It’s blasphemous to mention any NBA player having a greater legacy than Michael Jordan but Dwyane Wade thinks Lebron James can at least tie it. Wade made the comments during a discussion with ESPN, where he was asked about the comparison between the two players. Comparisons are one of the more annoying things about sports because someone is always trying to compare athletes against each other instead of enjoying their own greatness. Nonetheless, in the case of Wade’s comments, I don’t know about this whole tying MJ thing but I get the point he was making.
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“No, it’s not possible,” Wade told ESPN with a laugh. “It’s not possible.”
“The only thing you can do is tie it,” Wade said. “There’s no 19th hole.”
The golf reference came about after Wade was reminded of a 2012 interview with ESPN in which he used a golf analogy to compare James to Jordan.
“I don’t know if [James] has the ability to surpass him or not,” Wade said at the time. “That’s yet to be seen. My version as LeBron being on par with Michael is this: They’re both on the golf course. Michael’s on the 18th hole; LeBron is somewhere on like the fourth hole. He’s got a long way to go, but he’s on par to get to the 18th hole.
Wade is in a good position to speak on the legacies of both players considering he spent the best time of his career playing side by side with Bron but as a young baller back in Chicago, Wade idolized Jordan and followed everything he did.
Those comments about the 18th hole were made four years ago by Wade and his opinion hasn’t changed too much.
“I think last year — not only in my eyes, but in a lot of people’s eyes — really put him … he’s on the 15th hole right now,” Wade said of James. “And he’s on his way, for sure.”
Wade was asked the question in part because of Lebron’s own comments over the summer where he said he was chasing the ghost of MJ.
“You can’t go past it,” Wade said of Jordan’s legacy. “How can you? That’s as great as it gets, man. The only thing you can do, like I said, is be A-1, A-B. There’s no way higher.”
Wade is probably correct. It will be tough for Bron to surpass Jordan no matter what he does. Even if he wins another few championships and MVP awards, there will still be people who will side with Jordan and there is nothing Bron can do about it. All he can do is focus on his career which will go down as one of the best ever even if he never played another minute.
