Michael Jordan’s Bad Habit Made Kobe Bryant Better in 1 Major Aspect Reveals Kwame Brown

Michael Jordan, the guy responsible for making basketball famous and global, will always be the epitome of NBA history. Naturally, other NBA superstars will be compared to MJ. Some use statistics, some have personalities, and some might even make stuff up for the sake of it. But this former teammate of Kobe Bryant highlights a very important trait that has been visible but never talked about.

Recently, MJ was compared to the 22-year-old Anthony Edwards for his tenacity and temperament. Even LeBron James has been compared to Jordan for several reasons, and now LeBron stands atop the scoring record, yet the comparison never stops.

The Broken Play Show had Kwame Brown on and asked about the key comparison point between Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Brown played for the Los Angeles Lakers from 2005 to the 2008 season. So he closely saw how Kobe was and highlighted a main trait of his personality. What did he say?

“Kobe is a more polished disciplined MJ. Um, He took all the good parts of MJ and put it into one and left out the nightlife…”

 

Further describing how selectively “extroverted” Kobe was,

Kwame Brown said he was an exact carbon copy of the way he approached the game. On the other hand, Michael Jordan was good at hosting parties and breaking the ice with everyone. Where Kobe liked silence, Brown mentioned that MJ liked celebrations, playing cards, etc. Brown continued how even after winning games, Kobe wouldn’t hang out for much time.

Michael Jordan was more of a party guy, according to Brown. He exclaimed that he used to have a two-person team, including a driver, and later had to keep guards to protect his wife and family. “He’s out here, you know, he finally started getting a few little securities here and there once he got married. But other than that, it was just MJ. He was moving on love, everybody love MJ.”

Kobe’s thoughts on comparison with Michael Jordan

Kobe Bryant was asked a lot of times about the comparisons with MJ. In 2013, in an interview with ESPN, he revealed the difference between his and MJ’s situations. “I appreciated them, but after a while, it just got old. They eventually faded away because I was putting together my own identity. But I’ll never forget how much I learned from MJ.”

Bryant accepted that, obviously, he not only learned all the Jordan moves but used them too. But the situations were so different that the comparisons didn’t make sense.

“I came straight out of high school and played with a dominant big in Shaquille. Man, I was so young when I got to the NBA. What was I, like, 17? I mean, 17! The more you think about it, my situation was completely different than MJ’s, so the comparisons were just, you know, I stopped paying attention to them.”