Michael Jordan vs Michael Phelps

[Ca$H]

Jordan might not be the GOAT athlete at his respective sport. Phelps as a swimmer might be better than Jordan as a basketball player. So instead of calling Phelps the Jordan of swimming is it time to call Jordan the Phelps of basketball? Gatorade might have to replace Jordan with Phelps in their like Mike if I could be like Mike commercial.

[Nilocon165]

mods?

[TheWinningFam]

mods?

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[bigkingsfan]

Ordan can't even swim.

[Ca$H]

mods?

Phelps:

[Ben Simmons]

Jordan is 6/6. Phelps has lost championship events

[nba_55]

Jordan is 6/6. Phelps has lost championship events

He is 6/15 and 1-9 without Pippen.

[TheWinningFam]

Jordan is 6/6. Phelps has lost championship events

Jordan played against shit competition in a weak expansion era, otoh phelps played the best of the best in all of his championship swimming competitions.

[ShawkFactory]

Jordan is 6/6. Phelps has lost championship events

Phelps went 8/8 in gold medals in the 2008 olympics.

You probably don't understand how crazy that is but...let that sink in.

[TheWinningFam]

Phelps went 8/8 in gold medals in the 2008 olympics.

You probably don't understand how crazy that is but...let that sink in.

Way more GOAT than jordan tbh, people bring up 6/6 all the time and not consider the shit competition he was facing, phelps otoh was going up against the best swimmers in the world in every single event.

[ClipperRevival]

Jordan might not be the GOAT athlete at his respective sport. Phelps as a swimmer might be better than Jordan as a basketball player. So instead of calling Phelps the Jordan of swimming is it time to call Jordan the Phelps of basketball? Gatorade might have to replace Jordan with Phelps in their like Mike if I could be like Mike commercial.

You can't force people to popularize a phrase. The term, "The Michael Jordan of

[SpaceJam]

Thorpedo>>>

[FreezingTsmoove]

Phelps went 8/8 in gold medals in the 2008 olympics.

You probably don't understand how crazy that is but...let that sink in.

And if there were 7 other basketball related events in the olympics Jordan would have went 8/8 too

[bigkingsfan]

And if there were 7 other basketball related events in the olympics Jordan would have went 8/8 too

Craig Hodges says hi.

[ShawkFactory]

And if there were 7 other basketball related events in the olympics Jordan would have went 8/8 too

There's other events. It'd be like if Jordan had to win all of the team stuff, which he would. But then he'd have to beat the best point guards at what they do...and then beat the best centers at what THEY do.

Not to say that their dominance isn't comparable. But we're just as unlikely to see another Phelps as we are to see another Jordan. Perhaps even more so.

19 gold medals and counting.

For reference: the guy with the second most golds in swimming history, Mark Spitz, has 9.

Phelps has 23 overall and Spitz has 10. He more than doubles second place.