There’s a constant debate about whether Michael Jordan or LeBron James is the NBA’s greatest player of all tine, with younger basketball fans typically choosing James and older ones going with Jordan.
Charles Barkley, who played against Jordan and was his teammate on the 1992 USA Olympic basketball team, weighed in on the Jordan-James debate during an interview with podcast host Adam Lefkoe on the May 20 episode of “The Lefkoe Show” last week.
But Barkley added a third player to the debate, former Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant, who was the player most compared to Jordan before James became an NBA superstar
“I ain’t never going to say anything bad about LeBron James,” said Barkley.
Those who responded to Barkley’s comments agreed and said James’ fans shouldn’t be offended by the comparison to Johnson, a point guard on Lakers championship teams in the 1980s.
Barkley had Jordan at No. 1, Oscar Robertson second, then Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James coming in seventh.
