Washington Wizards’ Jordan Crawford believes he is a better player than Michael Jordan: NBA News
Washington Wizards’ young shooting guard Jordan Crawford, who has played just 42 games in his NBA career so far, after being drafted as the 27th overall pick in the 2010 draft, already feels that he will go down as the
greatest player in the league.
The 23-year-old guard went on to boast that he feels he can be a better player than iconic Michael Jordan;
“I don’t tell nobody, but I feel like I can be better than Michael Jordan. When I’m done playing, I don’t want people to say, Michael Jordan is the best player. I want that to be me. That’s how I am. That’s how I was built.” Crawford
said.
Jordan is the name because of which the league gained its popularity in the 90’s and went on to emerge as a major American sport. He is unarguably the most gifted player ever to step on the NBA court and even today, every emerging
player wants to model himself in the mold of the Chicago Bulls star.
Players like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James have ruled the league since Jordan’s departure, but even they do not consider themselves anywhere close to the man who gave the game and the league its identity.
Jordan Crawford on the contrary, is still a non entity in the league, but has the audacity to claim that he is going to be better than the 6-time NBA champion and a 14-time NBA All-Star.
And it isn’t that he doesn’t know his claim will land him in hot water;
“Yeah, I know that, I definitely know that. But I’m not settling for anything less. I feel like I’m better than him, anyway. My mom is going to say I’m better than him.” Crawford said.
Jordan Crawford was drafted late in the first round by the New Jersey Nets. However, the Nets transferred his rights to Atlanta Hawks where he made his NBA debut. After playing 16 games in Hawks’ uniform with an average of 4.2
points and 1.8 rebounds per game, Crawford was traded to Washington Wizards, where he played the rest of the 2010-2011 season.
Looking at the first season performance of 42 games, Crawford registered an average of 11.7 points, 2.8 assists and 2.5 rebounds which is something not even close to extraordinary. The skills that he showed on the floor last season
gave no indication either that he is going to be the next break out star in the league, a thing which makes his claim all the more absurd.
Considering Crawford was traded twice in his first year, the only thing that Crawford might succeed in doing is that he might go down as the most traded player in the history of NBA.
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