Wow so much hate, most people here haven't seen bron play this year. He is leading the league in points plus, could easily lead the league in assists, he makes passes that no other PG in the league can do.. He plays PG, SG, SF and PF for the Cavs this year..
Bron is on another level this season, clearly better than Kobe. Lookin at his age and how he carries a mediocre team leads to the conclusion that he will be on Jordan-Level if not more dominant.
If you had to draft them, at this point of their career. You take Lebron first. That will upset a lot of the kids brought up on Nike ads, but the fact is Lebron is a better all round player.
I don't know. Some people baulk when you compare Kobe to MJ, and he has 4 rings and many accomplishments over his career.
Wow!!! It is breathtaking what the hype from ESPN, Stern, and some sports writers can do. It is an insult to basketball as a whole to even make that comparison. James is all hype and Jordan is all about rings and winning in basketball. I watched Jordan live at his first ever NBA game at the Chicago Stadium and the electricity generated by his presence alone in the arena was never ever duplicated anywhere else by any player again. You just saw, felt and knew he was as special a player as a basketball player ever would be. I used to watch at different arenas many years before, during and after Jordan's time, and no player has ever affected the thousands of people in any arena as Jordan had. He was loved in Chicago, feared and sometimes loathed, even by opposing players everywhere else. It was often spoken by opposing players that seeing Jordan walk across the court gave them a sense of gloom and doom. I don't think anyone has ever or will ever do this again in a long long time. The only player who may have done this to his opponents, other than Jordan, was Wilt. So, please, James is a very good player, but stop the comparison nonsense. It is a disgrace to the game, especially if the player compared to Jordan is all hype and no ring. Even Kobe does not deserve the disrespect of being compared to an annual loser like James.
It only takes one knee injury to slow Lebron down, and his playing style invites serious stress to his legs.
To the people complaining about LeBron's hype, Stop it, he lived up to the hype and was even better than he was hyped up to be.
lol @ annual loser and it's a disgrace for Bron to be compared to some of the all-time greats. How in the world is that a disgrace to compare a once in a lifetime to other once in a lifetime players?
Too many people that actually don´t watch Bron a lot and are angry at all the hype and fans. If you really see him playing, you wouldn´t call him overhyped or somethin like that. He has the whole packageerfect, strong body, great mentality, great jumpshot(really improved the past 2 years), awesome playmaker abilities and rebounding. His size and strenght allowe him to defend all kinds of players.He has no weakness in my opinion.
Jordan played in the era of the bigs. Some of the greatest centers of all time played in the 80s to late 90s. There were less teams back then then there are now, and a lot of players today just dont have the fundamentals like they did back then. The level of talent in he NBA has always been about the same to me. And not lets not even get to the hand checking allowed back then.
The weakest part of his game is his jumpshot which is good enough at this point. Last few weeks there have been some insane comments when talking about LeBron James that has left me scratching my head. My cousin got mad at me because I said Bron was the best player in the NBA. He then stated that Melo was better. He called 4 other people and all of them agreed. One guy even said KG was better than Bron. I had to end the discussion after that smh.
Lebron is a freak of an athelete and one hell of a basketball player (I AM NOT A LEBRON FAN), however, I am one that things Oscar Robertson was a much better player than MJ. But for the discussion's sake, MJ hands down, no comparrison, here's just two facts that should prove it. Lebron hit his first game winning shot almost 3/4's through last season (and for some reason is considered one of the best players in clutch situations). Fact number 2, I can bet everything I have, that MJ would have never have allowed the Orlando Magic to put Rafer Alston on you in a game during the ECF and STOP YOU!!!! That was one of the funniest match ups I have ever seen, and it worked, only if another team used a PG to guard Lebron and be successful with it, oh wait, Dallas did the same thing with J-Kidd, AND THAT WORKS TOO!!!! Lebron is alot like the Pheonix Suns of the past decade, great during the Regular Season, has a good chance to go deep into the Playoffs, but won't win a Champoinship.
That's what I was thinking, but I was thinking about cult of personality that Michael Jordan enjoys. He was a great player, but the adulation he's treated with now departs from common sense. Also, the OP is operating under some weird dualist idea about the greatness of a player, dividing one's natural abilities from his talent. This makes no sense. You cannot cleanly seperate a player's physical advanatges from his other 'talents.' It is the whole person who is competing on the court. Lebron's size is no less legitimate an asset than Jordan's competitiveness or hand-eye coordination.
