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.

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  • Wonderful-Photo-9938BEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So, by that logic,

    Only our great grandfathers can talk (and rank) about Wilt and Russell???

  • StylishSharkBEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I qualify, and I would say LeBron over Jordan any day of the week.

  • HalfBear-HalfCatBEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m not old enough, but I got the answer. Guess I’m mature for my age.

  • NewdaddysaladBEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Born in 92 and have Jordan. Don’t see why when you’re born would affect it.

    I’ve seen more Jordan film than 99.999% of people born in 1980.

    Don’t be regarded op.

  • rumblegodBEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Answer is LeBron the jordan supporters are delusional.

  • mecon320BEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Only people born before 1920 are qualified to answer the Marx Bros - vs - Abbott & Costello debate.

  • mkk4BEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • chungus_wungusBEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.