People old enough to have watched both prime Jordan and prime LeBron play are the only ones qualified to compare those two players. Everyone else is just regurgitating statistics, YouTube videos, and second-hand opinions.
How old would a person be to have followed prime Jordan’s career? Minimum would be 16 years old when Jordan began his second three-peat in 1995. So a person would have to be born before 1980. Any later than that, and you end up with people who were way too young to understand what they were seeing on TV. I can’t really trust the opinion on a 12 year old in 1996.
One player played in the “no zone defense” era but to be fair his competition also played against him in that era as well, but there was only one MJ (a a nice 2 year stretch from Hakeem) that was winning it all usually.
The other is a team hopper who stacked the deck in a historically bad eastern conference to win not 1, but 2 titles until he abandoned ship and then got 1 thanks to a Bogut injury and Draymond touching his nuts, and then abandoned ship once more to where he’s at now:
Winning us a nice chip in DisneyWorld and now we’re a meme.