Assume both players are 39, healthy, and are at the peak of their stated era’s abilities. Who you got:
- 1v1
- To take the game winning shot?
Better question is who would have a better baseball career
In Washington who was MJ’s second and third best teammates? Were they as good as Austin Reaves and DLo?
Lebron by a mile on both. Lebron is still on the same playing field as all nba level players wizards Jordan was allstar caliber not all nba caliber. As for the last shot question. Well there’s a reason even on team USA a god squad of the nba’s best players just yesterday final 10 seconds down 1 who had the ball?
Lebron today would smoke Wizards MJ Washington Jordan was getting by on guile and skill. He’d have no chance stopping LBJ
LeBron 11-0
A better question is which NBA player probably took the biggest dumps. It’s probably a 2-player contest between Yao Ming and Shaq with big baby davis and barkley as dark horses.
1- Wizards MJ was still a master in the midrange. They’d be even there and MJ may lean on that part of the 1v1. He’d have murder on his mind while playing.
LBJ is taller, stronger, just as adept and would take hard runs to the basket that MJ wouldn’t challenge as hard.
It’s go to LBJ but it would be close.
2 - LBJ would have the ball in his hand and go hard to free up MJ, to whom he would pass the ball for the last shot.