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I'm a piece so MBA great and future hall-of-famer LeBron James reached a milestone that has never been reached in the history of the NBA by any other NBA player. He became the first and only player to have 30,000 points, 8,000 assists, and 8,000 rebounds, which led to him in a postgame interview patting himself on the back, as he loves to do.
One wonders why he feels compelled to do that, other than the fact that maybe he's starting to understand that his career, much like Wilt Chamberlain's, is going to be noted for his stats and forth. The the many numerical milestones that he will be able to achieve that no other player will match. Anyway, they're going to talk about it no matter.
"Chime, I'm not a scorer. With the rebound, the ball to help my teammates. I love to get my guys from all." Let me say this first off. LeBron is not only a scorer, he's a great scorer. So he's very disingenuous when he states that he's not a scorer. What he should state is that I'm not solely a scorer, and that's an indirect shot at Kobe Bryant. He's not going to admit that or acknowledge it, but that's what it is.
LeBron is a great passer. Is he has greater pastures? They try to act like he is, putting him in a class with Magic Johnson. No, he's not. He's not even as good a passer as Larry Bird, but he is an exceptional passer. He's a great passer. As far as rebounding, he's a good rebounder. But for this NBA, for his size, one can make the argument that have Russell Westbrook and averaged almost 10 rebounds a game this year, and over 10 last year. LeBron should be averaging 11 rebounds a game. I mean, if you want to nitpick. That happens when people start to pat themselves on the back, like LeBron loves to do.
Very, very close attention to this. Called Cajun reporter. She's looking at him like she want to spray whipped cream on the top of his head and eat him like like ice cream sundae. Now, that was a low shot at Michael Jordan. He stated that, "I'm a player that this league has never seen before." We all know what that truly means. That means that LeBron is trying to, you know, trying to isolate himself as the greatest player in NBA history. When really, all he's doing is verifying and validating my statements, my assertions. That is the modern-day Wilt Chamberlain. He is a player that it's like a comet. He is something that the NBA has never seen before, but not to the, not in the way that he's trying to connote. He's trying to create the connotation that he's the greatest player in NBA history, and he's not. And many of his fans, of course, will disagree.
LeBron has been very successful at creating a cult of personality for himself, as you can see by this Caucasian female reported looking at him lovingly, adoringly, almost like a cult member. And that's good for LeBron because that's good for his brand building, for him to foster a cult of personality. But no, LeBron is not the quote unquote greatest player ever. I really don't think that that any one of us can truly qualify one player being the consensus greatest player ever. We could narrow down to a group of the greatest players of all time, and then we can create criteria, and whoever checks off the most and certain criteria, that is the player that most people come to an agreement with as being the greatest. And when we do that, LeBron is not on that list. I'm sorry, he's just not. When we truly scrutinize all the great players in NBA history, I think almost unerringly we're going to come to Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. And right outside of that, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird. LeBron is right on the cusp of that, but no, he's not in that class.
[ __ ] Now, if you were able to win a championship this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's like a difference of, let's just call it 7,500 more minutes that LeBron has played. Well, clearly, in that many minutes, 7,500 more NBA minutes, you're going to get to 30,000 points. And look, we're going to debate Michael Jordan and LeBron James because of the fact that they played in disparate eras. LeBron right now is playing in them, probably the most offensive era in NBA history, outside of the early to mid-80s. We're gonna have to factor in that stats are not going to be the lone criteria that can be used to compare these two players, these two athletes. You're going to have to look at intangibles, and that is where Jordan is always going to beat LeBron. And that, to me, is what makes Jordan the greatest. Number one, he transcended his position. Number two, he maxed out on tangibles as well as intangibles. LeBron has not maxed out on intangibles. As a matter of fact, he comes up short on intangibles.
Now, some of the issues that he's had mentally, psychologically, he's been able to resolve in the last few years with the alleviation of the pressure of bringing a championship to Cleveland. And because you're 6'9", 260, it's pretty easy. You should get to 8,000 rebounds because you were born to get to 8,000 rebounds. Okay? So, am I impressed by you? This, no. Does it mean you're better than Michael Jordan? Six-oh in the NBA Finals? No. But LeBron is trying to mislead all the blind witnesses into believing, "Oh, look at those numbers." Their longevity numbers. And I'll give you this, is Michael, his LeBron James in much better shape in his 15th year than Michael was in his 15th? There's no question.
Well, I mean, [ __ ] the Braille has been scientifically modified, allegedly. He should be in better condition than Jordan ever was. Many people try to ask me, what do you think that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs? Who knows? Possibly. As I stated in one of the comments that I responded to, it's possible that Jordan was on performance-enhancing drugs, particularly in the '95-'96 season. He was much bulkier that year. But it's also, it's also possible that he simply changed his training regimen because he wanted to be stronger for the season, because those of us who remember that era, Jordan played heavier that season than he had at in any other season in his career, the '95-'96 season. And in the offseason after they won the championship, when they beat Seattle, he took off about 10 to 12 pounds because he wanted to be lighter. He was holding on to too much muscle mass.
LeBron, conversely, has put on more mass than he's ever had in his career. And for a player who was playing 42 minutes a game, 40 minutes a game, 38 minutes a game, running up and down the floor in a fast-break style, to be able to maintain that level of muscle mass and not be using any performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is highly improbable. Highly improbable. And then when you factor in what we know about Chris Paul refusing to allow the NBA to heavily test for HGH, it's just, you know, it's just too many smoke signals out there right now. Too many smoke signals. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
But in regards to Jordan, if there was a season where he may have been possibly using something, I would say that it's the '95-'96 season. But I don't make those type of statements about people unless I see actual tangible evidence or proof or empirical data, like we have with LeBron and his name appearing on the Biogenesis ledger. That's why I make the statements that I make about him, because his name actually appeared on the Biogenesis ledger. Like, people don't understand that Michael Jordan's name has never appeared anywhere being associated with performance-enhancing drugs.
Wow. I mean, if we want to go there, Scottie Pippen actually has been associated with using performance-enhancing drugs in his career, allegedly, which was the source for many of his back problems later on his career, allegedly. As I've ever seen in any sport, I've never seen thing like it. I'm gonna knock on wood because I hate to even talk about it because I don't wish injury on anybody. But he is sensationally durable. And that's another reason why he's played so many minutes and that piled up so many numbers. And I'll give you all that. To me, LeBron is like the Peyton Manning of the NBA. Michael will be the Joe Montana of the NBA. If you're gonna compare Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, you can't go to stats because it's just a different game. Football was different in the 80s than it was in the 2000s. LeBron and Michael are similar. The, the distance or the disparity in the style of play is not as great as the Joe Montana and Peyton Manning comparison, but it's a close facsimile.
No, no, that's what he was saying. Skip is correct. Well, goddamn, Skip is, it's a two-man show. It's a one-man show. I mean, I know LeBron get all up in your panties. Let me [ __ ] goddamn, let me get a word in. I don't think that's what my man was saying. I think he was just saying that he's a one of a kind. I knew that for years. That's why me and Savannah married his ass because he's special. 43,500 minutes. Yes, for LeBron. It's well, Skip, you could play 55,000 minutes and you would not get one point. NBA, not one. You know that would be a relevant stat. And a lot of people like to state that Jordan shot more shots than LeBron, but what nullifies that is that Jordan basically has shot the same percentage from the field as LeBron James. Like, some of the Kobe fans got upset with me in regards to certain statements about Kobe's shooting percentage. Look, we all know that Kobe had had a low shooting percentage. He was a, you know, he was a volume shooter. He had certain seasons where he was more proficient than others. He normally topped out at about 45, 46 percent. Michael Jordan was a career 49.7 or 49.8 career shooter from the field, and that counts his Washington Wizard years. If you take those years out, you're talking about a player who shot somewhere around 51 and a half percent from the field for his career and was taking 20 to 23 shots a game. LeBron is somewhere around 50.5 percent from the field in his prime years up to now, while using performance-enhancing drugs, allegedly, allegedly.
So just to make my point, the, you know, the assertion that Jordan has taken 3,000 more shots in 7,500 less minutes, that would be a relevant point if Jordan was like a 43% shooter and LeBron was a 50% shooter, but they basically shoot the same from the field. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. And Jordan playing an era where you'd beat your man and then you'd have a free reign to the basket like James Harden or LeBron in this era, because they're playing a spread offense, your five man is not even in the paint anymore. You beat your man at the basket. In Jordan's era, he'd have to beat his man and then he'd have to beat the four and the five at the rim. That's what he did. Two more points per game than Kobe. Everybody know Kobe was a dynamic scorer. He has rebounds like a rock core player that we like, like a big center. So now, yeah, yeah, no, he doesn't. That's a lie. LeBron is about a seven, seven and a half rebound guy for his career. He's a decent rebounder. Looking at his physique compared to everyone else in the NBA, you can make the case that he's actually underwhelmed as a rebounder compared. Larry Bird's rebounder to LeBron. Larry Brown, Larry Bird was a 10 rebound a game guy for his whole career. What could make the case in this league today? LeBron is a borderline five. I've seen him standing next to, next to fours, next a so-called power forwards. I don't know if any non-center in the league that is bigger than LeBron in regards to girth, let me specify.
So what was the Michael Bay? You could pass it at each other. What was Michael best? That try everything. Try everything. Josie just didn't choose average. Like what my sis is a twin. It that's all. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Not winning Wilt Chamberlain, not working with Skip. You got me so mad right now. I'm screwing my name's up. I believe like I slapped it. She talked you right now. In all seriousness though, Bill Russell is the all-time winningest NBA player. But what sets Jordan apart is, once again, he was the first non-big to be as dominant as he was. And he is the winningest player in what you call the modern era, which all intents and purposes started when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was drafted in 1979. That's what sets Jordan apart. And that's why many people will note him as being the quote unquote winningest player in NBA history, even though literally it's Bill Russell. And that is why, once again, you can make the case that that Bill Russell or Kareem are the greatest, because they're right there with Jordan. But what sets Jordan apart is that he, along with Kareem, are the winningest modern players. And Jordan was an on-big, and Kareem got one of those titles before the modern era. You don't do that. Don't do that. That you playing against a bunch of low white boy. Look, just like Skip. Yeah, he'll. Just like you. Just like you. Got to see right through you, Skip. Guess who's come to doe? I guarantee it's gonna be six foot nine, 206 pounds of sexy chocolate named LeBron Maximus Decimus Meridius James. He's a gladiator. Skipper, who covers fear? Huh? You don't cook. You know what here, Skip? My baby LeBron James, the man that me and Savannah have been married to happily for the last 17 years, had convinced herself last night. I'm a one-of-a-kind place. Has a one-on-one that makes it rarity. How many more releases are they? How many babies? How many Michael Jordan's are there? But Lala, I throw a lot of my one. You'll go monkey goats. You greatest player ever. Door and ring the doorbell. Who comes to the door? Say, "Are you here for Mike?" Yeah. What make shouting grated? This is that you can tell deep down he don't believe most of this [ __ ] he's talking. This is just the TV. That Michael has already moved. You know, if LeBron ever win another championship, if he would've ever beat Golden State, Shannon would be on TV talking about LeBron is not just the greatest basketball player of all time, he's the greatest man of all time. Skip, forget sports. Already told you what LeBron needs to do. It once he does it this year, then yes, you'd have to put him in that class. But as of right now, no.
"Long let the king." Let me translate what, yeah, like what LeBron is trying to convince everybody out. He's trying to convince the world that he's now better than Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Skip is very good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ]. And you do become good at decoding LeBron's [ __ ] if you're attentive, if you're mentally acute, if you truly understand what people are trying to say when they have a certain mentality, a passive-aggressive persona, like LeBron likes to, like to put forth. LeBron is never going to get on TV and say, "I'm better than Michael Jordan," because he knows that the number one criteria that people are always going to judge him on is his championship record.
So once again, how was LeBron going to try to substantiate his claim at the number one spot, at being the true king of the NBA, or in regards to the NBA's history? Is it going to be, "Look at what I've been able to accumulate"? It's gonna be cumulative stats. And Skip has been on this for a while now, and I've always agreed with him because it's quite obvious what LeBron is trying to do. He's trying to fortify his body by whatever means necessary to make sure that at the end of his career, he could look back and say, "Oh, golly gee whiz, I scored 40,000 points, and I had 11,000 assists and 11,000 rebounds. I'm just a kid from Akron. How did I do it?" And it's only going to be a matter of time, no disrespect to him, before he becomes basketball's Lance Armstrong. And I do believe that that will happen eventually because he is compiling more longevity stats than Michael was able to compile.
So let's put this in some perspective here. LeBron has now played 43,500 minutes. It's a lot of minutes out in 15 years. So Michael, in his prime, through Chicago years, played about 36,000 minutes. So, so it's, it's