Settling the LeBron James versus Michael Jordan debate

For many years, the LeBron James and Michael Jordan GOAT debate has been prominent. There are many views on who is better, and both sides have convincing arguments. Michael Jordan has won 6 NBA championships, and has not been defeated in the NBA Finals, or whenever he was in a Game 7 situation. As for LeBron, he has won 4 championships, two with the Miami Heat, one with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and one with the Los Angeles Lakers.

To be honest with you, I’ve been debating with myself on who is really the better player, and my friends’ opinions didn’t really help me narrow down the choice. Let’s just look at career stats. For player A, he averaged 27.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, 7.3 rebounds, and 1.5 steals in 1,409 games. For player B, he averaged 30.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, 5.3 assists, and 2.3 steals per game. Player A would be LeBron James, and player B would be Jordan. To be honest, both players look amazing on paper, but in my opinion, I’d give the slight edge to Jordan, statistically.

That may be controversial, but hey, that’s okay. Sports media is all about controversy, so I’m here for it. Anyway, like I did mention championships, let’s run over that again. LeBron has been to 10 NBA finals, winning four. As for Jordan, he has went 6-0 in the NBA Finals, having two three-peats. One thing to mention is LeBron has went to eight NBA Finals in a row, from 2011 in Miami to 2018 in Cleveland.

Some might give the edge to Jordan for being undefeated and having more wins in the NBA Finals, and that’s fair. But to me, going to eight straight and only having two less rings is very important. And what’s to say LeBron won’t make the NBA Finals again? And for that, I’ll give the edge to LeBron here.

With those two out of the way, I’ll go individually and write down some reasons on why people think Jordan is the GOAT, and why people think LeBron is the goat. At the end of all of that, I will give my final take, and let you all know who I think the real GOAT is.

With all of that said, here is why MJ is considered the greatest to play.