LeBron James cannot win according to Dan Patrick. The FOX Sports Radio host probably walked away from his conversation with NBC Sports Boston’s Brian Scalabrine on Thursday convinced that nothing James does will ever be good enough for him to overtake Michael Jordan in the NBA’s GOAT debate.
Scalabrine tried to explain why he thinks Steph Curry’s championships have been more impressive than LeBron’s. He said that winning with the Cavaliers was an all-time great moment, but he doesn’t view the championship with the Lakers in the Walt Disney World bubble as being on the same level.
“Yeah, but everybody was in the bubble, so it was a neutral site,” Patrick countered.
When Scalabrine came back with the amount of rest that James and the Lakers got as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Patrick again pushed back saying that there was never a moment after Jordan’s first title with the Bulls that the media en masse pointed out that Magic Johnson was injured in that series and called the title unimpressive.
Scalabrine came back with another attempted takedown of James’s legacy. He countered with the fact that once Michael Jordan won his first title, he never lost in the Finals. Patrick dismissed that as irrelevant and an absurd standard that only LeBron James, who is 4-5 in the NBA Finals, is held to. Patrick said he has a go-to response to that argument.
“They’re like ‘Yeah but he lost’ and I’m going ‘Are you gonna hold that against Tom Brady that he lost?’ You got to the Super Bowl! You got to the NBA Finals! That’s not a negative, that he lost.”
Near the end of their argument, it seemed like Scalabrine was ready to relent. He said that if the Lakers win the 2023 NBA Finals, fans and media members may be forced to acknowledge that LeBron James had surpassed Michael Jordan. Dan Patrick doesn’t believe that will happen.
“It won’t happen though Brian, because people are holding onto Michael Jordan’s memories for dear life!”
