Ericb5 wrote:LongLiveHinkie wrote:I don't think accomplishments have anything to go with who is best. Otherwise, Bull Russell would be the best NBA player ever. To me it's 100% eye test, nothing else. MJ amazed me most, therefore he's my best. Until someone comes along who amazes me more, he remains best. Don't care if Lebron wins 8 titles and don't care if Steph Curry wins 15.
One can only "catch" someone if you count accomplishments. I don't. I think most people feel this way, they just don't realize it. People consider MJ the best because he was freaking amazing, the 6 titles have little to do with it, although they are used for argumentative purposes.
Accomplishments matter for the top players, but it isn't the only factor. Russell played with so many other hall of famers back when there were so few teams that it is really hard to compare.
The Celtics were like the Alabama college football team playing in the big east. They would have won at least some of those titles without Russell.
The point I'm really making is that Lebron is the best player in this era by a long shot, and when he is all said and done he may have a good case for the best career ever.
Part of the eye test is seeing a player accomplish ridiculously difficult things. What he did today was Jordan'esque, and getting to perhaps his seventh straight finals should make people really stop and think for a second.
Curry, Durant, Westbrook, and Harden are all great basketball players, but Lebron is just on another level.
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It doesn't for me at all. Not in team sports. In tennis and golf it does.
. MCW looks like he is regressing by the day.
