I would like for you to point me in the direction of the game Lebron "played the 5" against a legit center and got busy?? He didn't matchup with Duncan and hold him down. Hell, he didn't even matchup with Dirk. Just because another 6'9" player is "playing the 5" on the other team and Bron gets busy, it doesn't mean he could play a legit 5. Meanwhile, the shoot first shooting guard legitimately had to switch to point guard and dominated to the tune of 10 triple doubles in 11 games. And who really cares about compilation longevity stats when you never put it together? All those points don't mean shyt if all you got was 1 scoring title out the deal. Damn near 20 seasons and you were the games best scorer for 1 season? The same number of times 150lb Nate Archibald was. MJ the most complete player you'll ever see, but since Bron "compiled" stats, you think he's better. MJs scoring titles indicate that for 10 straight seasons that he played, HE was the best scorer in the league. When he led the league in scoring, had 200 steals and 100 blocks as a 2 guard, while winning DPOY......that's putting it together. Y'all Bron stans always lose context.
Larry Bird was known as a great scorer and never won a scoring title in 13 years. Yet he was known as the best player in the game for a period...
Kobe Bryant was known as a great scorer yet only won two scoring titles in 20 years. But he was known as the best player in the game for a stretch...
Jerry West was known as a great scorer yet only won one scoring title in 14 years. Yet when he played he was considered arguably the best wing in the game and when he retired 50 years ago was revered as one of the 5-7 greatest players ever...
Winning a shytload of scoring titles was never the barometer of a great scorer or an All-Time great player for anybody except Michael Jordan...
So you MJ Stans manipulate the importance of his accomplishments into meaning something they do not. As in, the lack of 10 fukking scoring titles doesn't mean you weren't a great scorer...only Mike nikkas flout this baseless and idiotic logic...
If a nikka wanna convince somebody that Mike is the greatest player ever, you're gonna have to use a different talking point than scoring...
And you're the one talking about "context" lmao...
Regarding your longevity point, while I agree that compilation stats lack importance if you never put it together, we're gonna disagree with YOUR definition of "putting it together". The issue is your standard hinges on markers that Mike achieved, that never existed before Mike, and don't apply to anyone besides Mike, because it inflates Mike's reputation that no one reaches this arbitrary line you have...
LeBron was the best player in the NBA fir a decade. Some would argue longer, some would argue lesser, but he was the greatest player in the NBA for a decade and for half of that decade there wasn't a close #2 (Kobe was close in the beginning of the decade and who Bron had to pass to get there, and KD was close at the end of that decade who passed Bron to get there. In the meat of that decade of dominance there wasn't anybody close to LeBron). He didn't "put it together" like Mike because he isn't Mike nor plays like him, but you're creating a fool's errand for yourself...
At his best he was certainly one of the two or three best scorers in the game, if not the outright best. He could and has defended 5's in crunch time, and picked up the opponent's best player, and was the greatest wing defender at his best, particularly in clutch scenarios. He was a pass first player who at his best controlled the floor on both ends and manipulated the opponent's game plan. I have a feeling you know all this, so no one needs to be your stooge and link examples, your google works the same as anyone else's if you weren't paying attention in real time...
Michael Jordan Stans, yall...
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like shyt. I been in stan wars since I was in middle school so to see the arguments evolve like this has been interesting. God help whoever the next GOAT is, them stan wars gon be vicious. 
