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Whether you like LeBron James or you don\u2019t, what can\u2019t be disputed is the success he\u2019s had throughout his career.\u00a0 After winning his fourth NBA championship<\/a>, with his third different franchise, I think it\u2019s safe to say that he\u2019s on a platform that not even guys like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant can measure up to him.<\/span><\/p>\n Obviously most everyone in the sports world is generally under the belief that MJ is the true Greatest Of All Time, and if there was ever a person in history that would have come close to the crown, MJ himself basically said it was Kobe<\/a>.\u00a0 I don\u2019t disagree with Jordan being the GOAT and that Kobe was the closest thing to the Heir to Air, but at the same time, I really began to think that there was a lot of deliberate disrespect sent to LeBron while these claims were made.<\/span><\/p>\n I kind of get it too, I thought LeBron was pretty shitty when he jumped to the Heat, and had the whole The Decision<\/em> spectacle, but as time as passed, and his body of work has expanded and grown, and we\u2019ve seen the kid grow into the man he is today, and all I really want to say these days is, fuck the comparisons to MJ or Kobe, LeBron is just out there being the greatest LeBron there could possibly be.\u00a0 The GLBOAT.<\/span><\/p>\n Because when the day is over, LeBron is never going to get the respect that MJ or Kobe ever got.\u00a0 So, and I\u2019m guessing he\u2019s already figured it out himself already, he\u2019s fine with that, and he\u2019s simply carving out his own legacy that doesn\u2019t measure up to them, and raising his own bar, that will be the measuring stick for all sorts of future players to try to aspire to be the GOAT or the GLBOAT.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m not doing a particularly good job of explaining this, so let\u2019s take a different approach and flip the script, and try and compare MJ or Kobe to LeBron.\u00a0 Rings?\u00a0 Check, MJ and Kobe both have their six and five championships each, which is more than the four titles that LeBron has.<\/span><\/p>\n But to me, the most impressive thing is that LeBron has won all of his with three different franchises, one of them being the sports woeful Cleveland Cavaliers.\u00a0 Sure, in all three of their cases, their teams would build teams around their respective superstars, but there\u2019s something inherently more challenging about LeBron having to start from scratch with each move, and in spite of the sheer super-teaming that occasionally occurred, there\u2019s still a matter of jelling with his new team(s) and building teamwork enough to win championships.<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, LeBron has one short of Kobe and two to MJ, but he\u2019s still active; who\u2019s to say he doesn\u2019t opt-out of Los Angeles and decide he wants to try and ice his legacy by winning championships for like, the Utah Jazz or maybe the ultimate challenge: the New York Knicks<\/em>?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I think if LeBron were to win a championship for the Knicks, then he absolutely is the GOAT, because the Knicks couldn\u2019t win a championship if they started every single game with a 20-point lead.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, MJ and Kobe won their rings with single franchises, to which there\u2019s a milestone of greatness when a guy stays with a single franchise their entire careers, but at the same time, it\u2019s also impressive as hell that LeBron has bounced to three different places and brought championships to all of them, and not in like a Robert Horry-role player capacity, but as The Man for each of them, winning Finals MVP each and every time.<\/span><\/p>\n Moving on, MJ was a degenerate when it came to gambling, and he most definitely had a gambling problem, which may or may not have caused the murder of his father, and as much as the world acted as if the pope died when Kobe did, a lot of people choose to forget that he basically raped a woman in 2003.\u00a0 LeBron has no such dirt underneath his fingernails, and been way more philanthropic throughout his career than the guys everyone tries to measure up to him, like when he built a school<\/a> in his hometown of Akron.<\/span><\/p>\n Not that it has any reflection on basketball talent, but whereas LeBron James chooses to use his voice and vocalize his thoughts on social unrest and the importance of making right systemic racism, let\u2019s not forget that Jordan once was quoted saying \u201cRepublicans need shoes too,\u201d as justification for not speaking out against racism in North Carolina, where his alma mater and legacy basically started.\u00a0 Kobe, save for a few shirts he wore, was mostly as silent as MJ was, partially because of a Jesus-complex and that he didn\u2019t exactly have any moral high ground ever after, raping a woman.<\/span><\/p>\n I think what it all really boils down to is the fact that LeBron may never get the credit for being the greatest basketball player of all time, but when the day is over, he\u2019s going to have stats and accolades that will make him untouchable in his own right, even by MJ or Kobe, and although people will always put them above LeBron, I think it\u2019s safe to say that as people, LeBron is just a better person, than they were.\u00a0 And that\u2019s just a little bit more important than being great at basketball.<\/span><\/p>\n Long live the GLBOAT.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whether you like LeBron James or you don\u2019t, what can\u2019t be disputed is the success he\u2019s had throughout his career.\u00a0 After winning his fourth NBA championship, with his third different franchise, I think it\u2019s safe to say that he\u2019s on a platform that not even guys like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant can measure up … Continue reading Appreciation for what LeBron James has accomplished<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,100,83,58],"class_list":["post-47362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-comparison","tag-observations","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47364,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47362\/revisions\/47364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}