Personally, I think James can compete with Jordan. Of course, you can say that the mvp is one honor short, the champion is two honors short, and so on. But personally, I think that for people with completely different eras, backgrounds, ways of playing and fates, such simplicity is not much more meaningful than honor.
Just like when comparing Newton and Einstein, no one should have more patents than them, right?
Compare Napoleon and Qin Shihuang, who will win the battle?
They are all the best and most influential figures in their own time background, and I think this is enough.
Of course, objectively speaking, I think the possibility of James surpassing Jordan is still very low.
It is not only because it is a little difficult to win 1 mvp2 and two championships, but because people now take Jordan as the standard when discussing the comparison between xx and Jordan.
When you take Jordan as the standard, he can hardly be surpassed.
Even if Ayan wins the 1mvp2 championship, some people will say that Jordan has the 10 scoring champion. Do you have Ajan?
Assuming that Ayan really has a 10 scoring champion, some people will say that Jordan didn't lose the final against you. How is James?
By analogy, you can always find what Jordan did but Ajan didn't.
On the other hand, if you take Ayan as the standard to measure Jordan, you can also say that James has the king of assists and you have Jordan.
James has never been out in the first round. What about Jordan? James entered the finals at the age of 22. What did you do to Jordan? Wait a minute.
So I think being so direct is less meaningful than honor. You can always find what A or B didn't do, as long as you know that they are the greatest players of their time.