5 Reasons MJ is "NOT" THE G.O.A.T

The advertisement campaign I refer to was merely a promotional ploy focused on selling orange beverages, but it is also an example of how endemic the belief that Michael Jordan’s has no equal on a basketball court  and how this myth has been spread through society.   Media, fans, reporters and players have all reiterated this notion time and time again which installs Michael Jordan as by far the greatest basketball player of all-time.   He is not.   No matter what “numbers” one uses to measure Jordan against his peers his achievements are matched or beaten by other greats, players forgotten by those who use ESPN as their resource for basketball knowledge.   ‘Jordan won six Championships’   True, but Bill Russell won eleven championships. If we want to use championship glory as a measuring stick than Jordan is only the tenth greatest player of all-time… behind Robert Horry and Jim Losctufoff (7 titles each) mind you. ‘But he was also a five time league MVP’   So too were Bill Russell (five times) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (six times). Heck, it’s likely so too will LeBron James before he retires (LeBron currently has four NBA MVP’s).   ‘He was the NBA’s greatest scorer’   Jordan averaged 30 points per game, but so did Wilt Chamberlain, who once scored 100 points in a game, something Jordan came nowhere close to.