Ray Allen: Michael Jordan, LeBron James Debates Are ‘Unfair’

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Michael Jordan and LeBron James comparisons are popular topic.

NBA Hall of Famer, Ray Allen has a solution to the topic: end it.

“They’re just not the same player,” Allen tells me.

“They’re totally empathetical to each other. Like, LeBron is power, he’s a mismatch, he’s like a train. MJ is more like grace, with a mix of power, flash, and finesse. The comparison really is unfair to the both of them because they’re both in their own space.”

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Six championships vs. three championships.

Jordan has become the measuring stick for James’ greatness in today’s NBA game.“I think it has always happened,” NBA Hall of Famer, Julius Erving told me on the Scoop B Radio Podcast.

“I think people always make comparisons to people who are done. LeBron may play another six years, LeBron may play one year, we really don’t know.”

Insert Scottie Pippen, MJ’s former Chicago Bulls teammate.“When I look at LeBron James, he’s not what Michael [Jordan] was as a player,” Pippen said recently on ESPN.

“He’s not even what Kobe Bryant was as a player. When you talk about trying to compare Michael’s instinct, his ability to take over games, his ability to want to have that last shot. LeBron doesn’t have that gene.”

“Mike did all his championships on one team and guys wanted to play for him,” Knicks legend, John Starks told the Scoop B Radio Podcast this summer.

“Scottie [Pippen] and Horace [Grant], he kind of raised those guys. Later on when he got back, other guys like [Dennis] Rodman and [Ron] Harper joined the team. Mike didn’t move around, didn’t want to move around. He wanted to play against the best. He felt like he didn’t need to go chase players to join his team to beat the best because he felt like he was the best, and I think that’s the difference. I think that’s probably going to hurt LeBron when you look at it in that perspective against Michael, [Larry] Bird and Magic[Johnson]. Those guys stayed with one team, and they won with that team.”

Charles Oakley, a former teammate of Jordan and Pippen with the Bulls has an opinion too! “I don’t like to compare because they’re two completely different players,” Oakley told me.

Oak is still friends with MJ and is friends with LeBron. He thinks the LeBron/MJ comparison is not cool.“It’s like comparing Magic to Wilt Chamberlain,” he said.

“So, two different players right? LeBron don’t look like anybody. LeBron is LeBron. Ain’t never been a guy like LeBron. There’s been guys like Michael, like Kobe. We can compare Kobe to Mike.

Kind of along the lines of Dr. J’s belief system. 

“I think when you add up the numbers and add up the year’s nobody has contributed more to the NBA history or pro basketball history, it’s very subjective,” he told Scoop B Radio.

“You say: ‘Michael or LeBron who was better’ or who was the greatest, the GOAT, that is for the fans to argue about.”

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