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The amount of money and audience that LeBron James and Michael Jordan have generated for the NBA is innumerable. The 1990 NBA Champion Isiah Thomas knows the respect such players deserved.
Undoubtedly, Michael Jordan and LeBron James are two of the greatest basketball players in the history of the sport. Furthermore, Isiah Thomas feels that the impact and power LeBron and Kevin Durant have in the modern day for the NBA is incredible.
Isiah was recently invited to an interview for The Pivot Podcast. He shared his views on how current era NBA champions James and Durant are not given the respect for raising the league to a global stage, “LeBron James and Michael Jordan made a lot of money for this league, the only two players who’ve ever done this.
“What Michael Jordan has done and now what LeBron James has done.“
“The money that these two guys have made for the NBA, what LeBron James has done, and the money he’s made for the NBA, I don’t know if it will ever be done again. The guy is making 40 million a year. This group when it’s all said and done, they don’t want to give them the credit now,” added Isiah Thomas.
Thomas mentioned that the NBA is now able to reach the markets that seemed impossible to explore. After Michael Jordan, the world came to know about many other players. Above all, the world started knowing who Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Dirk Nowitzki, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, were.
Moreover, these players would be leaving the league is much better hands. Isiah added, “When LeBron James and Kevin Durant and all of them walk out of the door and when you look back at what they just did compared to what my generation did, man these guys have taken it to a place none of us could ever imagine, and they don’t get any credit for it.”
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