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Did regular Basketball fans liked/loved Michael Jordan back in the day when he was active? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Beautiful_Ad55@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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I know that he was extremely popular/famous and there was a lot of interest in him, but being a famous player doesn’t have to be the same as being a loved player.

For example, in todays game, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant are both very famous players in the league who get a lot of attention from media and from Basketball fans, but Curry is a player who seems to be almost universally liked, not many fans have negative feelings about him. Durant on the other hand is as media famous as Curry, but he is less loved, a lot of regular fans have negative feelings about him.

So how was it with Jordan? Yes he was extremely famous. But was he liked/loved by many Basketball fans (apart from Bulls Fans of course)? Or was he just respected? Did many even have negative feelings about him?

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[–] clonicle@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Liked & loved until he finally got past Detroit. If you were a general basketball fan, you continued to like/love him. Once he started dominating championships, and you were a fan of a team in his way, you were terrified of him.

Though the "Be like Mike" thing was very real and every kid was trying their best to dunk from the freethrow line, it wasn't the same kind of love that Curry gets today.

[–] Beautiful_Ad55@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, thats what I mean. You can try to emulate the game of a star player because you adore his game, but that doesn’t neccessarily mean that you love that guy as a person from a personality standpoint.