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Originally Posted by jruck37
As far as life-time statistics, Kobe's averages are skewed becuase he came out of high school and wasn't a starter until his 3rd season. No question that MJ will probably always have better lifetime averages.
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True, they're skewed, but even without considering Kobe's 1st three seasons his career averages were:
45% FG%, 34% 3PT%, 84% FT%, 5.9 RPG, 5.3 APG, 1.7 SPG, 0.6 BPG, 3.2 TOPG, 2.9 FPG, 28.3 PPG.
Just to recap Jordan's were:
49.7% FG%, 32.7% 3PT%, 83.5% FT%, 6.2 RPG, 5.3 APG, 2.4 SPG, 0.8 BPG, 2.73 TOPG, 2.6 FPG, 30.1 PPG.
That's not even considering Jordan's drop in stats after coming out of retirement twice which would lower his averages. Statistically Kobe is an awesome player but Jordan is still still hands down better by the numbers. I admit this even though I'm a Lakers fan and I've hated the Bulls ever since they beat the Lakers in the finals.