Michael Jordan calls GOAT debate an ’empty comparison’

Michael Jordan is reportedly finished at NBC after just one season as a special contributor to the network’s NBA coverage. So perhaps it’s worth revisiting one of the few subjects on which we actually heard Jordan’s thoughts. Namely, the GOAT debate. Jordan, of course, is generally placed alongside LeBron James at the center of that never-ending argument. Kobe Bryant, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain and others get mentioned, too. Jordan himself doesn’t seem particularly interested. “The GOAT term is something I will never get high or low about,” Jordan told Mike Tirico during NBC’s MJ: Insights to Excellence series. “It just...