Isiah Thomas: I would pick LeBron James over Michael Jordan | UNDISPUTED 

Jordan or LeBron?

"Kareem lost one game in high school, Kareem lost one game in college". At that point Skip knew the debate is over. It was fun to watch :D

The man said he would pick LeBron over Mj his opinion, just like I would take Peyton over Brady... It's called CHOICE.... half of you nerds NEVER even watched Mj play

Skip got owned. He cant talk back to Isiah like how he rants on others

"How much of Kareem's success came from Magic?" You'll never catch Skip asking the same about Pippen for Jordan.

Notice the difference between these fans and the bandwagons on the internet? They actually applauded Lebron unlike the others who just hate, the bandwagons giving y'all a bad name

For all you folks that don't like LeBron James just remember his name pays the bills on this show. . That's just facts. The Undisputed show is sitting in the middle of Golden State surrounded by 90% Golden State fans and who are they talking about ??

Love How Isaiah checked the crowd

I've come to see his poertry at least 20 times now. Pure sports excellence.

Makes a real good point on Kareem

It's hilarious to me when someone who played against Jordan says LeBron is better, people go "Oh, well he's just salty." But when Paul Pierce, who lost to LeBron multiple times, says Jordan is better, we never say "Oh, he's just mad he lost to LeBron." Fact of the matter is, Zeke is up here spitting straight FACTS. And no, he's not salty, cause he and the Pistons ran through Jordan on their way to 3 Finals and back to back championships.

3:17 great point LeBron has taken every rookie coach he's had to the finals

Finally someone who played the game at the highest level sits down and actually talks with sense

Wow, Isiah makes some good points that I never thought about.

i would pick Jordan , but i appreciate him breaking down how he determines his picks - Kareem and LBJ. Everyone has their own opinion. No need to slam someone if they don't agree with the majority.

Best argument for LeBron ever! He is self taught n guided. No great school, no great coach ever! Unprecedented

6:09 Isiah Thomas calls Kareem the “greatest basketball player to ever play the game”

Isiah made the Jordan/Lebron argument more realistic. People say that he's salty but he didn't say anything negative. He said that he'll take ''the mind" over the scorer, someone who takes rookie coaches to the finals. I 100% agree with Isiah given the mechanics of basketball. There's more to basketball than just scoring and Isiah being a former point guard he understands how Lebron leads his team. I feel like Lebron was responsible for a lot more and he should get more credit.

Kareem lost ONE game in High School and ONE game in college. meanwhile Skip Bayless averaged ONE point FOUR points in High School.

The greatest player ever: Kareem Abdul-Jamaar or Abdul-Jafaar I think he said both at one point.

When you compare the numbers that Michael Jordan put up during the Bulls’ threepeat with those of Scottie, you’ll be quite amazed. The swingman tallied more rebounds, assists, blocks and steals than MJ in their 6 Finals runs.

After that man just broke down everything y'all really still gonna hate? Wtf lmaoooo, like did y'all listen to him or just post stupid comments cause of the caption????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

What surprise he would take LeBron over Jordan.....🙄

love watching skip speechless because all of the things that isiah said is true and its really a good point .. ill choose lebron

This is one of the most astute analyses of basketball by a former player I've seen.

Isiah ain't never gonna let that Dream Team snub go.

The man just gave clear factual reasons why he'd pick Lebron over Jordan that actually made sense and y'all tryna say he hating 🤦🏽‍♂️ like he's been retired out of the league for how long? Why would he still be holding a grudge against him smh. Is Michael Jordan really a basketball god out here? Can he really not be surpassed?

5:44 “come on over here and talk about it” is hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Isaiah is speaking facts!!

Isiah shut that heckler down real quick.

They better shut that man up, he speaking too much truth over there. That's not what our ears are accustomed to hearing. we've been mentally persuaded for the longest. People forget Ali stopped being Champ because of his voice. They snatched his belt for that one reason. People also forget why Kareem wasn't brought up in the greatest discussion nomo. He went pro black so they started persuaded the masses. MJ never was and never will be a leader on that level. That's why he's accepted as the goat. He'll never speak up!!!! Isaiah too real... 👍💯✊💡💯👌

2:46 Holy cow! I’ve heard this debate for years and I’ve never considered or even thought about this. He explained this so well. Thank you Isiah for the enlightenment 🤯🤯🤯

Skip missed the entire point... this clip shows how much skip doesn't know!!!

Whenever I see isiah and hear him talk it's hard to believe the guy was on that "bad boys" team. The guys so well spoken and cheerful

for all those saying Isaiah is salty. search for other videos where he praised Jordan and called him GOAT. why would he be salty? he beat Jordan in a series twice. I'm a Jordan fan but it took two series before Jordan beat the Pistons. He needed Pippen showing up and embrace the triangle offense before beating the Pistons. to his point recognize the fact that Lebron is going down as one of the greats that never had a great veteran coach. he took a rookie coach Spoelstra to the Finals and 3 times after that. he took rookie NBA coach Blatt to the Finals once. and now Ty Lue twice. A guy who didn't have tutelage of a great coach from college or in the NBA took a mediocre team to the Finals when he was only 22 with Mike brown as a coach.

i have to agreed i have never met someone that make that much sense about basketball !! just a great joy to listening to him!!

LMAO Skip looked like he wanted to cry during this segment...."Damn Isiah is KILLING my narrative"....

Real talk by Isiah Thomas in this clip. I'm glad he confronted that Jordan lover in the audience who said, "Sour grapes". I'm so f**king tired of Jordan lovers attacking people's character if you choose someone over MJ. That's their default setting, and it's asinine. Isiah Thomas is an All-Time great player who is a 2-time champion, and he battled against Kareem, Julius Erving, MJ, Magic Johnson, Bird, etc. Isiah ended up making very solid cases in this segment for why he would choose Lebron over MJ to start a franchise, and why he believes Kareem is the GOAT. But before he could even share those reasons, an MJ lover yelled "Sour grapes" at him That's how it is with MJ lovers. If you don't choose MJ, there is something fundamentally wrong with you. Either you're a millennial who never saw MJ play..... or you're an irrational fanboy..... or you don't know the game of basketball..... or you're just a MJ hater..... or it's a case of jealousy/sour grapes etc etc etc. MJ lovers are unable/unwilling to accept different opinions about the GOAT. And the most maddening thing is that MJ lovers accuse people with different opinions of being "biased". Are you f**king kidding me?!? They are out of their MJ-loving minds!

6:16 "Kareem Abdul Jamar" 😂😂

Imagine how many titles LBJ would have with Scottie Pippin and Phil Jackson.

The best analysis and comparison I have ever heard. All in refutable facts. Eloquently spoken. Thank you Isiah Thomas.

why are we always comparing why can't we just appreciate both legends

I love how Isiah breaks the game down. He beat Jordan 3 times in the playoffs and won 2 titles. He has earned the right to have his opinion.

5:40 was my favorite part 😂😂😂😂😂🔥🔥

love hearing these kind of words out of the mouth of someone who actually played ball, was in locker rooms, was in play-offs, was in finals, was in these situations, IT dropping knowledge

Not saying i agree with him in taking Lebron over Jordan, BUT this man is talking straight facts. Opened my eyes about a few things

And Jordan chose laettner Christian over Thomas

I got educated!!! Smart man

*they really played isiah thomas with that panel "nba tv analyst isiah thomas joins undisputed" LMFAOOO*

The most sense ever of why he'd take LeBron over Jordan. He didn't say LeBron is better, he said if he had to pick one player. I totally agree with him, LeBron is going to give you maximum return on your dollars. He never retired to go play baseball, he's a great ambassador to the sport (versus alleged gambling problems), infidelity etc. Jordan can ball, be he did one of the top two basketball coaches in college. 1. John Wooden 2. Dean Smith and one of the top two coaches of all time in the NBA 1. Phil Jackson 2. Red Auerbach Plus Jordan played with a top 50 player of all time Scottie Pippen. Case closed......

If I wanted to make It to the finals: LeBron If I wanted to Win the finals: MJ

Isiah Thomas is a badass and one of the basketball greats, knows what he's talking about

Competition matters and as far as competition goes, Jordan played in primarily a Man-to-Man watered-down expansion era where the best talent was almost never at his own position. Jordan played in a big man era. The best players were in the front court. Jordan had the benefit of being able to shine against lesser competition, 2nd, and 3rd tier players. LeBron plays in a position-less era where Zone Defense is legal where the best talents are at all of his positions (To name a few: KD, PG13, Kawhi, Giannis, Butler, Kobe, Carmelo, Tracy McGrady, etc) and he directly goes against the best players in the league. LeBron has to score against the best defenders and defend against the best scorers. Jordan never had that level of competition. Yet LBJ still does more than Jordan despite having much greater challenges. Jordan can score like no one else. But I cannot imagine Jordan trying to score and defend the best scorers and run his teams offense as Point Guard and take the task of being the leading Rebounder all at the same time like LeBron has done for multiple championship runs. It could never happen. Jordan just didn't have that level of ability. If I have to decide between a player who can do everything and a player who can't, I'm selecting the player who can do everything. Jordan has never had his body go thru 8 straight full post-seasons worth of games without break. Jordan has always retired and taken a break between runs. Jordan never had to carry anything approaching LeBron's workload for his teams. Jordan always had Pippen to run his Championship team's offense and be the designated defender, and had Horace/Rodman to work the boards for him. Jordan primarily just had to handle the scoring. LeBron has AT TIMES been his teams primary Scorer, best Playmaker, top Rebounder, most active Defender (leading them in both Blocks and Steals)... simultaneously...for an entire championship playoff run. Jordan has never faced that level of energy expenditure and physical tax. LeBron is a better basketball player (team-based) than Jordan.

This is perhaps one of the best speeches i have ever seen a sports announcer give. In fact he literally shut down Skip and Shannon to the point to where they had to respect him. WoW

Everyone caught up in the LBJ vs MJ nonsense, I'm just glad he gave KAREEM his just due! the true GOAT

Getting to the Finals and winning it is two very SEPARATE things ..

Gotta give it to IT solid Kareem argument

It's all personal opinions there is nothing that's in black white that says "Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time" Majority of the stars from the 80s feel the way Isiah feels about Jordan

I don't understand how Isiah Thomas could be "salty" at Jordan ending the Bad Boys. They beat him 3 straight times to his 1. It's not like they had much to be mad at Jordan about.

I've never really watched Isiah plays but from all the interviews and his arguments and how he brings himself, he becomes one of my favorite NBA legends.

wait did Skip get a chance to speak cause I wanna hear my greatness

He called him Kareem Abdul Jamar 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I can see all the comments saying; "he hates MJ, that's why"...

Watching this video just reminded me of how bad for the game KD joining the Warriors was. It robbed everyone of a competitive rivalry between the Cavs and Warriors. It also negatively affected Lebron's legacy by having the deck stacked against him to an insurmountable amount that was just unfair and went against the competitive essence of sports.

zeke is a HOFer , champion , basketball analyst! being a journalist NEVER makes you an analyst.. covering the game vs being in the game is the difference! anyone of us as fans can do skips job on tv being a good journalist takes skill i don’t know if he’s even that. but when it comes to sports or anything else listen to the person with the actual experience never the on looker !

One of the best basketball knowledge interviews i have ever watched...Isaiah was waxing eloquently!

I LOVE that Isaiah put that clown in check! Isaiah is the real deal and has the right to speak on this as someone who really knows what he's talking about.

"Hold on...come over here and talk about it.." Lol...

How can you ask him that lol of course he's not gonna say Jordan lol

Isaiah Thomas has wisdom that's why he still looks so young.

Jordan never won anything before Scottie Pippen. He won a total of one playoff game in his career without having Pippen on his team. The greatest player ever won one playoff game? He also had Orlando Woolridge and Charles Oakley and sedale threat on those three playoff years without Pippen. The last year of his first three peat the bulls went 57-25 in the regular season. He then retired and they replaced him with Pete Myers of the CBA. So what did they do that year? They went 55-27 and lost to the knicks in the playoffs on the worst foul call in NBA history. The knicks barely lost to the rockets in 7 games in the finals. So all you Jordan loons are telling me. That you can replace the greatest ever with a CBA player and come within a horrible foul call of Winning the tittle. All this while only dropping 2 regular season games in the standings. So Michael Jordan is only worth 2 more regular season wins over Pete Myers. And how many playoff series did he ever win without Pippen? The answer is zero. In fact he only won one playoff game in his career without Pippen. That doesn’t sound like the greatest player of all time to me. Jordan is the most overrated athlete in the history of sports. Period!!!!!

Yep, I'm all about the conversation for goat being between Russell and Kareem

he is still salty from not being on that Olympic team when he did deserve it.

He makes great points doe isiah has a great basketball mind

I see why MJ & others didn’t want Isiah around. Sometimes a person’s energy just isn’t healthy to be around. No matter how talented they are.

My dude was preaching! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

ISIAH THOMAS MAKES A GOOD POINT ABOUT LEBRON HAVING A GREAT "BASKETBALL BRAIN" BUT NO ONE HAS JORDAN "BASKETBALL HEART"

@6:13 Isiah Thomas: "The greatest player to ever play this game is KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR". Proceeds to list crushing evidence.

Oh, how I love the knowledge. If you ain't play basketball, be quiet. Thanks, IT.

Love how he called out the fan

it's funny too me how when people bring up the greatest of all time " lets leave the most dominant forces ever to play off the list". people start choosing the guy who's the coolest, looks the best flying thru the air, handles or media creation. i want the guy who hasn't played in 20 years that you still couldn't stop in the post.

Damn isiah out here spitting faxxx

The guys in the back shaking their heads when he said he'd pick LBJ over MJ lol. Even if he didn't say that HE'D PICK HIM and instead says he was objectively better, who tf are those guys to shake their heads at what Isiah, a top 25 player of all time has to say smh

Isaiah is a very intelligent man. Hate the fact that they say so many lies about him. Like the way he put them right in their place.

My lord this man can hold a grudge

This cat brought a Master's education to the table. Damn that was off the charts straight and real!

"Paint cans, squeegees, and a nail file. That's what he took to the finals." 😂😂😂

ISAIH THOMAS WAS RIGHT. LEBRON IS THE BEST PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE AND SURPASSED THE 6 YEARS DOMINANCE OF JORDAN IN THE 90's. WHEN LEBRON TOOK THE SCORING LEADERSHIP OF JABBAR, HE HAD PUT HIMSELF ON TOP IN THE NBA EVER. IF ANY PLAYER BREAKS THIS RECORD HE WOULD BE THE BEST AMONGST THE BEST, IF EVER.

Never ask a Detroit Piston to give their opinion on Michael Jordan.

the Cavs going to need everyone to play on a high level. to beat that fantastic Four

I have to agree with Isiah Thomas. All these fools picking Jordan or Bird are forgettting he never had a collage coach. The coaches they had are legendary on top of that Bird played with some of the best players the league has ever seen. Even Michael Jordan Scottie Pippen and Steve Kerr were no chopsticks.

can somebody please explain to me the "paint cans, squeegees, and a nail file" comment at 4:47? what did Shannon mean by this?

Kareem is the greatest in my opinion. On and off the court

We all see how well Thomas has done with his business decisions over the years.

Isaiah Thomas great mind the way he just articulated that was amazing with him sayin that mj still the goat

I would too, common sense!

If you saying that he's salty or hate Michael Jordan that's because you hate LeBron James ! He is talking facts on facts. You gotta respect LeBron for what he is doing in and outside the court and stop hating for no reason

Regardless of Lebron, Steph or whoever., you're at an extreme disadvantage when forced to ATTEMPT to guard KD. There's very very few that are virtually UNGUARDABLE... ALIEN

One of the best point guards in NBA history great talk about the game and lbj

This debate proves how childish Skip's arguments are, and the amount of immaturity riddled throughout his critiques of LeBron.