King James may have passed the 40,000-point mark, but is he greater than the man he idolised growing up?
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Nogadala to Curry, back to Nogadala, up the layup!
00:09 Oh, blocked by James!
00:11 17 seconds from game seven, or from championship number six.
00:21 Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead!
00:26 The Chicago Bulls have won their sixth NBA championship,
00:31 and it's their second 3P.
00:34 Yeah, you have younger players, and you have bigger players.
00:37 But overall, you still have to shoot,
00:39 you still have to defend, you still shoot free throws,
00:42 you still shoot threes, you do all those things.
00:44 You have to play as a team.
00:45 Those things transcend generations.
00:47 So I mean, as much as I would have played here,
00:49 things would have been totally different.
00:51 I would have been playing against LeBron James.
00:54 I would have been playing against Anthony Davis,
00:56 as opposed to playing against Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
00:59 Now, would I have had as much success?
01:01 We'll never know.
01:02 I'll let you guys speculate on that,
01:04 but I think my passion to the game would have been the same.
01:06 I love the game of basketball.
01:08 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:12 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:15 Iguodala to Curry, back to Iguodala, up for the layup!
01:30 Oh, blocked by James!
01:32 LeBron James with a rejection!
01:34 A Smith screen.
01:36 Posey will defend.
01:37 Oh!
01:38 LeBron James with no regard for human life!
01:43 Coming to the end of the third quarter,
01:45 LeBron James, a shot in history.
01:47 Oh!
01:47 Oh!
01:48 Oh!
01:50 LeBron stands alone!
01:54 For my name to come up in a discussion
01:56 with the greatest basketball player of all time,
02:01 it's like, wow.
02:03 Like I said, I did pretty much everything
02:07 that MJ did when I was a kid.
02:08 I shot fadeaways before I should have.
02:11 I wore a leg sleeve on my leg and folded it down
02:13 so you saw the red part.
02:16 I wore black and red shoes with white socks.
02:18 I wore short shorts so you could see my undershorts underneath.
02:23 I didn't go bald like Mike, but I'm getting there.
02:28 But I'm getting there.
02:30 But it'd be post-career health.
02:32 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:40 Oh, he does it again.
02:52 Throws it right up on the rim.
02:53 James comes flying in from the right corner.
02:56 James catches fire.
02:58 Ball game!
03:00 He did it!
03:01 LeBron James wins it for Cleveland!
03:05 I'm a fan of his.
03:06 I love watching him play.
03:08 But as you can see, our league is starting to expand
03:11 on very talented players.
03:13 And I think he's made his mark.
03:16 He will continue to do so over a period of time.
03:19 But when you start the comparisons,
03:21 I think it is what it is.
03:23 It's just a stand-up measurement.
03:24 I take it with a grain of salt.
03:26 He is a heck of a basketball player, without a doubt.
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