So, I'm not blogging about the Cardinals because they are frustrating and if you want to hear opinions on the Cardinals 20-16 loss to the 49ers, just listen to any Valley sports talk through Wednesday.
No, this post is about the ceremony that was held Friday night in Massachusetts. Vivian Stringer, David Robinson, John Stockton, Jerry Sloan, and Michael Jordan are the Class of 2009. I don't like Vivian Stringer. And I don't think Michael Jordan is the greatest of all time.
All the video that I see of him only makes me think of Kobe Bryant. I don't see any difference in the way that they play or their hunger to win. Kobe is easily the hardest working athlete in the NBA right now. He has an absolutely insane training regime.
But, yeah, I don't see any difference. You can throw the whole number of titles thing at me, but Michael said why he has six in his speech. It was one of the first things that he said and deservedly so. The first person that he thanked was Scottie Pippen. I was surprised that he didn't mention Phil Jackson, who has been there for all six of Jordan's championships as well as all four of Kobe's.
As for Michael's speech being proud and bullysome. No. It was fine. The only reason that he said those things is because of the fans and media. If all of you stupid fans and media wouldn't go around saying "I wanna be like Mike" and "Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player ever" then he wouldn't have sounded so pompous in his speech.
The fans have all the power in sports. It's the fans who make or break everything about sports. If the fans would possess the least bit of intellect, there wouldn't be all these divas (i.e. Michael Jordan, Terrell Owens, Brett Favre, Alex Rodriguez.)
2 comments:
Are you surprised--I agree with you again. As much as I don't care for Kobe, he's an amazing basketball player. But even the best can't win championships by themselves.
let's see a post about how awesome the phx mercury are!!
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