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For the past decade, Americans have had a simmering debate regarding the “best ever”: LeBron James or Michael Jordan. Sometimes you see a Kobe Bryant or Oscar Robinson thrown in there. But it usually revolves around those two men.
No matter where you come down on the divide, to even be in that discussion requires abilities that completely shatter the norms, change our perception of how the position or sport is played. It requires a certain clutchness and elevation of play when the game matters most. Those players do things that leave you reaching for a thesaurus, having exhausted all other superlatives.