(Update: Scoop has responded.) He has spoken, "Jordan shares his disappointment of Heat Big Three."

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but there won’t be a great accomplishment, a great story to tell. No epic battles, no joy in watching them grow and mature, first into a playoff team, then- draft by draft- into Da Bulls, (or the Celts or the Lakers or the Pistons or even the Rockets for that matter). The tale will be how Pat Riley managed to sign all these turds to the same team, in the same summer. Championships will not be won with years of hard work and triumph. I think they’ll get some, but they’ll ultimately be cheapened. And they will be hated, boy oh boy, will they.

Miami- it wasn’t a great sports town, it still won’t be a decade later. The League is less competitive because of it. Pat Riley is every creepier/more evil genius, Bosh is even dorkier, Wade is much cockier, and James is now the most hated player in the NBA.

Because of your “if” scenarios and 14 year old rumors? Yeah… damn that fraud.

Great champions don’t need teammates

This aint Tennis

scottie, he wouldve loved too. In the book Year of the Bulls or Jordan Rules theres many examples of Jordan and Scottie having a collision of egos, the reason they were so damn dominant was because jordan and scottie competed with each other, who could impact the team more, it wasnt just about who score the most points, but who could get the most rebounds, assists, blocks steals…anything that could be measured…he didnt choose to hide behind scottie. Jordan signing with the knicks has always appeared to be a negotiation ploy more than anything, jordan hated the knicks and the pistons…he liked going against the knicks, going off in msg

LeBron’s still a bitch.

Will average Horace Grant type numbers in Miami… and his defense won’t be nearly as good as Grant

ya..for the record, i always thought Bosh was overrated..i just forgot once I saw everyone jumpin on his wagon. ITs the same as when everyone told me Inception was good, then I bought the ticket..and I sat in that 3 hour long movie wishing I was drunk

made me actually frown @ MJ… for a sec

that article sucked like most thing on True Hoop; and I didn’t think Jordan was bitter in his HOF speech. He just talked about what slights motivated him and wasn’t PC.

The one thing I think Lebron and Jordan have in common is that at the first opportunity people had to criticize them, commentators took it and ran with and now are trying to demonize both. Honestly, if I was a professional basketball player I would never talk to reporters. One comment from Jordan about Lebron has become the basis for 10, 20, 30 columns on the internet? I think people need to calm down.

he may act like a dolt / bully on the court, but his teammates wherever he goes seem to love and follow him. He isn’t afraid to call out teammates or to do the dirty work or to sacrifice his stats for the good of the team. That is mature leadership in my book. And oh yeah – KG won a ring with Boston.

I agree MJ is an angry, over-competitive maniac sometimes. So is Larry Bird, while he smiles a lot, I have it on various authorities, so is Magic.

Lebron ought to be more offended than he is. If he had the sort of determination that those guys did he wouldn’t have acted like such a pud in the first place.

You all sound so confused.

I’ll make it simple.

Jordan can say whatever the fuck he likes about LeBron, cos LeBron his a little bitch in comparison, a pretender the the throne.

NOTHING would give MJ that itch to comeback like this shit. He must be wishing he was 15 years younger again. God knows we could do with a 6’6 SG that can shoot and play D atm.

;)

MJ: Legende, Franchise owner and small time golf player
Future LBJ: Douche, Frachise Gar-like and Wade’s caddy

Fair enough though :)
Scoop, worst article ever.

Scoop is characterizing MJ-the-owner as if he were still MJ-the-player. As a player, Jordan wanted to be the Alpha Male and beat all of his peers, and that thinking was based on his considerations for his own personal gain. Why then as an owner would he worry about the personal reputations of Gerald Wallace and Stephen Jackson? Jordan’s not a player anymore, and his competition is not LeBron, Wade, or Bosh; his rivals these days are Pat Riley, Jerry Buss, and Mark Cuban. If you follow the “For The Love Of Self” logic (as Scoop calls it), then you would have to think he would definitely accept a super team proposal in Charlotte because it would make him The Man. Riley is now being called The Godfather, while people are still making fun of MJ for Kwame Brown. Does Scoop honestly think Jordan would not want the glory that Riley is getting right now?

You’re a wordsmith. Can we use that term to describe his entire tenure as owner yet?

His post NBA career has been nothing but a steady dose of pathetic self-promotion and lame attempts to remain relevant.

How? They are basically the same type of player. But screw LBJ anyway