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In the same league?

Neither is Yi’s team, the New Jersey Nets, as good as LeBron’s team the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavaliers, for instance, have the NBA’s best record, winning 61 of 82 games in the just-concluded regular season for 2009-10. The Nets on the other hand boast the worst record at 10-72, winning only 10 games out of 82. And so it is not far-fetched at all to suggest that the Nets are not in the same league (figuratively speaking) as the Cavaliers.

Alright, here are two media examples:

1. Cristiano Ronaldo is not in the same league as Lionel Messi, says Xavi (The Guardian, May 26, 2009)

It is the debate that will not go away in the build-up to the Champions League final but the Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernández has refused to compare Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo because, he says, the Portuguese winger would come off so badly.

Xavi revealed that, as well as Ronaldo, he is a big admirer of Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard but insisted that Messi is simply untouchable. “Messi is the best player in the world by a distance, he’s the No1,” Xavi said. “There is nobody at all like him. I don’t want to compare him to anyone because it’ll just damage the other player if I do. For me Messi is easily the best.

“All due respect to Ronaldo and all the other great players on the world stage but Messi is proving that he is better than everyone else. The world can see that he’s the boss. I’ve never seen anything like it. In a game, in the training sessions, never. I wouldn’t swap him for any player.”