preface
Since Jordan actually chose to retire, many players in the NBA have been entrusted with important responsibilities. Said to be the closest defender to Jordan, and this title has always been remembered by everyone. And to get close to Jordan, not only in terms of personal honor and similarity, but more importantly, the position of play and attitude towards basketball, etc. The world's most powerful basketball superstar is not close to anyone!
For Jordan's worship, let's take stock of who is the most similar and closest person to him after Jordan!
Anfini Hardaway
Jordan '84 and Hardaway '93 attracted thousands of fans because of his heart-warming basketball skills before entering the NBA. At this time, Jordan had just won his first career three-in-a-row, but Jordan admired the young man very much. In the end, Hardaway became Jordan's first successor!
In the 1995 playoffs, they met Jordan for the first time. The meeting was Jordan's playoff round that had just returned, so the Magic ended up beating the Bulls 4-2. In the end, they managed to reach the finals, which also proved that the combination of him and O'Neill is also very competitive!
Vince Carter
The University of North Carolina, because it once had a Jordan. They had been looking for a player similar to Jordan, and they found Carter. They saw a player who was more talented than Jordan, a player who didn't just jump high, he was stagnant and bounced faster than Jordan. But his projection ability is far inferior to Jordan's, and such a player has been called to surpass Jordan before entering the NCAA! But in fact, the main reason why he became famous in the NBA was because of the beautiful aerial action displayed in the dunk contest, and the rest was not much like Jordan.
But Carter's career span a long period of 22 years. More than just a dunk king in the NBA, he has since appeared as the team's 3D shooter, and his three-point shooting in the middle and late stages of his career became the best conditions for him to survive!
Len Byas
Before entering the NBA, he was already said to be a player with more talent than Jordan, and he is the most unfortunate rookie in the NBA! But his talent is so futuristic that the Cardinal, who is the general manager of the Celtics, can no longer sit still. In the 1986 draft, the Celtics did not hesitate to take their own top pick and select this player who could look forward to dynastic talent. That was Lumbaiyas, an honest kid who never did anything bad at all, only basketball and life every day. But when he was selected with the second pick, he was excited that he wanted to do something that adults should do. After drinking, his friend pulled drugs out of his backpack, and eventually such a talented player ended up losing his life.
But his talent was judged to surpass Jordan at the time, and he was still a relatively honest player. He may be able to change the Celtics, which were already in decline at that time!
Tracy McGrady
Maddie, the man with the longest Achilles tendon in the NBA, his signature move is a dry jumper. His height and bounce speed make him very agile, so his shooting is also a very threatening way to score. And Jordan's mid-range is really a murderous weapon, so the similarity between the two of them is mainly similar in this aspect. But Jordan's temper is smelly and hard, and he always does something very excessive. But a player like Maddie is like Changshan Zhao Zilong who came out of the idol drama, so the difference in form and personality is relatively large!
But what Maddie and Jordan have in common is that they don't admit defeat, even if the game is only 35 seconds, he has to fight! And Maddie's personal honor is too much worse than Jordan, so this player with a flowing style of play and scoring explosion should be compared to Jordan!
LeBron James
From an honor point of view, the closest to Jordan is LeBron James, but in fact, LeBron James does not seem to be the same type of player as Jordan. Because although Jordan is more powerful in his scoring ability and personal ability, a player like James needs more teammates, because his organizational skills are still good, and his individual offense is also historic. And James is the kind of player who can have all the numbers, so the players who are teammates with him have a bit of a feeling of data slipping.
So although James is very similar to Jordan in honor, but in fact there is still a world of difference with Jordan, although the technical characteristics of the two are mainly based on breakthroughs, but James's breakthrough ability is mainly crushed by physical fitness, and Jordan mainly uses his delicate technology and speed to pass the opponent after the basket of various creative shots.
Kobe bryant
The real most similar to Jordan is Kobe, because Kobe Bryant was trying to get close to Jordan from the beginning. He wears size 23 and he wears size 24, he has been chasing Jordan's footsteps all his life, and his kind of personality traits are to learn Jordan. He always does something really crazy when he's on the pitch, he tears the opposing defensive line and sticks it off at half-time when the opponent attacks. That's Kobe's ability, he's always able to play very well. And Kobe is only close to this basketball god, and can never surpass or even compare with this is the Jordan we know.
Everyone knows Jordan's paranoid and rewarding personality, and Kobe is such a player, and he performs the same on the basketball court as Jordan. The biggest feature of the two is hard work, Kobe is a notoriously training maniac, and Jordan once returned to the summer after the Bulls lost after his first retirement. What a horrible thing it was that he spent a summer reconnecting his body to the physical intensity best suited for playing basketball!
So in this world, there is no player who can surpass Jordan to become Jordan, of course, many James fans will feel that James has surpassed Jordan. But the first person in history to be MJ is not LBJ!