That’s true about Bill Russell but I still don’t think you can compare basketball to Football. MJ player 82 regular season games and Tom plays 16. Tom gets targeted and hit and MJ didn’t. MJ is an Olympic gold medalist and Tom isn’t because football isn’t an Olympic sport. There are just so many variables.

I have even argued against comparing Lebron and MJ because it’s a different game now that it was even 10 years ago.