1/ Skip Bayless is the @davidgoggins of haters.
He is relentess. Can’t be stopped.
The NBA season was literally canceled by a once-a-century pandemic and he’s STILL hating on Lebron.
I actually have a theory (which is super relevant with release of #TheLastDance MJ doc)...
2/ ...the #MichaelJordan vs Lebron debate has heated up over the years.
I love ‘Bron but obvi think MJ is 🐐.
From a persuasion standpoint “6 for 6 with 6 Finals MVPs” is pretty much perfection...
3/ ...BUT if Lebron was ever going to leap frog MJ, Skip Bayless could make it happen..and here’s how...
4/ ... there’s a famous saying in US politics that “only Nixon could go to China”...
5/...in 1972, Richard Nixon went to China and met Chairman Mao. He became the first US president to visit China since the Chinese communist party took power in 1949 (here’s a really good book: amazon.com/Nixon-Mao-Week…) ...
6/...the reason Nixon “was the only one that could go to China” was because he was an ardent anti-Communist and basically couldn’t be accused by the Right of “being soft on communism” if he visited Mao..
7/...so he did and began the thawing of relationships between America and Communist China (which had the double effect of isolating the other major Communist power — USSR)...
8/...so back to Skip Bayless...he has been the biggest anti-Lebron commentator for at least a decade AND Skip loves MJ.
Basically, Skip is the only one that “can go to China” in the MJ/LBJ GOAT debate ...
9/ ...if he was to ever say “LBJ is better than MJ”, the world would literally stop spinning on its axis (and Lebron WOULD be GOAT).
No one could accuse Skip of “going soft on Lebron”...
10/...so yeah, there’s my thread on the Lebron vs MJ GOAT debate.
This #Quarantine is doing funny things to me.
Stay safe. 🙏❤️
11/ (Postscript)
This tweet from @ShowTimePls just made my quaratine
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