[NBA] Comments that don't warrant a thread (OCT)

It's complicated but I will say I enjoy picking apart the mythos along with just generally noting if he came up in the social media age so many of his vices would have been public his good guy image would be irreparably tarnished.
One of the things that bugs me about his deification is that nobody likes to talk about how Jordan never even got out of the second round until after all his rivals either aged out and/or were diluted by back-to-back expansion seasons. He never beat the Pistons until after expansion broke them up; he technically never did beat the Celtics, they just got old and faded away. We'll never know if he could have beaten the gd lakers before Cap retired, because he never got that far, but there's no reason to believe he could have.
 
One of the things that bugs me about his deification is that nobody likes to talk about how Jordan never even got out of the second round until after all his rivals either aged out and/or were diluted by back-to-back expansion seasons. He never beat the Pistons until after expansion broke them up; he technically never did beat the Celtics, they just got old and faded away. We'll never know if he could have beaten the gd lakers before Cap retired, because he never got that far, but there's no reason to believe he could have.
There’s also the whole “Steve Kerr is so willing to let Draymond get away with stuff because MJ was physically abusive and a ***** to everyone in Chicago” thing that always gets pushed under the rug. I don’t think there’s any questioning how good of a player he was in his prime but there’s a reason Sir Charles is probably the most beloved guy of that era and not MJ, who is by almost every account a terrible person.
 
Also given how much the internet trolls Ohtani for the whole (probably) throwing his translator/best friend in front of the bullet gambling scandal thing, can you imagine how it would’ve gone if Twitter was around when MJ was at his absolute degenerate gambler peak?
 
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