Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James has been around the professional world of basketball for well over half of his life. He made his NBA debut at 18 years old, and was arguably the most highly-touted high school prospect in the history of the game during his years of St. Vincent-St. Mary’s in Akron, Ohio, while Michael Jordan was at the tail end of his all-time great career.
The two never got to cross paths in the NBA, as Jordan retired — for the third and final time — the same summer LeBron was drafted. The debate between James and Jordan, in part, has been impossible to settle because they never played at the same time.