Caleb Wilson On Being Drafted By The Chicago Bulls: “I wanna be better than Mike”
I don’t care if it’s farfetched. I’d want that mentality from my top 4 pick.
Definitely, I don’t blame any of these rookies for being cocky, they’re trying to sell themselves and talking yourself down ain’t gunna help
I agree, but this wasn’t even cocky. Every player wants to be better than MJ. Hell, I want to be better than MJ.
Yeah lol. He didn’t say he is better, he just wants to be better. Why wouldnt you want to be better?
There was definitely a bit of self-deprecation with the chuckle before he said it. Honestly didn’t even come off cocky at all to me
Well okay, sure. Just in basketball language it sounds like, “I want to be better than God.”
Sounds pretty arrogant when it’s translated huh?
People who are that successful aren’t gonna look at another successful man as a god lmao
Weak mindset
So either Larry Bird had a weak mindset or wasn’t successful.
Larry bird was in the tail end of his prime when he was gassing up young MJ, i don’t think he’s saying that about a contemporary
The Bird’s god quote was about MJ’s second career playoff series. But he was talking about a guy who dropped 49 and 63 on Boston - at the time the best team in the world.
The quote lives to this day but the less known fact is Bird’s promise to become a truck driver if MJ drops 20+ in the next game. Good thing Boston had stopped him at 19 in the next game and secured Bird’s future in NBA.
This is why I hate all the glazing here. No matter what these guys may say, I guarantee you none of them looks up to / worships anyone else like that.
Not everyone looks at other grown ass men as gods
What is it with the Miami Heat entity in particular that causes so much Michael Jordan glaze.
MJ is my GOAT for obvious reasons but holy shit chill lol.
I want future franchise star to think the gap between him and Jordan is the same as the gap between Scal and the average person.
Lol not really since MJ isnt god and bonus take, god isnt real at all. So who gaf
They even made a famous commercial about being like Mike
Also they’re basically still kids. They’ll mature a lot over these next few years
Ignorance is bliss
He meant Mike Dunleavy Jr.
Mike James
How dare he try to compare himself to EuroLeague MVP Mike James
In order to be the man you gotta believe you’re the man
Yeah is there anything wrong with what he said? That’s a good mentality and goal to have
But if you are a Warriors fan, apparently this kind of talk is blasphemous and you must be crucified for it for the entire season (Podz said he wanted to be better than Steph).
Right!
If he is just a multi time all star, he will not get hate for this. If he is average or just “kind of good” then this will be used in edits of him missing shots 5 yrs down the road.
Oh good god. ESPN and Skip are going to have an agenda against this young man for the rest of his career now.
And the problem with this.. younger.. GEN-Z.. generation.. is that THEY… genuinely believe.. they can be better than the GOAT HIMSELF. MICHAEL JEFFREY JORDAN. I mean.. just.. preposterous. What more can I say?
The worst part is that I can read this in both Skip’s voice and Stephen A’s voice and it works. Hate this shit.
Skip loves calling Jordan & Brady by their full names lol idk if Stephen A does that. “Michael Jeffrey Jordan” & “Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr”. I can hear it in both of their voices too otherwise though
lol yup. “Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr,” is seared into my brain.
I can literally see him waving his pencil around while saying this lol
Dude probably never even seen a single game of MJ
Skip’s half in the grave doing humiliation rituals and glazing any athlete he can for good will.
It’s Stephen A’s with zero ball knowledge in the active sports for the next 3 months that have all the time in the world to dissect a rookie like this.
Only Bayless worth watching it Rick. Learn to make you some dope ass tacos.
Half in the grave and still jacked
Brother shouldn’t have to offer 1.5 milly to bang a hairstylist with his guns.
Anyone who got a full scholarship for basketball probably knows more about basketball than most people on this sub.
Skip? Nah man.
Old man MJ bout to take it personal and show up at Bulls training camp to light up the youngblood
Let’s focus on you being better than Patrick Williams for a start
Floor is Passive P ceiling is MJ
So an NBA player of all time?
To quote the scholar Tyler Herro, “it was a time”.
Pat Bev
Barely
To quote Jordan himself, “the ceiling is the roof”
Michael Jackson?
This is disrespectful to Caleb Wilson bruh
bpodz trauma
He’s already better than PWill
him saying this already makes him better than passive pat
I too want to be better than Mike when I play pickup basketball twice a week lol
Twice a week is pretty solid
BREAKING: Michael Jordan comes back from retirement at age 63, says he took that kid’s word “personal”.
I hate that I laughed at this
Glad I made your day. Haha!
Good mentality. Aim high
Please dont be high while aiming
Gamble on your future young fella /s
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This class coming in are delusionally confident, I love it.
Should he say we wants to be worse than MJ?
Right? “I want to be really good but not as good as Mike”
“I only scored 82 out of respect for Bam”
Well, 10% worse than MJ would still be great
That’s effectively Kobe
So that makes Kobe a top 5 player of all time.
“I only want to win 5 rings out of respect for MJ”
I mean. Minted. Perfection fassbender gif if he said that.
If he got 5 FMVPs in chicago he’s better than MJ.
Its definitely either one or the other, theres no nuanced way to answer this type of question.
Gotta work like him first
noticed he says mike not mj, pretty chill choice
He heard wrong and just wants to be better than Mike Finley
Kenny just fell to his knees
What’s left of them at least
Yeah I did
Poor guy those things are destroyed
MJ: and I took that personally
He’ll only be shat on if he gets close to that level and starts failing.
Otherwise this is a great mentality to have, and no one should take it too seriously
Steph also said he wanted to be better than MJ. He got (and still gets) zero hate for it because no one believed he could. He still wound up arguably top 10 and arguably the goat point guard. Self belief should be encouraged
Dunleavy?
Love the mentality
I hope he is half as good as Deng,
Hope you guys are taking care of our man
I want to be taller than Robert Wadlow
Nothing wrong with dreaming big and having lofty goals. I’m sure he realizes it’s a tall order, but might as well believe in yourself. Maybe it sounds a bit arrogant, but I think it’s clear he just wants to create his own legacy and shoot for the moon.
the funny thing is that michael said a similar thing when he got drafted lol. he wanted to make the bulls a respectable organization.
“Want” is the key word here. If he said he was “going to” be better than Mike then we would be having a different conversation.
Oh boy
Shh he is working on his edit
I wanna be hotter than the sun.
He cleverly avoided specifying which Mike he meant.
Good luck with that.
Ooooooh I wanna be like Mike
Yessirr i hope he does!
That’s a good mentality to have. Bulls got a solid player.
IShowConfidence
And I wanna be a billionaire playboy like Bruce Wayne
Inspired by the great Brandon Podziemski.
podiemski 2.0
Mike Conley?
He will be lucky if he’s as good as Mike Conley
Alright then it starts with averaging over 28/6/6 with 2.5 steals per game and playing all 82 games haha.
I mean, the man isn’t lying… I wanna be better than Mike too LOL
He really compares his self to black jesus huh? Calm a bit down young fella
This guy has a face like Bobby Portis. I predict he never makes an allstar game
Who ? Mike Jones
I wanna be faster than a locomotive
Take 13 months off from the NBA and bat over .250, then I’ll believe you.
As a Bulls fan since ‘89, so glad to see this pick!
Yeah well wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first
I respect it, hearing him say it definitely shows that calm confidence. Reading it at first I was like “Oh no, what have you done 😳” but I like the way he carries his self
Uh oh
Better than Michael Carter-Williams*
let’s leave the Utah Jazz alone
You put the toughest mission on the level 1 lmao.
His ceiling is the roof
So you going to win 7 rings in today’s NBA where there has been no repeat champ the last 8 years.
Better be lucky MJ is 40 years old lol would bust that ass
Do you think Michael Jordan is 40 years old?
Hes somehow the same age as LeBron. Crazy that Bron got drafted out the womb
LeBron is 41. I guess this makes MJ the GOAT because he has managed to become younger than a guy who was born when he was 22
He is young and full of emotion, let’s just leave it be.
And welcome to the Bulls! <3
MJ gonna fly back to Chi-Town for a quick 1-1 pick up game
Can’t blame him, I also want to, my little issue is my hands work like pork hoofs when it come to basketball
Mike Sweetney??
Easy
He can say that, but doesn’t mean it’s even remotely possible. I like the confidence lol
So do I.
Remember scott burell…
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
A long time
There are already people in this thread misconstruing what he said by acting like he said he’s GOING to be better than MJ. That’s not what he said at all. He said he WANTS to be better than MJ. Those are two very different things.
I would urge caution, that particular gentleman has a history of spite and grudges
Never make a comment that will be used against you when you are not better than Mike.
That’s the mindset anyone should have
Caleb Wilson: I’m bigger than Jesus
That’s a great mentality. Strive to be better than the previous legends
Insert laughing MJ gif 🤣
Good be ambitious kid people claim they want passion and love for the game but clown it when they see it
Lol. People that shitting on this kid need to go back and watch the MJ documentary again. Thats exactly how MJ felt about Larry Bird and Magic. Nothing wrong with being driven.
Me too!
This is gonna be playing in the media for a long time. YouTubers are gonna cook with content about this as well
Let’s go…. We still got a lot to do , but i like caleb We need to build around and with him💯
You know what? Shoot your shot, young man.
Big shoes to fill💀💀
I know a lot of old heads will get a stroke hearing this but, I like the mentality. Somebody has to be the best, why not me? Will he, I doubt it, but can’t knock a young man for aiming for the sun, because even if he falls short, he could still land amongst the stars. I’m wishing him luck on his journey and I hope he puts the work in to match the confidence.
Damn, dudes setting himself up. Good luck!
Love the confidence by Caleb. He definitely has the talent to be special.
Not sure he’ll be better than Mike but he definitely can make Chicago relevant again.
I’m pretty sure that’s a ventriloquist doll. What the fuck.
I guess he didn’t see what happened to Podz. Still can’t believe people have a problem with stuff like this tho.
The Caleb Ws are ready to put Chicago sports back on the map for the next decade…
Let’s hope those magic shoes he found actually work.
That kid is delusional
I think its important for people to remember he’s a 19 year old kid, born years after Jordan retired from the Wizards. So lets not blow this out of proportion.
He should have said he wants to be better than Bronny.. who the hell is this guy?
He should of said i want to better the best Caleb in Chicago 😆
This gives me “I’m gonna be the next Whitney” and then signs horribly out of tune on American idol energy
He already better than him, he’s 63
lol
What did everyone expect him to say? “I want to be just slightly worse than MJ” or “I want to be really good but maybe not as good as MJ” No one thinks that way, especially top athletes.
He meant Mike dunleavy
I like the attitude at least. It’s not gonna happen but ya know..aim high and all that.
This dude was born 3 years after Jordan’s last season. He won’t have that same emotional connection or context that older fans/players have. I’m excited though, he comes off dynamic without being overbearing here which is all you can really ask for media wise from your draft pick.
There’s being confident and being delusional..
Sound like a 2K myplayer ass answer
He actually meant he wanted to be better than MJ but left out “on the Wizards”.
who is mike
Well you can try lil bro
Don’t worry kid, you won’t be.
Yeah fuck this guy for saying he wants to be great. He should have been humble and said that he probably be won’t be that good of a player in this league. Who wants players to be confident and aspire for greatness? The audacity!
Though I agree with your point on confidence.. there’s a huge difference between saying he “wants to be great and confident and aspire for greatness” VS saying he’ll be better than Jordan, come on now don’t be dense 🤣🤣🤣
“I wanna be better than Mike.” Is what he said.
He didn’t say he will be better than Jordan. He said he wants to be.
I want the mentality but this gonna age like milk
Yeah but how do you know
Cause ive been sent from the future to tell you check back in 3 years so I can boast. Im going back to 2029 now to laugh at you.
Sorry I was only asking :(
mentality = delusional
Dude just stop, you are just digging your grave like that. You are capable of achieving 50% of peak Rose, you can say you have been a successful player. Don’t over exaggerate
The last time a top 4 pick said he wanted to catch Jordan, he surpassed him tenfold to the point where Jordan developed jaundice trying to protect his own legacy. Consider me a Caleb fan now. I see the vision.
He’s going to be a bust. Just wait and see. MJ is the GOAT. Don’t compare yourself to him. Come back when you have three Finals MVPs. Until then, don’t talk about MJ.
stfu. what an idiot
A lot of players today are better than Jordan ever was.
Lol delete this
All I did was tell you that your Santa Claus isn’t real.
Can you explain why you think this?
I don’t think it. I know it. And no.
Name these players
No. Too many.
It was like 30 years ago. Players are better now.