Ep. 337 - A social justice argument for saying that LeBron James is the GOAT

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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All my life, I've said that MJ was the best basketball player to ever live. Today, I want to highlight why we say Muhammad Ali was the best boxer of all time and how that standard, which includes who Muhammad Ali was out of the ring, should apply to the GOAT in basketball as well. If it does, a real argument for LeBron being the GOAT can be made. ---- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Many of you may not know this, but I am a huge, huge sports fan and have been my entire life,
0:08.8	literally since I was a young boy.
0:11.4	When I was five and six years old I used to read box scores for all of
0:16.4	the baseball games that I baseball used to be my sport when I was a little boy for
0:21.1	all the baseball games and memorize all the stats and I actually thought about going
0:26.6	into sports management for years as a young person and I want to wait into the conversation of who is the greatest basketball player of all time.
0:41.0	And for today's conversation, just for today, I'm going to narrow it down to
0:46.9	Michael Jordan and LeBron James. Yes, Kareem should be in the conversation, arguably wilt should be in the conversation,
0:55.8	Bill Russell should no doubt be in the conversation.
0:59.7	But just for today I'm going to narrow it down to Michael Jordan and LeBron James.
1:05.0	I've said Michael Jordan my entire life.
1:09.0	Today I think I'm going to make a different argument. Just hear me out. All right. This is Sean King and you are listening to
1:18.1	the breakdown.
1:19.2	The breakdown.
1:22.2	The breakdown. The breakdown. Breakdown.
1:23.0	The Breakdown.
1:25.0	The Breakdown. The Breakdown. The Breakdown. The I'm 41 years old which means I grew up as a child following the entire career of Michael Jordan from literally from college you know I grew up right
1:47.6	outside of Lexington Kentucky where college basketball is everything so I grew up
1:52.4	watching Michael Jordan in college,
1:55.0	watched him in the pros, including the slam dunk contest. I think I watched
2:02.0	damn near every Michael Jordan playoff game that was televised in Kentucky.
2:09.2	Again, this was before big sports packages and all of that.
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