Phil Jackson: MJ was better than KOBE Bryant

[4Corners]

Kobe is a selfish player. A one on one player. He is a give me the ball and I will take 100 shots a game. Jordan made others around him better. Overall Jordan had a better iq better defense and better attacker to the basket. Nuffield said . Kobe is the closest to Jordan so far but Lebrun will pass him in a few years

Lebron is more like Magic than Jordan......the way he plays the game.

Once Lebron gets to say....3 rings, I think we can start talking about him being in the Top 5-10 like Kobe.

[Carpe Diem]

oscar robertson > michael jordan

the numbers tell me so.

You can make a better argument for Kareem > Jordan since he can at least match Jordan in accolades, stats, ect.

[Left Hook Tua]

He only played 8 years in that hand-check era compared to Jordan who spent his whole career playing in that era. In those 8 years, he won three championships as a secondary option and wasn't even the best player on his team.

and he did fine in the handcheck era.

you need to look up spurs, kings, blazers series those years.

also look up road games vs. home games.

you'd be surprised.

ppl have this misconception because shaq dominated finals (weaker west teams with few big men)

the title was won in west 2nd round or west conf finals those years.

[Left Hook Tua]

Kobe is a selfish player. A one on one player. He is a give me the ball and I will take 100 shots a game. Jordan made others around him better. Overall Jordan had a better iq better defense and better attacker to the basket. Nuffield said . Kobe is the closest to Jordan so far but Lebrun will pass him in a few years

yes.....

jordan was unselfish and not a one on one player.

[Left Hook Tua]

Got to love how Kobe was supposedly "along for the ride" with Shaq.

In those years when he had a full season and was a full time starter, he put up these numbers.

22-6-5
28-6-5
25-5-5
30-7-6

But hey, he was just along for the ride. How many titles did MJ win by himself???

You need other people to win the NBA. Lebron never won until he went to Miami.

i think ppl who say that only watched finals.

they don't know that kobe carried the team against teams with a lot of big men (spurs, kings, blazers) especially on the road.

shaq was great but when challenged, usually shrank from the moment.

when it's easy, he dominates but when the going gets hard, he tries to find scapegoats.

[Carpe Diem]

One season after the total removal of hand-checking (2005-06 season) the NBA recorded its worst defensive season since its beginning in terms of defending perimeter players; ten players averaged above 25PPG (points per game), see below:

[Left Hook Tua]

yet jordan still got more ft back then than guys now.

you do realize that all these new rules to help scoring is to get scoring back to 80's, early 90's level right?

because defenses got so good, scoring went down.

and even with hand check rule scoring is still below back then.


kobe avg 30-6-7 in 2003.

looked like he did ok with handchecks to me.

[$tate of Mind]

Jordan the leader that would punch his teammates in practice?


people love Jordan because once the other powerhouses at the time (Showtime, green turds, Bad Boys), faded away, there was nothing else but the Bulls...he took advantage of aggressive marketing by Nike and a weak era

The 80's Lakers, Celtics, and Pistons haf superior talent to the Bulls. The 90's was a better era than the early 2000's and now. The Lakers couldn't win **** in the late 90's with a loaded team. Remember when the Jazz and Spurs seemed to sweep the Lakers every year? Jordan and the Bulls would kick any version of the Lakers with Kobe and Shaq or Gasol asses all over the court. The Bulls would pimp slap the Heat too. The ccurrent NBA is a shadow of what it used to be. 6 for 6 in the finals, 6 time finals MVP, 5 time MVP, 3 leading scorer in NBA history while playing 15 years in the league.

[$tate of Mind]

I respect the hell out of Kobe. He's the only active player that you can put in the discussion with Jordan. However, he's no Jordan. There's no shame in that because Jordan is the GOAT. It pisses me off when people try to compare Le***** James to MJ. That **** is blasphemy.

[AntonTheMeh]

phil would have courted much more controversy if he said kobe was better then Michael, and thus would have sold more books. i think he's just being honest.