordan's shooting posture over and over again on the court under the sunset after school..

You should know that in that era, players' salaries were generally not high, as strong as Jordan, and his salary was only 850,000, which was the highest salary in the Bulls. The price of private trainers was very expensive, and ordinary players could not afford it. Although Jordan's salary was not high, he received an additional 2.28 million because of Nike's 4.5% equity dividend that year, and all Grover's expenses were also paid by Jordan.

In Jordan's entire career, he has never given up any teammates. Scott Pippen, the stadium gangster Charles Oakley, the big gangster who was swept out by the Spurs, Rodman, the big bug who was despised by the entire league, Horece Grant, who looked fierce but fragile inside, Luke Longley, who was almost unable to hit the ball before coming to the Bulls, etc., all of these people were shining around Jordan, and they played super high levels beyond their own.

And Jordan himself never thought of giving up his teammates in Chicago. After the team lost, he never complained about his teammates in public, and he took all the responsibility himself. Most of his conflicts with the team were only related to the arbitrary behavior of general manager Klaus. After three years of hard work, Jordan finally defeated the Pistons in the fourth year and won the championship! Is this story very inspiring? Are there any storylines that countless fans who love basketball have fantasized about in their hearts countless times? Because Fireworks' language is too scarce, it is impossible to show Jordan's tenacity back then. Perhaps, the top brothers on the list can understand Jordan's spiritual core from the big score between the Bulls and the Pistons in the past three years - the second round of the 1988 playoffs, the Bulls 1:4 Pistons.

1989 Eastern Conference Finals, the Bulls 2:4 Pistons.

1990 Eastern Conference Finals, the Bulls 3:4 Pistons.

gritted his teeth and trained hard for three years, but he lost to the same opponent every year. He would have collapsed long ago, but Jordan was not an ordinary person. He persisted and only won one more game a year than the previous year. I also had to persist! I can accept my failure, but I will never accept surrender! In the end, Jordan achieved success, and Jordan truly deserved the sixteen words -

"Don't admit defeat, don't admit defeat, don't abandon, don't give up"!

After reading Jordan, let me see James again. I will explain in advance that Fireworks is not James. I actually like James very much, but if I tell James' resume, it will be like I want to criticize him.

The most criticized content is that James is joining together. When it comes to James joining together, we have to talk about the three Heat in 2010. After Wade retired, he talked about what happened in the summer of 2010 in a blog show. That summer, Riley gave Wade the names of ten stars with outstanding abilities and able to win the championship with Wade. Riley was responsible for the operation. Among these ten names are Chris Bosh, but not LeBron James, because in the eyes of Wade and everyone, although James is free and has outstanding strength, he is simply impossible for him to leave Cleveland.

Then Bosh was successfully operated to Miami. Then the next evening, James called Wade and said that we would create a big scene together. No one could refuse the temptation to partner with James. In this way, James came to Miami and formed the Big Three.

From the time node, what Wade said is not false. Bosh officially announced his joining the Heat on July 7, 2010. Two days later, on July 9, James decided to 1.0 in a national live broadcast and announced his joining the Heat. At this time node, fans should not only consider one issue, that is -

If Bosh does not come to Miami, will James come?

When James decided to 1.0, he was only 25 years old and was in the golden period of his career. Logically speaking, this age is the age when he is the strongest in his life, the highest spirit, and the least unyielding person. However, James was timid in his heart. He believed that he did not have the ability to lead a single core team to win the championship, so he took the initiative to abandon his old Cavaliers teammates and chose to partner with more powerful teammates, which is what the fans always said, to join in.

Coincidentally, Jordan's 25-year-old officially kicked off his first playoff beat by the Pistons. The two of them had a four-year career that followed was like polarization. James relied on his superstar teammates to lead or help the Heat to reach the Finals for four consecutive years and win the championship twice. However, Jordan has been beaten by the Pistons in the past four years but has never given up on his defeat. He took one step at a time, stared at his eyes, gritted his teeth, and forced himself to pass the Pistons and completed the championship!

The spiritual core of the two people is a clear judgment.

Not to mention that Jordan won two consecutive championships after that, which made many superstars of his generation such as Ewing, Utah's two elders, Barkley and others regretted their lives because they had no championships in their careers. It was not an exaggeration to say that they had dominated an entire era. James relied on his superstar teammates who came together to win only two championships. Later, seeing Wade aging and Bosh was injured, James decisively ran away.

During the 2.0 period of James Cavaliers and the early days of the Lakers, they always had superstars. In fact, James has never proved that he had the ability to win the championship without the help of superstar teammates. This is also mixed with various favorable operations of James' younger brother Ricci Paul. James said that Ricci Paul's operation has nothing to do with him. Do you believe this or do you believe that I am Qin Shihuang?

Seeing this, some fans want to say that the reason why James ran around in his career is that the team does not support James and cannot bring good teammates to James.

They said this purely to excuse James.

In fact, all teams that get James must do one thing, which is to sign all kinds of crazy recruits and sell future assets in various ways, just to get instant combat power for James. This is also impossible. At its peak, James always signed a 1+1 contract, and except for this summer, he did not execute player options every year. This year's short contract is like the sword of Damos hanging over the management. Once you don't do your best to serve James, James will immediately threaten to leave. Who can bear it? In order to keep James, the team had to offer various LJ contracts.

So whether it is the Cavaliers 1.0 or 2.0, or the Heat stage, as long as James leaves, the team will immediately be full of hair, or say something different. Because there are too many unreasonable contracts, the team is about to be full of hair, so James leaves.

Take the Cavaliers 1.0 period as an example. The Cavaliers, a team in the smallest NBA market before the Thunder, have never known what luxury tax is since 1977, and have never paid it. The team's total salary is among the last few in the NBA every year.

In 2006, James had just seen his superstar potential in his third year of his career, so the Cavaliers increased their investment, ranking 16th in the league that year, and began to pay luxury taxes in 2007. By the three years since James left in 2010, the Cavaliers' total salary rankings were fourth, third and fifth in the league. All teams in the top of the Cavaliers were big-market teams such as the Lakers, New York, and Celtics.

The Cavaliers back then could be said to be a tough guy for James, but in the end, James went to Miami to study for university in 2010.

In the entire career, James has been in the top ten teams in luxury tax. James has reached the finals 10 times in his career, but since the year against the Thunder in 2012, until the finals against the Warriors in the last year of the Cavaliers in 2019, James' team's salary has been higher than the opponent in the past 8 years! In addition to joining the group, there is also an important reason for those three championships, which is pure salary crushing, among which James' younger brother Ricci Paul has put in a lot of effort.

In this way, James also said shamelessly in a show that he had never been in a super team.

You have never been there, so I have been there?

The top brother on the list is going to ask again, high salary does not necessarily mean strong strength. The management has just got some LJ contracts in, and it is Barbara. This has to talk about another difference between James and Jordan.

The stars who cooperated with Jordan all have their career highlights because of their partnership with Jordan. After retiring, all teammates were convinced by Jordan (except Pippen, awkwardly criticizing Jordan for selling books), no one dared to question Jordan's ability and leadership in private or public places.

Most of the stars who cooperated with James have been pulled, such as Larry Hughes, Chris Bosh, Kevin Love, etc., and Wade is nicknamed by fans as "the only superstar in the NBA who won the championship and his historical status has declined." A considerable proportion of the players who cooperated with James have turned against him after they retired, such as Haslem, Sean Bathir, O'Neal, Chalmos, etc., who intentionally or unintentionally connoted James in the face of interviews, and there are a lot of similar news searches.

People play well in their own team, why do they get stuck as soon as they work with you? Don't you reflect on it? Although Jordan has strong personal offensive ability, under the influence of Zen masters, he also understands the importance of team basketball. Many people have never seen how the Bulls played back then. In the first three quarters, Jordan basically restrained his teammates and allowed his teammates to play in triangular offense. The opponent could not withstand it. Jordan clocked in and got off work in the third quarter. If the opponent resisted, Jordan started to harvest the game in the fourth quarter. Basically, the Bulls played this routine.

And James, I would like to call it "extreme personal heroism that averages 7 assists per game". Although he has many assists, most of them are obtained by breaking points. He rushed in and attracted double teams to throw them out, and the scorers threw three-pointers. James has been in control of the ball for a very long time, so the No. 1 position of all the teams he has stayed in has become a puppet of the ball control.

The people mentioned above, Bosh, Love, Jones, etc. No matter what kind of star you are, as long as you partner with James, they will be deprived of the ball and offensive power, and will degenerate into a role player. If a big tree is used as a metaphor, James is the trunk, and everyone else is the branches extended from the trunk, all of which are serving James' data.

There are always James who criticized James for not daring to take responsibility at critical moments and always passing the ball. James used James's overall view and playing reasonable basketball as an excuse. In fact, in Fireworks' view, this is the performance of James' mental strength not strong enough, he dared not take the responsibility of the leader, and his offensive ability was seriously overestimated. If he threw it to you, you shot, it means that James is right. I have an excellent view of the overall situation. You didn't make it, and his teammate CBA.

Think about this question on the other hand, if James' offensive ability is really top in history, he can score 100% confidently in the face of single defense or double teams, why doesn't he play by himself? I still dare not take responsibility for it and have no confidence, so I pass the ball. Bathir once said in a show that players get more salary, and the greater the responsibility they have. Those who get 30 million dare not take responsibility. If you give 3 million yuan to do this job, you will get all the money and I will be beaten by scolding. This is unreasonable!

Maybe it's because my eyes are just right and I'm a little excited. I'll write too much if I accidentally write. There is still a third aspect that I haven't said, but it's just over 6,000 words. It's stinky and long. So let's talk about the third aspect of the off-field factor-

3. Off-field factor.

Off-court factors are divided into two parts: off-court market value and fan influence. Let’s talk about the first one first, market value.

Now it is said that James has a high market value. Who is comparing this point to? Compared with Jordan who played back then, that is, the stars are better than the bright moon, the ants are better than the sky, the slow horse is better than the Qilin, the jackdaw is better than the phoenix, and the fireworks is better than James. Don’t doubt that the gap between the two is so big!

You should know that when Jordan retired for the first time, it caused great economic shocks in the United States and even the world. The New York Economic Times said: Jordan's retirement was the most destructive retirement in the history of modern sports, and a huge blow to the US financial industry!

The focus is on the finance industry, not the sports industry.

On the day Jordan announced his retirement, Nike's stock price plummeted by 4% in a single day. In the first year after his retirement, Nike's full product sales plummeted by 30%, the Bulls' home ticket revenue plummeted by 60%, and the market value directly evaporated by US$1 billion. Chicago's tourism industry suffered a heavy blow. Many factories, shops, enterprises and hotels that make a living from tourists and basketball industry went bankrupt and went bankrupt on a large scale. A rough count of Jordan's retirement this time brought more than US$10 billion to Chicago!

You must know that it was US$10 billion in 1994!

The off-court factors are even more bleak and despairing. The Japanese broadcast contract signed by Stern Fighter Barra was directly destroyed, and the amount of European broadcast contracts dropped sharply by 40%. Director Ma Guoli, the sports department of ZY TV, recalled: "In 1994, we almost stopped broadcasting the NBA because the game without Jordan's ratings were not as good as table tennis. "What's even worse is that as many as 16 NBA partners collectively sued the NBA, demanding that the NBA compensate for endorsement losses of more than US$20 billion!

Even a White House spokesperson said that Jordan's retirement was a huge blow to the US economy and culture!

, and the NBA League's TV ratings plummeted by 30%, with a total attendance rate of less than 60%. The ratings of the 1993-1994 Finals Rockets VS Knicks Series were directly pulled back to the level in 1971! Knicks boss and ITT Industrial Group president Chris complained that Jordan's retirement allowed the bosses of all teams in the league to make 100 million less money!

From this incident, Chris saw the shortcomings of professional sports. In 1997, he sold all the sports businesses under the group, including the NBA League's New York Knicks, the New York Rangers of the Hockey League, Madison Garden Plaza, the home court of the two teams, as well as the racing business, etc., to media tycoon Charles Dolan.

The big-market team is still like this, and the small-market team can't stand it. Faced with the plunge in the turnover, many teams changed their goals. In 1994, Timberwolves owner Harvey Letterner sold the team to the big-market boss of the printing industry for $94 million. In the same year, the Warriors changed hands for $130 million in media tycoon Chris Cohan.

In 1995, the Heat, which had only been established for eight years, could not hold on anymore. Many small shareholders sold Heat shares. One of them, a shareholder named Mickey Allison, quickly bought the bottom and invested more than 30 million to acquire all the shares of the Heat. In addition, teams such as the Rockets, Kings, Bucks, and Mavericks all had poor operations due to their plummeting income and were on the verge of bankruptcy.

However, there is also a good thing. After May 22, 1994, the sales of TVs increased by 30%. Because the Bulls were eliminated by the Knicks on this day, many Bulls fans could not accept that the Bulls were eliminated by repeatedly defeating the Knicks, and smashed the TV in anger...

Lakers legend Magic Johnson mentioned Jordan's retirement, but suddenly lost control of his emotions and knelt on the ground and cried. He morally kidnapped Jordan on the ground for the unemployment of 6 million people, begging Jordan to make a comeback! You should know that Johnson is a superstar with an estimated 4-6th ranking in NBA history! The fact that Johnson was so out of control showed Jordan's card appearance and influence at that time was a real plot that was played out in the past.

On March 18, 1995, all American TV stations temporarily stopped broadcasting, and all cut to the scene of a press conference. This is the fourth time that the American TV media industry has broadcast live across the United States. Previously, this situation only occurred in the death of Nixon, the outbreak of the Gulf War, and the Great Los Angeles earthquake! At the press conference, Jordan announced his return with a sentence "i 'm back". On that day, the Nike Dow Jones Index soared by 125 points, and its market value rose directly by 2.3 billion. All the Bulls tickets and packages were sold out in one day. Because there were too many people pouring into the newly established Bulls official website, the server collapsed and paralyzed...

Let me ask, how could such a powerful market influence be comparable to that of a little James?

To be honest, one of the main reasons why Jordan had such high popularity and commercial value at that time was that the carriers of the news media were relatively backward, and fans only received information from TV, newspapers, radio stations and the Internet, which was still in its infancy.

Now, the conditions for information interoperability are very mature and developed. Fans are very easy and convenient to obtain information. If you want to get any information, you only need to take out your phone and slide your fingers a few times. Explosive news is no longer a common occurrence for fans, and they won’t even raise their eyelids. Under such conditions, not only now, but also basically will not be born in the future that can match Jordan and in terms of market value. Jordan is truly unprecedented and has no future.

After reading the market value, let's compare the influence of fans. James and Jordan are on the ground and on the sky. There is no need to analyze it carefully. You can summarize it in one sentence -

When someone says that you play like Jordan, you will feel very useful because you know that this is a great compliment to your skills, but if someone says that you play like James, you will be anxious immediately. Maybe you can do it with him, because the sentence "You play like James" sounds like a swearing...

Last summary.

James vs. Jordan, the gap between the court factors, the spiritual core of competitive sports, and the off-court influence is very obvious. It can be said that there is a huge and it is not an exaggeration to cross the gap. It seems that James is the second-ranked superstar in history (let’s think about it), but the real ranking between Jordan and James is definitely not 1 Jordan and 2 James, but—

1: Jordan.

2-9: No one.

10: James.

Under such a gap, James is still trying to defeat Jordan everywhere, claiming to be Goat and always wearing a crown. You must know that Jordan does not have a crown. If there is one, it is also the crown that fans and players spontaneously crowdfunded for Jordan, but James insists on wearing a crown for himself. In the eyes of fans and players, this is simply a clown-like manner, so it is natural that James is ridiculed by the crowd.

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