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The All-Next-Jordan Team

 
Who is/was the next Michael Jordan? Ever since I can remember, sportswriters have been looking for the next Jordan, and there have been a lot of them. Here is a team of the best of the best "next MJ's."   Vince Carter - "The Dunks-Just-Like-Him-With-A-Nice-Jump-Shot-Jordan" VC was and always will be one of the best dunkers of all time. I would put his winning NBA Dunk Contest performance right up there with what Jordan used to do. The Honey Dip was a rare, "did he just do that?" moment that only the likes of Jordan's free-throw line dunk and Dwight Howard's sticker on the backboard dunks can give us. The other thing about Air Canada was that he had a sweet jump shot back in his young Toronto Raptor days, that has seemed to disappear right with our comparison with him to Air Jordan.   Tracy McGrady - "The-Can't-Make-It-Out-Of-The-First-Round-Jordan" Whether you like T-Mac or not, he was, at one point, the best player in the NBA. He was a prolific scorer who you only ... (link)

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