LeBron James made headlines when he said he was chasing Michael Jordan’s ghost. A big part of that is because Jordan has six championships to LeBron’s three. Jordan is considered the greatest of all time, and is credited for bringing those six titles to the Chicago Bulls; he won the Finals MVP award each time. LeBron however implied that Jordan got too much credit when he had key help from his teammates.
LeBron appeared on the Open Run podcast on UNINTERRUPTED Podcast Network and dropped a lot of info (I’ll get to the rest later), but here’s what he had to say about Jordan, via BallisLife:
“I don’t think MJ ever had a Game 7 in the Finals,” James said. “And people say ‘Oh, well he was able to close it out early’ and they act like he just did it all on his own. They forget about the shot by (John) Paxson on the left wing.”
“You want to know the crazy thing? In that particular game in Phoenix, MJ didn’t even have the ball in his hands. (Scottie) Pippen brought the ball up, (Charles) Barkley went for the steal, Pippen threw it down to Horace Grant and that got the defense (out of place) because Barkley went for the gamble. They rotated to Horace Grant, and Horace Grant threw it to Paxson. MJ didn’t have nothing to do with that play.”
You can fast forward to the 57-minute mark for this excerpt.
LeBron James, unfiltered. @KingJames makes podcast debut on @openrun, launching the UNINTERRUPTED Podcast Network: https://t.co/Z6BV6GIJ5G
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