You don’t think there’s a little bit of context to be added there? Maybe how Lebron had absolutely zero help during his entire first stint with Cleveland, while Kobe got drafted to a team with fucking Shaquille O’Neal in his prime? You can’t be the goat when you were the 2nd best player on 3 of your 5 rings. Not even the goat of his own career.
and again he wants no responsibility and all credit for playing as an old man, maybe if he was good enough to win in his prime like the actual GOATs he wouldn't need to beat his own dead horse now. still a fraud, still ran to make superteams and lost more than he won when it mattered, still not better than MJ or Kobe.
the league wasn’t better defensively in Jordan’s era. Offense is just so much better now that it’s harder to play defense. Tell a 90s defense to handle Steph Curry and watch their minds melt. A lot easier to be a good defense when the NBA literally didn’t even realize that 3 pointers were good.
i think you underestimate the importance of the hand check, players get hand checked now and flail their arms into a bad shot for some free throws, plus outside of jordan players didn’t really get that superstar treatment of calls, everything’s a foul if you’re within breathing distance of lebron, tatum, luka, sga, jokic