More moronic Deadspin. Sports 'writers' who don't know the rules of the games they like to snark about  He’s beaten the throw. It doesn’t matter if there’s contact as others pointed out in a case like this. Perhaps you’d like to run a retraction but that's probably above your blogger ethics.

Jordan played against much weaker competition throughout his career; Jordan would edge out Kobe in strength but NOT athleticism.
But again, it’s the 5-on-5 stuff where Jordan would have the most impact. It’d be like arguing about Lemieux vs Gretzky and throwing out the fact that Gretzky had more assists than anyone…