Them's fightin' words beotch! lol Kobe Bryant all the way. First off, he's got 3 rings. How many does Lebron have? Oh wait.....NONE! Not that rings are how to measure greatness (after all, Shaq's got 4 of em -lol), but down the stretch, when the game is on the line, Kobe's proven he's a clutch performer. Also, Kobe Bryant doesn't just play offense, he plays DEFENSE too. In that respect he's the most similar player to Michael Jordan I can think of. Lebron is getting there, and may very well surpass all the points records of previous players, (helped in part by him skipping college to enter the pros) but at the moment, he's still just a rising star. Until he's got more than one ring, he's just another Barkley or Iverson.