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Originally Posted by rtd353
As opposed to your flawless logic "an Internet poster made a poor argument against Lebron, therefore Lebron greater den jorden."
if there were better arguments for jordan I assume people would be making them.
kbz just did a pretty nice summation of the argument for lebron. he's obviously the superior athlete and it seems reasonably clear that adding him to a team (or subtracting him) has a bigger impact than adding subtracting/jordan to the same team. the only "knock" on lebron is the lack of jordanesque sociopathic desire to win as kbz mentioned, and that likely cost him the 1 ring vs the mavs.
some people can't seem to get past that one knock but when talking about the GOAT I'm more interested in who is the actual best player than who has the best resume. jordan's resume is a little better since rings are super highly valued but it seems clear enough to me that lebron is the better player. both players are currently close in both categories though (resume/skill). If Lebron wins this year he will at minimum equal jordan's resume (i would argue surpass due to this warriors team being the most stacked team ever assembled), and that combined with his winning the skill argument should put the GOAT argument to bed. But it probably won't since olds have some irrational jordan nostalgia, can't get over "the decision" or whatever it is.