WWE Guide to the NBA

[Vegas]

Some of you have probably already seen this since this ESPN article linked below is two months old. It compares the NBA to the WWE. I think some of their comparisons are interesting and some of them are silly (I don't agree with their Greg Oden/Edge comparison for example.)

these are some of the WWE/NBA comparisons the ESPN article linked below makes:

David Stern= Vince McMahon

LeBron James = John Cena

Dwayne Wade = CM Punk

Dwight Howard = Mark Henry

Carmelo Anthony = Triple H

Kobe Bryant= Ric Flair

Tim Duncan= Undertaker

Steve Nash= Bret Hart

Dirk Nowitzki= The Miz

Jeremy Lin= Daniel Bryan

Metta World Peace= Macho Man Randy Savage

Blake Griffin = Dolph Ziggler

Jason Kidd= Shawn Michaels

Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook= The Rockers

Michael Jordan= The Rock

Shaquille O'Neal= Andre the Giant

Andrew Bynum= Brock Lesnar

JaVale McGee= The Big Show

Derrick Rose= Chris Jericho

Kevin Love= Randy Orton

Magic Johnson= Stone Cold Steve Austin

Greg Oden= Edge

Anthony Davis= Dean Ambrose

Spike Lee= Jimmy Hart

www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7861414/david-stern-vince-mcmahon-lebron-james-john-cena-wwe-guide-nba

[jmello]

It's a good article, but I hate your slip up of James=Jordan, when it is James=Cena. James will never live up to Jordan, much as Cena's character will never live up to Hogan's hey day.

[Vegas]

Jun 21, 2012 3:47:03 GMT -5 jmello said:

It's a good article, but I hate your slip up of James=Jordan, when it is James=Cena. James will never live up to Jordan, much as Cena's character will never live up to Hogan's hey day.

my bad, I fixed it now
(what happened was I had their Jordan/Rock comparison written down next to their James/Cena comparison and I just accidentally mistyped it)

however I do really like ESPN's LeBron James/John Cena comparison

[Sickman]

I would have put LBJ=Hogan. In Cleveland, he quickly became the best (arguably) and then he went to Miami and joined the nWo with Bosh and Wade and became a super heel. Now he is on the path to trying to redeem himself.

[chewey]

You left out the Boston Celtics as the nWo... although that was the biggest stretch of the article since the nWo analogy would have meant Paul Pierce filling in the role of Hollywood Hogan. I'm not sure anyone liked that one..

Lebron James was Cena because as polarizing as he is among the fans, Lebron also gets overlooked for the amount of charity work that he does in the offseason - much like Cena does work with the Make a Wish Foundation.