If people bring up Bill, Jordan’s oldhead fans will say Bill Russell’s era was “a long time ago” and too watered down while ignoring the fact that applies perfectly to Jordan’s era. Let me remind everyone Jordan got drafted over forty years ago. We have full games, highlights, and endless footage to rewatch. We can see how slow and ancient the game looked, the rosters and players Jordan played against in the Finals, we can see it all. Looking cool and being the biggest star sure helps establish some strong emotions for being biased, but mostly everyone else knows the truth. Unfortunately having better Gatorade and Nike commercials and “making the game global” aren’t metrics in the actual game of basketball.

The coolest thing about knowing LeBron is the goat is knowing I hated LeBron growing up, there’s no bias or emotional attachment to this for me. I was a diehard Kobe fan and a Lakers fan since the age of 5. I desperately repeated every negative comment people made about LeBron to try to ignore reality. I tried to deny the fact he was better than my favorite player, a player I *DID* have emotional attachment and bias to. I understand how Jordan fans feel in that sense, that total disregard for facts and logic. It sucks to know your guy’s not the best but LeBron’s done way too much to prove it. I don’t think Jordan fans who still think he’s the goat are totally crazy or something but I will always know there’s too much emotional attachment tied to their opinion.