What was Michael Jordan worst game ever and why???
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Baseball.  Did you watch him play?
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I was sick of Jordan while he was playing, and I'm really over him now. Same with Kobe. Its overexposure, plus there are so many other talented baskteball players to talk about. People just like to concentrate on scoring. \n\nOscar Robertson is the best player in NBA history, if that's the point you were getting at. You'll hear no argument from me. He is completely underappreciated in this day and age.
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i watched that game they played poorly
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EVIL leads GOOD by a whopping 3 games to 1! We should blame damned Kobe for this!!!
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MJ was not the greatest player of all time.\n\nOscar was a better player, as were Wilt, Russell, Kareem, Larry and Magic (Shaq was also more dominant).\n\nNot only did Oscar average a triple-double for a season, he also had the following other seasons...\n\n30.1 ppg /  10.1 rpg /   9.7  apg  (rookie year)  /  1961\n 28.3 ppg  / 10.4 rpg  /  9.5  apg  /  1963\n31.4  ppg  /  9.9  rpg  / 11.0 apg  /  1964\n30,4 ppg  /  9.0  rpg  /  11.5 apg  /  1965\n\nIn 1962, he actually did average a triple double:\n\n30.8 ppg /  12.5 rbg  /  11.4  apg\n\nIn four of his first 5 years, he came within 1 rebound or 1 assist of averaging a triple double.\n\nEDIT-I just ran the numbers... during his first five years (384 games) Oscar averaged 30.3 points, 10.4 rebounds and 10.6 assists PER GAME.\n\n\nJordan played 32 games more than Robertson in his career (1,072 to 1,040), BUT  took almost  FIVE THOUSAND more shots (24,537 FGA for MJ, only 19,620 for the Big O..... so yeah, Jordan scored a little more. Who couldn't, with 5,000 extra shot attempts (plus, there was no three pointer when Oscar played).\n\nOnce again, proves my point that Jordan was the biggest ball hog of all time, bar none.  Jordan even took more shots that Wilt Chamberlain did... MJ took over 1,000 more shots than Wilt depsite playing almost 7,000 FEWER minutes.\n\nAt the time he retired, Oscar was 2nd on the all time scoring list, behind Wilt (about 5,000 points behind Wilt).\n\nHOOP FAN (see next post) - you're right... you'll recall I posted that exact question 2 weeks ago ("why is michael jordan the greatest player ever?"), and NO ONE came up with ONE credible reason why Jordan should be considered the best ever...   so it does appear that with the right combination of Gator Ade, Nike shoes and a few morons over at ESPN, one can BECOME the greatest player ever, even if he was never any such thing on an actual basketball court.
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There are a few players (not many) who were better than Jordan... Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and probably Oscar Robertson.\n\nAn earlier post pointed out that Jordan won six championships... big deal... Russell won 11 (in only a 13 year career, lost in the finals one year and the Eastern Finals another year).  Russell also won 5 MVP awards (while competing directly with Wilt, who won four), so Jordan's got nothing on him there...\n\nJordan's big strength was his ability to score...but he's way behind Jabbar's scoring totals, Jabbar also won six championships, and Jabbar also won SIX MVP awards, more than any player in history.\n\nChamberlain, of course, still holds a ton of records that MJ never even got to look at...100 pts in a game, a 50.4 ppg scoring average in a season (Wilt holds, I believe, the top 4 single season scoring averages in history, and is the only player to ever average 40 PPG, which he did twice, including his 50 ppg season, having averaged 44.8 ppg a season later.\n\nJordan's scoring average is 5/100ths of a point higher than Chamberlain's (Jordan is 30.11, Wilt is 30.06)... \n\n\n\nPeople talk about what a great team player Jordan was, but he took 1,040 more shots in his career than Chamberlain did, despite the fact that Jordan played 6,846 FEWER MINUTES (the equivalent of 142 FEWER 48 minute games)!!!\n\nYeah, KOBE'S a ball hog...\n\n(Jordan was not nearly as durable an athlete as Wilt, who averaged 45.8  minutes/game over his career, and is the only player to average MORE than 48 min/game during a season - because he sat out only 6 minutes the entire season, but played many more minutes of overtime. Gee, I wonder if Zydrunas Ilgauskas will ever match THAT...\n\nWilt was also the greatest rebounder of all time, with Russell right behind him.  There have been twenty four 40 rebound games in NBA history, Wilt had 14 such games, Russell 8... Jerry Lucas and Nate Thurmond had the other two. Wilt holds the record with 55 reboounds in a game (against Russell)...Russell himself grabbed 51 rebounds in one game...\n\nWilt was the only player who was able to completely dominate a game with his scoring, rebounding and defense, all at the same time...Jordan could only dominate offensively (which is certainly not a bad thing).\n\nJordan was a very good defender as well, but a guard really can't 'dominate' a game defensively the way a center can (not M.J.'s fault, just the nature of the game). When I say "dominate a game defensively", I'm talking about shutting down the middle and not letting anyone NEAR the hoop... that was Wilt...and Russell...and for a while, Kareem...\n\nUnless you want to have a three point contest, Wilt would dominate Jordan in every category, even passing, as Jordan never led the league in assists (Chamberlain is the only non-guard ever to lead the NBA in assists during a season).\n\nScoring is supposed to be Jordan's specialty... Chamberlain has been retired for 33 years, and STILL has more 60 point games than everyone else in the history of the NBA COMBINED.. Wilt had 32 sixty point games, compared to a whopping 4 for M.J. There have been ABOUT 57 60 pt games in history, not sure of the exact count...\n\nJordan's career scoring average is marginally higher than Wilt's because (1) Jordan shot a hell of a lot more and (2) Jordan made sure he "retired" (for good this time) just before his scoring average fell below Wilt's. Plus, M.J. could hit his free throws on those "rare" occasions that they put him at the line...  hee hee\n\nSo, the answer to "who is the best nba player of all time" is Wilt Chamberlain.
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I think the game that you are referring to was the 1985 Christmas Day game in which the Celtics were up by over twenty going into the fourth quarter and then had a total meltdown. The Knicks , led by Patrick Ewing, made an incredible comeback to tie it and send it into overtime. If I remember correctly, the Knicks won it in double overtime, not triple. Plus, I'm strictly going from memory so I can't tell you the score.\n\nThe Celtics regrouped and went on to win their 16th championship .
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DAMN BI** ASS KOBE IS THE WORST BALL HOG THE NBA HAS EVER SEEN!!!\nHE TAKES SHOTS WITH 3 PPL ON HIM WHILE HIS TEAM-MATES ARE OPEN I THINK HE SUCKS!!!!!!!
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It was the most physical of this series (Heat vs. Mavs) but I've seen MUCH more physical games, and they usually involve the Detroit Pistons (hate 'em).  They're just plain dirty players.  Tonight it wasn't intentional roughness, not really.  By the way, it's FLAGRANT, not fragrant...lol (that was cute).
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At this point, Michael Jordan is the best player basketball has ever seen.  He was a consistent scorer, a crowd pleaser and incredible in the clutch...\n\nNo one has even matched that...
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SHAQ, everyone knows that.\nYao is HORRIBLE.
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michael JORDAN!!!!THE BEST BASKETBALL PLAYER!!!
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Wow!!! What a very informing question. Informing in the way that you made so much sense in your theory. I agree that the NBA cannot fix games in the sense of having a team just quit, but sabotaging a certain team with the crappy officiating now I can believe that. Coming from Utah and being a Jazz fan I can see this in every game since the refs totally hate Jerry Sloan. Not that you care or anything but Karl Malone said something interesting during an interview during all the hype of his statue and number retirement her In SLC i will quote the best I can he said,: I was out doing something other than basketball related things and ran into a NBA referee that refer ed many of the Jazz's games he told straight up that he was sorry that he coast the Jazz and Me a championship due to his bad  call in the finals" this was concerning the push off Jordan did on Bryon Russell. So this comment gives your theory a good leg to stand on.
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Let's face it, NBA was more exciting than ever because of MJ's era. Though there are also a lot of exciting players in the court, who can play tremendous and heart-pounding games but no one plays like MJ! The main reason I watched NBA before was because of Michael Jordan, we just simply love his game!
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I COULD NEVER PLAY BASEKBALL NO MATTER HOW MUCH I PRACTICED. I FINALLY GAVE UP ON BASEKBALL AND TOOK UP BASKETBALL. ALTHOUGH I BECAME A FAIR BASKETBALL PLAYER, I NEVER GOT OVER MY FAILURE AT BASEKBALL.
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It's silly to make such comparisons anyway. If you argue that Wilt Chamberlain was the best, I'd argue that the game wasn't as developed and the league was less athletic. Also, he commonly played against much smaller centers, including Bill Russell who was only 6-9 and about 215 lbs!\n\nThe game is just different in every era.  But, if I'm going to make an argument about why I think Jordan may be the best, I suppose I'd have to start with his 6 championship rings in 8 or so years during the 90s.  Of course, you'll say something like without Pippen and Phil Jackson he never won a title, in which case i'll list his incredible stats over the years and point out that he was typically a better-than-fifty percent shooter from the field to go along with his million ppg, but then you'll point out how Chamberlain averaged over 50 ppg during one season alone!\n\nThere's really no point because it's all about context.  Jordan did things that no one else had done and he revolutionized the game.  Is he the greatest? It's an irrelevant discussion that people tend to take overboard in my opinion.
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Sonic I have to agree with you. All these people who disagree with you are being hypocritical. Because on one side they say Kobe is a selfish ball hog for averaging so many points so he doesn't deserve MVP but have no way of arguing why Jordan averaging well over 30 did deserve it in a similar situation. They say Jordan passed. Jordan might of had like 1 more assist a game. They are being kind of ridiculous. Jordan was considered the best ever because he won scoring titles every year so everyone wanted to be like Mike. Kobe wins it once and he's the biggest ball hog ever and a rapist. Give me a break. Kobe seemed pretty unselfish to me at his talent level letting Shaq get most of the glory in the finals after he dropped 44 to beat the Spurs in the conference finals.