The NBA is fueled by star power and debate. Each year, a procession of star players compete on the court for basketball glory and immortality. Then across the globe in schoolyards, Twitterscapes, break rooms and barbershops, fans and media debate and recalibrate the pages of basketball lore, moving players up and down the hierarchy.
Who’s better than who? Who’s overhyped? Who’s great and who’s an all-time great?
These are the conversational bouts going 12 rounds between fans young and old — oftentimes young vs. old.
While tutoring at a K-8 reading program in Chicago this summer, I was going back and forth with two third-graders about who was better, Michael Jordan or LeBron James?