Comments on: Poll: LeBron James to Sport #6 Next Season

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:47:12 +0000

i think that 23 should have been retired along time ago. it should have been retired league-wide back when he retired it to play baseball. honestly are we that out of numbers that we cant retire the greats? retire jordans and birds and maybe even paul pierce lol but definately pippen and kobe and dim as a lightbulb shaq lol we have plently of numbers we can reuse plus if they wanna use a greats number they need permission from the player. is that far fetched? i think it would be great to do it that way. look at bo jackson. bo played every sport from football to basketball to baseball why isnt all his numbers retired? the man was a triple threat.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:24:59 +0000

Retiring Jordan's #23 league wide would be ridiculous. LeBron can change his number all he wants-----but please, spare us the grief that 'if I (LeBron) am willing to give it up---everyone should' nonsense. Switching to #6 to honor Dr. J now? Isn't that dissing Bill Russell? Whatever, LeBron.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:56:57 +0000

David, "in light of Michael Jordan's HOF speech"? What did Jordan show us in his speech that he hadn't already shown us throughout his career? SMFH. Take that personality away from Mike and he isn't Mike to begin with. Maybe you only ever took notice of his smile... but I happened to focus more on his rage. Michael was a psychopath of sorts.

By: Trev

Trev — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:00:34 +0000

I would hope they never retire 23 league-wide. What ever happened to the "Be Like Mike" Nike ad campaign? It even became a Lil' Bow Wow movie. Speaking of numbers, is there anyway to throw some stats up on the numbers pages? In terms of low-priority pipe dreams, it'd be great to have stats like those on the draft pages. Especially if the stats corresponded to the years of a players career in which he wore said number.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:21:37 +0000

This is crap. When I run the world, I am going to insist that a player pick his number when he starts his career and he is tethered to that number for the duration of his career. He may not change it unless he is changing teams and that number is unavailable on his new team. Once his number is established on the new team, that is his number for the duration of his career.

If a player goes to a team and a retired player offers his retired number to the new player, I'm OK with that.

By: David

David — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:32:05 +0000

IMO, Bill Russell WAS the most important player in NBA history. Jordan had a very strong commercial effect that was far greater than any other player, but Bill was the first of everything. First Black Superstar, First Black Coach, First Black Championship Coach, First Black GM- all in the face of blatant racism of the late 50's and 1960's. As a result he ushered in the opportunity for guys like Lenny Wilkens, Al Attles, KC Jones, and Doc Rivers to become Championship Coaches as well. He also paved the way for players like Kareem and Jordan and now LeBron. As far as Bron changing Jersey numbers, I think it's pretty much a marketing ploy devised to make new money and some consideration given to the MJ factor. Seeing how much of a jerk MJ was, and is,(In light of his HOF speech) it probably is a good idea for Bron to distance himself from anything relating to Mike at all anyway... I'm all for #6. The biggest winner in game history sure did alright with it...

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:27:10 +0000

I think this whole situation is being blown out of proportion. He changed his number to either boost jersey sales, or because he genuinely feels that way about Jordan. Now he'll create a legacy as #6, end of story.

By: shawn

shawn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:51:02 +0000

fisrt i love LBJ he is the best player in the league rite now but if he wants to pay homage to MJ than do that but if you re going to do like this by changing your number get a number that isnt a legacy find your own totally its a 101 different numbers to choose from!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:48:39 +0000

He wants the league to retire #23. He hopes that by changing his number other players will be inspired to do so also. I doubt it'll happen, but it's worth a shot I guess.

By: KneeJerkNBA

KneeJerkNBA — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:26:30 +0000

And don't forget that LeBron's a Free Mason and this is his way of paying tribute to Satan.