As an aside did you see the ESPN documentary on Michael Jordan. It easily convinced me he is the true "GOAT"
I did not , Steve. My brother was egging me to watch on it's initial release but I told him I'm a Bird/Magic fan, not a Jordan fan. It may be because I grew up in the Bird/Magic/Kareem era and Jordan's Bulls never figured atop of Boston and LA. My personal view re MJ being the GOAT is that he never faced a team of Boston and LA's caliber and won. The counter-argument I know is that he had no talents around him the first 6 years, but Magic won in his first year with Kareem absent and he scored 42 points as center in the title clinching game against a powerful Sixers team. And Bird won in his 2nd year with more unheralded names like Chris Ford and Cedric Maxwell in the starting 5 and a real tiny PG named Tiny Archibald in his waning years. Anyway, that's just my own view, and I know there are many many people out there who consider him the GOAT. And for that, I will take him as GOAT any day over LeBron.