LeBron James' friend surprised: "Nobody is afraid of him. Jordan is greater"

The eternal debate over the identity of the greatest basketball player of all time continues, and now it is Mario Chalmers' turn to intervene. The former NBA player, although he won two championships with LeBron James in Miami (2012, 2013), claims that Michael Jordan is greater than him by any measure.

"This man was 6-0 in the finals," said the former point guard about the fact that MJ never lost on the biggest stage. "He basically dominated the 90s. Yes, LeBron reached nine consecutive finals, but Jordan dominated an entire decade. There were only three teams that won the championship in the 90s. In LeBron's era, there were four or five. Why isn't LeBron compared to Pippen? Nobody is afraid of LeBron. Nobody says to themselves, 'Damn, I have to play against LeBron tonight.' Nobody said that. I've seen people get scared when they are actually standing in front of him on the court, but they are not afraid of the encounter with him beforehand."

Chalmers also returned to the famous incident between the two in 2010, when he dared to call King James a "bitch."

"I told him to stop playing like a bitch," he said. "Everyone was complaining about all sorts of things that happened on the court and no one wanted to take responsibility for it. As the little brother, the younger brother, I will always be the one who stands up and puts the big brothers in their place. So that's what I did at that moment. What happened, happened."

Chalmers, who played for the Heat from 2008 to 2015, then moved on to a short stint in Memphis and then dropped out of the best league in the world and went on a journey that took him, among others, to Virtus Bologna, AEK Athens, and Aris Thessaloniki. In 2023, he played in the Philippines and then hung up his sneakers. His career averages in the NBA were 8.9 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 3.7 assists per game.