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Easy to say since he\u2019s retired and fat now<\/a>: Reigning MVP Stephen Curry believes that he could beat Michael Jordan in his prime, with a game on the line<\/span><\/p>\n It must be so great for NBA players now to be able to use Michael Jordan\u2019s name in vain, considering MJ is now 52, overweight and retired, and vastly less likely to take words as challenges, lace up his Air Jordans and get back on the court to put some youngsters in their places.\u00a0 Now, under the guise of veiled respect, today\u2019s players are all allegedly better than Michael Jordan was, and they\u2019re not as afraid to opinionate such beliefs to inquiring ears.<\/span><\/p>\n Reigning MVP and leader of defending champion Golden State Warriors,* Stephen Curry is the latest of upstarts to boldly proclaim himself, basically better than Michael Jordan.\u00a0 He tries to backpedal a little bit and apply a scenario of it, \u201cwith the game on the line,\u201d but there\u2019s little reason to believe that he simply doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s better than Michael Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n *words I never thought I\u2019d ever type in my lifetime<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n The funniest thing is that his own dad, former NBA player, Dell Curry said it in a recent SportsCenter commercial: \u201cwin\u00a0one\u00a0<\/em>MVP\u2026<\/a>\u201d with the implication that Steph\u2019s head is beginning to get a little bit on account of some recent success.<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, Curry is playing in a way that is backing everything up right now, but it\u2019s still way, way, way too early for there to be any claims to MJ\u2019s throne here.\u00a0 Yes, the Warriors are 22-0, and everyone\u2019s talking about how the 1996 Bulls and their 72-10 record are in jeopardy now, but let\u2019s be real here, every so often, there\u2019s a team that comes along that everyone thinks is going to break the 96 Bulls.\u00a0 A few years ago, the Dallas Mavericks won like 67 games, and a few years before them it was the Lakers that won 67 games.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s a reason why a season is 82 games, aside from the massive amounts of money that having a fuckton of basketball games generates – it\u2019s to weed out 14 pretenders, so that an absurd 16 teams can have the longest fucking playoffs in the world to determine a champion.\u00a0 But the fact of the matter is that 82 games is a long time, and the Warriors still have 60 games over four months to go.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s injuries, fatigue, or players simply faltering a little bit, that\u2019s still a tremendous amount of time for the Warriors to drop just\u00a011\u00a0<\/em>games, and be just another challenger to a tremendously difficult record to break.<\/span><\/p>\n But back to Steph vs. MJ, there\u2019s no way that Curry would succeed against Michael Jordan.\u00a0 Aside from the obvious \u201cit\u2019s a different game,\u201d from when Curry played versus when MJ did, the bottom line is that aside from being one of the most prolific scorers in history, MJ was a tenacious defender, with quick hands, quick feet, and great reflexes that always had his name in the conversation whenever it involved guys who could steal the ball as well as block shots.<\/span><\/p>\n Throughout the current modern era of basketball, defensive specialists are guys that are typically known for leading the league in blocks, and amassing high numbers of defensive rebounds, and some other stats like efficiency ratings and shit, but it\u2019s all nice ways of stating big guys who reduce opponent points, while not really contributing towards their teams\u2019 points.\u00a0 In 1988, Michael Jordan won Defensive Player of the Year, for grabbing 259 steals and blocking 131 shots, the latter number more reserved for 7\u20190 centers; all while scoring 35 points a game in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n And the thing is, this wasn\u2019t even where Jordan was truly at his prime yet.\u00a0 Steph Curry wouldn\u2019t have been able to hang with\u00a0this<\/em>\u00a0Michael Jordan, much less the truly peaked Michael Jordan that was winning every championship ever.<\/span><\/p>\n Steph Curry could go right, and swing left, step back, and take his jumper, but in reality, MJ would be right with him every step on the way, jump just a few inches higher with his arms outstretched, and swat his quick release into the fifth row, and the Warriors would lose.\u00a0 All day long.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s nothing wrong with confidence and belief in one\u2019s self, but Steph Curry has way more to prove for a way longer duration, before he\u2019s remotely in the same hemisphere as Michael Jordan\u2019s legacy.\u00a0 Win\u00a0one\u00a0<\/em>MVP, smh\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Easy to say since he\u2019s retired and fat now: Reigning MVP Stephen Curry believes that he could beat Michael Jordan in his prime, with a game on the line It must be so great for NBA players now to be able to use Michael Jordan\u2019s name in vain, considering MJ is now 52, overweight and … Continue reading Hahaha yeah right<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,45,15],"class_list":["post-42015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-fail","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42017,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42015\/revisions\/42017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}