“To reinvent someone is very difficult. When you say a player is today’s Michael Jordan or today’s Magic Johnson, the first thing the public will do is compare him to the real Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson. When the public doesn’t see the same degree of success, you’ve just dug yourself a deeper hole.”
Jordan via [espn]
The media does this constantly. Anyone who has hops is always “the next jordan”: stackhouse, vince carter, kobe, lebron, even harold miner (remember him?)
