N3ON\u2019s<\/a> YouTube livestream earlier this week, Rodman was asked directly whether Jordan or James deserved the GOAT title. His response was immediate: \u201cWe know who that is. Jordan all day long.\u201d<\/p>\nRodman witnessed Jordan\u2019s dominance firsthand during the Bulls\u2019 run in the 1990s. Between 1991 and 1998, Jordan led Chicago to six NBA championships. He also collected five regular-season MVP awards, was selected to 14 All-Star Games, and earned 10 First Team All-NBA nods, cementing his reputation as one of the most accomplished players in league history.<\/p>\n
James, however, has compiled his own case. Since entering the NBA in 2003, James has won four championships, earned four MVP awards, and has been named to 20 All-Star teams. Earlier this year, he surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer, adding another milestone to his career.<\/p>\n
While Rodman gave Jordan the edge, he also emphasized that another player is too often left out of the conversation: Kobe Bryant. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople forgot about that one guy. That one guy, that\u2019s called Kobe Bryant. People forget about him. They talk about everybody else. They don\u2019t talk about Kobe for some reason,\u201d Rodman said to the popular streamer.<\/p>\n
Bryant, who spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, won five championships and appeared in 18 All-Star Games. He was named league MVP in 2008 and retired as one of the NBA\u2019s top all-time scorers.<\/p>\n
Bryant\u2019s legacy is also tied to the tragic circumstances of his passing. On January 26, 2020, Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The question of who the greatest basketball player of all time is (or the GOAT) continues to spark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-106887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}