The NBA has had a salary cap since 1984, so Michael played his entire career under it.

I bet you think that Trent Dilfer is a better quarterback than Marino too huh.

I’m gonna assume you’re an insufferable person to spend time with.

Rings never were not a stupid way to measure greatness. Robert Horry has seven of them. Was he greater than Wilt Chamberlain?

Steals are a trash way of measuring defense. Larry Hughes led the NBA in steals—not because he was a good defender, but because he was a terrible one who hunted for steals at the expense of giving up easy backdoor cuts and drives to the basket.

White privilege

Money

Isn’t possession of child porn in itself a crime? Why wasn’t he arrested if the police found all that stuff?

It’s not backed up by statistics. It is backed up by points scored or points per game only. The advanced statistics show that Lebron is the far superior player but durrr, “FACT”

Yeah, Lebron and Kobe aren’t even in the same discussion to me.

Why would you? He was good, but was the 2nd best player on those teams, and clearly wasn’t better in those seasons than Lebron was in Lebron’s peak.

Ha. You’re a fucking moron. I just accused you of being one of those simple dicks, and you responded by confirming that you are indeed one of those simple dicks that only looks at scoring average. No one has ever claimed that Lebron scored more points than Kobe during their peaks. Please be smarter.

Okay, present those statistics for us, please.

He had Shaq at the very end of his career. What’s even funnier/dumber about your comment is directly below it, you remind me that Kobe has 5 rings and Lebron has 3, as if that is proof in and of itself that Kobe is better, but you fail to note that Kobe had Shaq in his absolute prime, and was clearly the 2nd best…

There are absolutely zero statistics to support your assertion, actually. The stats 100% disagree with you. You seem like the type of person who still thinks ‘scoring’ is the only stat that matters. Lebron has had at least 5-6 seasons in which he’s been better than Kobe. Look at efg %. Look at the rebounding and…

At the very tail end of a long career in which he was a shadow of what he once was, and you know it.

Do you think Wade is going to be remembered as one of the 50 best players of all time? I’m sure there’s an argument, but if you want to consider him as on the same strata as Shaquille O’Neal (yes, Shaq was most certainly the better player than Kobe, but we’re using him as Kobe’s support for the sake of the argument),…

It’s always hard to believe people like you exist. This is idiotic, sorry. If you don’t see the stupidity of your logic, you can’t be helped.

I know you’re admitting to being wrong, but if it took you this series to admit he’s better than Kobe ever was, I still think you’re a bit fucking crazy.

I’ve always shook my head at those arguments, as if Kobe and MJ didn’t have all time players around them as they won their titles. Hell, those two had players arguably in the top 50 players of ALL TIME as teammates. The best teammate James has ever had was probably Wade, who might qualify I guess, but he’s certainly…