Originally Posted by
Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Well, MJ is the one player who has probably "earned" such a treatment. He was the OG "superstar" crossing all culture lines, omnipresent on all three networks, appointment television. He was larger than life.
I think LeBron is by far a better basketball player, but you can't even begin to explain to a Millennial what MJ was like in his prime.
Perhaps I'm biased based on my age, but as a basketball fanatic teen in the late 80s and early 90s, it's impossible to overstate the impact he had on my childhood, and every who I knew with similar interests.