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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 3396072, member: 767"]
I agree in general.  (especially some of those years in Cleveland at the end, seemed to take a lot of plays off on defense)

Just saying the game is different now, back then there were 1) fewer possessions (in 98 the average team had 90 possessions per game, this year is 100%; 11% more) and 2) the game in 1998 was a lot more iso heavy.  So easier to take a possession off on defense if your guy isn't the one with the ball.

Certainly my initial instinct says Jordan definitely went all out more in your random regular season game in March with nothing really to play for than Lebron.

Something I just looked up, Lebron has now played 61,603 minutes combining regular season and playoffs.  Jordan finished with 48,485.  It's hard for me to conceive of Lebron as an older player, for whatever reason, but he's now played 27% more minutes than Jordan has.  He's third all time in mintues (combining playoffs and regular season) and he's about 35 games from passing Karl Malone.
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