picc wrote:sashaturiaf wrote:Plenty of athletes would feel themselves as much as Lebron does. But nobody but the GOAT has the same combination of lukewarm intelligence, non existent self awareness and teleprompter oratory skills that make you cringe any time he starts talking about himself.
Well, yeah but that's where the douchey part comes in. Lots of guys in sports history who are egomaniacal narcissists. The difference between being one who's likable or unlikable is discretion or charm. So either being discreet about your narcissism disorder, or being funny and charming about it.
Like Muhammad Ali, he was charming, articulate, and most importantly funny so he got away with the self-aggrandizing and theatrics. There was also that boxing is an individual sport. He also seemed like he didn't care what anyone thought, he was just doing him, and a lot of it was tongue in cheek to ham things up a bit.
Bron's the total opposite of that. Totally oblivious, insecure, corny as hell. Consistently insistent, apropos of nothing. I don't know who else would be a GDOAT candidate. I mean, MJ is an a-hole, and i'm almost positive is a bad person, which I don't think Bron is.
But just pure douchey, unlikable, insufferable-ness? Most likely to make you say "**** this guy" at any given time?
It has to be LBJ at this point.