Michael Jordan Is Better Than G. O. A. T. Lebron

he has been compared to the greatest of all time (the G.O.A.T) Michael Jordan, who is known as

the best to ever play the game of basketball. And Lebron being compared to Jordan, is something

extraordinary because nobody has ever been that close and even been considered to be better

than “the G.O.A.T” besides Kobe Bean Bryant. And obviously Lebron’s fans they say Lebron is

the G.O.A.T. Jordan fans they say Jordan is the G.O.A.T.

So there is this fight between the fans, but their opinion doesn't really matter because they are

just giving their opinion, but the majority of the fans think Michael Jordan is the G.O.A.T.

Lebron James is the only player that has ever been close to Michael Jordan in terms of statistics

for instance; if we look at

Most valuable Player award( MVP), Lebron James won four MVP
awards and Michael Jordan won five MVP awards.

But what makes people say that Michael

Jordan is better than Lebron James is the number of championships that they have. Jordan has

won six straight championships and he did it during his fifteen year of NBA career.

So far Lebron James has won three so far and he is in his fifteenth year of NBA career, And in

my opinion this is what people forget, Lebron might not win six championship in a row just like

Jordan did, but he can still win as many championships has Jordan did or even win more,

because he is a great player and still did not retire yet. But all in all Lebron James has always

looked up to Michael Jordan ever since he started playing basketball. He once was questioned

about how Michael Jordan had an impact on his love for basketball and he said, " First of all, I wear the number because of Mike, James said, referring of course to his

No. 23 jersey. I think I fell in love with the game because of Mike, just seeing what he

was able to accomplish. When you're growing up and you're seeing Michael Jordan, it's

almost like a god. So I didn't ever believe I could be Mike. I started to focus on myself on

other players and other people around my neighborhood because I never thought that

you
could get to a point where Mike was.I shot fadeaways before I should have, James said.
I wore a leg sleeve on my leg and folded it down so you saw the red part. I wore black
and red shoes with white socks. I wore short shorts so you could see my undershorts
underneath. I didn't go bald like Mike, but I'm getting there7.
So it is fair to say that they are both great players and just like Michael Jordan had an
extraordinary career, so will Lebron James, because not only are they phenomenal players, but
they also are very dominant on the court. In my opinion Lebron James is not good of a shooter
but he always tries to impact the game somehow.
“That was my mindset when I started playing the game. I was like, If I’m not scoring the ball,
how can I still make an impact on the game?’ It’s carried me all the way to this point now, and
it’s going to carry me for the rest of my career because scoring is not No. 1 on my agenda.”8
7 Joe Vardon . ( 2017, May 26). LeBron James didn't have to 'be like Mike' to break Jordan's playoff scoring record
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8 Nicholas Goss.( 2017, May 26). LeBron James Gives Great Response To Breaking Michael Jordan’s Playoff Scoring Record.
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Male athletes particularly the players from the National Basketball Association ( NBA), are
oftentimes portrayed as role models for the younger people , who also have a dream of becoming
not only like them but even better than them, that is why they look up to them in order to follow
the right steps to succeed in what they want to become in the future, which is in this case to
become a professional basketball player. The majority of the superstars in the NBA are
African-Americans, and oftentimes these players come from poor neighborhoods for instance;
Lebron James a man who is known as the best player of all the times currently and a very
successful man in life. But as we all know in every story there will always be a bad side of it,
which is in this case Lebron James was raised by a single mother in a poor neighborhood in
Akron Ohio. Sometimes they did not have anything to eat, Lebron James sometimes could not go
to school because his mother was not financially stable so after awhile he had to quit school
because his could not afford it, so Lebron had to quit school at the age of eighteen. But the good
thing is that he went from high school straight to the NBA league and that is when his life
changed completely and became better. But even though he became a superstar, Lebron James
has never forgotten where he came from (Akron Ohio), he always let everybody know how much
he loves his hometown and that he really appreciates the city.So he has always gives back to the
community. The point is that no matter how successful these players become, they will always
stick to their roots, they will never forget where they come from because that is what raised and
made them the men that they are today. But they truly inspire the younger people not only
because they are phenomenal player, but because sometimes they have the same background
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story ( not financially stable and can not afford education) so they use this story to motivate
them, because in the back of their minds they might be saying for instance “If Lebron James and
I come from the same situation and he made it to the NBA, so can I”.

So these are the true things

that make these NBA athletes being portrayed as great role models for these young men,

because they truly inspire and motivate them to accomplish their goals in life. But with a lot of

success, there will always be doubters, people that try to drag you down because you are to

successful and they are not, people that are jealous of your accomplishments. So in my opinion,

the mass and social media does a tremendous job of updating the fans with what is going on in

these athletes lives, because as fans we are always curious of what is happening with them, one

of the reasons might be because we just want to live like them and the other reason is that we are

just curious about what they are doing. And also usually these NBA athletes are portrayed as

people that do not care about anything else unless it is about basketball, which is not true

because
they impact the game of basketball in so many ways on and off the court. They are care about the
community so that is why they always give back to the hometown that raised, because it is not
only a way to show that they do not care about basketball only, but they also are aware of they
position in the society and they are aware of how influential they are, so they use that same
influence to give them opportunities and inspire them too.