{"id":410502,"date":"2022-10-30T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=410502"},"modified":"2022-10-30T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:45:12","slug":"im-the-best-of-two-generations-kanye-west-once-picked-stephen-curry-and-michael-jordan-over-lebron-james-while-praising-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/im-the-best-of-two-generations-kanye-west-once-picked-stephen-curry-and-michael-jordan-over-lebron-james-while-praising-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m the Best of Two Generations&#8221;: Kanye West Once Picked Stephen Curry and Michael Jordan Over LeBron James While Praising Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his career, American rapper Kanye West has been involved in controversy. But the one he accrued following his anti-Jewish remarks has seriously hurt his career. Kanye reportedly lost over $1 billion as a result of business cancellations as a result of his statements. Kanye West has had several occasional Twitter outbursts, such as when he asked Mark Zuckerberg for money or likened himself to Steph Curry and Michael Jordan. But he left out LeBron James in the conversation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5YJBtjQbZ7E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rapper Kanye West likened himself to both Michael Jordan and Stephen Curry shortly after the completion of 2016&#8217;s NBA All-Star Game. The Bulls legend has yet to respond to Kanye&#8217;s comparisons of himself to MJ, but this was the first time for Stephen Curry. But LeBron James&#8217; omission may upset some of his fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"\u201cStop Calling It Promotion\u201d: Kyrie Irving Engages in a Back-and Forth Verbal Spat With a Reporter For Questioning His Anti-Semitic Post\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/stop-calling-it-promotion-kyrie-irving-engages-in-a-back-and-forth-verbal-spat-with-a-reporter-for-questioning-his-anti-semitic-post\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u201cStop Calling It Promotion\u201d: Kyrie Irving Engages in a Back-and Forth Verbal Spat With a Reporter For Questioning His Anti-Semitic Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Kanye West praises himself, picks Stephen Curry over LeBron James<\/h2>\n<p>Stephen Curry surpassed the NBA record for the most 3-pointers made in a season in 2016. During the regular season, he made 402 triples. His Warriors broke the mark established by Michael Jordan and his Bulls in 1995\u201396 during the same season by winning 73 games in a season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I am the Jordan and Steph Curry of music, meaning I&#39;m the best of two generations.&quot;-Kanye West <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0wStQmCepA\">pic.twitter.com\/0wStQmCepA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/699370676059176960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a tweet from earlier that year, Kanye West referred to himself as the Michael Jordan and Stephen Curry of music. But LeBron James failed to make it to Kanye West&#8217;s tweet. Before Kanye could erase it, Twitter had already <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/699370676059176960?s=20&amp;t=tlo9UbvbN-Hm41-vD6orTw\">obtained<\/a> it.<\/p>\n<p>Kanye West stirred up a lot of controversy with just one post. Each person picked a different area to be irate about. 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But the one he accrued following his anti-Jewish remarks has seriously hurt his career. Kanye reportedly lost over $1 billion as a result of business cancellations as a result of his statements. Kanye West has had several occasional Twitter outbursts, such as when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":379109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,86,85,51],"tags":[3458,16,145,35],"class_list":["post-410502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago-bulls","category-golden-state-warriors","category-los-angeles-lakers","category-nba","tag-kanye-west","tag-lebron-james","tag-michael-jordan","tag-stephen-curry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}