Bloomberg Business Week reporter Scott Soshnick has a message for Michael Jordan when it comes to LeBron James ---- shut up! Not another word. Not another syllable. Jordan has accomplished too much, on and off the basketball court, to become one of those finger-wagging graybeards who lecture the next generation on how things were done -- on how things...
Michael Jordan Bloomberg Business Week reporter Scott Soshnick has a message for Michael Jordan when it comes to LeBron James ---- shut up!
Not another word. Not another syllable. Jordan has accomplished too much, on and off the basketball court, to become one of those finger-wagging graybeards who lecture the next generation on how things were done -- on how things were better -- back in the day. The saddest stories in sports all begin the same way: When I played….
Soshnick writes how greats like Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley and Jordan piled on James. And unlike Johnson and Jordan, LeBron didn't have the cast that either of those players had.
James, 25, chose to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers, who any basketball analyst worth his clipboard would have to admit, don’t exactly have a stellar supporting cast. Jordan, beginning in his fourth season, had seven-time All-Star Scottie Pippen. Johnson, meantime, had hall-of-fame running mates like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy.
James had, uh, let’s see, Daniel Gibson, Mo Williams and Anderson Varejao, who have combined to produce one All-Star appearance.
Soshnick writes that all LeBron wants is a teammate that he can count on with the clock ticking down.
“The moral of the story,” Steve Kerr said, “is it’s not easy being LeBron.”