Before we go too far down this path, let me just be clear in saying that Michael Jordan and LeBron James are probably the two greatest basketball players of all time. You really can’t go wrong in choosing one over the other.
Yet while the last major bullet points on Jordan’s résumé end when he hit the shot to top Utah in the 1998 NBA Finals, LeBron is still writing his. Maybe he has something up his sleeve to create some distance.
But to this point in their careers, he and Jordan are very close.
While Jordan had three MVPs by his 30th birthday—to the 30-year-old LeBron’s current four—most MJ fans point at Michael’s leading the Bulls to three titles by the same juncture, and six overall. LeBron currently has only two, but is gunning for a third—though he’s running out of healthy star teammates.
