There will always be a debate between NBA eras on who is the best and who did things the right way. Back in the day, players stayed loyal to one team, didn\u2019t team up with other stars, and played a game that looked almost nothing like basketball today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why comparing eras will always be a fool’s errand. It is impossible to know if Wilt Chamberlain would have been able to dominate Giannis Antetokounmpo. Would Michael Jordan have been able to beat Kobe Bryant in one-on-one? We will never find out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That hasn\u2019t stopped NBA fans and former players from trying to debate who is the greatest and which eras did things right. Perhaps the biggest debate is who is the greatest basketball player of all time? LeBron James or Michael Jordan?<\/p>\n
A rival of Jordan, and a top-75 NBA player of all time, John Stockton, recently spoke in an interview on why he believes Jordan\u2019s career was more impressive<\/a> than LeBron\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI like where guys tighten their belt up and say\u2026let\u2019s go to work. We just got to get better. We got to play harder. We gotta play smarter, instead of just huh, where\u2019s the grass greener? I\u2019m gonna go there and win a championship. I think it devalues that. You\u2019re not climbing the mountain, you\u2019re taking a helicopter to the top.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Stockton does have a point. LeBron has made a career of finding the best possible winning situation and getting himself into it. Jordan, on the other hand, made what he had work, pretty much all with one team. No trade requests. No forcing his team to trade for better teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\n There is something to be said about what LeBron has done in his career. He played the game how he thought was best. He manipulated his teams and teammates to make the moves that he thought were best for his legacy and chances at championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n