LOL. This whole LeBron/MJ debate reminds me of Danny Ainge's most trusted player evaluator on the Celtics, the "Brain Doctor," Jon Niednagel.
Niednagel has worked for Ainge since the 1990s, including with the Phoenix Suns, and he's developed a bit of following around the NBA for his unusual method of assessing athletes using a system called "Brain Typing."
Anyway, Niednagel has argued for years that MJ is inherently superior to LeBron because of MJ's "Brain Type." Jordan's "Brain Type," ISTP, is considered the best type in basketball: they are intense, logical, more competitive, better decision makers, better at making clutch shots, better leaders, and more emotionally stable than those with LeBron's type, ESFP.
LeBron's type technically has better vision (spatial awareness), gross motor proficiency (uses of the large muscles), and inherent athleticism, but they are mentally weaker leaders because they are so emotional. In support of Niednagel's belief, you guys sure do trash LeBron a lot here for those very things. For those of you who demand concrete stats, LeBron does have one of the worst game-winning shot percentages:
http://www.espn.com/blog/marc-stein/post/_/id/4396/clutch-shots-are-tough-just-ask-lebron-james
Other major NBA talents past and present with James' type, according to Niednagel, are Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, Chris Paul, James Harden, Kevin Durant. All of those guys are extreme natural talents, but they are known for lots of smiles and/or lack of competitiveness, not killer instinct.
Meanwhile, other players with MJ's type include Larry Bird, Hakeem Olajuwon (the only player in league history whose playoff statistics go up in all the following five categories: FG%, FT%, PPG, RPG, and APG), Jerry West, Shaquille O'Neal, Moses Malone, and John Stockton.
Niednagel also argues that he is able to see and analyze logical truth and reality better than most other people because of his own "Brain Type," ISTJ, a rare type that he claims is nonetheless found in a few basketball coaches (including Steve Kerr and John Wooden). He says most men, journalists, and sports fans are ENTP, a type that allegedly over-conceptualizes information and is prone to taking stats out of context, unable to analyze what they see or observe properly. He would argue you guys are all this type and that's why you cannot judge LeBron vs. MJ the correct way. Trust me, I've read his web site for years, and man does he have a bone to pick with ENTPs. He also blames the ENTP media for being unable to see that Tom Brady is a mediocre QB and systems player who is actually vastly inferior as QB to Peyton Manning. That's probably his favorite one to argue; second is that MJ is far better than either Kobe or LeBron. He also blames ENTPs for the moral evils of Hollywood, inventing the theory of evolution (Niednagel is a very conservative Calvinist), and just about everything else under the sun.
I used to take his methods and systems very seriously, but then he said I was an ENTP, so I guess I'll never be able to figure out reality like he does.