Michael Jordan Disagrees With LeBron James About Shortening NBA Season
By: Evan Jankens
@kingofthekc
When you mention the greatest basketball players of all-time, you mention Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan and... LeBron James?
That really depends on who you ask actually. Mike Stone from our station says Wilt Chamberlain, I will always go with Michael Jordan and Mike Sullivan, also from the station, would most likely pick LeBron James.
It all has to do with generation. I get it. But one thing is for sure Michael Jordan and LeBron James will always be linked.
LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki think that the NBA season should be shortened. According to ESPN.com, here is what LeBron had to say.
"No. It's not the minutes, it's the games," James said. "The minutes doesn't mean anything. We can play 50-minute games if we had to. It's just the games. We all as players think it's too many games. In our season, 82 games is a lot. But it's not the minutes. Taking away minutes from the game is not going to shorten the game at all.
Now an owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, Michael Jordan doesn't exactly agree with LeBron's idea. Chris Broussard of ESPN wrote a story about Michael Jordan "mystified" about a shorten season.
Jordan said, "I love both of those guys, but as an owner who played the game, I loved playing,'' Jordan, who owns the Charlotte Hornets, told ESPN during a telephone interview. "If I wasn't playing 82 games, I still would've been playing somewhere else because that's the love for the game I had. As a player, I never thought 82 games was an issue.
"But if that's what they want to do, we as owners and players can evaluate it and talk about it. But we'd make less money as partners. Are they ready to give up money to play fewer games? That's the question, because you can't make the same amount of money playing fewer games.''
I see both sides of the James and Jordan argument, but whose side do you fall on?