Glad something good finally happened to Mike

Kids were totally not going to buy the shoes of a 19.9999 ppg scrub.

“Michael, you need to be more efficient, like young Kwame.”

Franchise player

If only that could be replicated today

I did a video on this years ago and the stat was something like:

When rip hamilton and Jordan both played together that season they were like 20-2 heading into the all star break

Yeah its not even close. You can see it in vets like Jordan or even Ron Harper - when they want to slash; they’re nearly as explosive as they were in their primes. I’m talking Wizards jordan here.

Its just that 90%+ of his plays turned from raw brute athleticism towards surgical fadeaways.

Not trying to minimize Lebron’s longevity; or deny the fact that Jordan’s mileage differed - but both of them still can turn on the athleticism if they needed it.

The Wizards squad was pretty good on paper. I think it was just bad culture, bad injuries, and bad luck.

No, that’s what I intitally thought, but it’s not true. He guaranteed himself the career lead three games prior. Even if he’d scored 0 points over his final three games, he’d still be the all-time ppg leader. So the only thing remaining was the 20ppg threshold.

Edit: actually that’s not true, either. He had pushed himself over 20ppg with like 5 or 6 games to go. The real challenge was playing all 82 games (which he did) while ALSO maintaining an average above 20ppg (which he also did).

Not true dude

That game against us where he was getting locked but just refused to sub out despite being up like 20 was hilarious

Did not remember MJ and Bryon Russell being on the same team

Dixon was the man at Maryland. So fun to watch. White went to Georgetown I believe back when being a C for the Hoyas was a real big deal

Juan Dixon is a hometown hero in Baltimore. Got Maryland it’s only natty

Shoutouts to Calvert Hall

Idk who the hell Jahidi White is but Juan Dixon a University of Maryland legend as far as I’m concerned

Guess you’re right, this happened in 2003.

Guess your right, the statpadding story for mike happened in 89 anyways lmao

Stat padding is when a guy who averaged 37 minutes per game that season played 28? 

I say this as someone who is a Jordan Stan who thinks he’s the clear goat, the REAL “Mike loved to stat pad as much as anyone” story is from 1989, when the Bulls moved him to point guard and he had the most triple doubles of anyone between Oscar and Russ. He was so often going to the scorers table to check on his assists and boards that Stern had to tell the stat keepers not to tell him. 

I bet you didn’t even watch Jordan’s final game because if you did, you would have known that Jordan was brought out of the game with 13 points in the middle of the 4th quarter because the wizards were getting blown out. The whole arena, the coaches, the media all wanted Jordan to come into the court one last time but he kept refusing until finally he gave the arena what they wanted. He checked in, was immediately fouled by a sixer to take his final 2 free throws and then was immediately checked out for a big ovation.

If he was “stat padding” he would have secured his 15 points and this fake made up 20 ppg streak earlier in the game.

Huh? In what world is playing 28 minutes stat padding lmao?

because he once scored 15 points

Can you believe he also stat padded games played. Suited up 82 times at the age of 40. Guys today are ethical ballers and would never stat pad like that