re: LeBron is the most consistently dominant player in sports history

That's a helluva lot of career minutes played that MJ is better than

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Ive tried but the games are nothing but 3 point shooting contests now.

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I’d be willing to be you also complained during the 90s and early 2000s when it was the opposite. It’s ok if YOU don’t like basketball you can admit it. Calling the product crap is ignorant at best.

I don’t like country music but I can appreciate it when Stapleton hammers out a song.

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Tiger Woods

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Tiger also had spinal fusion surgery and rose back to top 10 in the OWGR, finished #2 in the FedEx Cup, and won the Masters in his mid 40s.

He was the best player on the planet from 1999 until he started having back issues in late 2014. Simply put, he was #1 in the world by 1999 at age 23 and also #1 in the world in 2014 at age 38.

There's nothing but offensive stats being shown. It's a lot easier to play offense than defense. It's also easy to stat whore in the NBA, especially when you play zero defense (like Lebron has for the last five years) and take plays off when you don't get the ball. Lebron might be GOAT, but some of these stats are misleading. Meanwhile, Steph continues to play at an insane level, plays unless he's really hurt, and plays both ways. He got four steals and two blocks tonight, and he's 6'3".

Career Home Runs: 714 (the most in MLB history when he retired, now third most)
Career Batting Average: .342 (10th-best all-time)
Career OPS: 1.164 (first all-time)
Career RBI: 2,213 (second all-time)
Career W-L record as a pitcher: 94-46
Career ERA: 2.28
World Series Winner seven times
Set record for home runs in a season (29), then broke it three more times (54, 59 and 60)
Set record (since broken) for consecutive scoreless innings pitched in World Series (29.7)
Stole 123 bases in his career
Member of first Hall of Fame class (1936

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In 1919, when Ruth hit 29 home runs, there were only 447 homers hit in all of the Major Leagues. Ruth's 29 dingers were six percent of the MLB total. In 2012 there were 4934 home runs hit in the Majors; six percent of that total, 296, is more than any one team hit (the Yankees hit 245).

Jump ahead to 1921 when Ruth again broke his own home run record with 59; players throughout the Majors had begun hitting those hard, white balls with far more regularity than they'd ever hit the mushy grey balls of the Dead Ball era—937 bombs were hit that year, more than double what had been hit just two years earlier. But Ruth still hit six percent of the total.

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The league average in 1921 was 59 home runs per team, the same number Ruth hit all by himself.

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In the five years that Babe was a regular part of the Red Sox rotation, he won an ERA title (1.75 in 1916) and was in the top 10 in wins and WHIP three times each.

He finished his career with the 11th-best winning percentage of all time (.671), the 17th-best career ERA of all time (2.28) and 94 career wins.

And he was even better in the postseason.

In two trips to the World Series as a pitcher, he made three starts, won all three, and posted an insane 0.87 ERA. Along the way he set a record for longest scoreless streak in the World Series, going 29.7 innings without surrendering a run.

That record would stand more than four decades until 1961 when Whitey Ford finally broke it.

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Neither Bonds nor Mays ever threw a single pitch in an MLB game. Just sayin'.

After helping the Red Sox win three World Series in four years, the Sultan of Swat turned the also-ran New York Yankees into the powerhouse everyone knows and loves to hate, winning four more Series along the way.

You can only be judged by your contemporaries.

No one dominated his era like Ruth. Not Jordan, not Wilt, not Gretzky, not Bonds and certainly not LeBron.

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I can’t stand Lebron but why do people get so stupid when discussing him?

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On this board, it's the "no politics or social commentary in my sports" thing. But it really just boils down to him offering opinions they don't like. They're fine with John Rocker. In fact they love him.

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This is the wrong board to ever give Lebron a compliment

There are a lot of idiots who equate a Lebron compliment into a MJ insult and have to quickly react.

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I think the reason many people hate lebron is because of things outside of basketball.

There's a good reason they call him King James.

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I love Jordan more than Lebron, but lol if anyone thinks the non-Jordan games in the 90's are anything close, both in entertainment and skill, to what is being played now.

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The NBA is just a shooting contest now