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[QUOTE="SU94, post: 3549016, member: 202"]
Not a huge LBJ person, but acknowledge his immense talent and career accomplishments (both individual and team) are simply stupendous. I rarely root for "the best" player or team.

And this is absolutely a valid conversation to have as to best analyze LeBron's level of greatness/dominance.

That said, over 19 years (1962-80), Jack Nicklaus won 17 of 76 major championships. That's a winning percentage of 22%. All while besting HOF talents such as Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, Johnny Miller, Billy Casper, Hale Irwin, Hubert Green Seve Ballesteros and Ben Crenshaw.

In that same prime 19-year span, he finished runner-up (or T-2) 15 more times in majors. [B]So, for nearly two decades, he either won or finished second in 45% of the majors he played in.[/B]

Breaking it down a bit further, in 44 majors from 1970-1980 Nicklaus missed just one cut. In that span he finished inside the top 10 38 times, and 30 of those were in the top five. He won 10 of those events.

These numbers are why i give Nicklaus the slight edge over Tiger, too.
So, LBJ should not feel so alone.

I'd also give Wayne Gretzky the nod over LBJ for many reasons. [B]I'd like to remind everyone reading this that #99 had more career assists than any hockey player has career points[/B], which is likely the most dominant individual stat fact in sports history.
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