Kyrie being injured the entire 2018 Boston/Cleveland series)? Let’s find out. How did injuries affect both LeBron and Jordan’s teams in the playoffs? Did they have to play by themselves more often? Conversely, how did injuries affect their opponents? Did MJ and LeBron have easier paths to the playoffs if the top players on the opposing team was injured (ex. However, LeBron’s second option was definitely a good upgrade over MJ’s #2 sidekick. Verdict: Overall, LeBron’s #1 sidekick usually was a bit better than MJ’s #1 sidekick. Not very indicative of MJ’s sidekick’s true numbers. In both, MJ played less than twenty games, allowing his top two teammates to inflate their stats for most of the season (and adjusting to MJ when he came back). Sidenote #2: For MJ, I did not include the 1985-1986 season or 1994-1995 season. Sidenote #1: "Finals Years" means the years in which their teams made the NBA finals. I really wanted to see who was carrying their team the most.Įxample: MJ’s was Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant for the first three-peat, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh for the Heatles era. I compared the statistics of the two teammates on each team who had the highest PPG alongside MJ and LeBron (I personally think, no matter how we put it, PPG is the most important stat in determining who is a star). I truly tried to remain as unbiased with statistics as I possibly could during this project, and I have gained much more respect for him while working on this. So, just wanted to go in and say that I didn’t like LeBron before starting this project. And, admittedly, I haven’t enjoyed that MJ is not looked upon as the unanimous GOAT anymore. I really didn’t like The Decision and his joining a superteam. Yes, I hated him when he beat us in three of our five playoff tries since 2011. I have to warn you all: as you can see from my flair, I am a huge Bulls fan. This is especially true since LeBron and MJ both have played fifteen seasons (although MJ was out for a majority of two of them). After watching LeBron’s monster 2018 playoff run with little help (and seeing thousands upon thousands of Redditors on this sub now call him the GOAT), I became really interested in comparing MJ, the old-school GOAT, and LeBron, the greatest of our generation. New Post Game Thread Nikola Jokic dominates the 2023 NBA Finals and earns Finals MVP, averaging 30.2/14/7.2 for the series and the Denver Nuggets are NBA Champions! Top Team Subreddit Postsġ Thunderbird inspired logo redesign and city jersey from a graphic design project I did for school.ģ NBA media wants Trae in LA so badly they’re trying to talk it into happening.Ĥ Mikal Bridges had the whole Team USA bench doing his celebrationĥ An NBA executive says teams weren’t lining up for Damian Lillard before his agent requested only Miami.
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