Comparison

Basketball is becoming one of the most popular sports in the world today. The sport is gaining more global attention daily and the fan base if growing steadily. With the popularity of the sport at an all time high, the athletes in the sport who play at all levels from little leagues to professional are being forced to become better athletes just to compete. The best athlete to ever play the sport was undoubtedly Michael Jordan, but many other players have grown to play at his level and engineering the new generation of the sport by performing at super-high levels of competition. No one may ever do all that he did for and in the sport but whenever anyone talks about the best his name is always brought up in comparison. The two players whose names are brought up whenever anyone speaks about who the best in professional basketball player is are LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. By watching and researching both players, I have drawn the conclusion that LeBron James is overall the best player.

Both players are always the fuel to some argument when ever basketball is talked about on any sports channel, forum, or column. They perform at such high levels that it becomes a matter of opinion when people begin to talk about which player is better. They both have almost a complete game and nearly no flaws in the way they play. The comparison always goes down to overall accomplishment, skill, leadership, and statistics. Both players came straight to the NBA right out of high school, so the experience before they reached the pros is not a very big factor in the comparison.

When ever the argument starts about these players, people argue that Kobe Bryant is the better player because he has three championships under his belt. This point shows that he has reached the highest level any professional player dreams to reach in the team sport. Since the sport is a team sport Kobe, proved very little by being part of a team with the most dominant player of the last 10 years of the...