“LeBron is great, first of all, [but] when they talk about comparing him to Mike, I don’t understand how they don’t have the debate when it comes to Kobe,” said Iverson. “Like, I don’t get it. What, you forgot or something? They forgot? I really think they forgot. I really think they forgot the Mamba, man — the certified serial killer, man.”
I love LeBron,” Iverson told Colin Cowherd a year ago. “I hate the comparison with him and Mike. That tells you so much about what type of player he is if you compare somebody to Black Jesus. You know what I mean? But LeBron is going to be on the Mount Rushmore of basketball players, but a guy like me who looked up to Mike the way I did, I can’t put anybody before Mike. I wanted to be like Mike, and so many kids want to be like LeBron.”