Mark Cuban , the former majority owner of Dallas, flipped the GOAT debate on its head with a take that’s hard to ignore. “If you have a good team and you need a killer, you go MJ. If you have a team that’s good and you want them to be better, and as a team get to the Finals, you go LeBron. MJ is not going to lift up a bad team; LeBron can,” Cuban said on The Arena. To him, arguing who’s better is pointless—they’re built for different jobs. Jordan’s the closer, and LeBron’s the elevator. And Cuban swears that’s the only way the debate really makes sense, with an ex-NBA star backing him up.

Eddie A. Johnson even jumped in on X to back Cuban’s view. “That right there is the separator they don’t wanna hear. It’s not being critical of the unreal maniacal amazing MJ. You can put Magic and

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