LeBron James is BETTER than Michael Jordan, claims Draymond Green, as he faced harder competition

Draymond Green has weighed in on the debate over the greatest basketball player of all time between Michael Jordan and LeBron James, claiming there’s ‘nobody’ that ‘can do’ what the LA Lakers superstar does on a nightly basis. 

The Golden State Warriors star didn’t hold back his opinion when he dropped his top-five NBA all-time greats on the latest episode of the Uninterrupted – a multimedia platform, created by James – breaking down why he believes ‘The King’ is the better hooper than ‘His Airness’. 

Among his reasons were the four-time NBA champion’s longevity as the five-a-side game’s best player at the top, as well as his varied skill set, specifically passing.  

Draymond Green ranked LeBron James (right) over Michael Jordan (left) as the greatest 

But Green especially claims that the level of competition James has had to face is what distincts him from Jordan, though the Chicago Bulls legend had to face the likes of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing and Isiah Thomas back in his day. 

‘MJ didn’t beat the greatest team ever assembled,’ said the 32-year-old, most likely referring to the 2016-17 Golden State Warriors, which had the talents of Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala. 

‘Nor did he run up against the greatest team ever assembled every year.’

Green then claimed that ‘there’s nobody that has ever played the game of basketball that can do what LeBron James does on a basketball court. Nobody.’

Basketball legends Jordan and James shake hands during the 2022 NBA All-Star Game

Basketball fans have long argued over the debate for years, with Jordan supporters claiming their idol’s six NBA rings give him the edge over James. 

However, fans of LeBron point to his ever-improving statistics, with ‘The King’ only 907 points away from tying Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.

To Green, though, the distinction is rather clear, and he means no disrespect to the man that made him want to play basketball in the first place.

Green also revealed Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry and Shaquille O’Neal in his top five NBA players 

‘I’m sure one of the old f***s is going to say, ”You’re out of your mind” and is this that and the other,’ he told the Lakers’ Juan Toscano-Anderson and actor Rome Flynn while playing a game of dominos. 

‘The talent is way better [during LeBron’s era], just like the talent at Apple is way better than the talent that was working at Apple in 1991.’

Other players who made Green’s top five all-time basketball greats are Kobe Bryant, teammate Steph Curry and Shaquille O’Neal.