NBA Playoffs 2008 Discussion

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Originally Posted by Bluoholic

yeah, after all basketball is a team sport but Jordan was a force and was a leader, if his team was in trouble how many times he brought them up? Where was this proper cast when Jordan left for two years in mid 90's? He's the best guy who played this sport for a reason.

Sure. Jordan won many games for the Bulls (excepting the '95 "i'm back" season) that they otherwise wouldn't have won. Just like Kobe, which is the impetus for these comparisons. I definitely think that Kobe is the best player in the league right now.... but most likely not to the level of the 96-97'ish Jordan (or even the 1992'ish vintage). Yet. Kobe's potential, I think, is higher than both in an dominance perspective.

Originally Posted by Bluholic

Besides, my 5 bucks are going with NBA bagged him to come back because rankings tanked right after he retired.

Most definitely.

On an aside, I'm not entirely sure that the first retirement was voluntary (I'm thinking some soft of clandestine on the DL suspension wrt the gambling myself), but that's neither here nor there.