Basketball

Major props to you for having the chance to hobnob like that with Red Auerbach, a memory I hope you'll never forget.

Respectfully, I wonder how much of this is a generational thing - boomers vs. millennials, etc.

Red coached Russell, would he have said the same thing if he had coached Michael? Coached LeBron? Another person on here who is convinced it's Russell said they played hockey with players who left the Habs in the '70s, which leads me to believe Russell being big in his generation might've swayed that.

And objectively, I'm a millennial born in the early '90s raised a Chicago sports fan, so maybe there's some influence in me picking Mike, just like other millennials and Gen Z'ers might lean towards LeBron. So, my opinion might be slightly skewed, as much as I want it to be otherwise.

I will, say, however, this is somebody who the best players in baseball history all came before he was born, and arguably the three greatest players in history, Ruth, Cobb and Wagner, all played before World War II.

But for basketball, would our GOATs be our GOATs if we didn't grow up with them?