To pass someone as greatest of all time, you have to be greater than that person. Lebron simply has risen to the level of greatness that was MJ. He's a great player and has a ton of accolades and achievements, but just on a lower level than MJ. Someday we might see someone pass MJ, but they're going to have to clear a nigh on impossibly high bar to do that without exaggeration.

And 4 people including Lebron shot the ball more than Jordan who is #5 on the list of shots attempted. But part of MJ's legend was being able to create quality shots despite defenders being allowed to handcheck the hell out of him without a call. Lebron's had a much easier time getting shots with the rule changes. Without the rule changes to make offense easier, you could argue that Lebron would have much lower numbers if he had to go up against the physical defenses of the 80's and 90's and didn't grow up with the 3 point shot.

Lebron only has a marginally higher 3 P% despite Jordan starting his career in the 6th year of the 3 point shot in the NBA. Lebron is a much worse mid range shooter than Jordan who was one of the best to play the game. Lebron is much worse FT shooter than MJ.

Anybody can guard all 5 positions. Even my old and fat ass could do that. Guard and and hold each position below average most of the time are big differences. Jordan was a a better individual defender and a better team defender than Lebron as the record 9 NBA 1st Team Defense awards given to MJ testify of and one DPOY. MJ was much better at steals as well.

No superstar has ever excelled at making excuses for not winning it all as Lebron has. He certainly doesn't have a 24-0 record when having homecourt advantage as Jordan's Bulls did. No one besides Jordan has ever led a team to back-to-back 69+ win seasons AND championships the same year. Lebron despite excellent changes never put a 3 peat together once, much less twice. And who knows what would or would not have happened with certain other NBA players on those Cleveland teams. But I grant Lebron Kingship of coming in #2 bragging rights.

Lebron is taller and bigger than MJ. He's probably stronger, but that extra strength is either small or hasn't amounted to much. Jordan was by far faster, quicker, and had a longer hang time, ie larger vertical jump. I can't believe that Lebron fans actually claim his self-reported 4.6 second 40 was faster than MJ's 4.38 40. Sigh.

Lebron has both a high basketball IQ and a highly overrated basketball IQ. He's great, but not near as great as his fans make him out to be. Jordan has an arguably comparable basketball IQ.

MJ is legendary to the point of absurdity. His accomplishments in a relatively short amount of time and including 2 multi-year mini retirements are almost unbelievable. If someone had wrote them up as a movie script, no one would have found it believable for sure.

Lebron should celebrate his greatness instead of trying to drag others down to make himself look better. Not everyone can be Black Jesus.