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I'm and peace so brothers, it's becoming more and more apparent to me who LeBron James actually is and who he reminds me of. And that is the character of Benny Blanco from the Bronx from the spectacular film from the early 90s, Carlito's Way. Those of you who've seen the film, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Then he, Blanco from the Bronx, was an up-and-coming gangster who idolized a former gangster who had been recently released from prison by the name of Carlito Brigante, played by Al Pacino. And his infatuation with Carlito Brigante, his character, and his exploits ultimately led to him being overcome by jealousy over the fact that, at least by his perceptions, Carlito Brigante did not receive him in the way that he wanted Carlito Brigante to receive him. He was a fan of Carlito Brigante. That's why I always warn you brothers against fanboyism. It's very unhealthy. And that's why I say there's only one letter difference between being a fanboy and a [ __ ] boy because the sentiment is pretty much the same. And after continued perceived rejection, eventually the fanboy will spaz out and start to turn against the person who was at the center of their attraction.
And we see it in different walks of life. We saw it in the hip hop world with Jay-Z and Nas. Jay-Z was a fan of Nas. And after Nas continued to rebuff him, he tried to eradicate Nas from the hip hop scene. And all he did was awaken a sleeping dragon. We see it in the boxing world with Adrien Broner and Floyd Mayweather. Adrien Broner is upset with Floyd. In my view, he clearly has a quasi-homosexual infatuation with Floyd Mayweather. And now what he's done is he's successfully, or at least he seems to have successfully, turned Floyd Mayweather's protege, Javonte "Tank" Davis, against him. But that's another video for another day.
In the basketball world, we see LeBron James, who has pined for attention from Michael Jordan for years. He seems to be very jealous over the connection that Jordan seems to have with Kobe Bryant. And now he's decided that he's going to spend the entire regular season talking about he's greater than Michael Jordan and how Michael Jordan really wasn't as great as the media is making him out to be. And he's been doing it pretty much since he won his most recent championship with Cleveland in 2016. Well, recently, he was stopped in a locker room and asked a question about Justin Timberlake. And he responded by saying that Justin Timberlake is a GOAT. One of the media members asked him, "What about Michael Jordan?" And LeBron decided to respond that, "There's been much debate in here over who's actually better than Jordan." So we see that LeBron is once again in the "tear Jordan down" mode to raise himself up. Which is normally the main tactic that's utilized by someone who's envious, which is, "I'm going to bring this person down because I know that I'm not going to be able to ascend to that person's level." At least when you're talking about two people in the same field. Okay? That's why I liken him unto Benny Blanco from the Bronx. Benny Blanco wanted to be Carlito Brigante. His infatuation was so, was so fierce, it was so intense. Just like an Adrien Broner with Floyd Mayweather, or Jay-Z with Nas. Despite all the acclaim and the fame that Jay-Z had been able to accrue for himself throughout the 90s, all he thought about was, "How come Nas will never accept his invitation to appear on one of his albums?" It's all he was concerned with. It's very much like the Matt Damon film, The Talented Mr. Ripley, in which Matt Damon plays a character who becomes so infatuated with Jude Law that he kills him and lives his life as that person. Very dangerous fanboyism.
But anyway, they're gonna talk about. I'm gonna try. There's no doubt about that because I believe that LeBron James is at the point now where he's been so rejected by Michael Jordan, who, at some level of his programming, he has as his foster dad. That now he's going to respond back by trying to tear down Michael. Attempt what about Michael? Of course. What all four of them have in common is that they're all assets. LeBron will [ __ ] around and when he's reported gonna catch Michael on a bad day, and Michael's gonna show him what that trash talk really be like, man. LeBron go [ __ ] around and make Michael Jordan have a flashback back to the back to the early 90s, well, when he would really trash talk fools. And he's gonna learn what Michael Jordan can do just from [ __ ] talking. Just gonna totally break LeBron down. You know, a lot of these guys who are LeBron James fanboys, they get on me for talking about LeBron. I don't talk about LeBron. I just, I just tell you the truth. Pretending to some proper perspective on him. He's an all-time great player. But when he's evaluated critically, no, he's not Michael Jordan. And I think that Michael Jordan has conducted himself with a high degree of class, especially with the way in which he has been attacked in the sports media over the last three to four years. I think he's handled himself with a great deal of class because he easily could have decided to draw out the saber on people like Isiah Thomas and LeBron James and many of the other people who have been addressing him. But I, I believe that he knows that he can't win that battle because all it's gonna be is, "Oh, you're Michael Jordan, and you're responding to us." That's normal troll maneuverism. Just below [ __ ] and throw rocks at the throne, the proverbial throne. And then once you get a response, "Oh, but why are you even responding? You're Michael Jordan." It's just nonsense. And that's how people conduct themselves. And that, once again, is indicative of the fact that LeBron James used Michael Jordan as an idol. And I'm supposed to idolize anyone. You respect their talents, you acknowledge their hard work, and you move along. That's it. LeBron, Kalia, has a very unhealthy infatuation with Jordan. He's very frustrated at the fact that Jordan is not reciprocated. Justin Timberlake's a GOAT. Well, I think that Justin Timberlake's, you're digressing into this comparison. Justin Timberlake has been successful at being one of the great wiggle white boy pop stars of the last 20 plus years. I mean, you can make the case he's arguably the greatest wiggle white boy pop star of all time. He's right there with Eminem and Elvis. I mean, they're all, they're all up in up there in that same realm. Telling us what to think. Down the last quarter of his career. Well, that's very easy to do in this social media era. He knows that he can bombard you. He can use Twitter and Facebook and Instagram to try to create his own legacy. I know I only have three titles, but if I can swing it to where my point totals and rebound totals and assist totals dwarfed Michael Jordan, I can make my acolytes believe that I'm actually better than him. Because it's gonna help me down, down the line, in the long run, when I try to own the Cleveland Cavaliers, when I try to run for governor of Ohio, if my handlers allow me to eventually run for president after I'm properly prepped and microchipped, who the hell knows? Who the hell knows what they have in store for this asset known as LeBron James? But there's no doubt in my mind that the reason why he's running this propaganda campaign this season in regards to himself and Jordan is that he has an ulterior motive. He's, LeBron is basically narrating for us. He's telling us what we're supposed to think. It's like, "Hey, I'm, I'm aging like fine wine." Absolutely. That's the power of suggestion. "All right, I would vote for me for MVP. Here, I'm this, I'm that. And yeah, look, I think if you look at, you're starting to look at a resume that absolutely compares, if not surpasses MJ." And well, we can look to other players whose resume is comparable to Michael Jordan. If we're just gonna go by resume, Kobe Bryant has scored more points, played more games. I believe he most likely has more rebounds and assists than Michael Jordan. I know for a fact that Karl Malone has more points and more rebounds than Michael Jordan. If we're gonna call the stat route, if we're just gonna completely by the numbers, the greatest player of all time is Wilt Chamberlain because he's the one who holds the most individual records. He was the most physically outstanding specimen in NBA history. That's why I class LeBron in that ilk of physical specimens. That would be Wilt Chamberlain, that'd be Shaq, and they'll be LeBron. Michael Jordan's on a whole other level. That's greatest athlete as well as most skilled artisan in the NBA, in NBA history. We're talking about basketball IQ now. You're talking about people like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, Oscar Robertson. That's why, yeah, that's how you have to split. We have to split up in a class. What makes Jordan the greatest? That he was the most successful in the modern era. He was able to change the paradigm for winning in the NBA. I've stated this ad infinitum on this channel. Everything other than championships. And so I believe it's something that he's going to continue to push. No, I think he likes it more than everybody else. Yes, I do. Tracy, you are on the side that this is an actual real conversation, not a conversation? Okay. He's still chasing, huh? Yeah. So great JT is chasing. And I didn't cheat Parker. He's not chasing me, right? That's like, then I'm tasting Michael Jordan right now. MJ to me is the GOAT, man. And LeBron, if LeBron can win a championship this year, then I will start to have that conversation. Right. I care. LeBron has to get to six championships to put him in comparison to Michael Jordan. Why is that? Because he's already lost five. And due to his 2011 finals performance, that's why he has to nullify all that other [ __ ] before you start talking about him being in comparison to Michael Jordan. People might not like that. It is what it is. Oh, wow. You know, for life. If he can come to the Knicks and win a championship with the Knicks, I might have to put him up there with George. I mean, damn. He definitely would go right up there with Kareem and Bill Russell. Right now, another championship would put him, but Larry Bird, for me, I have Larry Bird above LeBron by a sliver, by a sliver. But then I've stated in the past, if you were to take LeBron James's name, Larry Bird's name, and Magic Johnson's name, though in a bag, shake it up and pull out any one of those names, any one of them would do because of what they bring to the table. In this version of the NBA, there's no more difficult to win in this era than it's been in any other era. This guy is he Gutierrez, number one, he's a homosexual, number two, he covered a broad in Miami, so he clearly has partiality. Celebrant. It's okay. LeBron is an all-time great player. But don't tell me how it was harder to win today than it wasn't any other era, especially when you didn't have free agency in the NBA until 1988 or '89. And beyond that, the teams were totally based on the proficiency of your front office. It's actually easier to win today if you're a star because you can, you can move so much easier. The mobility allows you to seek out the destination that you feel will be the best for you. So no, you cannot use that excuse, sir. Well, Jordan, say what you will about the team, say what you will about man defense versus no zone. Like it was, I'm not saying it was easier for him. I mean, he absolutely dominated, dominated, dominated. But LeBron James doing the same thing. I don't know, sir. He's not doing the same thing. LeBron James was doing the same thing. He got the same results. Look at Tracy McGrady. Rewind it back a little bit. Pay attention to Tracy McGrady's gesture after is he good e eras said that silly [ __ ] he absolutely dominated, dominated, dominated. But LeBron James doing the same thing. I don't, I don't think championship teams plop. Oh, Tracy McGrady. There was a word bubble above his head. But it said, "[ __ ] you crazy." Plop up overnight. I think it's really hard to build a championship culture. Tracy's, he's got that exasperated look that everyone in our age group gets when they try to push the LeBron James as good as Jordan, better than Jordan narrative right now. If we're just gonna go by accomplishments, LeBron is still trying to catch Kobe. I mean, like, if we really want to go there, once again, I would take LeBron over Kobe. With it, we're talking about accomplishments, LeBron, I haven't caught Kobe yet. And it got him with Jordan. Like, come on, just knock it off. Because it's not easy to go somewhere else and build it back up and then win one. Well, it's easier to go somewhere else and build it back up if it's already built for you before you get there. I mean, no, Hassan, as we all know, LeBron is not going anywhere unless he's gotten promises from the front office that the team is going to be comprised of a certain set of players. And there's nothing wrong with that. That's good business. But as I've always said, the same thing that LeBron should be lauded and praised for, which is introducing the dynamic to NBA players that it's not about loyalty to team, it's about loyalty to self and to your family. That's the same thing that is going to act as a strike against him when you're comparing his legacy against other former great legacies who stayed with one team and were able to win repeated championships as the leaders of those teams. When you look at Larry Bird, Larry Bird came to a Boston Celtics team that I believe won 29 games the year before he got there. They made no changes to the lineup other than him, and they won 60 games. They didn't win a championship, but they won the next year. Same thing with Magic Johnson. He went to a team that, even though they had Kareem, they had not won anything. His first year, they won a championship. Michael Jordan, of course, he went to a team that had no, had no history. He had to build them up from the ground up. And there were certain dimensions to how that team got built. I'll save that for another video. But when Jordan got there, the team was filled with cokeheads. They had to flush out the old guys, bring a couple of new guys. And by his fifth year, they went to the Conference Finals. The issue with Jordan was, would he ever be able to get over the hump? Because no one had ever seen a player like him before that had a style like him. They'd never seen that style win a championship. They'd never seen a scoring dominant shooting guard win a championship. That never happened. Durant was couldn't do it. Oscar Robertson couldn't do it. Even Dr. J, who was a great wing, they had to bring in Moses Malone. Once again, that's why Jordan is number one on my list because he changed the winning paradigm. First all-time great wing player to lead his team to multiple championships without a dominant big. He was got to do that. When I say multiple, I mean three or more. Isiah Thomas, one, two. That's why he's on my list, right, right underneath the top ten. He's in that same class with Kobe and Moses Malone and Dr. J. In my view, as their Thomas, because there's impact. Thank you. Thank you, Tracy McGrady. Thank you, sir. See, I could tell. I could tell Katz is in my age group because they cut right through the [ __ ] man. We don't got time for that dumb [ __ ] are you trying to sell me, man? It's more than just the pieces, teammate. How many times have we seen superstars come together and then end up in a championship? It's hot. Well, we've seen that a lot with LeBron. We've seen a lot with his ass, bro. Let's be for real. He's one bad decision by Draymond Green and one miracle shot from Ray Allen from only having one championship. Like these guys trying to talk about Michael Jordan. Is why I said Michael Jordan come down from his mountaintop and start talking [ __ ] about LeBron. LeBron might, you know, end up curling up in a fetal position and crying himself to sleep, talking about how come Daddy don't love me? It's a culture, man. It's, it's, it's building the hierarchy, knowing everybody, knowing what their roles are, and buying into those rules. And there's a lot that goes into it that I don't think we give him enough credit. Because if you go, like I said, no, man, please. LeBron James gets nothing but credit. Cut the [ __ ] out. If you go somewhere else that wins another one, it'll be the only superstar in history to have gone to three different franchises and won a championship as the man, not as a thing of my career. I'm Bill Walton. Under the course, we don't give him enough credit. More people know. A lot. I would expect him to be the first superstar to go to three different teams and lead his team to championships because of player mobility. We have to understand that there was no free agency during the time period of Bill Russell, the world Chandler, and Jerry West. Who knows what Jerry West might have done if he could have left the Lakers and went somewhere else? Well, Jerry, what's that? I'ma leave the Lakers, didn't go sign with the Boston Celtics. I'm gonna go team up with Oscar Robertson on the Cincinnati Royals. We're gonna have the best backcourt in history and try to challenge Boston. Wilt Chamberlain said, "I'm gonna leave Philadelphia and go sign with the Cincinnati Royals. We're gonna form a super team." When it formed a super team like Wilt Chamberlain on the LA Lakers in the late 60s. No, they had to go through hell just to get that, get that done. A lot of people like MJ's mentality is clouding, you know, ability and everything else. And like, again, if you just sort of lay it down by the numbers and by the wins, and if, I mean, LeBron is arguably the greatest right now. You came up. Have you laid down by the numbers? LeBron James is the Peyton Manning of the NBA. He's the Peyton Manning of the NBA. He's tried a great struggle season player in NBA history, arguably, arguably. I will still take Jordan there. But the difference comes into playoffs. But to be quite frank with you, if you're gonna lay it down strictly by the numbers, Wilt Chamberlain's the greatest player in NBA history. A lot of numbers. Absolutely. I can't argue with that. By the numbers. But anyway, this was a nice little conversation. We'll see what happens. And we'll see if in the future, Jordan finally snaps and addresses LeBron James's [ __ ] and gives him some of the attention he seems to be lusting for. LeBron is certainly someone that loves to go back and forth through the media with different people. We see he's trying to deal with the coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide, Nick Saban. He's tried out with Donald Trump. He's gone back up over Laura Ingraham, even trying to provoke Michael Jordan for a while now. So we'll see if Michael Jordan gives him what he thinks he wants. Anyway, peace.