Up until the time Michael Jordan walked unto the stage to acknowledge his Hall of Fame acceptance, he was just the greatest to ever play the game.
Then he opened his mouth to give his acceptance speech and shocked the world, coming across as petty and bitter.
For anyone who could see past the speech, they will understand what it takes to be a champion. How Jordan motivated himself to bring his best effort no matter what, for 82 games a season, then take it to another level for the playoffs.
Michael Jordan may have taken little slights too personally, but he nurtured these insults and through the passage of time and transformed them into something positive.
To date, LeBron James has never been dropped from a team in favour of someone else; he has yet to fight for his place on any team or had a franchise draft a guy before him simply because he was seven feet tall!
To put things in perspective, Carmelo Anthony won the NCAA championship for Syracuse his one year in college, is about the same size as James, and almost as athletic, yet no one seriously thought of drafting him before James.
James was anointed the &ld ...
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