Would have liked to see him beat MIL this year so they could include 2 Way Pro Sport Baseball 90 MPH Fastball Pat Connaughton on that chart. MJ never faced that type of athlete
This is why arguing about the GOAT is pointless. Even if LeBron got six championships, the argument would become "well it took him 12 or 13 finals trips to get to 6 championships" and the argument would become finals when percentage. For Anthony Davis might win finals MVP and that would somehow diminish things for LeBron. Even if LeBron got to six championships the argument would become TV viewership and expansion of the game or some other BS.
Arguing about this is like politics:You're not going to change certain people's minds and they will continue to move the goalpost. Jordan fans will create some category or some metric that makes him the
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The worst part about arguing about the GOAT is that Bill Russell would have at least 8 Finals MVPs if the award existed throughout his career. Him and Kareem would have five or six DPOY If it existed throughout most of their career (the first DPOY award was given out in 1983, well after Kareem's prime)
Personally, I don't like to compare players from different eras. The circumstances, rules, officiating and sports medicine advancements makes it impossible to compare players from the 60s and 70s to players now. It's a fool's errand. Bill Russell dominated an era with fewer teams and no free agency. Magic benefited from being drafted into a great organization that already had an MVP level player, Jordan benefited from playing during the expansion era where the talent pool was watered down, LeBron is benefiting from playing in the player empowerment era where he can move teams and he's able to have a much longer career do the incredible medical advancements that players from other areas just didn't have.
Bill Russell was the best of his era, Kareem was the best of his era, magic was the best of his era, Jordan was the best of his era and LeBron is the best of his era. Why can't we just leave it at that?