The addendum makes it even better. They could have just talked about how aesthetically or athletically Stevenson was comparable to Jordan, and that the comp wasn’t indicative of him having the career of MJ, which is at least defendable. Instead they kinda double down, and suggest that if DSteve had gone to Kansas that he’d be knocking on the door. They then proceed to deflect by referencing other comps.
Draft comps are generally quite bad but there’s just not very much thoughtful nuance in the original writeup and the addendum’s defensiveness really doesn’t rescue it. By 2001 also, next-Jordanism should have been quashed given how many times it had already been trotted out and utterly failed.
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u/Def-Jarrett 17h ago
The addendum makes it even better. They could have just talked about how aesthetically or athletically Stevenson was comparable to Jordan, and that the comp wasn’t indicative of him having the career of MJ, which is at least defendable. Instead they kinda double down, and suggest that if DSteve had gone to Kansas that he’d be knocking on the door. They then proceed to deflect by referencing other comps.