Despite all of his unmatched combination of size, athleticism and strength, he had the most massive drop when it came to playoff, and especially finals performances of any all time great ever. Even his already terrible free throw percentage consistently fell from regular season to playoffs, and...
43 rebounds out of 98 his team had. The average number of rebounds for a whole team this season was 44.9. There were literally more than twice as many rebounds available to be grabbed back then than there are today. So it's not some speculative "would've" to say that numbers back then are...
The dribbling isn't even the funniest thing about that gif, but the guy playing "defense". If he fell like that reacting to that move, imagine how he would do against modern point guards.
"Michael Jordan didn't care about stats"
Also Michael Jordan:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-11-sp-1572-story.html
Just another inconvenient MJ story to quietly get swept under the rug, along with his degenerate gambling-related ones.
There will be no major developments by fall. Certainly none that will allow them to guarantee not being infected to an extent that they cannot already guarantee now with testing and proper procedures.
In fact, it would probably be easier for them to finish this season in a bubble (Disney...
This guy found the ultimate hustle. He bought a bunch of 1990 Panini sticker albums which you could get for about $50 on eBay. They all have a bunch of sticker sheets. He then cut up the sheets to get a bunch of Jordans that were graded PSA 10. A Jordan sticker from this set sells for $300-$350...
I still can't believe how blatantly robbed Kareem was from the 1980 Finals MVP, just because he missed one last game.
Kareem's averages are obviously better than Magic's that series, but what's crazy is that if you look at the totals for that series, Kareem's numbers are still more impressive...
MJ supporters be like:
He didn't say it.
And if he did, he didn't mean it.
And if he did, you didn't understand it.
And if you did, it's not a big deal.
And if it is, others have said worse.
Seth Curry averaged 19.4 points on 56% 3 point shooting in the last 12 games before the season was put on ice. I wouldn't call him a star, but he's no scrub. And Boban had 31 and 17 in the final game they played against the Nuggets. He played 31 minutes - the first game he was given more than 22...
Sixers might be a problem and they've benefited from this rest as much as any other team. Seems like it was always either Embiid or Simmons that was injured for them. Or both. This might give them the opportunity to finally be at full strength. The same goes for The Mavericks and them missing...
Funny how two of the players pictured are two of the NBA's 108 international players that raise the overall quality of play in the league today. Whereas so many international players who were good enough to play in the NBA in the 80s and 90s ended up not playing in the NBA and were instead...
That Suns squad were an amazing offensive team, but one of the worst defensive teams to ever make the NBA finals. Hence the 41 ppg.
But I just think it's hilarious how MJ redeemed himself with a 54 point game in 1993, yet when he scored 55 in MSG in his fifth game back after the retirement in...
He got selected because neither of those, but because of his 2 blocks. But yeah, he was pretty bad. I'm not delusional not to think that big men post-Shaq have been generally lacking quality like some are delusional to think that guards sans-Jordan in the 90s were lacking quality.
He averaged 13.6 rebounds, so it rounds off to 14. He is far from the worst all-star choice throughout history.
The worst all-star ever is either Dale Davis in 1999-00 or probably B.J. Armstrong in 1993-94. He averaged 15, 2 and 4. That year Sprewell replaced MJ on the All-NBA 1st team, B.J...