11>6>0
Bill Russell>Jordan>LeBron
Ergo:
1>0
Dilfer>Marino
You can't compare basketball and football. No sport is more dependent on one player than basketball, and no sport is less dependent on one player than football. In basketball, there is at least some merit to judging "all-time greats" on the number of championships they won; in football there is no merit.
The reasons I dislike Lebron have nothing to do with his end-game performances or the way he left Cleveland. Those are nice things to bolster my dislike for him, but I have never liked him for two reasons:
First, from a basketball standpoint, I don't like watching him play. I equate rooting for Lebron to someone rooting for me in a game with 9 seventh graders on an eight foot basket. He's so much bigger and stronger and more athletic than anyone else that the game of basketball is different for him than for guys like Jordan, Kobe, Wade, Iverson, etc. Those guys were gifted athletes, obviously, but they relied so much more on skill, coordination and imagination than Lebron does. He can put his head down and force his way to the basket anytime he wants, like a tank. So guys play off him, and he uses the space to knock down a good percentage of stationary jumpers and find good passing lanes to hit his teammates. This isn't his fault, obviously, but it doesn't make me want to root for him.
Second, from a personal standpoint, I think the guy is a complete fraud and a phony. I find him disingenuous, falsely modest, entitled, coddled, ignorant, tone deaf and more of a corporate construction than a human being.
And again, I recognize that this is just my opinion and I don't begrudge someone that has a different opinion than mine, but I feel the way I feel about it. And I also recognize that whatever I may think of him, one thing that he is that I'm not is insanely wealthy, so there's that. But I root hard against the guy because I don't like him.
