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Originally Posted by Kasi
Anyway I disagree with your premise since Jordan didn’t enable his teammates as much. When he went to play baseball that year how did true Bulls do? Oh yeah they won 55 games. When James left Cleveland they went from 60 wins to 20 wins overnight.
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This is the biggest thing to me.
Every time Lebron leaves a team the team goes from being in the finals, to rebuilding pretty much overnight.
When Jordan left the Bulls they still had 55 wins, which was only 2 fewer than the season before.
Over their career's Jordan played in 13 playoff seasons and had 39.8 win shares in that time - averaging 3.06 per playoff. (.255 per 48 minutes)Lebron has played in 14 playoff seasons and has 55.3 win shares over that time - averaging 3.95 win shares per playoff. (.245 per 48 minutes). Lebron has 3 of the best 5 seasons in Win Shares in the Playoffs ever, and 4 of the top 10 (2, 4, 5, 7); Jordan has 2 of the top 10 (8, 10).
Jordan has a PER of 28.6 in the playoffs. Lebron has a PER of 28.4.
Jordan has a VORP of 24.7 in the playoffs, Lebron a VORP of 33.2
These two players are pretty much #1 and #2 in all of these stats. Honestly I don't think Jordan has outright claim to the GOAT status anymore, at worst these two are 1A & 1B IMO.