Hello everyone, today let's talk about Curry and James, both of them are active superstars and have won 4 NBA championships, why did James dare to touch Jordan and even self-proclaimed GOAT, but Curry never had?
First, let's take a look at how the two entered the NBA and won the championship.
Let's look at James first, who was drafted by the Cavaliers in 2003 to enter the NBA as the top pick in the draft and won the best rookie.
After that, he played in the Cavaliers for seven years, and although he had outstanding personal performances and won two MVPs, he was unable to lead the team to win the championship. So I listened to a sentence from Shifo Duncan: The future is yours!and a sentence from the first generation of newspaper star Wolf King Garnett: Don't let loyalty hurt you!After that, maybe James really believed. Announced that he would leave the Cavaliers to bring talent to the Miami Heat, and formed a Big Three with Wade and Bosh with the goal of winning a championship!
But the road to the championship was not so easy, and although they made it to the finals in their first year, they met Nowitzki's Dallas Mavericks (still that name). In the first two games of the finals, Nowitzki was unwell and always coughed when he was sick, and was led 2-0 by the Heat, and in the post-game player tunnel, James and Wade couldn't suppress the excitement of winning, and even imitated Nowitzki's cough and mocked Nowitzki's appearance was photographed by reporters and published in newspapers and magazines. Although James and Wade clarified afterwards that they were not mocking anyone, they sparked the anger of the entire Mavericks and went out of control. The so-called sky is mad and rainy, and people are mad and woe. In the following games, James's Heat lost again and again, and finally lost the Finals, and could only look up to the Mavericks to lift the championship trophy.
In 2012, Wade, as a defender, selflessly ceded part of the ball to James as a forward, sacrificing personal data to be a green leaf foil for James, and only for the team to win the championship. James did not disappoint the team, relying on his personal ability and outstanding performance and the overall strength of the Heat to reach the Finals again and finally win the Finals, James won the first championship and the first personal Finals MVP trophy as the absolute core of the team.
In 2013, the Heat successfully defended the title again, and James won his second championship and his second Finals MVP. And he already has 4 regular season MVPs. At this time, James is only more than 28 years old, he is the absolute core of the Heat, and he is in his prime, which can be said to be a success at a young age.
In 2015, remembering that his hometown Cleveland selected Irving, coupled with the current decline of Wade due to injury and the strict and domineering management pressure of Heat head coach Riley, James decided to leave the Heat and plunged into the arms of his hometown Cleveland to return to the Cavaliers, and asked the Cavaliers to trade Wiggins, the newly drafted champion, in exchange for the Instant Force, which also led to the only champion in NBA history who was traded away without playing a game in the draft** , and is even rumored to have caused Wiggins to suffer from autism at the time. But under all the manipulations, James still defeated the Warriors in the 2016 Finals to win the third championship and his third Finals MVP, and shouted: Cleveland!this is for you！The local fans were so moved that they all hugged their heads and cried, and tears were spilled on the spot.
And this championship was the first league championship in Cleveland in 50 years, and the next day a reporter wrote the news that James you are our GOAT!However, the reporter's original intention was probably the Cleveland GOAT, not the meaning of the entire NBA. This is also the first time that there has been a claim that James is a GOAT.
However, James, who holds three championships, still has not given up the pursuit of the championship, considering the decline of Lefou's state and the unstable performance of the European immortals, the Cavaliers have no chance to win the championship again, and Los Angeles is one of the top two big ball markets with more opportunities to win the championship and business development, and turned around and joined the purple and gold giants Los Angeles Lakers, but the Lakers' record is not good after joining, James asked the team to strengthen, and got the Pelicans star power forward Anthony Davis through a trade, and the team's strength has greatly increased. Then in the finals of the 2020 shrinkage park season, he defeated the former club Heat to win the fourth championship and his fourth personal Finals MVP. At this time, James already has four championships, four regular season MVPs and four finals MVPs, plus other honors, so many ** began to tout that James's historical status in the NBA is already the second in history.
Then in 2023, James broke Abdul-Jabbar's record for the total scoring title in the regular season, won the first mid-season championship and the MVP of the mid-season championship final, and it was ** all kinds of publicity for a while, and at a party, James was seen leading a goat into the court, and the goat's English is goat. Since then, there have been countless reports that James has become a GOAT. It also brought up the topic that as long as James wins another championship or some other honor, he can surpass Jordan.
As an aside, James himself owns at least a dozen shares of various types of ** companies, including ESPN, whether it is on the Internet or in newspapers and magazines, many news articles and reports are first published by these ** companies, and then many other self-** also follow the trend more and more powerful, many people believe it when there are more lies, of course, it is understandable to praise their bosses, but they can't blow too much, right?What concept of Jordan can James compare?That's the general situation of James, let's talk about Curry.
Curry was drafted by the Warriors with the seventh pick in the 2007 draft, entered the NBA, and has been with the Warriors ever since.
Curry was not outstanding at the beginning of his career, from obscurity to hone his skills step by step, and gradually became the core of the team, under the development of the Warriors' historical consistent fast and slow run-and-shoot tactics, coupled with the leadership of head coach Kerr, the Warriors Curry, Klay and everyone together created the era of small ball.
In 2015, Curry relied on his personal long-range shooting fast and accurate three-point shot to become a killer feature, won the first regular season MVP, plus Klay, Green and the team's efforts, led the Warriors to the Finals and defeated the opponent to win the first championship, unfortunately, although Curry was the first in the team in terms of data and contributions in the entire Finals series, he failed to win the Finals MVP, and it was rumored that because Curry's signed brand was not Nike, the judges were forced to vote for him. But fans who like Curry know that Curry should be the real Finals MVP.
Since then, Curry has refined his skills even more, making 402 three-pointers in a single season in 2016, a record that has not been broken to this day. And the Warriors won 73 wins in the regular season, breaking the Bulls' record of 72 wins, I don't know if it was Curry's amazing performance or the reason for last year's Finals MVP, this time all the judges voted for Curry, Curry got the only regular season MVP in NBA history. But unfortunately lost to the Cavaliers in the finals that year. The memory of the 73-win overall runner-up has also become an indelible pain for the Warriors. Later, the team recruited the offensive Grim Reaper Durant who had no solution to the offense, and in 2017, under the offensive of Curry and Durant, he easily defeated his opponent in the finals and won the championship for the second time, but it was not that Curry was not good enough, but that the peak Durant was too powerful, and the Finals MVP was taken away by Durant.
In 2018, the powerful Warriors had Curry, Klay, Durant, Green and Cousins five All-Star level players, known as the five-star Warriors, and the strong overall strength topped the league, and there was no suspense to defend the title, and Curry won the third championship. However, he still missed the MVP of the finals.
Until 2022, Curry led the Warriors all the way through, and when Klay was in poor condition after returning from injury and Green was in a declining state, he single-handedly turned the tide, worked hard with Wiggins and others, and reached the Finals and finally won the fourth championship without being favored by most people. and undisputedly finally won the first Finals MVP of his career. Iguodala and Curry hugged Curry tightly in tears, and the feelings of the moment may only be understood by true fans. So far, Curry also has four championships in his hands and two regular season MVPs. is also full of various honors, and has long become the greatest star in the history of the Warriors, but Curry has always been much more low-key than James, and has never published anything about his historical status, and is a real superstar worthy of respect in his mind!
Thank you, all of you**!