Has LeBron James “been chasing a ghost?”
in his GOAT quest?
That’s the sad case being made in this in-depth statistical breakdown below by Tom Haberstroh of Yahoo.
And presumably, that Jordan would not have won DPOY without the doctored stats.
Here’s the thing.
Home stat padding on close subjective plays is and has always been a thing.
There’s no way every single one of Michael Jordan’s steals, blocks and assists are all legit.
Including his DPOY 1987-88 season.
Stars get the calls from officials both on and off the court.
This whole angle is pathetic.
And you better believe LeBron James is no different in this sort of treatment.
The fact of the matter is that stat recording is basically like election fraud.
There’s absolutely shenanigans that occur on a small scale with biased mom and pop operations.
There’s just no way around that.
That wasn’t new for Trump complaining about it in 2020, or Hillary in 2016.
Storm Trooper Tom thinks otherwise regarding the 1987-88 Defensive Player of the Year.
If there’s one thing to take away from this graph it’s this.
Yes - there was a player in the NBA named “Fat Lever”.
But if there’s another, it’s that Michael Jordan is made to look like some astronomical outlier.
Well I ran some numbers of my own.
Jordan gotta be #1 with his performance enhancing stats, right?
Let’s play Storm Trooper Tom’s game here.
Interesting how he was left out of the article.
Certainly puts a damper on that magnatude thing don’t you think?
What about this idea?
Like he did time and time again in his career.
Any chance that might have been the predominant factor at play here?
They played 15 road games that season with zero days rest that season vs only seven at home.
But let’s be fair to Tom.
Just because this article seethes of desperate LeBron-centric stats doesn’t mean all of his research projects follow suit.
Check out this chart of his home/road assists splits.
Funny stat recording happens.
We saw his body of work over each season despite whatever tuned up stats.
Just like what they saw in 1987-88.
