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MJ is simply and completely in his own level. Nobody is close.
MJ is simply and completely in his own level. Nobody is close.
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Most of the replies land in the same place: rings count when you're the reason your team won them, not when you're along for the ride.
So here's the harder version. Bill Russell won 11 rings and never won a Finals MVP, because the award didn't exist until his final season.
Jordan won 6 rings and was Finals MVP all 6 times.
If "being the reason" is the test, how do you rank Russell?
So here's the harder version. Bill Russell won 11 rings and never won a Finals MVP, because the award didn't exist until his final season.
Jordan won 6 rings and was Finals MVP all 6 times.
If "being the reason" is the test, how do you rank Russell?
Allen Iverson: MVP, four scoring titles, zero rings.View quoted post on X
Robert Horry: seven rings.
The rings debate is back on the timeline this morning, so let's settle it.
Does a championship belong in the conversation about individual greatness, or is it a team stat? 馃憞 #NBA
Vince Carter didn鈥檛 just redefine hang time with this one.
He made it look like gravity had lost its grip.
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He made it look like gravity had lost its grip.
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In May 1995, Michael Jordan lost a playoff series to Orlando, and Nick Anderson said he "didn't look like the old Michael Jordan." Thirteen months later, Jordan had finished the best season any team has ever played.
He had come back that March with a two-word press release: "I'm back." The comeback ended early, and for one summer the doubt was fair. He was 32, he had missed most of two seasons, and the league had moved on without him.
Then came 1995-96. The Bulls added Dennis Rodman and started 41-3. They went 39-2 at home and finished 72-10, the first team in NBA history to win 70. Jordan won the scoring title at 30.4 a game and was MVP of the regular season, the All-Star Game and the Finals. He, Scottie Pippen and Rodman were all named All-Defensive First Team. Toni Kukoc was Sixth Man of the Year. Phil Jackson was Coach of the Year.
They closed out Seattle in Game 6 on June 16, 1996, which happened to be Father's Day, and finished 87-13 counting the playoffs. No team has a better combined record.
What stays with me is the sequence. Most great players are measured by what they did at their peak. Jordan was measured by what he did after someone told him the peak was over. He didn't argue with Anderson. He answered him across 100 games.
I think it is the greatest response to doubt in the history of sports. If you have a better one, make the case.
He had come back that March with a two-word press release: "I'm back." The comeback ended early, and for one summer the doubt was fair. He was 32, he had missed most of two seasons, and the league had moved on without him.
Then came 1995-96. The Bulls added Dennis Rodman and started 41-3. They went 39-2 at home and finished 72-10, the first team in NBA history to win 70. Jordan won the scoring title at 30.4 a game and was MVP of the regular season, the All-Star Game and the Finals. He, Scottie Pippen and Rodman were all named All-Defensive First Team. Toni Kukoc was Sixth Man of the Year. Phil Jackson was Coach of the Year.
They closed out Seattle in Game 6 on June 16, 1996, which happened to be Father's Day, and finished 87-13 counting the playoffs. No team has a better combined record.
What stays with me is the sequence. Most great players are measured by what they did at their peak. Jordan was measured by what he did after someone told him the peak was over. He didn't argue with Anderson. He answered him across 100 games.
I think it is the greatest response to doubt in the history of sports. If you have a better one, make the case.
Caitlin Clark doesn鈥檛 just see the court differently.
She sees passes that haven鈥檛 even occurred to the defense yet.
The vision. The timing. The precision. The audacity.
By the time defenders realize what鈥檚 happening, the ball is already gone.
She鈥檚 not just making passes. She鈥檚 making basketball look like magic. 馃獎馃弨
She sees passes that haven鈥檛 even occurred to the defense yet.
The vision. The timing. The precision. The audacity.
By the time defenders realize what鈥檚 happening, the ball is already gone.
She鈥檚 not just making passes. She鈥檚 making basketball look like magic. 馃獎馃弨
