When it comes to the first man in NBA history, Jordan must be the one with the highest voice. As the most shining superstar in the history of the league, Jordan is a ceiling regardless of strength and honor, and has led the team to win three consecutive championships, 6 FMVP, 5 MVP, 10 scoring kings, 3 steal kings, 1 DPOY, and countless honors. If Jordan hadn't "willfully" retired midway through his career to play baseball, his resume would have been even more brilliant.
Although Jordan is the GOAT in the minds of the vast majority of fans, after entering the new century, with the birth of Kobe, James, Curry and others, Jordan's "throne" is obviously no longer as strong as before, after all, many young fans have not witnessed the era when Jordan played, so they will only support the strong of their own era.
Just some time ago, a US media launched a voting campaign for the whole United States to "who is the best in history", according to the final vote, Jordan's vote rate has been less than 30%, only 29.9%. It has to be said that such a result is obviously difficult for many flying fans to accept, but this is competitive sports, and even great athletes will be forgotten because of time.
He was followed by James, who received 21.2 percent of the vote. As the NBA's ruler for the past decade, James has narrowed the gap between him and Jordan infinitely after winning the fourth championship and surpassing Abdul-Jabbar in total points, and even in the eyes of many people, if James can score 40,000 points before retiring, or win another championship, then he is undoubtedly on an equal footing with Jordan.
In this voting campaign, Bryant came in third, with 11.7% of the vote. In fact, such a vote rate is somewhat inconsistent with Kobe's historical ranking, after all, in the historical rankings given by many authoritative media, Kobe is usually ranked around 5-10. Therefore, many netizens believe that Kobe's skyrocketing ranking is related to his death, which is somewhat "sympathetic points".
Further down are O'Neal, Abdul-Jabbar, Magic, Russell, Duncan and other players, but they all get less than 10% of the vote, which is a certain gap with the above three. So, I wonder what the officials think about the result of this vote?