Dominique Wilkins on Kobe Bryant: Hes the closest as a Michael-Jordan-like player ever [Video]

Mike Breen: ‘Comparison is the thief of joy’, and I love that phrase and when you start saying okay who’s better? LeBron… You wind up having to criticize the one that you don’t pick and we’re criticizing one of the greatest to ever play the game, I never understood that. And the other thing is every era is different. LeBron James is the greatest player of his era, Kobe Bryant you can say in his era was there, Michael Jordan certainly. Go back to Kareem, go back to Wilt, go back to Bill Russell. The game is so different, it was played differently 20 years ago, 40 years ago, it was coached differently, it was officiated differently… To compare eras and say he’s better than that player or that player is the best of all time, I just I can’t do it. If you want to tell me that you …