Would You Rather Have LeBron or Giannis For the Next 2 Seasons?

If you can only land one for the next two seasons, which superstar walks you to a Larry O'Brien Trophy: LeBron James or Giannis Antetokounmpo?

ESPN's Vincent Goodwill came down on a side. Chris Brockman put the question to him on the show, and Goodwill made the case that the answer depends entirely on the roster you are handing the trade to.

For Giannis, Goodwill kept coming back to one fit.

"He's only going championship," Goodwill said. "Of course, I think the easiest, or not the easiest, the most obvious is Golden State. Giannis in the West Coast where the game is faster, you're going to have to build a wall for him on every play."

The picture Goodwill painted of that lineup is the one that should scare the league. Giannis in the post. Steve Kerr's motion offense. Stephen Curry pulling the wall apart from 30 feet.

"That may just be an unstoppable combination," Goodwill said.

The LeBron piece of the answer was more layered. Goodwill made clear that the thing working against James is age, not play.

"The way he has played the next two years, he's going to be a dominant cog, period," Goodwill said.

His pitch for LeBron is built around a specific kind of contender. If your team is already constructed and you need a player who makes the players around him better, Goodwill said he is calling LA first.

"What you need during this time of the year, if you're a Durant, if you're a Cat, if you're anyone, you need someone that makes everyone better," Goodwill said. "We can't say LeBron's a liability in any era if we're talking about just to win a championship during this time."

So when Brockman pressed him on whether the next two years means LeBron over Giannis, Goodwill did not flinch.

"As important as Giannis is, they're tied," Goodwill said. "If I can only get one of them, it really depends on the type of team and shooters, who I have, what I need."

The tiebreaker, for him, is the kind of weight a player carries.

"I like playing with guys that have more weight with the name on the back of their jersey than the organization," Goodwill said. "You can trust that the pain of the organization, they're going to feel, because he's an organization within himself. Same with Giannis."

Goodwill landed where he started. If the team needs confidence, needs IQ, needs a player who lifts the rest of the roster instead of posting empty numbers, he is taking LeBron.