{"id":38960,"date":"2014-04-27T23:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T03:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38960"},"modified":"2020-07-11T23:25:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T03:25:35","slug":"no-way-lebron-would-challenge-jordan-if-he-werent-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38960","title":{"rendered":"No way LeBron would challenge Jordan if he weren&#8217;t 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-38961 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lebronloser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lebronloser.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lebronloser-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2014\/04\/26\/4868380\/lebron-on-clippers-owner-donald.html#.U10rA1fixgG\">Backstory<\/a>: television cameras notice LeBron James intently looking at something other than the hoop during a fast break before throwing down a big dunk.\u00a0 Michael Jordan was sitting front row, in the direction of where LeBron James was looking, as he is president of the Heat&#8217;s opponents the Charlotte Bobcats.\u00a0 LeBron vehemently denies staring at MJ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Bottom line is that LeBron James is full of shit and everyone knows it.\u00a0 There is absolutely nobody in the world more relevant for LeBron James to attempt to stare down than the man everyone compares him to, measures him up against, and mostly agrees that he\u00a0<strong>is\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>better than, in Michael Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">100%, LeBron James was staring down Michael Jordan on the way to the hoop, because everyone knows that LeBron James is a very fragile-minded person who is always seeking validation and acceptance because he&#8217;s been coddled his entire life due to being such a can&#8217;t-miss basketball prospect phenom.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also worth noting that LeBron was probably devastated when MJ basically said that Kobe Bryant was his true heir and was more talented and successful than LeBron, and this act of defiance was akin to a jilted ex-girlfriend blowing some other dude in front of her old boyfriend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Needless to say, whether or not LeBron will admit it, LeBron was trying to send a message to His Airness with his steal, stare and dunk act.\u00a0 However, the fact of the matter is that if Michael Jordan weren&#8217;t 20 years his senior, there&#8217;s no way in hell that LeBron James would have tried this shit.\u00a0 For two decades, many people learned the hard way that you do not challenge Michael Jordan on the basketball court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Patrick Ewing, Isaiah Thomas, Charles Barkley, Dikembe Mutombo, Gary Payton, these are all guys who learned the hard way.\u00a0 These were guys that Michael Jordan made points of embarrassing on the court, and for good measure, never forgetting, and repeating it every time they opposed each other.\u00a0 MJ is\u00a0<em>still\u00a0<\/em>tormenting Patrick Ewing to this day, cockblocking him from getting into the coaching arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">If this were 20 years ago, and Michael Jordan were still in basketball, he would have made a point to get on the court, and put LeBron James back in his place, on both ends of the court.\u00a0 He would hound him and not let him get the ball much less a clean look at the basket, and then on the offensive side, he would drop jumpers in his eye, and rainbow some sweet fadeaways just an inch beyond his fingertips.\u00a0 And for good measure, at some point, he would undoubtedly slam one in his face, to reaffirm his dominance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I&#8217;m pretty sure Wizards Jordan could probably take LeBron James now, too.\u00a0 6&#8217;9-6&#8217;10 freaks like Shawn Marion and Chris Bosh couldn&#8217;t even defend the MJ fadeaway, which would give zero hope for the smaller LeBron.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I hate to dog on LeBron like everyone else does, but he really does make it so easy to root against him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backstory: television cameras notice LeBron James intently looking at something other than the hoop during a fast break before throwing down a big dunk.\u00a0 Michael Jordan was sitting front row, in the direction of where LeBron James was looking, as he is president of the Heat&#8217;s opponents the Charlotte Bobcats.\u00a0 LeBron vehemently denies staring at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No way LeBron would challenge Jordan if he weren&#8217;t 51<\/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":[59,15,52],"class_list":["post-38960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-og","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38962,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38960\/revisions\/38962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}