Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan are tied for No. 2 behind the world’s No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods on Forbes’ list of the world’s Best Paid Male Athletes.
Michael Jordan in golf tournament while Tiger is on the basketball court
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Michael Jordan is holding a golf trophy, and Tiger Woods is bouncing a basketball.
Sports “experts†are quick to say that Kobe Bryant can’t be compared to Michael Jordan after failing to make the game-winning shot and turning the ball over at the end of the Lakers’ Game 3 NBA Finals loss to Orlando on Tuesday.
Former Lakers general manager Jerry West injected himself into the debate of who is better: current NBA MVP LeBron James or last year’s MVP Kobe Bryant.
And West surprisingly switched sides and went with James, the former No. 1 overall pick out of a Cleveland high school. West brought Bryant to Los Angeles in 1996 after trading Vlade Divac to Charlotte for the Philadelphia high school standout.
West is credited for assembling the Lakers’ four NBA championship teams in the 1980s and the franchise’s three consecutive NBA champions from 2000-2002. The 70-year-old former All-NBA guard and former Lakers coach said that James can be “the greatest player ever to play the gameâ€, even greater than Michael Jordan.
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