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Wages for Wins analysis of the best players:

Why Kobe is an All-Time Great, Wade is not yet, and Iguodala might be someday - All Time Greats / Still in the Running
http://wagesofwins.net/2011/08/22/why-kobe-is-an-all-time...

James is the best active Player. By the time his career ends he will have surpassed MJ and will be The Best Player in the History.

Why people think that is beyond me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaEZijZgKWY ---> Greatness. A player who can do this is an all-time great. (''THIS IS MY HOUSE'')

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MRGEPivSAc ---> Legendary. A player who can do this is a legend. (''WE ARE ALL WITNESESS'')

End of discussion. Never posting again. Tired explaining the same things over and over again. I'm not changing my mind.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You're funny.

Um, you do know that MJ put up 63 in the playoffs against the Celtics in his 2nd season in the league?

Yes, he is a good, great player. But hardly the best. And hes not even close to MJ. In the video you posted...

0:51 travel and no call:)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You're funny.

Um, you do know that MJ put up 63 in the playoffs against the Celtics in his 2nd season in the league?

I believe that, for the purposes of this discussion, anything that happened before 2003 is considered null and void. If you remember that key constraint, it makes a whole lot more sense.

No joke. I took my kids to the park yesterday so I can help my 8-year-old son learn some basketball skills and then tonight I thought I'd show him some highlights of real players so he could see how it's done by the best. My little girl came to join us and when Michael Jordan dunks started playing, she said in her cutest 4-year-old voice, "Can he fly, cuz it looks like he can fly, can he fly?"

I wonder if anybody asked that about LeBron.

I did... A lot of times...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOOoZZB9BY

The average NBA player get get over the rim. But you can't compare that with MJ's flying. Watch some MJ dunk highlights, I"m sure they're really easy to find. Not just dunk contest highlights, as impressive as they are. I'm talking about what he had the ability to even do in a game. The Tomahawk Dunk wasn't just a dunk contest gimmick, he actually made those when they counted.
I remember watching MJ's 63 point playoff game against the Celtics in '86, the one that the Bulls lost in 2OT. You need to watch a replay of that game. He was mostly guarded by Danny Ainge, though Bill Walton would often come out on him. Ainge was the Celtics best defender, and that was a great team. MJ may not have had an easy shot that entire game, and he was getting hammered every now and then, and it got so everyone just knew he was the only guy the Celtics really had to cover and they still struggled to try to contain him. And this all happened before MJ developed into a really savvy veteran.