He was among the all-time great trash talkers and had a knack for getting into his opponents' heads. Every little thing anyone did or said Jordan used to fuel his competitive fire.
Finally, Jordan has hit more clutch shots, and has had more big game performances than any player in NBA history. Russell may have won more championships, Chamberlain may have averaged 50 points per game in a single season and Kareem may be the all-time scoring leader, but if you take into consideration the entire package, Michael Jordan is the greatest of all time.
Enjoy our content? Isiah was great, like him or not. He was clutch in big games. He got overshadowed by Magic, Bird and Jordan. He was extremely vocal about being overlooked.
Isiah and Magic formed a friendship and he eventually burned that bridge. He said some extremely hateful things about Larry Bird. Isiah was very jealous of Jordan being a bigger star in his hometown of Chicago. Isiah was a respected veteran in the league and Jordan was viewed as a hotshot. Isiah had players on their team freeze Jordan out and not pass the ball to him during the game. When people look past that, they will see he was big time.
He did it four times in a row. Isiah however, was a Finals MVP. He has hit countless game winners and had huge playoff moments.
He did it again in the Finals against the Portland Trailblazers. He led his team to back to back NBA titles. Is Isiah greater than Jordan in my eyes? No, but if someone brought his name up I can respect that with the others. He often defers too much in late game moments. Lately he has stepped up and embraced it.
Fans love to compare Jordan and Kobe. I hate that comparison. Nor do I believe he deserves to be considered the greatest. I think Lebron is a better player than Kobe. Lebron has always been the best player on his team and most of his career the best player in the league. Anyone who watched the Lakers when they won those 3 titles with Shaq and Kobe, knows Shaq was the best player on that team. Jordan has an enormous amount of signature moments to pick from. The Shot against the Cavaliers to clinch a playoff series.
Going 6 for 6 on three pointers and scoring 18 points in the first quarter and then 17 points in the second in a Finals game against Portland.
Which he did to prove a point to the media. Before the series with Portland started, the media compared Michael Jordan and Clyde Drexler and said the players were similar and that Drexler was a better 3 point shooter. I said before he was an intense competitor and he took everything personally.
Remember him having to be helped off the court after powering through a Finals win with the flu. How about the crossover and pull up over Bryon Russell to win his last championship. The list goes on and on. I asked someone that who tried to make the argument that Kobe is just as good as Jordan.
It was literally the best Kobe Bryant moment the two of us could think of. It was also the end of his Kobe is as good as Jordan argument. Thanks for reading. I think people do look for reasons not to acknowledge Michael as the best. But if they are honest with themself his play speaks for itself. There several great players in the past but they are all battling for 2nd best. Jordan is most definitely the GOAT! Jordan is by faaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr the greatest player ever..
I love you Michael.. I'm glad to have seen you play the game I wish I could meet you in person.. You cant surpass the goat. Jordan is greatest because, well besides of the stats, achievements etc For me MJ is the greatest Player I've ever seen and i have'nt seen any player who played a spectacular game like him. He is the living legend of sport of basketball and that's the bottom line.
As a converted MJ fan, I feel pretty objective about this topic. I wanted him to lose during the 1st 3-peat bcoz he beat Magic. After that, I had to come around bcoz if u can't beat them Didn't get disappointed again. To which other player had a team formulated their defense similar to the "Jordan Rules". But you can't base it on rings. I agree with your comments about MJ. But I believe LBJ is the greatest for some of the same reasons. But people critize him for not looking like MJ on the court but his overall stats are equal to or greater than MJ.
The only difference between MJ and LBJ is when Bron passes the ball to open teammates they miss the shot, they lose, he gets criticised for not taking the shot even thought it was the right pass. Mike passed the ball to open players, they made the shot and won, no criticism necessary.
Check the stats. In a team sport your team stats make you great. Bron scored 51 pts, lost because of team stats. MJ score 30 pts, win because of team stats. I love Bron because no matter what, he knows he can't win in a team sport without his teammates being equal to him on the court, and that is what makes him the GOAT to Me. You did not see Wilt. He was the greatest of all time.
I think the record book proves that. Michael Jordan is the greatest of all time, because he had the ability to convince himself that it was more important for him to win than anyone else, and he played like it.
Jordan led the Bulls to do it twice. Shaq-Kobe Lakers only ones to do it since. Only Kareem 6 has more. Jordan did it all the time, and was a scoring champion in each of the years he won a championship. The second-best is Allen Iverson Jordan came back to play for the Wizards at age 38 in In December that year, he became the oldest player ever to score 50 51 against the Hornets. A game later, he scored Jordan finished the season at age 39 and but was still the leading scorer in his team The next season and finally, his final season , he became the first player to score 40 at age He had 43 against the Nets.
And then he finally retired — for the third time — for good. Payton finally got one in as a role-player in Miami. Jordan retired with the highest career regular season points per game average in NBA history He finished third in total steals, only behind John Stockton and Jason Kidd.
The Miami Heat retired his jersey number 23 in April Good thing LeBron changed his number from 23 to 6 before leaving Cleveland for Miami. Jordan had some insane statistical averages throughout his career. He had He had a career-high average of He played only three games in the playoffs, but averaged He averaged over 30 ppg every year in the playoffs after his rookie season.
He was a He owns the greatest single-game performance ever 2 according to Basketball-Reference. Sometimes when you analyze historical legends with modern metrics, the results can leave you disappointed. His reputation as the GOAT was not merely a media creation or the product of ring-counting — it has withstood the tests of both time and science.
Why was Jordan so great, though? For one thing, Jordan mixed scoring volume and shooting efficiency better than just about any player in history. Over his career, he averaged But he also had a career true shooting percentage of As a result, Jordan is an outlier on the furthest boundary of the usage-vs.
MJ was a serviceable deep shooter for his day, particularly for the three seasons when the NBA shortened the 3-point line during the s, but he was no Steph Curry or James Harden.
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