Michael Jordan vs Lebron James

Is LeBron James or Michael Jordan the greatest basketball player of all time? That is the question that is being constantly thrown around in the media and in turn to all of us at home. For me the answer is quite simple and I will tell you why.

Journalists and people in the media have differing opinions on this matter, they talk about the fact that Lebron has won more MVP's at this stage of his career compared to Jordan with 2 to LeBron and 1 to Jordan, how LeBron's rebounding and assists totals are better than Jordan's and how some are stating that he is a better leader than Michael Jordan.

But the plain fact is this, no one EVER dominated the game of basketball like Michael Jordan, Jordan could the majority of the time do what he wanted when he wanted. If LeBron James if even to get ranked up next to Michael Jordan firstly he will have to win 5 M.V.P's, 9 All defensive selections, 9 First team selections and most imortantly win 6 rings! and not only win 6 rings but be finals M.V.P in every single one of them! Michael Jordan is argubly the greatest clutch player of all time, something that at the moment LeBron struggles in with LeBron only averaging 3 points per game in the final quarters.

Not only did Jordan accomplish all this, but he did this all with the same team, LeBron James tried to do it as "the man" in Cleveland but cannot do it, instead he has gone to Miami to team up with Dwanye Wade and Chris Bosh. Now don't get me wrong this is a very smart move and down the track it could make the Miami Heat unstoppable with ironicly the Chicago Bulls led my Derrick Rose as its main rival. But Jordan did not team up with Magic Johnson at the Los Angeles Lakers to win multiple titles, he did it with the players he was given around him. True, Lebron did not have a Scottie Pippen calibre player on his side at Cleveland, but that could of happened down the track.

So i believe that LeBron James has a long way to go to be compared to Michael Jordan, LeBron is already a great player and will likely go down as a hall of famer, but to be compared to Jordan already is wrong, if LeBron can achieve those stats that I mentioned above then maybe we will have a challenger to Jordan as the great basketball player of all time.