Jordan v LeBron: who's the GOAT?

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King James may have passed the 40,000-point mark, but is he greater than the man he idolised growing up?

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 Nogadala to Curry, back to Nogadala, up the layup!

00:09 Oh, blocked by James!

00:11 17 seconds from game seven, or from championship number six.

00:21 Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead!

00:26 The Chicago Bulls have won their sixth NBA championship,

00:31 and it's their second 3P.

00:34 Yeah, you have younger players, and you have bigger players.

00:37 But overall, you still have to shoot,

00:39 you still have to defend, you still shoot free throws,

00:42 you still shoot threes, you do all those things.

00:44 You have to play as a team.

00:45 Those things transcend generations.

00:47 So I mean, as much as I would have played here,

00:49 things would have been totally different.

00:51 I would have been playing against LeBron James.

00:54 I would have been playing against Anthony Davis,

00:56 as opposed to playing against Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.

00:59 Now, would I have had as much success?

01:01 We'll never know.

01:02 I'll let you guys speculate on that,

01:04 but I think my passion to the game would have been the same.

01:06 I love the game of basketball.

01:08 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:12 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:15 Iguodala to Curry, back to Iguodala, up for the layup!

01:30 Oh, blocked by James!

01:32 LeBron James with a rejection!

01:34 A Smith screen.

01:36 Posey will defend.

01:37 Oh!

01:38 LeBron James with no regard for human life!

01:43 Coming to the end of the third quarter,

01:45 LeBron James, a shot in history.

01:47 Oh!

01:48 Oh!

01:50 LeBron stands alone!

01:54 For my name to come up in a discussion

01:56 with the greatest basketball player of all time,

02:01 it's like, wow.

02:03 Like I said, I did pretty much everything

02:07 that MJ did when I was a kid.

02:08 I shot fadeaways before I should have.

02:11 I wore a leg sleeve on my leg and folded it down

02:13 so you saw the red part.

02:16 I wore black and red shoes with white socks.

02:18 I wore short shorts so you could see my undershorts underneath.

02:23 I didn't go bald like Mike, but I'm getting there.

02:28 But I'm getting there.

02:30 But it'd be post-career health.

02:32 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:40 Oh, he does it again.

02:52 Throws it right up on the rim.

02:53 James comes flying in from the right corner.

02:56 James catches fire.

02:58 Ball game!

03:00 He did it!

03:01 LeBron James wins it for Cleveland!

03:05 I'm a fan of his.

03:06 I love watching him play.

03:08 But as you can see, our league is starting to expand

03:11 on very talented players.

03:13 And I think he's made his mark.

03:16 He will continue to do so over a period of time.

03:19 But when you start the comparisons,

03:21 I think it is what it is.

03:23 It's just a stand-up measurement.

03:24 I take it with a grain of salt.

03:26 He is a heck of a basketball player, without a doubt.

03:30 (dramatic music)

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