Have to totally agrre with pac on this one jordan made everyone around him better, in his youth had much greater athletic talent, jumping etc.. also like pac said he simply did not play good defense he was what the player refered to as the glove.... he totally shut down the games best players, I love kobe but im sorry jordan could take over a game like no one Ive ever seen, kobe has many of jordans qualitys but its like comparing gretsky to lemieux, great player to the greates.