ANALYSIS/OPINION:
As LeBron James continues to turn in remarkable performances in the NBA playoffs, the debate about who is the greatest basketball player of all time has heated up as well. It may now be the most-contested dispute in the arena of sports argument — replacing whether or not Pete Rose should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
And, as the debate gets louder and more argumentative, so does the seemingly willful ignorance of those who engage in this particular battle, with participants boiling the question down to a two-man race: Has LeBron James wrested the “greatest of all-time” crown from Michael Jordan?