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@KaloneMarl
Marl Kalone
6 years
Charles Barkley was a freak of nature. There are actual people who never watched Barkley play who think he was some slow fat PF who just grabbed rebounds. This is the problem we are dealing with. All this info is available and some people don’t bother searching for it.
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The year is 2056. Lebron scores 2 pts. Bron Stans: “This. This was the night he passed MJ on the 🐐 list”
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Kawhi really won 2 chips and 2 finals mvps by 27 without ring chasing? Crazy concept
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5 years
Was looking for a different Kobe gif and stumbled on this ridiculousness.
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2006 Jordan Camp. 43 year old MJ playing against a top ranked HS player in the country OJ Mayo. OJ talked some trash to Jordan and MJ cleared out the camp. Told OJ “You May be the best high school player, but I’m the greatest ever”. - via Larry Brown Sports YouTube
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@hoopfiends This must hurt then?
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@LeBlew3v1Lead ...continued
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5 years
Imagine MJ trying to score on this technically advanced defense? He’d probably throw it into the crowd from the confusion of figuring it out. “How do I score on this?”
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2 years
39 year old MJ scored 51 with a bad knee and an index finger with a severed tendon. Then the next game he scored 45, but go on.
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2 years
Why is Lebron in a game down 30 with 4 mins left? No need to answer. We know.
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6 years
Lebron “carried bums” to the 2007 NBA Finals thread Cavaliers were 50-32 in 2006-2007 We are told (and it has been just accepted) that Lebron had no help and single handedly carried his terrible supporting cast to the finals The game by game stats tell a different story.
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5 years
Eddie Jones another “non-athletic” 90’s guard
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6 years
Ray Allen knows who the GOAT is, but you keep listening to @getnickwright and @ShannonSharpe tho
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2 years
@jordan_exposed Here’s actual games not some YouTube video of plays put together. When you watch the actual games! By the way Jordan had 55 in this game and Strickland went 5 for 18. Jordan was shutting down their PG and dropping 55! Don’t ever disrespect the goat.
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4 years
Phil Jackson tried to run that system in NY and had 117 wins and 211 losses. Looks like the system needed Jordan.
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Jordan needed a system - the triangle - to become a 6-time NBA champ. LeBron is the system everywhere he goes.
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Michael Jordan’s first 667 games, (Pre-94 Retirement) 3 Rings (6 for career) 3 MVPs (5 career) 3 Finals MVPs (6 career) 7 scoring titles (10 career) 3 steals titles Defensive player of the year Lebron James Career (1198 games) 3 Rings 4 MVPs 3 Finals MVPs 1 scoring title
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Pippen missed 40 games when MJ was 34 years old and Bulls still won 62 games. Pippen couldn’t stand in the last two games of the finals and the Bulls still won the finals.
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Where is Bron’s pip, Rodman?
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5 years
Was Karl Malone better than Lebron James?
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6 years
Imagine The GOAT missing clutch free throws? Me neither
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2 years
One had a 23 year old Rip Hamilton and the other had 4 future HOF teammates lol. Even worse, that 2002 team would’ve made the play-in, if there was one 😂
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ClutchPoints
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Shannon Sharpe believes there should be no double standards when comparing LeBron and Michael Jordan 👀
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6 years
Fun fact: If you took away John Stockton’s 3 highest assist years (1164, 1134, 1128), he would still be number 1 all-time in assists.
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Only two players in NBA history have scored 30,000 points in less than 1000 games.
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6 years
Michael Jordan has more 50-plus point games in his 179 playoff games than: Lebron Kobe KD Curry Harden Westbrook Shaq Duncan Magic Bird Kareem Wilt In their 2,060 playoff games combined
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39 year old MJ hits two free throws down 1 to take the lead. Cavs Chris Mihm hits a layup to take the lead with 1.6 seconds left, but then “Jordan does it to Cleveland again”. The GOAT and most clutch athlete ever.
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2 years
Why exactly did the NBA decide to punish teams for being 7th and 8th, but reward 9 and 10th?
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6 years
Isiah Thomas: “Jordan was not a complete basketball player” Jordan series averages vs Isiah and the Pistons 1988: 27.4 ppg 8.8 rpg 4.6 apg 2.0 spg 1989: 29.7 ppg 6.5 apg 5.5 rpg 2.0 spg 1990: 32.1 ppg 7.1 rpg 6.3 apg 2.1 spg 1991: 29.8 ppg 7 apg 5.3 rpg 2.3 spg 1.8 bpg annnd 1:
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Nice and in only 300 more games and 20 years younger.
@SportsCenter
SportsCenter
6 years
Bradley Beal now has as many 40-point games with the Wizards as Michael Jordan (8).
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Advanced stats are what decide MVP’s almost every year and tell you who the best in the NBA is. MJ vs Lebron. This with MJ having 2 seasons playing less than 20 games and 2 seasons being 39 and 40 averaged in. MJ with the sweep. The 🐐
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2 years
I can’t believe 39 year old Michael Jordan scored 96 points in a two game span. Imagine what his knee felt like after the first 51 point game
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20 years ago today Michael Jordan played his last game for the Bulls and finished it like only the greatest of all time could. The last minute of Game 6 was as tense as it gets. “Running on fumes”, MJ scores 6 in the last minute, 45 for the game and the Finals winning shot. 🐐
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2 years
Magic Johnson is the greatest PG ever. Go argue about 2nd
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Man made 4 other moves after he jumped
@Ballislife
Ballislife.com
2 years
31 years ago today, Michael Jordan pulls off one of the greatest layups in NBA history 🐐
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NBA All time assist and steal leader, The 2nd all time leading scorer, and a 15-year career 50-40-90 guy.
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@highkin The Bulls played the Utah Plumbers three months later
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2 years
Water is wet, MJ is the 🐐
@TheAthletic
The Athletic
2 years
This ranking is not in dispute, @jon_greenberg writes. “The sky is blue. The earth is round.” And Michael Jordan is No. 1 on #TheAthleticNBA75 .
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Mike Tyson when asked if 20 year old Tyson beats 20 year old Muhammad Ali. This was the baddest man in the world in the 80’s, the King, undisputed, won fights before they started.
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Continued dominance at 33? From age 33 to 35, Jordan played 304 straight games, had 3 Finals MVP’s, 2 league mvps, 3 nba first teams, 3 scoring titles, 3 all Defensive first teams, 2 all star game mvps. HE HAD A HALL OF FAME CAREER from age 33 to 35, but please continue...
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Kevin Pelton
6 years
LeBron James' continued dominance at age 33 convinced me to take a fresh, detailed look at the LeBron-Jordan debate:
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2 years
Fixed it for you
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Michael Jordan’s first 667 games, (Pre-Retirement) 3 Rings (6 career) 3 NBA MVPs (5 career) 3 Finals MVPs (6 career) 7 scoring titles (10 career) 3 steals titles Defensive player of the year Lebron James Career (1143 games) 3 Rings 4 NBA MVPs 3 Finals MVPs 1 scoring title
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Man averaged 24 points, 17 rebounds 5 assists and 5 blocks in a finals. This is one reason why no one has ever said this.
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6 years
There are only a handful of athletes you stop everything to watch play and Barry Sanders is one of my favorite athletes ever. 4.3-4.4 speed, cut on a dime, and when he got in that gallup it was a wrap. You actually laugh at what he did to defenses, especially the run on the Pats
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Yeah he already knows who he’s trading
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6 years
LeBron broke down the entire Lakers roster in his meeting with Magic.
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MJ after winning first championship 1. Team built and got better(Didn’t leave) 2. About Disney, only if my teammates come with me. I’m sharing any money I get with them. (Team player) 3. Asked about being the best player, mentions Barkley and DRob (doesn’t call himself the King)
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That time in the 1986 3-pt contest when Bird told all the contestants “I hope all of ya’ll are thinking about second place”, then banks one in, in the final round, just to rub it in.
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21 years ago today. Game 1 1997 Finals. Bulls have the ball with 8 seconds left with a chance to win it. 34 year old Michael Jordan wasn’t passing this...
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Lebron trying to catch MJ
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Jordan locking All star and HOF PF, PG, SG, SF and entire teams in one of the clips. Greatest to ever play this game.
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How did the greatest basketball player ever debate turn into who did more off the court? Is this what happens when you lose the real battle? 😂
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Paul George on the time Larry Bird decided to take some shots in practice
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Imagine thinking Lebron is in MJ’s universe skills wise? 😂😂😂😂😂Cred: IG - rumpelstiltsky
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@LeBlew3v1Lead Look at his face lol. He hit a go ahead shot and was pissed about missing. Lucky for him it wasn’t a chronic problem.
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Yes he did. Here are some things he accomplished after those series: 6-0 in Finals 6 Finals MVP’s 1 DPOY 5 MVP’s 9 more scoring titles 3 steals titles 3 All star MVP Highest scoring avg in NBA history Highest PER in NBA History Highest PER in playoff history THE GREATEST EVER!
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#LakerNation
6 years
Your GOAT got swept twice in the 1st round???
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All these GOAT arguments would end if people just said “he’s the best player I ever watched play”. Convo is over. MJ is the best player I ever watched. If you didn’t witness it live, you can’t judge. Lebron is one of the greatest I’ve witnessed. I just think MJ was better.
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Gilbert Arenas picking 96 Bulls over 2017 Warriors and possibly a sweep “depending on how mad Michael is.” He must’ve made up with MJ. 😂
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1 year
Let it rain!
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NBACentral
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“LeBron James will be the greatest statistical [player] to ever play the game of basketball. [Michael Jordan] was a horrible player.” - Scottie Pippen (h/t @DieHardCBfans )
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One clip. MJ vs Grant Hill with game on the line. This isn’t even prime MJ. No switching. No help. 🔒
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omo the conqueror
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It’s actually so crazy that people give Jordan the edge over LeBron as a defender because he won a DPOY. Idc what anyone says, LeBron was clearly a better defender than MJ at their peaks on that end. Forget the accolades, watch the tape and you’ll see
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NBA is much better when teams can win playoff series with only one superstar and a good supporting cast
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Lebron fans trying to convince twitter that the Heat weren’t a superteam
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Look where he took off from
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Clyde with one of the sweetest finger rolls ever
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Joe Ingles couldn’t survive in the ultra athletic, super fast paced NBA of today
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1988 Jordan had double the steals of all 10 of these players and more blocks than 7 of them.
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Considering he beat a newly formed super team and his second option was Jason Terry......Dirk.
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Which finals run was more impressive? 2016 LeBron or 2011 Dirk
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MJ adjusted his game to conform with the triangle offense and win. It cost him in the stats, but got him 💍 💍 By Any means necessary. Big scoring numbers are great for the stat sheets, but if you’re forcing others to adjust to your play style, you are not going to be successful.
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Michael Jordan playing against high school all-stars in 1998. He was 35 years old. Video Cred: YT - Michael Jordan Mexico
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The series Pippen got MJ his first playoff win. Bulls vs Cavs 1988 Leading Scorers (5 games) Jordan 226 pts Price Cavs 105 Nance Cavs 84 Daugherty Cavs 79 Harper Cavs 71 Sanders Cavs 64 Oakley Bulls 54 Pippen Bulls 53 Williams Cavs 46 Ehlo Cavs 44 Grant Bulls 44
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Since Twitter is being ultra-crackish today with their forgetfulness of how good Michael Vick was...
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Only 3 times in NBA history has a player had over 2500 points, 500 assists and 500 rebounds in the same season: Michael Jordan Michael Jordan Russell Westbrook
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38 year old Patrick Ewing played more games in a season than AD ever has. AD gets hurt tying his sneakers.
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Marl Kalone
6 years
Nothing sums up the late 80’s-90’s NBA era like this. The ref drags Scottie off the floor after getting a cheapshot elbow from Laimbeer. 😂
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Marl Kalone
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Happy Birthday Allen Iverson. Here’s a High School clip in 1993.
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Wait no one else has done it since 1993? Only 4 times in the the 37 seasons before MJ. No one else in MJ’s era? Either he’s the GOAT or he just had the most perfectly timed career of all time where everyone else in the league was bad at the same time. Sounds stupid right? It is
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Jordan Muse 🐐
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In NBA history only 9 times has a player averaged 40+ ppg in a playoff series: Michael Jordan did it 5 times and is the last to do it. 1986 vs Celtics 43.7 ppg on 50% 1988 vs Cavs 45.2 ppg on 56% 1990 vs 76ers 43 ppg on 55% 1992 vs Heat 45 ppg on 61% 1993 vs Suns 41 ppg on
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This is what a GOAT looks like. Stop lying to yourselves!
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2007 Lebron playoffs “carrying bums” to the finals 25.1 ppg 8 rpg 8 apg 41% fg 28% 3pt Jordan’s playoffs “needing an all star team” to win his first 3 finals 91: 31 ppg 6 rpg 8 apg 52% fg 39% 3pt 92: 35 ppg 6 rpg 6 apg 50% fg 39% 3pt 93: 35 ppg 6.7 rpg 6 apg 48% fg 39% 3pt
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FOH. Embarrassing
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We are supposed to believe he wasn’t also one of the greatest all-around players ever. There was literally nothing on the court he couldn’t do. Kill you scoring, passing, defensively. Social media has lied to too many. He’s easily the best player I ever watched in my life.
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Jordan Muse 🐐
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Michael Jordan averaged: 34.5 points 6.9 rebounds 6.8 assists 2.4 steals 1.1 blocks 51% shooting In his first 82 playoff games
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March 28th, 1990. According to Basketball-Reference game score, this is the greatest performance by a player since the 1983 season.
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Man averaged 37 and scored 3000 only making 12 threes the entire year. No 😓
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How many PPG would prime MJ put up right now? JVG says 40. 😱
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1996 Bulls win 72 games 9 teams in the NBA under 35 wins 3 teams under 25 wins 2 team under 20 wins 2016 Warriors win 73 games 10 teams in the NBA under 35 wins 4 teams under 25 wins 2 teams under 20 wins 1 team with 10 wins “Watered down league”
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I don’t see a “baby”. This is a man who wanted to win so badly. That’s a warrior. If you were never devastated losing a game, I have a problem with that.
@espn
ESPN
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Joel Embiid was emotional following the Game 7 loss in Toronto.
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I hope this is the beginning of an era of allowing NBA players to play physical defense again. You see what’s it done to “unstoppable” players. Levels the playing field.
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Pete had the ball on a string
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How’s MJ on all these all-around lists when he was “just a scorer”?
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Guards with multiple 20/15/5 playoff games: MJ Magic Luka Luka is only 25.
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Marl Kalone
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So we will just skip the first 35 years of the NBA.
@RTNBA
NBA Retweet
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Most influential NBA players ever
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Best part of this is in order to argue for Lebron you are going to have to bring up rings, mvps, Finals mvps, etc. Lebron fans don’t want MJ fans doing that in their comparisons.
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In his last finals in 1998, 35 year old Jordan had 10 turnovers in 6 games. That’s 1 turnover for every 16 shots he took. He had 11 steals. For comparison: 2018 Finals, Lebron had 20 turnovers in 4 games and 5 steals. He had 1 turnover for every 4.7 shots he took.
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No way 90’s nba players could compete with these advanced ballers
@gswchris
Chris Montano
6 years
For those not watching the Lakers & Suns game, here's a recap 😂
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Fun fact: Michael Jordan never lost 3 finals games in the same season.
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Mike Powell breaking the Long Jump world record in 1991. He jumped 29 feet which is like jumping from 6 feet behind the 3pt line and landing under the basket. It is still the record today.
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It really took Lebron 50 more games to beat MJ in this? I thought MJ was “just a scorer”.
@BleacherReport
Bleacher Report
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LeBron adds another record 👑
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MJ 🐐 Credit IG:mjs_goat
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