nairamaniac:
personal-opinion, LeBron has since surpassed kobe. He doesn't need more rings to prove this. LeBron is top5 ever, kobe would barely make top10.

frenchwine:

No hating , LeBron James is up there with MJ, Pippen, Wilt Chamberlain and Abduljabbar, he is a better all round player than each and everyone of them, especially considering the difference in intensity and tactical awareness between then and now. He however needs at least two more rings to get up there as the greatest of all time.
However I think it would be very biased to say GSW aren't a great team, dah, they're one of the most complete team of the past decade. Or what do you call a team that's already coughing up Four all-stars? The regular season is just a quarter down, the ring is the only thing they're playing for and playoffs intensity would show up with time

nairamaniac:
personal-opinion, LeBron has since surpassed kobe. He doesn't need more rings to prove this. LeBron is top5 ever, kobe would barely make top10.

redarrr:


first of all,both kobe nd lebron re great players in d nba.winning d ring also determine nd also kobe has scored higher point in a match than lebron

nairamaniac:
personal-opinion, LeBron has since surpassed kobe. He doesn't need more rings to prove this. LeBron is top5 ever, kobe would barely make top10.

lolawilliams:


LeBron is the best baller in the NBA right now. MJ was and nothing can change that.. Can you prove any of this wrong?

1- Right before or during his Ring in the 90's. There were like 6 new teams that were added to the league and we all know that new teams rarely win matches due to the fact that the team has to fill their teans with complete new players that has never play prof sport before. I stand to be corrected, Grizzles;Raptors,Heats,Timberwolves, Hornets, Magic were all new teams during MJ's era. Btw 1988-1996, 6 teams were added to the league and MJ won his ring brw 91-98 which made it abit easier


2- A40, You said he didn't really play in a system that emphasized on P.G and Point forward play. Mj is a ball hog, He averaged about 5assists per game in hos career, he was a huge ball hog, often taking as many as 30 shots a game in the 86-87 season alone.. more reason y he couldnt make it out of the first round of the playoffs his first three seasons in the league.


3- We keep saying LeBron had to team up with Wade and Bosh to get his ring, Lets not forget that MJ averaged 37.5 points in his third year in the league which is one of the highest point total average of all time out of all NBA players. In his first 3years in the league, the Bulls made it to the Playoffs and despite averaging 43 PPG in the 1986 playoffs, as well as incredibly high scoring numbers in 1985 and 1987, he still couldnt make it out. So i can as well say that MJ teamed up with Pippen to gt his rings. Yes Who wouldnt win with a person considered one of the grestest defender in the league

lolawilliams:


Personal opinion. kobe would barely make top 10.

MJ
Kareem
Larry Bird
Shaq
Lebron
Duncan
Magic johnson
Bill russell
Chamberlain
Olajuwon
11- Kobe

redarrr:


first of all,both kobe nd lebron re great players in d nba.winning d ring also determine nd also kobe has scored higher point in a match than lebron

Mynd44:

*Chuckles*

nairamaniac:
it may be easy to chuckle at me. But how easy would it be to chuckle at ESPN.?

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank1/all-nbarank-1

It took years for them to compile that list. Analysts, sports writers and historians put that together. Would be difficult to argue against them.

lolawilliams:


LeBron is the best baller in the NBA right now. MJ was and nothing can change that.. Can you prove any of this wrong?

1- Right before or during his Ring in the 90's. There were like 6 new teams that were added to the league and we all know that new teams rarely win matches due to the fact that the team has to fill their teans with complete new players that has never play prof sport before. I stand to be corrected, Grizzles;Raptors,Heats,Timberwolves, Hornets, Magic were all new teams during MJ's era. Btw 1988-1996, 6 teams were added to the league and MJ won his ring brw 91-98 which made it abit easier


2- A40, You said he didn't really play in a system that emphasized on P.G and Point forward play. Mj is a ball hog, He averaged about 5assists per game in hos career, he was a huge ball hog, often taking as many as 30 shots a game in the 86-87 season alone.. more reason y he couldnt make it out of the first round of the playoffs his first three seasons in the league.


3- We keep saying LeBron had to team up with Wade and Bosh to get his ring, Lets not forget that MJ averaged 37.5 points in his third year in the league which is one of the highest point total average of all time out of all NBA players. In his first 3years in the league, the Bulls made it to the Playoffs and despite averaging 43 PPG in the 1986 playoffs, as well as incredibly high scoring numbers in 1985 and 1987, he still couldnt make it out. So i can as well say that MJ teamed up with Pippen to gt his rings. Yes Who wouldnt win with a person considered one of the grestest defender in the league

frenchwine:
Agreed Jordan was a phenomenon but LeBron is still on his upward curve with no sign of tanking. Going by the ESPN rankings in which LeBron sits pretty at No. 3, say, what would be our take 4-5yrs from now when LeBron would have shattered whatever record is still left of him to attain, and perhaps added 1-2 more rings?
LeBron isn't my man crush, not for once but we can't but admire and appreciate his contributions to the game.

A40:

Espn are well known LBJ fanboys. Nobody is touching M.J tho. Certainly not Mr 4 Final losses Lebron

Donlittle:
LeBron has lost four times in the finals, and people really think he is going to come close to Jordan, the dude that went 6-6 in the NBA finals. I'm sick.

SmooshCHN:
Cos I'm not understanding what Lola and some are writing up there.. ESPN will put LeBron at no.2 if he makes the next two playoffs even if he doesn't win. He's a great player but comparing him to Michael Jordan, and even dropping Kobe to 11 is just insult to the Game abeg.

A40:

Espn are well known LBJ fanboys. Nobody is touching M.J tho. Certainly not Mr 4 Final losses Lebron

Donlittle:
LeBron has lost four times in the finals, and people really think he is going to come close to Jordan, the dude that went 6-6 in the NBA finals. I'm sick.

frenchwine:

ESPN is made up of many writers and editors, some of whom are also writers for the NBA website.
Agreed many were wowed by his more explosive years but over the past two years, his fan base has been heavily diluted by emergent stars.
And bias aside, his stats speak volumes. At least we can't put that on the NBA (referees)

SmooshCHN:
Cos I'm not understanding what Lola and some are writing up there.. ESPN will put LeBron at no.2 if he makes the next two playoffs even if he doesn't win. He's a great player but comparing him to Michael Jordan, and even dropping Kobe to 11 is just insult to the Game abeg.

nairamaniac:

Like I mentioned to A40, those finals losses should completely count against Lebron.
If they should count against him, then we should applaud the number of finals he has led a team to. At times, he leads both teams in scoring, rebounds, assist and even defence. That's incredible.

A40:

4 of those Finals were with 2 of the top 5 picks in his draft class in Miami abeg let's not kid ourselves. He gets a pass for 2007 and to a lesser extent when Love went down in 2015.

The leading both teams happened last season and its a remarkable feat tbvh. However we are also talking about someone that could not guard Jason Terry or a Kawhi Leonard in his 3rd year in the league

A40:

I don't disrespect his stats. However for me it is necessary to always consider his consistently easier path to the Finals when comparing him with M.J and even Kobe, not forgetting his supporting cast especially in Miami

nairamaniac:
Kobe should be flattered for being at number 11. If not for the effect of the greatest coach ever (Phil jackson), he wouldn't have gotten all those rings.
Walai, If lebron had a coaches as good as Phil, or popovich or pat Riley or lenny Wilkins, he surely would have gotten at least 5 rings.
Those are coaches that revolutionised game plays and strategies.
Those coaches were the second most important personalities in their teams, next to the star players.
If u played the game professionally on any level you would understand and interpret easily what these coaches draw on those boards.
Take it or leave it, the coaching crew of the warriors are way above our era of basketball. I'm not a warriors fan. But what we seeing in them today is equivalent to what we saw when Pep Guadiola took over Barcelona in 2008.
Warriors wouldn't have been this good without Steve kerr. He played under 2 of the greatest coached ever.

A40:

4 of those Finals were with 2 of the top 5 picks in his draft class in Miami abeg let's not kid ourselves. He gets a pass for 2007 and to a lesser extent when Love went down in 2015.

The leading both teams happened last season and its a remarkable feat tbvh. However we are also talking about someone that could not guard Jason Terry or a Kawhi Leonard in his 3rd year in the league

SIRcumalot:

where do you rank James now sef ?
things must have change since the last final

Roland17:
Below is Lebron's quote in August 2016, he admits its impossible to match Jordan.

“My motivation,” James says, “is this ghost I’m chasing. The ghost played in Chicago.”

Dem dey catch ghost for una village? He knows Jordan is a myth he can't decipher.

A40:

James is a top 10 guy no doubt but when people start talking top 5 I usually check out of the discussion