Maybe it’s fitting that Michael Jordan’s 50th birthday happens to fall on the NBA’s All-Star Sunday, because he is still the ultimate measure of basketball greatness. Unlike the great stars playing in today’s game – likely future hall of famers Kobe...
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Maybe it’s fitting that Michael Jordan’s 50th birthday happens to fall on the NBA’s All-Star Sunday, because he is still the ultimate measure of basketball greatness.
Unlike the great stars playing in today’s game – likely future hall of famers Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Kevin Durant and others – Jordan was more than the sum of his fantastic numbers.
- 10-time scoring champ
- Five-time MVP
- Six-time NBA champion
- 10-time All-NBA First Team
- Nine-time All-Defensive First Team
- 14-time All-Star
- Three-time All-Star MVP
- Two-time Olympic gold medalist
- Career averages of 30.1 points, 5.3 assists, 6.2 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game
But Jordan was more than that because he was something else: He was unbeatable, like nobody else in NBA history.
He rocks !!!!
ReplyDeleteOl' mike still going.
ReplyDeleteWow , He Looks Great for Fifty!
ReplyDeleteJordan did not win on his own for sure. He scored 60 almost every game on the celtics and was swept 4-0, The last piece of the puzzle was cartwright. The bulls never had a good center in franchise history and no team would give them one until the knicks were stupid enough to trade cartwright for a journeyman thug charles oakley. horace grant filled in just as well. Oakley wasn’t even much of an enforcer. When Lambert and the thug pistons were bullying jordan they had to send in Charles Davis from Tennessee, and Mcgavock, the same high school as the Rock vThe only player to compare to Jordan for best ever is Lew Alcindor/kareem. The bulls had good teams that almost won with Love, Van Lier, Chet Walker, Norm Sloan, It takes a team.
ReplyDeleteWhy must we have greatest of all time. Where does it say there can be only one? The greatest of his time, yes. Did it alone, NO! He played with some great ball players, at least two HOFers. One of my favorite players, yes. Greatest of all time Ali, yes (I know talking basketball)
ReplyDeleteHe is also responsible for the individualism of today’s game. Before him, the team play of the Celtics and lakers of the Eighties was the model. Now it’s all about the soloing–like Kobe, LeBron and Durant…and at its worst–Westbrook.
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