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Who is the greatest of all time? By Roniel Oguekwe
This has been one of the greatest sport controversy, who is the better player Lebron James or Michael Jordan. There are many ways to view this subject, but I will take it from my perspective.

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1963. He is truly one of the greatest to step on the basketball court. Drafted with the 3rd pick in the NBA draft by the Chicago bulls in 1984. And the second he step on the court he broke the basketball world. With 32,292 career points, 11 MVP, 14 all-star games and 13 playoff appearance. On top of that, he has 6 championships appearance never losing one, and 4th on the leading scorer board. He played 15 seasons in NBA, 12 for the Chicago bulls and 3 for the Washington Wizards. He was sponsor by Nike but later on starting his own company Jordan which is worth 1.14 billion. He retired in 2003 and was inducted to the hall of fame in 2009.

Lebron James, born in Akron, Ohio in 1984.Drafted with the first pick in the 2003 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavalier, and was said to be the next Jordan, and he lived up to the hype. With 27,039 career points, 6 MVP, 11 star games and 10 playoff appearance. He has been to 7 finals but only won 3 and 10th on the leading scorer board. For his first seven seasons, he played for the
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In Miami he had Dwayne wade and Chris bosh who helped him win his first two championships, and when returning back to Cleveland met a team with Kyrie Irving and Kevin love, and when they were both injured was unable to win a championship until the next year with both of them back and fully recovered won Cleveland their first championship. And In Jordan time he was in a team with Scottie Pippen and Denis rodman, who without would not have 6 championships. So showing every superhero need a

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