At Sports Illustrated, Robin Lundberg spends his days taking stock of players on the court or on the field. Seeing the stocks being traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was a first for him. Robin met up with Katherine Ross from TheStreet.com to take a tour of the NYSE. 

Katherine showed Robin the ropes on the trading floor while explaining that being up 32 points on the Dow Jones Industrial Index has a bit of a different meaning than averaging the same number in the NBA. 

Despite being a fish out of the water, Robin was the one fishing for answers when he spoke with traders Michael Pistillo, Matthew Cheslock and Jonathan Corpina. Robin delivered some hard-hitting sports questions with a financial twist for the traders. They shared the philosophy when asked, "Which is more important, the eye test or analytics?" but they were all in agreement on a significant one for New Yorkers: "Will anyone buy the Knicks?".

Of course, Robin had to ask the question closest to his heart which is perhaps the most discussed query in all of sports history. "Whose stock is higher at the moment, LeBron James or Michael Jordan's?" 

Spoiler alert: The word on the street, Wall Street at least, indicates the answer to the never-ending MJ-LeBron GOAT debate could actually come down to one's birthdate. Cue "those damn millennials" or "ok, Boomer" jokes now. 

Eventually, Robin had to answer a hard-hitting question posed to him by Katherine though. "So, what's the one thing that surprised you?" His answer is better seen than read because after a career covering players and games, being at the New York Stock Exchange exposed him to a kind of trading he was unfamiliar with. 

This is NYSI.