So Charles Barkley doesn't think

LeBron James is as good as Kobe Bryant.

He is a ride or die Michael Jordan guy as we know, which is

That's normal, but the whole shade about LeBron being worse than Kobe

In a recent interview with Bob Costa son HBO Charles Barkley was asked where LeBron

I love these things. I love it when it's like, let's just ask them where they rank everyone.

He asked him where LeBron James compares to Kobe and MJ, probably the most popular

banal argument of all time, just keeps being used over and over and over again.

Rinse and repeat. He said though, in fairness, I don't even put LeBron past Kobe.

Let's get that out of the way. LeBron has stacked his teams.

Let's be realistic. The struggle is part of your legacy. Is that true?

Do you think the struggle is part of your legacy?

It can be sort of, I don't completely

I mean, I disagree with the way he said it, but I understand what he means, if that makes sense.

Yeah, see, we got to kind of like go off of

just the ridiculousness of that statement, which is people say I'm a LeBron hater

because I make fun of LeBron a lot because he's corny and he brings it on himself.

But in terms of the caliber of play that he puts out on the floor and night in a night out basis,

that's not true. In the least, like to say LeBron James just always had super teams

and they were always stacked. He's always had a plethora of great talent around him.

It's just a lie. That's just a complete lie.

Those tea, those Cleveland teams, the early ones,

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