Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James has accomplished as much as just about any player in NBA history. His résumé is almost incomparable, combining gaudy statistics with intertwining examples of longevity and excellence.

The next in a long line of legendary accomplishments would be certain to add to the raging debate about who the greatest of all time truly is.

James enters the 2025 NBA Playoffs with an unfathomable 183 career postseason games won. It’s far and away the most wins by any individual player, with only eight franchises exceeding the number of victories that he’s secured.

That makes the potential next great feat on James’ résumé one that will likely hit close to home for fans of the legendary Michael Jordan.

Of the eight teams ahead of James in career postseason wins, one has an advantage of just four games. That franchise, of course, is the Chicago Bulls—for which Jordan, of course, played and won six titles—at 187.

In other words: If James and the Lakers win the upcoming series against the Minnesota Timberwolves, he’ll have tied Jordan’s primary franchise’s overall record for playoff wins.

LeBron James needs four playoff wins to match Bulls’ franchise total

There are two way to look at this, and they don’t happen to cancel one another out. For one, it’s nothing short of outrageous that an individual player has won as many playoff games as 22 NBA franchises—an abundance of which have captured championships.

The other, of course, is to qualify just how important Jordan was to the Bulls’ success as a franchise—or, moreover, how he’s all but exclusively responsible for it.

119 of the Bulls’ 187 all-time playoff wins were secured with Jordan leading the charge. That comes out to a whopping 63.6 percent. That only scratches the surface of how Jordan’s era of Chicago basketball has skewed the franchise’s league-wide perception.

That includes the fact that the Bulls have won more championships than all but three other NBA franchises—but captured a grand total of zero without Jordan.

For that matter, Chicago has never been to the NBA Finals without Jordan and made just three of its 11 Conference Finals appearances without him. That should put his fans’ minds at ease, as there’s no rational way to discredit the 10-time scoring champion’s legacy.

As far as longevity is concerned, however, this is yet another example of how James has become the greatest picture of consistency in NBA history.

If James and the Lakers advance past the first round, he would need just two more wins to tie the Detroit Pistons at 189—pending their own results. He could also tie the No. 6 New York Knicks at 200 as soon as the 2026 NBA Playoffs, assuming he’s still playing and the orange and blue squad fails to win a single postseason game between now and then.

Not even James can match the Lakers’ all-time leading 467 playoff wins, even if he weren’t contributing to the tally, but tying the Bulls will certainly incite yet another round of debates about who the greatest of all time truly is.