I didn't see yesterday's post. SN must be trying to silence us.

I'm glad you said "best" rather than "greatest". I think Jordan's the best by a pretty comfortable margin.

I am curious how people approach this kind of question, though. Most probably go with something like comparing the actual contributions made by the player and how much they dominated their competition.

I think there are some fun alternative ways to answer the question, though, that are a bit more abstract:

I don't think Jordan's the answer to either of these scenarios. Bird's my answer to the first and Lebron's my answer to the second.