MJ was criticized worse by who???
The media loved him. The fans loved him. Stern loved him. Cacs all over America loved him.
When we talk about critics we aint talking about his damn competition! They aint supposed to fuckin like him.
Dude u tripping. Sounds like your reading a rehearsed narrative. No way you are ild enough to have experienced Jordan's entrance into the league, and remember it clearly. White people love him, but his contemporaries, players, despised him. Even his own teammates didn't like him, YouTube some interviews. If anything, LeBron is dislike for the dumb stuff he did, the decision, stuff like that. The only reason Jordan had the global appeal he had is because on the big stage he was a winner. And that's not a slight against anybody, but he was a larger-than-life athlete and a winner when it counted when he did get to the finals. Point Blank. Now, players don't genuinely hate each other, the league is soft as hell with the rule changes and whatnot. Not saying times work better than, just speaking truth. Now, players don't dislike each other, they compete on the field and afterwards they go on vacation together, hang out together, on each other's weddings, all that kind of stuff. Not saying it's bad, but there's no genuine this like nowadays. Back then dudes hated each other for real. They hated Jordan because he was better than them and they couldn't beat him. As great as LeBron is, and I've never said he wasn't a Phenom, he just doesn't incite the same fear that Jordan did. It is what it is, but no matter which way you slice it 6 finals appearances, 6 finals wins, never going past six games, and 6 MVP's, Trump anything with a loss attached to it.