Not with me, I just defended Lebron a few pages back, they both get unfair criticism but it's not fair to either of them to overcompensate for that criticism by bashing the other guy any chance you get.
And TBH, they get beat on strictly because of the "Jordan Myth", as I like to call it. In fact, every single great wing player from now on will get the same treatment. To me, Kobe already has more offensive ability, skill-wise, than Jordan had. Not more efficient, more skilled. Easily. And Lebron is a better all around player than either one of them when he wants to be, he's just not better in the clutch consistently, and hasn't shown the same relentless will. Yet.
But the media and fans with revisionist history have created a Myth that's not only disrespectful to the new generation of players, but the ones who came before MJ as well. If you subscribe to that myth, then Jordan never missed a game winner, never shot poorly, always guarded the other teams best player, always made the right pass, always did everything. Meanwhile, Scottie Pippen was just some guy Jordan created himself, Dennis Rodman was just insane, Ho Grant, Harper, Kukoc, Kerr, Armstrong & Paxson were more lab rats who just wandered into a few rings, made by Michael. And Phil Jackson just got lucky to be entrusted with it all and not screw it up.
Believe me, it doesn't matter who it is, they'll get the same treatment forever, in this new internet, 24 hr Sports climate. If Durant wins this year, for the rest of his career he'll be overly picked apart to find the flaws, to make sure nobody gets close to the gold standard that can never be replicated.
