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Jordan regular season statistics: 22.7 points, 3.6 rebounds, 2.9 assists, 2.1 assists, 1.2 rebounds, 45.7% field goal percentage, 16.7% three-point field goal percentage, 84.0% free throw percentage
LeBron’s regular season stats: 27.3 points, 6.7 rebounds, 6.0 assists, 1.6 assists, 0.7 rebounds, 47.6% field goal percentage, 31.9% three-point field goal percentage, 69.8% free throw percentage
Jordan playoff stats: 43.7 points, 6.3 rebounds, 5.7 assists, 2.3 assists, 1.3 rebounds, 50.5 FG%, 100.0 3PT%, 87.2 FT%
LeBron’s playoff stats: 25.1 points, 8.1 rebounds, 8.0 assists, 1.7 assists, 0.5 rebounds, 41.6 field goal percentage, 28.0 free throw percentage, 75.5 free throw percentage
Jordan Honors: All-Star
LeBron Honors: NBA All-NBA Second Team, All-Star, fifth in MVP voting, FIBA Americas Gold Medal
This was one of the easiest decisions on this list, as Jordan broke his foot early in the season and played just over two games, to be exact, while James, on the other hand, made it to the Finals.
By his illustrious standards, James is having his least productive year ever as a 22-year-old, with a career true shooting percentage (including field goal percentage, free throw percentage and 3-point percentage) of 55.2. Second worst of career. percentage. Regardless, it didn’t matter that James was so dominant athletically, as he led Cleveland to a surprising run into the Finals, eventually sweeping the San Antonio Spurs in their prime.
However, we can’t blame James for this, considering the Cavaliers’ second and third leading scorers are James. Larry Hughes (14.9 points per game, 40.0% shooting) Drew Gooden (11.1 points per game).
That year, James had the first signature performance of his career in the playoffs, scoring 48 points, including the final 25 points of the regular season and two overtimes as Cleveland held off 109 in Game 5. -107 against a very talented and tenacious Pistons team.
The Cavaliers ended up winning that series in six games and advancing to the Finals.
Jordan, on the other hand, was swept in the playoffs, but it’s also hard to blame him considering he averaged 43.7 points from the field in the playoffs. Oh, and he did it against the classic Boston Celtics dynasty team that was still going strong in 1985-86. Boston ended up winning the championship that year.
We got our first glimpse of Jordan’s signature playoff performance in his age-22 season, when he scored 63 points on 53.7 percent shooting on the road as the Bulls lost to Boston in double overtime in Game 2 Team. By the way, 63 points is the record for points scored in a single game in the playoffs so far.
NBA Hall of Fame Member Larry Bird Describing Jordan’s performance as “God disguised as Michael Jordan.”
However, Jordan only played 18 regular season games at age 22, while James was a Second Team All-NBA selection and led the team to the Finals, so again…
Final verdict: LeBron James