Skip Bayless Rips LeBron James for Saying His 'Personal Goal' Is to Match Michael Jordan's Legacy

Skip Bayless ripped LeBron James on 'Undisputed' on Wednesday for saying that his "personal goal" is to match Michael Jordan’s legacy.

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Skip Bayless has been kind of quiet with regards to LeBron James ever since leaving ESPN to join Fox Sports 1 back in June. LeBron pretty much shut him up when he won a title with the Cavaliers during the 2016 NBA Finals.

But on Skip's new show First Take on Fox Sports Undisputed on Wednesday morning, Skip and his new co-host Shannon Sharpe talked about LeBron for one of the first times this NBA season. Specifically, they spoke about an interview LeBron did with the Associated Press on Monday that featured him talking about how it's his "personal goal" to match Michael Jordan's legacy. As expected, this did not sit well with Skip—who is obviously still anti-LeBron, despite his recent silence on him—and it led to a three-minute rant that included Skip speaking on how he doesn't think LeBron will ever be able to match MJ.

You can watch Skip go off in the clip above, or you can read a full transcript of what he had to say below:

He's chasing Michael Jordan's legacy as if he still has a realistic shot of passing that legacy, and I don't even want to talk about the fact that LeBron is now 3-4 in NBA Finals. Michael Jordan was merely 6-0 with six MVPs in the Finals. I don't even want to talk about that.

We look forward to hearing this argument brought out again during the 2017 NBA Finals, the rest of LeBron's career, at LeBron's Hall of Fame ceremony, at both players' funerals, and probably even later on today. Anyway, if you want to hear Sharpe's response to all of this, here's his rebuttal:

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