Fan 9
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42 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I will. How you doing? Nice to see you. Yep. So how is Magic the greatest Laker of all time? And he wasn't even the greatest Laker on this team. That's Kareem.
Kareem was first all time in Lakers points, first in rebounds, first in blocks, first in field goals made, you know, and he had an unstoppable move in the sky hook, has one more championship because he has six, Magic has five, and he has three more MVPs. Okay. We haven't even got to Kobe yet.
I give you that for sure. But the thing about it is you were talking about in 1980, right, when Magic won Rookie of the Year. Would he have won Rookie of the Year if he would have – Yeah, would he have won rookie of the year?
Kareem was averaging 33 points that series. Boy, I would like to think he would have.
And that's the point that I was making is that at the end of the day, unless Kareem just got unlucky because the best player of all time, LeBron James, took that scoring title from him, but he would have been able to keep that for his whole life. And then if we go to Kobe, right?
For example, if I was to take your papers right there, ball them up in a trash can and shoot it, whose name would we say? We wouldn't say Magic. No. Who we saying? We saying Kobe, you know what I mean? And then, and that's what it's about.
And when we talk about like keeping that mentality, how you go through life, how you focus on what you need to do in life, nobody says, you know, keep that magic. they say keep that Mamba mentality. That's what it's all about.
Exactly, exactly. That's why I started off with Kareem first.
Kobe had the same type of leadership style as far as like, Kobe had aura. Like, you know, jobs not finished, like all of those things. But also he showed it in the actions first. You know what I mean? He wasn't really about the party and they're going out. He was so dedicated to the crowd.
I agree with you. I mean, leadership comes in all different forms, right? You never know how somebody is going to choose to lead. But, you know, Kobe led in plenty of ways. And also all the players that picked up a basketball because of his presence. We wouldn't have Devin Booker without Kobe. Jason Tatum is doing what he does.
I need to go back to the LeBron as the GOAT.
Okay, for sure. So I wanted to say that the only thing that Michael Jordan has better than LeBron James is better shoes and a better Space Jam movie.
We can agree on that for sure.
I want to go back to the beginning of the career, right? LeBron was known as the chosen one. He was drafted at 18, fresh out of prom, expected to save a franchise. What did he walk into? That team was 17-65, worst record in the NBA. They missed the playoffs for five straight years.
The best players on that team were Ricky Davis and Big Z. I like to call them the LA Fitness Five because you could take me and one of my friends to LA Fitness, and we could still be the worst team in the league. You know what I mean? And then that team was ranked 29th out of 29th for NBA attendance, which means that neither the fans or the players were showing up. Okay.
If there was a fish fry going on across the street, Skip, people would go to that fish fry. That's how bad it was. Mind you, only by adding LeBron James, they increased their wins by 18 games that season just by adding one man. He's a great player.
Exactly. But what was Jordan doing at 18 and 19 years old?
Yeah, but I heard you say the chosen one goes to the frozen one, but Michael Jordan didn't even have the opportunity to be the chosen one because he wasn't even chosen first in his draft. He was chosen third.
I'll give you Hakeem, but I'm taking Jordan over Hakeem. Exactly, and many people would have in high insight, but I'm just saying that this is how people viewed him. He wasn't even the first option on his team. That was James Worthy. So the way how I look at it is like- You mean when he was a freshman?
And he nails it. But I'm making a comparison skip at that. At that same age, LeBron is expected to take a team out of the poverty franchise and make them into a contender. they were saying it was Hall of Fame or bust. Not I hope he's good, not I hope he's great, but Hall of Fame or bust only option. Michael Jordan, on the other hand, it was, we were grasping at straws.
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