Lebron James

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Any questions?
I mean, seriously. Is he the GOAT? Is there anybody else even close?
Personally I put Kareem, Magic and Bird very close ahead or behind him.

And I put His Airness (MJ) clearly on a higher level.

1. The "poetry in motion" argument.
Jordan made everything he did look beautifull (even the grittiest hustle stuff)

2. Most stats (per game/season) are still in Jordan's favour, both in regular season and PO.

3. Michael made his team and team-mates better:

Players grew up from rookies to great players alongside Jordan (Pippen, Grant, B.J Armstrong) and some great players became even greater around him (Kukoc, Rodman, Ron Harper, Steve Kerr). The same goes for coaches. (Well, one coach... ;))

On the other hand, I can't think of a single player whose career took a positive turn playing around LBJ (in 15 seasons!).
And coaches... they literally lose jobs, face and/or health around LeBron...
(If you think Spoelstra is an exception, James demanded his head too... Luckily for Erik there was some spine in THAT frenchise, in the form of Pat Riley, unlike in Blatt's case)

In short, while MJ may have been a frenchise-maker, LeBron may very well be a type of frenchise-killer...
It's like he sucks the air out of teams.
That's the real reason that teams fall apart after he leaves them.
 
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