Channing Frye Pick LeBron James As GOAT, Gives Interesting Argument About Michael Jordan

Who is the greatest basketball player of all times? LeBron James? Michael Jordan? Channing Frye has an opinion on this one.

Frye shared an interesting take on the GOAT debate during an appearance on NBC Sports’ Northwest’s Talkin’ Blazers podcast. He believes that Jordan’s style of play and leadership skills wouldn’t fit the game. According to Frye, nobody would want to play with Jordan.

“He only had really one job. And that was to just score. And he did that at an amazing, amazing rate. But I don’t feel like his way of winning then would translate to what it is now. Guys wouldn’t want to play with him.”

Channing Frye isn’t the only one

Kevin Durant left Russell Westbrook to play with a different team. Jordan has a higher career usage rate than Westbrook. Jerry Stackhouse played with Jordan, and he once said that he regrets playing with the Bulls legend.

“Honestly, I wish I never played in Washington and for a number of reasons,” Stackhouse said. “I felt we were on our way in Detroit before I got traded there. It was really challenging to be able to be in a situation with an idol who at this particular point, I felt like I was a better player.

“Things were still being run through Michael Jordan. Head coach] Doug Collins, I love Doug, but I think that was an opportunity for him to make up for some ill moments that they may have had back in Chicago. So, pretty much everything that Michael wanted to do [we did]. We got off to a pretty good start and he didn’t like the way the offense was running because it was running a little bit more through me. He wanted to get a little more isolations for him on the post, of course, so we had more isolations for him on the post. And it just kind of spiraled in a way that I didn’t enjoy that season at all. The kind of picture I had in my mind of Michael Jordan and the reverence I had for him, I lost a little bit of it during the course of that year.”