Jaylen Brown hopped on a livestream and casually dropped his favorite five NBA players of all time. It didn’t take long for fans to fire off their takes. The Boston Celtics star named Kobe Bryant , LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Allen Iverson, and Tracy McGrady as his top five. Notably absent? Michael Jordan. And that was all the internet needed to spark a debate over Brown's take.

While the inclusion of Kobe, Bron, and Steph felt like no-brainers, and A.I. and T-Mac make sense to anyone who grew up watching their electric styles in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, folks couldn’t help but ask the obvious: No MJ? But that’s the thing. Brown didn’t say these were the greatest of all time. He said they were his favorites. That’s personal. That’s generational. He was born in 1996, so he

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