Michael Jordan wasn’t just a six-time champion who ended up on the NBA’s  Mount Rushmore. He left a legacy of being one of the greatest competitors in professional sports history.

Jordan wanted to beat the competition every time, whether it was Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, Patrick Ewing or whomever he faced on a basketball court. So it’s no surprise that the Chicagos’s Bulls  immortal didn’t exactly endorse Lebron James stunning decision to leave Cleveland to go to Miamito play with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh.

“There’s no way, with hindsight, I would’ve ever called up Larry, called up Magic and said, ‘Hey, look, let’s get together and play on one team,’” Jordan said after playing in a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada over the weekend. “But that’s … things are different. I can’t say that’s a bad thing. It’s an opportunity these kids have today. In all honesty, I was trying to beat those guys.”

Barkley also told a Miami radio station that James “will never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to. There would have been something honorable about staying in Cleveland and trying to win it as ‘The Man.’ LeBron, if he would’ve won in Cleveland, and if he could’ve got a championship there, it would have been over the top for his legacy, just one in Cleveland. No matter how many he wins in Miami, it clearly is Dwyane Wade’s team.”(nydailynews)