I ain't sayin' Jordan couldn't have gone to eight straight NBA Finals.
Dude's an all-time great, and comfortably a top-two player.
But where Jordan has the cultural cachet and the 6 rings, LeBron just keeps showing up in the Finals regardless of whether his supporting cast is a steaming pile or not.
Maybe Jordan could have done that, too; we'll never know.
What we do know is that there's a tendency to punish LeBron for doing what Jordan never did: grab squad full of league average (or worse) players and say "hop on, boys; we're going to the Finals."
Multiple times.
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