Rich Paul says LeBron James is more of a GOAT than Michael Jordan because things have been harder with the 24/7/365 news cycle and social media. Hosts Jake Madison (@LockedOnPelicans) and John Karalis (@LockedOnCeltics) debate whether that is true or not and then look at how the NBA can often isolate players like Zion Williamson and others. Plus, they play Real Or Fake: Guys like Anthony Edwards and Shai Gilgous-Alexander will carry their strong play in FIBA the the regular season.
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11 Comments
Scrunity cus he doesn’t add up
Jordan is a well known jerk & terrible father. LeBron has lived an A+ life since he was 18 and still competed at the highest level and is one of the goats.
LeBron’s teammates really don’t have bad things to say about him… many of Jordan’s ex-teammates can’t stand him.
LeBron > Jordan for bball & life
Nice job to Rich Paul, for talking about off the court things, but does it make LeBron the goat on the court and also the players also have the benefit to answer their critics because of social media back in the day people could write whatever they wanted about you and you really couldn’t respond to them And let the world know the truth so I think everything Rich Paul was saying, was biased and irrelevant
This social media argument is laughable. Please stop the nonsense.
The problem with this and all Bron-MJ discussions is that people view 90s basketball through a 2023 lens. Different time folks,,,
Here comes some charity for your social media algoritm: Awful takes, u guys suck.
Scrutiny doesn’t mean harder!!! You jus choose to let it effect you or not!!! And he definitely didn’t have it harder!!!!
No Lebron has literally had everything handed to him on golden platter with silver spoons. Social media MADE Lebron, not hurt him. Hell, Social media anointed him "The King" before he ever stepped on an Nba court, due to his high school dunk videos. The sad fact is the Nba needed a superstar in the east that could rival Kobe in ratings. The only guys in the east at that time were Paul Peirce, Ray Allen, and Dwane Wade, none of which were any kind of challenge for Kobe. So they brought in a high school gimmick and promoted the hell out of him, and 20 years later we have a bunch of brainwashed simpleton influencer's like Shannon Sharpe, shouting out Lebron's greatness. Lebron played in a WEAK Eastern Confrence where he could dominate, and still had to have 2 Allstars before he won a title. The only title he won in the west is a fluke that he won in the bubble, we keep having to suffer the Lebron team during the Allstar game, when younger much more talented players should be the Capitan(Giannis, Luka, Ja, Jason Tatum, SGA).
Eye roll on the LeBron and this gen stuff in general.
Oubre, Westbrook, or Kuzma's long pink sweater.. they dress the way they do in pregames, and we're all pretending they are not asking for attention in this attention economy? And it's you guys in the media who parse their tweets and what player X said on player Y's podcast, and the photographers who are posting their tunnel pics.
When Rodman dressed the way he did, the media ate it up, just as the bloggers today put the stuff out as content.
Ppl on purpose not to mention the opponents
MJ played against, in that era Danny Ainge, Dennis Johnson, Jeff Hornacek, Mark Price…were stars.
Players were averagely more skinny, smaller, slower, only a few can jump high or shoot 3’s, no big man can dribble, no eurosteps, no shammgod. They played brute, but no skills. Hand check yes, but no zone defense, to which Kobe said “I don’t care if yo hand check with 3 hands” “the zone I think cripples some of the top scorers”
When prime MJ left the bulls in 93’ the went from 57 wins to 55, when prime LeBron left cavaliers in 10’ they went 62 wins to 19.
And MJ fans always lie about MJ stuff, for example "his vertical jump is 48 inches" and "his body fat ratio is 3%" If those were true, LeBron & Carter would have a 50 inch vertical jump and Helmut Strebl would have -3% body fat ratio.
I usually like this pod but idk I didn’t like the takes on this one