From Stephen Curry to Michael Jordan: the inevitable step after the fall of an empire
Stephen Currycivil dressed, observe the deterioration of their Golden State Warriors. This Jimmy Butlerthis Draymond Greenbut photography is eloquent: they are not even close to competing with some Minnesota Timberwolves They look more energetic, more combative, younger.
Greatness brings with it a contraindication in its entrails: everything that goes up, however high it is, sooner or later will fall. It happened with the great civilizations. The Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans. From all we learned things that we use today, but at some point, on some inaccurate date we do not know, they saw a reign that knew how to show infinity.
We can cheat it, dodge it in shadows, but You cannot defeat time. It is an insistent persecutor. Sooner or later, it reaches even the most elusive illusionists. It happened with Michael Jordan. Pass now with Curry.
The desolation of the day after is as unbearable as spooky.
Steph, the man who changed the game with his shots from the logo, is 37 years old. The ongoing postseason taught us that his NBA, LeBron James, James Harden and Kevin Durant It no longer exists. It is the turn of the new generations. And with that eloquent radiography we can already anticipate that what is coming in San Francisco will be the country of the last things. Land razed until it is again. When something so wonderful, different and exciting happens but then it collapses, you need years – even decades – to rebuild it.
Curry’s exit is equated with Michael Jordan’s departure from Chicago. An apocalyptic world in sight. Class C basketball in a city that knew how to have a glorious dynasty. Prepare, because we will be all widows of the chef: in search of replacements, we will see the years passing lost feelings. Welcome, friends, to the nostalgic team of lost emotions hunters.
Curry his Warriors broke a historical record of the Jordan Bulls
Jordan left the bulls after the 1998 title, what we know today as The Last dance. Yes, he played in Washington Wizards, but the void he left in the city of the wind was impossible to fill. With him, in 14 years, playoffs always played. There were 750 victories and 398 losses. Six championship titles and the best triumph record in a regular season (72-10 in 1995-96).
What team broke that streak that seemed impossible? The Warriors, in 2015-16, with Curry in their ranks. It was 73-9, 20 years after Jordan. It seems that it was yesterday, but time is tyrant: almost a decade of that unforgettable moment has passed.
Butler’s arrival gave a hope to Golden State. A last attempt to belong. Curry’s injury, unexpected, collapsed those possibilities.
Life after Jordan was difficult to assume. Internal conflicts with Jerry Krause at the head, the departure of Coach Phil Jackson, the arrival of Tim Floyd. Elton Brand, Jay Williams accident. Scott Skiles. Black Vinny. The hope made of Derrick Rose. Infinite images that explain desolation. 780 wins against 959 losses in the years following MJ. All with the statue of His Majesty of witness at the gates of United Center.
Steve Kerr, Coach today of the Warriors, was a player in the Jordan era. Key with the decisive shot in the finals of 1997, he knows that this story, his as a teacher, that of his teachings to those who knew how to be poets of the game, is coming to an end. First was Klay Thompson and they will soon be Curry and Green.
San Francisco, when that happens, will be Chicago. Or maybe San Antonio after the era Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan. Because we don’t know if Kerr will leave as Phil Jackson of the Bulls did or will stay as his reference, Gregg Popovich, in the Spurs.
What we do know, what we have clear, is that after so much noise, what reigns is silence. After the thunderstorm, in this exciting case, calm will come.
The echo of glory. The passage to nostalgia. The inevitable reconstruction.
The past, once again, serves to teach the present.
Stephen Curry, Michael Jordan and the inevitable step after the fall of an empire.
