now it is the NBA post season for the china fans. As we know , Michael Jordan's season bring Us too many Amazing,although 87-90s frustrated Detroit Pistons,but from 91s Jordan bring us the brand new Jordan times! Michael Jordan bring us a lots of dream during our CHILDHOOD MEMORY!For years, basketball fans have religiously awaited the second coming of the great Michael Jordan. We have repeatedly attached the label of “the next MJ” to so many players,
The press started all the “Next Jordan” talk, but it was fueled by an NBA fan base determined to anoint the next great superstar. The criteria? Simple:
1.) he had to play shooting guard or small forward, and
2.) he had to be able to jump out of the gym. Expectations were raised and rarely met and, as a result, more than a few careers are unfairly considered utter disappointments.
The present-day frontrunner for the title is, unsurprisingly, LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Everyone it seems has jumped onto the boy king’s bandwagon, rightfully expecting unbridled greatness from the shoo-in 2010 MVP. LeBron easily has more potential than any past candidate. Old frontrunners like Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill and Tracy McGrady were all humbled by injuries. Jerry Stackhouse and Vince Carter never even came close, and everyone has long forgotten the fiasco that was Harold “Baby Jordan” Miner. Even just a few years ago Dwyane Wade looked like he would carry the torch, managing to secure the first and only Jordan brand sponsorship which allowed him to wear MJ’s own shoe line. But since then, Wade has somehow stalled, not developing to the heights needed of such a megastar, allowing LeBron to take over the mantle. However, I can’t help but feel that amidst all this King James hoopla we are all overlooking the player closest to the goal: Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers.
To truly be compared to Michael Jordan, a player must not only be incredibly dominant on the court, but also unnaturally competitive and incomparably successful. Bryant fits that definition better than anyone out there. He’s got Jordan’s competitive spirit, even forcing himself to play an entire season through a fractured right index finger, a bum knee and injured right ankle. Apart from his individual statistics, which easily put him in contention for MVP honors, he also led the NBA with six game-winning shots, a category Jordan also excelled in. Most importantly, Bryant enters this year’s playoffs with four NBA championships, four more than LeBron and just two away from Jordan’s mark of six.Going into these 2010 NBA playoffs, Bryant is hurtling towards basketball immortality. Despite Bryant’s prowess, pretty much all of the NBA pundits have written off his Los Angeles Lakers’ title chances, questioning his health and saying that his team fell off track at the end of the season. With the odds stacked against him, Kobe has the ultimate platform to show that he belongs in that conversation with Jordan, and at age 31, his window of opportunity is closing. Bryant simply needs to win the championship this year. Doing so would put him just one NBA ring away from serious consideration as the best of all time.
Unfortunately though, it seems that this storyline has been forgotten by fans enthralled by the idea of James challenging for his first championship. While James undoubtedly deserves the attention, NBA fans are missing out by not understanding the extreme significance of these playoffs for both LeBron and Kobe. If Kobe’s Lakers win, we will be half a step away from finally accepting that we are witnessing the new NBA messiah. If, though, James’ Cavaliers win the championship, then we will have to accept that only LeBron legitimately remains in contention for the title of greatest ever, however far away he is from that distinction. And if neither wins, then we might just have to accept that the prophecy of a new Jordan is still far from being realized, and James and Bryant might have to be grouped with Dwyane Wade as has-been contenders.
Whatever the outcome, of this postseason all I know is that I will be glued to the television hoping to witness history. I was unfortunately too young to truly understand the significance of Michael Jordan’s sixth title with Chicago and his impact on basketball, but I am not too naive to miss the significance of these playoffs and their potential ramifications for basketball history.
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