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As a guy who is old enough to have seen both of their careers, MJ was light years above Lebron.
Jordan was light years ahead of the NBA before joining. He defeated the NBA all-star team 8 times playing for the USA olympic team (made up of college players)... before even joining the league.
True, its not even close. That's why I like this comparison video, because it makes it very clear, that it is not even close... ruclips.net/video/tl3mR6eoEa8/видео.html
I watched Jordan all through his career and 100% I will use the famous quote " Let me help you out , there is Michael Jordan , then there is everyone else , PERIOD !" . Every game you watched of Jordan's was a highlight reel , every game. He never let up , he never stopped, and he put on a clinic every time he played. What people seem to forget today was Michael was dominant on both ends of the court , he was a defensive beast.
He said in the beginning he doesn't know of MJ is goat, that is the problem, he never watched jordan play. Anyone who watched both that I have talked to pick jordan all day, I mean it's not even close.
Yeah it’s not even close that was funny about this , these guys think it is ….I’m old enough to , I’m from Illinois and a huge Bulls fan my whole life and watched all sic championships seasons, seen LeBron, seen Kobe and if anybody’s going to be compared to Mike it’s going to be Kobe not LeBronBut it’s honestly not even really possible nobody had his is competitiveness . his skills, his drive , his heart or determination!
MJ's "off" games were still pretty Damn spectacular. Highlight reels just don't do his career, as a whole, justice.
Facts!! I hear commentators say...someone had a "Jordan" moment....and think to myself..."that was Jordan all the time". ALL his moments were special. I know it's hard to believe...
Off games, LOL yeah he had about I think five of them his whole career LOL Jordan will come out and drop 50 on the Atlanta Hawks on a Sunday night just because, just because he could….he never quit he always played his hardest and he never stepped aside for nobody
his off game is still him scoring at double digit.
Jordan's 2 seasons with the Wizards overall stat line was 20 ppg, 6.1 rebounds and 1.5 stls but but his last ten games before knee surgery he averaged 27 ppg 6.6 rebounds 6.4 assists 1.2 stls so he still had it even after being retired for two years.
After Jordan finally retired, there was a significant dip in NBA ratings, even w/Shaq, Kobe, Irving etc. There were great players but MJ really was special. People went to watch their team have MJ own them w/unbelievable play. Opposing stadiums exploded when he would do things that shouldnt be possible.
I met Mike twice. He's a great man. He knows what suffering is. The second time nobody treated him like a celebrity because he attended a funeral of one of my high school classmates who died suddenly.
I'm forever MJ, but Charles Barkley was my 2nd favorite.
M.j play to day score 40 point a game .Rule in play stop M.J. .from score driving to goal beat him up
An off game from MJ would still be 20-25 pts and would still have an impact on the game in some way.
It very very rare
This man controlled every aspect of every game. No matter how great the other team was, or how good they were at defending. Jordan saw and exposed their weekness and then broke them down internally. So happy I was able to witness his greatness as well as the 80's & 90's era basketball.
I'm fortunate enough to have lived through the Jordan era as well as the LeBron era. Don't get me wrong, I love LeBron and my Lakers, but I would hands down without a doubt take Jordan over LeBron. 1 on 1 in their primes, I believe Jordan would take LeBron 8 out of 10 times.
Game was more rough back Jordans day. You were going to hit the ground a lot. I'm still a huge Clyde Drexler fan! Watch a highlight film of Clyde. Then do pistol Pete maravich.
@@JohnDoe-mh5mf Clyde was so overshadowed by Jordan. As a lifelong Blazers fan I still get upset that we passed on MJ, at the same time I wouldn't have been willing to lose Drexler. It's a conundrum. MJ is definitely the GOAT.
According to Phil Jackson. MJ literally taught Scottie pippin to play lock down defense and helped mold him into the player that he became in his prime
YESSUUUUUUUR!!!!
If prime Jordan was in the league in this era he would not only average around 45-50ppg but he would also probably hold the NBA record for the most "And 1s" in history because in most of his old highlights he's torching guys that are trying to beat him up and driving to the basket with like 2-3 defenders hanging off of him or making hard contact, I would like to see a video where a referee rewatches some of Jordans games and tells you how many fouls would've been called in today's league and then assumes he made his average FT percentage for how many extra points it would've been
When Jordan stepped away I think Hakeem Olajuwon was the best player in the league
I was going to say that
So was I.
Definitely
MJ was the reason I got into basketball as kid. He was that exciting/amazing to watch (kinda like Tiger Woods). I couldn't tell you any MJ stats (other than 6 championships) but you knew when you were watching him, you were watching something historic.
Plus the game was much tougher back then foul wise....it was like streetball basically
The man was 40 years old when he played with the Wizards! If you look closely, he still had mad skills. I am old enough to have seen Kareem, Wilt, and Bill, they were all great players. In my opinion, being great surpasses just basketball! I mean, Jordan was a world-known athlete. He opened the eyes of the world to the NBA like no other. Remember this was before the internet. Had the internet been around when he was in his prime, he would have blown it up. I am a fan of the game. There are several truly great players who helped change basketball forever and Mike I think stands a little above them all.
Having been present (as an adult AND an NBA fan), I can say without mixture of error… Lebron is an exceptional talent. He’s terrific. But Michael Jeffrey Jordan was another critter altogether. The Man. Could Pippen have been ‘the man’ in another set of circumstances? Sure. I think he actually WAS during Mike’s retirement. Was he a better defensive player than Mike? Argumentative. Let’s say he WAS. MJ STILL had to be THE. MAN. Watch his career. Watch him on the Dream Team. Watch him at ANY time he was on the floor. Every. Eye. In. The. Place. Was on HIM. I “notice” Lebron but even as exceptional as he truly IS, LBJ doesn’t advance the Zeitgeist. Not like Jordan. No way. Not even close. Jordan was beyond A+. He was an entirely other creation. Ask his peers. “The Jordan Rules” in a nutshell: the second Jordan gets to the paint… hit him. Hurt him. Turn his ankle. Elbow him.
His wizard years was underated. You should react to that video. He was still putting nhmbers on par with their prime before injury. He was still schooling players
Most people say why NBA players today wouldn’t be able to play back then was because there were no technical fouls. So if you got tackled you got tackled you, couldn’t complain to the refs about it.
There were technical fouls, the players were just a lot bigger and more physical. A lot more was let go because the league was tougher.
Man, Jordan never had an “off game”! He played with such a high intensity every minute of every game! At the time, I hated Jordan and the Bulls... I was a Bad Boys fan! The Bulls were the enemy!
Lebron is a great player, but he’s too much of a crybaby if something doesn’t go his way, or he doesn’t get a call! If something didn’t go Jordan’s way, he played harder!
🏀You probably mentioned the most annoying thing about this "debate". He would fold like a house of cards whenever he saw that he wasn't going to win. People forget how he just upped and abandoned the Cavaliers when they didn't when that season. I learned he wanted to be on a team that could help him win, not a team he could help win.
🏀I didn't hate the Cavaliers, I was more like indifferent. However, after they lost that season, I honestly felt with a little more PO experience and some player tweaking ...they could have won. It was clear to me strictly as an analyst. I was completely shocked when he up and left the Cavaliers ...there was no reason. Especially if you remember just how much they invested in him. They would have made ANY changes he wanted.
🏀He panicked/freaked-out because he actually had the audacity/ego to expect to walk into the league and just win a Championship. Him running around looking for Super-Teams is just an extension of that type of behavior. The problem has Always been his character ...not his game. That's WHY his game suffered, his ego got in the way of it.
🏀Sorry, just one last thing I also predicted ...HIM calling himself the🐐. It's when HE called himself "King James", the precursor of his🐐claim. He said it after a "few" years in the league against all of those other active players, who had so much more time, experience and stats than he did. It was not only disrespectful to the players, but also the game itself.
🏀He created all this hype around him being the🐐 ...because HE said it. When you know better than I, when you're the🐐 ...you never have to claim something that you are. Like MJ or any of the other greats. Other people, like you and me, have that discussion about him ...NOT HIM! The one indicator that tells you ...he knows he's not the🐐.
🏀Sorry about the📘.🙄 What you said lit a match to my frustration. I needed
to get that out. Thanks!
MJ+🏀=🐐
@@Zarkarian64 💯🎯. You see how he’s hyping his kid up like he the number one high school player in the nation. Yet the number one high school player happens to be his former team mate Dujuan Wagners son. Lebron son is cocky not impressed by him at all. Wagners son his quiet and humble plus he’s smooth with his game. They are both headed to college in 2023.
I was a giant Larry Bird and Magic Johnson fan and even I eventually had to admit that Jordan and the Bulls were the best ever.
I'm in the ATL I saw him play when his last games at the arena game winner I'm 47 the goat MJ
I enjoy watching these old clips obviously because they're great but now I even notice that Michael Jordan actually wore his own brand of sneakers every single game.
I watched every game MJ and the bulls played starting from the early 80's, had season tickets. I sure miss Chicago Stadium. Soo loud.
Jordan rules: if Jordan is in the paint converge and hit him hard. Make the others beat you. Jordan didn't really have off games. He was a complete player. Offensive, defensive, rebounding, passing. He was always on fire with 2 and most nights all 4
That but there was also more to it. For example, one of the Jordan rules was to not let him go baseline. If he was near the baseline then the idea was to cut the baseline off and make him go inside where someone could hit him. There is a video around somewhere detailing all the rules, but yea, the basic idea was to physically punish him. In the end it probably just made him better.
@@jackastor5265 my guy..the Jordan rules were to strictly pound on him..regardless of where he went
@@mannyneva1760 There was a specific way they want to construct the Jordan rules, one of the rules was to block off the baseline, but yea, they wanted to hurt him. I honestly think all the hits he took made him the greatest finisher of all time. He just learned to play under those circumstances.
MJ is the GOAT
Bro not gon lie... to tell you how crazy he was when seeing him live is too much to write for me
Dr. J made palming ‘cool’ from I remember. A lot of ppl think of Jordan as such a great offensive players but he was on all defensive 1st team I believe 6 times or more
wilt did it all yhe time
@@familyof2500 What does all the time mean?
1st team 9 times, nba record when he retired
Also he was DPOTY in the same year he won the scoring title with 37.1 ppg in the 88 season. Imagine the energy that took to play at that level at both ends, and to win DPOTY as a guard.
@@familyof2500 ur right my bad was just thinking abt guards
Been following NBA since 1980 and Michael is the best I've ever seen. These highlights of the dunks are fun to watch but it was his mid range fade away jump shot that was the killer. He would back you down and then turn around fading away and knock it down consistently. These dunks came in between the shooting. Never been to one of his games but always watched on TV. I honestly don't remember him having a bad game. Lots of good players during that era but he was the best. Literally unstoppable. All you could really do is hope he missed but he just always seemed to be on. Best I've ever seen and grateful to have been able to grow up in the 80's.
Palming the ball is a gift only a small % on history could just palm it like that
As has ben said, MJ didn't have an "off night". He said he would get on the pitch every night for all those kids who go to the stadium with their dad in the hope to see some of their idols give them a great show. Kids' wonderment doesn't take nights off, and that's a damn motivation for an athlete like him.
An off night for Jordan was scoring 20 points.
I'm old enough to have been there and seen him.... MJ was everything you dreamed he would be in every thing you were told..... It freaked me out the 1st time I saw him and realized it was all real ! I've seen him multiple times and and lebron also And no one is knocking how amazing lebron James is. Sadly the people that were not there to see it will only go by what they know and some TV footage .. The truth is MJ had something special on top of the special it was the it factor on top of The it factor..... It was so much ridiculously harder to get a basket back then with people were trying to Elbow you in the nose or knock you down . If he played in a League where you can't touch each other he would have been unstoppable with his ball handling skills and that glove of a of a hand.... im so sick of the goat convo lol MJ is the Goat said magic and most the rest of the greats who have seen both play or played both not from the mouth of lebron . So let's listen to the ones we looked up to lolol.... MJ all the way but not at the wizard...... he held it down till end of bulls... 96 was my favorite year though....
Jordan made 1st team defense 9 times and won a defensive player of the year in 13 seasons. Pippen made 1st team defense 8 times in 17 seasons.
rodman not in his bulls days, maybe an argument in his prime in Detroit!
I went to several games from the late 80s thru early 90s. He never scored less than 40. What was wild was he made it look so easy, you didn't realize how many points he was scoring UNTIL you looked at the scoreboard.
jordan was the face of NBA.. he is the league!
MJ won 3 championships left for 2 years play baseball came back and won three more championships to me that's the greatest player of all time #23 the real # 23 MJ
I've watched probably 86% of Jordan's games playoffs 100% of his games in real time when I was a kid and it didn't matter what night it was every night he did something out of this world incredible. The Gatorade commercial was spot on I'd like to be like Mike
Jordan won 2 defensive player of the year awards. As far as off nights, they were extremely rare. Most coaches would say the key to beating the bulls was to make sure Jordan didn't score more than 30 points, which was his average. "He's gonna get his 30, we just have to make sure that's all he gets" was a common phrase among coaches back then
for me watching MJ play back in the days was like watching a machine play basketball against human beings fr facts 👌
the first guy was right, with alot of todays nba couldn´t handle, remember skills don´t mean a thing if your mentally weak for damm near prison ball.
90's all star game is way better than the nba finals of today😂
I believe every era has its goats, from Wilt to Magic to Jordan to Kobe, (maybe Lebron) and there will be a new goat in this new era, the thing that makes MJ the goat is all new goats will be compared to him, his Airness is the standard to describe what is goat worthy🔥🔥🔥
Wouldn't that mean GOTE(Greatest of the Era)?
He loved the game so much , that after baseball he came back to the court to mentor the up and comers.
Im 42. The Jordan era was magical. So magical that he's still the standard of any basketball ERA. Many bron fans has more jordan in closets than brons shoes.
Put it like this.. Old heads been gotten outta the jordan lines for his shoes. New heads buying his shoes HEAVY. that says a lot
As a 6'6" shooting guard check out his stats on both sides of the ball.
I wouldn't say Rodman was the best defender on the Bulls but he was the greatest rebounder of all time
You’re exactly right I watched every game
When Rodman played with them , he wasn’t the best defender he just played really good hard defense but Could grab consistent boards every night like no other
As a hardcore Rockets fan back then i admit i used to seek out Bulls games on TV. Whenever they were playing, I wanted Jordan to get the ball. The anticipation of him going off on someone is sometimes more fun than seeing him going off.
I remember going to the games here in Seattle You know before they were stolen from us.... Anyway, the sonics were dope as hell But when Jordan came to town you knew you were losing before you ever got to the arena.. You went just to watch the show
I never got to go to a game, but as a kid who grew up in Texas, I would watch the Bulls just as religiously as I would the Dallas Cowboys, and I wasn't even a basketball fan. Jordan opened that world up to me, and you could tell that you were witnessing something special. That is a big difference between Jordan and James. Michael made basketball and the NBA accessible to EVERYONE, regardless. Jordan gave everyone the blueprint to greatness. Not only did he go 100%, 100% of the time, so did everyone that played with him and against him.
Jordan was actually the best defender. He made the all defensive first team 9 times
It’s according to what’s considered an off night. An off night for Jordan was a mostly great night for others.
Watch one of wizard games he still had the same shot and chased down a shot and took it off the backboard. He was still hitting game winners. He didn't pass the torch he retired before his prime was up because the bulls wouldn't resign Phil Jackson.
He gave the role to Kobe once he retired. If you look at his all star game that is when he pass the torch.
You don't even want to know how it felt as a Knicks fan knowing you were facing Jordan and in Bulls in the post season to even have a shot at finals.
He stuck a knife in this city and killed our dreams over and over again... But he did it with so much finesse 😁
Everyone was looking for the next Mj while he was still playing lol
I saw a bulls v Suns game when I was a kid court side. Jordan v Barkley. Legendary.
When you asked the question who would have been the "best player" if Jordan wasn't in the league. I don't think there would have been an definitive answer but there would be a debate within the media, but look at the finals and you'll see who would have had better legacies. Stockton and Malone would have better legacies, as well as Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Drexler, Reggie Miller maybe, Shaq possibly, Magic may have gotten another ring too. It's all up in the air, and any of those players would have had better legacies. Meanwhile Pippen is struggling to make it out the second round, but he got Jordan and now they can win 6 rings. Goated 🐐. That's my theoretical scenario
You need to watch “that time when a non nba Michael Jordan destroyed a team of nba all-stars”
Saying pippin was a better defender wouldn’t be wrong…that argument comes up when mentioning Jordan’s DPOY that he won in 88 when pippin was a rookie and didn’t really play…Jordan played more in the passing lanes and took more risks while pippin used his bigger body…Rodman was a great defender who could guard all 5 very well but he played more mind games
Dream was the best player in the league during Jordan’s first retirement and Shaq was the best after Jordan’s second retirement
In an interview with Sports Illustrated, then Detroit Pistons coach Chuck Daly described the Jordan Rules as:[
If Michael was at the point, we forced him left and doubled him. If he was on the left wing, we went immediately to a double team from the top. If he was on the right wing, we went to a slow double team. He could hurt you equally from either wing-hell, he could hurt you from the hot-dog stand-but we just wanted to vary the look. And if he was on the box, we doubled with a big guy. The other rule was, any time he went by you, you had to nail him. If he was coming off a screen, nail him. We didn't want to be dirty-I know some people thought we were-but we had to make contact and be very physical.
You do know that MJ was retired for 3 years and was smoking cigars and 38 years old as an NBA president when he came back with the wizards....right? I mean, the wizards years aren't Jordan years really, but if you think it was a decline. Please, Please, Please, check out the video of Jordan's underrated wizards years. It will be an eye opener for those of you who never saw MJ play
Magic Johnson and Larry Bird were considered the Best Players in the NBA when Michael Jordan arrived in the NBA.
As for Jordan as a wizard people don’t really understand how Jordan was still scoring 30 points or more every game. He took a horrible team on his back and made them a contender on the rise. There is a video explaining this. The Wizards were becoming a dominant team. Up until Jordan blew his knee out. Jordan was still leading the league in scoring and defender. It not just my word. It’s a fact. Jordan was a artist a masterpiece as a player.
Best way to describe Jordan. Black Jesus as he called him self. And Back it up.
Jordan is the best period! I was born in 82. Man wasa machine
Dr. J was the first person to palm the ball as he was dunking and holding the ball with his palm down as he was going onto the basket to dunk.
It was something else watching Jordan play. You just didn't want to pay attention to anything else. He was a legendary scorer and on top of that he was a legendary defender. As many times you saw him do something awesome on offense he was doing awesome things on defense.
6:00 These 3 clips are things LeBron could never do in a million years btw
When Michael came into the league Bird and Magic were the ones. When Michael entered the Dream Team locker room he told Bird and Magic there was a new sheriff in town. They agreed.
Jordans bad years with wizards he still averaged 21 ppg and 30.5 for career so he really never Declined in productivity honestly he even broke young Kobe's ankles a few times 🤣
If you have not watched all 10 episodes of The Last Dance, start to finish, do it.
As someone lucky enough i watched Jordan dismantle the hawks it was a once in a lifetime thing MJ will always be the goat
i saw him play High School Basket ball. He was using a lot of the same moves then He played for Laney against my School New Hanover. He graduated in 1981 and I graduated in 1982. Their were 2 players on New Hanover's team that became pro players. Kenny Gattison who would play pro Basketball for the Phoenix Suns and the Charlotte Hornets and Clyde Simmons who would become a Probowl Defensive End for the Philadelphia Eagles. He played in the infamous Fog bowl Games.
You really wanna know why Jordan is the 🐐 look at how many hall of famers didn't get a ring because of him
Im from Chile, Im a 34 years old woman who played basket as long as a could. And for me Basket was Jordan. Yes there was another players that caught my eyes, but the global impact on Jordan was on another level. Now there is intenet and yt, but back then you have to be like Michael Jackson to reach that fame. Thats why Space Jam was so huge too. Jordan is the goat no necessarily for his game, but everything else around him. Lebron could be better at the sport, but Jordan was first to make himself a brand and thats what a goat does, paved the way. Respect to everyone tho
Jordan's the goat hands down. You have to see his slam dunk contest against Dominique Wilkins, it's classic.
The "Jordan Rules" were the unofficial rules instituted by the Pistons when they would play the Bulls. It was early in his career when he was averaging around 35 ppg each season. The "Rules" were basically, every time Jordan had the ball, hammer him. Their logic was that the refs can't call fouls every time it happens, so they basically abused him for 48 minutes. If you watch video from back in that time, they really give up on playing actual defense against him and just beat him up. That's what it took to stop him from scoring.
He still scored
I am fortunate to have seen both players' careers, and LeBron's flopping is by far the greatest I have ever seen. He has taking what used to be known has "selling a charge" and morphed it into a spectacular offensive AND defensive maneuver. Breathtaking.
he cries like a punk when a defense is physical with him he cries to the refs that a technical should be called
Dr. J was the first recorded in game tapings showcasing “palming the ball” with one hand. MJ, only perfected palming the ball as another skill against his opponents, there’s clips of him rebounding one handed.
Saw MJ a few times in person, what many fail to see in highlights which you saw better live was how fast the guy was.
Dennis was on our team 3 years scottie defense didnt emerge until 91
Mike was all defensive 1st team 9 times of his "13" years with the Bulls, 2 of which he didn't play a full season: his second year and the year he came back from his 1st retirement, which was like late March or Early April. With that being said Rodman and Pippen were masters at drawing the offensive foul but with Scottie and Michael they had what we used to call that Doberman defense at it was just extremely frustrating when you got the whole starting lineup with at least 6'10" wingspans with some handchecking and flops!!
Rodman was only with the Bulls for a couple of years he was the best defender while on the team.
No layup rule that’s what I’m saying he got in the paint they hammered him
I don’t look at the numbers to make my case for Jordan being the goat. I look at what he had to go throw on the court as in the physical level but more importantly the way he just took over and shut the rest of the league down. You could just see when he took over in a game.
Jordan won multiple defensive player of the year
ok its like this...every time you watched MJ play at anytime back in the day...you knew at some point of the game you were going to see something you never witnessed in basketball history ...that can only be said about Jordan and NO one else!...we didn't even have HD back then so we had to watch him on 10" inch over saturated colored tvs with mono sound and STILL it was amazing to watch!...at least we had VHS so we could tape the games and watch them over and over.......and over.
I've lived through both eras...
Jordan is the GOAT!
MJ not only elevated his game, he made everyone around him better.
In fact, he made the entire league better.
Everyone was better because they wanted what Jordan had. The most effective player. On offense or defense and you've seen the rebounds. You've seen the steals. What you can't see is that Jordan played the game two feet above everyone else in the league. Not just physically, which is impressive enough. But mentally and psychologically.
It's been suggested that Byrd and Magic were superior 'thinkers' but put that psychology into a superior athlete and you get Jordan. His 'awareness' became intuition. His defense became clairvoyant.
He made Pippen better.
He made Rodman better.
He made Kerr better.
He made Grant better.
Their game with any other team would have been only as good as they were individually.
But as a team with a Jordan on it, they were better than their best individual efforts.
He made them better because he knew what it took to win. A TEAM.
In team sports you know who wins? The better TEAM!
That's one of the reasons most of today's players could never play in the 80s...teams won championships. Not a collection of egos.
James is a great player.
He doesn't have that team paradigm imprinted into his game.
Jordan took less pay to keep a TEAM together.
Pippen benefited directly from that.
That's where James will never be the GOAT!
IMHO...
LeBron is great, but when Michael Jordan was on TV, it didn't matter if you even were a basketball fan, you watched for the spectacle of it, knowing that he would do something magical and mind blowing... His sheer determination and drive to win was unstoppable. Aunts, uncles, grandmas, grandpas, your little sister, the dog...absolutely everyone would stop what they were doing to watch MJ play and take over at the end of a game.
I'm not a sports fan, but even I heard the last game Jordan played. I was around maybe 5 or 6. When that game happened that's all what I heard about. And later on years I saw his most famous moves and famous jumps, so I can see why people thinks he's the best. He was the ultimate basketball competitor, when he played, he played to win, he didn't care if your feelings are hurt, he wanted to win because he wanted to be the best. Imagine that kind of pressure you put on yourself, than everyone else saying your the best.
Rodman was a terrific rebounder. Scotty had a 7-foot wingspan but Mike was tenacious and could jump a pass like a defensive back in the NFL and run it back for the score. Plus he'll pick your pocket
MJ could take over a game, it was like 1 vs 5
Yea he could literally run circles against five in a fast break. and sometimes when MJ drive there are time literally 5 defenders would collapse on him.
Jordan, Bird, Johnson....man, what an era.
Every time they went to the playoffs are recorded it back then we didn't have DVDs it's still on cassette tapes
In every game that Jordan played he won somehow, whether it was offensively or defensively, he dominated every game.
My High School played his and even then he was on another plane of existence. Like our physics didn't....quite....work on him the same.
The Jordan rules were basically the Pistons would grab and Tackle and trip Michael Jordan anytime he touched the Basketball.They Basically would get Physical anytime he Touched the Ball.
Michael Jordan is the only player I've watched that I can say was "can't miss tv" Michael night in and night out brought it and at a level that most couldn't keep up with. He was just as complete a player as there ever will be. I can't say enough about how good he really was cause it's the feeling he left you with after watching a game. The best player when Jordan was away to me was Hakeem Olajuwon.
Rodman hanging on Bird’s hip… like a second skin… Bird running down the court yelling at his teammates, “get me the ball! I’m open! Get me the ball before they notice I’m open!” Don’t just listen to me… ask Rodman himself!
You see what Michael Jordan is doing right in front of you and you still playing games. Michael Jordan was a top 5 defender his entire career, and he was a top offensive scorer at his position his entire career. Their are none better than Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan was number one at all positions, he is the greatest basketball player of all times.
Watching him back in the day, he didn't really awe you with the the things he did. Because you watch these highlight videos and say " How does he do this?" But watching him real time he always did these things. They could make up a hundred best plays of Jordan and never duplicate a single play. Every game was a highlight reel for him. Got to the point where you just weren't amazed anymore because he did these things every single game, you got used to seeing it.
And back then, the goats of old didn't miss games. The flu, broken bones, HIV. These guys played through everything. When MJ's dad was murdered he went out in the court and still made every play. They played no matter what
The '92 dream team is another perfect example. Those dudes played like they had been teammates their whole career.
Kobe Bryant took over while Michael was fading.
U need to watch the video were he was on the Olympic team they were playing NBA allstars and didn't loose a game coming out of college
Basically the Jordan rule was not to let him get in the air while driving to the basket. Teams would wrap him up anything they could to keep him from flying to the basket
Jordan played in the era of the Big Men controlling the center. Mike was taking it directly to the guys who were 7-foot-plus and posterizing them. And we're not talking about guys who just were all arms and legs like Manute Bol and Shawn Bradley. We're talking Shaq and Hakeem. And, he would make ALL his free throws. That's how talented men posted 3s back in the day. I was an Orlando Magic fan from Day One (they started at the beginning of my 9th grade year), but you couldn't help tipping your cap to Jordan any time you watched him play.
There is no I in team! Scotty, Dennis, Steve! Michael was intense and together they made miracles!! MJ IS the GOAT.
NIKE still has Jordan as their logo.
That says it ALL!!
I think it was Dr. J that made the palm famous. I have been to Jordan games in his prime and now he owns the team in my city....