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.
Two great players that played different positions and used different physical, athletic abilities with different talents and skills to dominate basketball for a very long time.
I preferred Jordan, due to him having the most asethetically beautiful and pleasing game to watch live with the naked eye.
Their is not any other player that has ever played shooting guard that I would choose over Michael Jordan, but I could possibly be persuaded to pick another small forward over LeBron James.
Only two players in NBA history have gone to more NBA Finals than LeBron, Sam Jones (11) and Bill Russell (12) and both of those players played on the same team their entire careers and both retired in 1969.