Um, LeBron's approaching it.

I think he's that you're 18, Max.

What would LeBron have to dio?

We're always talking about LeBron and MJ.

What does LEBRON have to do to catch Tom Brady?

Yeah, before you can catch MJ, who's number one in any sport all time?

Catch Tom Brady, right?

Has he caught Tom Brady already or No, Because Tom Brady doesn't have a Michael Jordan in football that he had toe pass by.

I thought Tom Brady past Joe Montana years ago.

Like when he got to five, he passed Joe Montana.

Even when they were tired, I thought maybe Brady's got him.

And so and so There's no and Montana was the greatest ever, in my opinion.

But not Michael Jordan.

So it Z, you know, a harder thing to be considered the goat in basketball than it is in football, simply because there was never a Michael Jordan of football.

The sport doesn't lend itself toe one guy dominating that way, Which is why, what?

Brady's doing so remarkable.

I think LeBron has toe have a flurry of winning like a concentrated era of winning at the very end of his career because that's really why Brady put so much distance between himself and the rest of football.

When I thought he passed Montana, I thought that was the greatest quarterback ever.

But at this point, he's clearly the greatest player ever.

And that's because since I made the cliff prediction, that was five years.

He's been to four Super Bowls and won three.

He'd never done that in his entire career until that point.

Never.

He played 15 years until that point.

He went to six Super Bowls and won four.

And then in the next five years he went to four and 13 That's what makes him in a class by himself.

Now LeBron is in a position where he might do that.

LeBron is on a team that's a powerhouse in a market that's attractive to free agents with a very competently run organization with another superstar who, maybe just in his prime now, that is a very absolute That's now in Anthony Davis.

Yes, LeBron could do it.

He got toe L.

A.

He won one.

If he stays in L.

A for three or four years and does what Brady just did, which he might.

Then all of a sudden, LeBron is sitting on seven or eight chips, and he did it because of this incredible flurry off championships toward the very end of his career and perk.

Let me just say this football.

Many, many quarterbacks are great still in their late thirties.

The reason I predicted the cliff, meaning not a decline, but a sudden fall off because Far and Peyton Manning and others were like, Oh, my God, it 37 38.

They have never been better, and then all of a sudden they weren't good anymore.

But in the n B A.

That never happens because of the miles you run in the n B A.

You don't see 37 38 year old MVPs like you do frequently in the NFL.

And so LeBron is much closer to being Brady already in terms of his age and what he's doing than people realize.

For him to still be the best player in the game at his age is completely and given the miles he's running the n B A.

Already the minutes he's played is completely unprecedented, but he's gonna have to win some more chips to catch Brady.

Well, first of all, let me start off by saying this.

I I don't want t to disrespect the goat of football and Tom Brady because I believe he's the greatest football player ever and what he did in this Super Bowl Super Bowl this past weekend or just past season going through.

You know, Drew Brees and and Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers.

Just a minute that.

But when you talk about comparing him and LeBron James, first of all, basketball and football is apples and oranges to me.

Second of all, they have the code.

They have the exact same code to the exact same penthouse.

They both could get into the same penthouse with using the same cold.

They are sitting at the same dinner table.

And when you talk about LeBron James Ah, guy that had pressure, Ah, guy that has so much on his shoulders since the age of 16 since the age of 18, when he was drafted in 2003, the expectations the bar that was set no knock on Tom Brady, but Tom Brady was drafted in the sixth round.

It wasn't no expectations on Tom Brady.

He wasn't set up toe fail.

LeBron James has exceeded expectations.

You talk about pressure and then Max when we talk about football and basketball, and I know Big Marcus Spears and Big Dan Orlovsky and Ryan Clark and all the football minds may feel some type of way about this.

But there's no discredit.

Look, look, there's no discredit Thio winning a championship in football because it's hard to win a championship in any sport.

Okay, I'm gonna make that clip.

But when you talk about football football, they have to win a max off.

Four games, four games, sometimes three.

When they get a first round bye in basketball, you gotta win 16 games, four games and basketball just get you through the first round.

So right there is a separation.

And when you talk about another thing for us, LeBron James, when he gets there, him and Brady both then got there 10 times of peace.

Yes, Brady than 17 LeBron James has won five, so they both is not like they both 100%.

But when they get there and they both win it, Guess what?

LeBron James finished his food on his plate, Max.

And when I say that, meaning not only when he win it does he win it.

He wins the final M V P every single time that he's won a championship.

Tom Brady has left food on his plate because he's 17 but he's only 12 of the I mean, only 15 of the MVPs.

Okay, this is the thing about Brady, though.

That's remarkable.

I take what you say the other way, and by the way, the football guys say it's harder in football.

Basketball guys say it's harder in basketball, but I take it the other way in a one and done tournament.

You know the fact that Brady's got seven rings in one and done tournaments in a league that promotes parody unlike any other, because there's, Ah, Hard Cat, the fact that he always did it with Belichick the whole time, But then he switches teams and they do it right away, and you talked about the gauntlet of quarterbacks he had to run through.

To me, that's more impressive.

It means with the chips, the chips are always on the line and you always have to come out on top.

So So Brady has that winner thing about him.

The aura in a different way than LeBron LeBron had to learn that LeBron.

I don't count 07 with Cleveland.

It's amazing he got from there, but in Miami, you know, But in Miami, he had toe.

He had to learn how to do it.

Brady was, was, had that winner thing where his team always seemed toe win from the moment he hit the league.

And that's what LeBron's really up against.

Five out of 10 versus seven out of 10.

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