Who would win - Jordan's 1996-1998 3 peat Bulls or Shaq's 00-02 3 peat Lakers?
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Da Bulls.  Jordan's Bulls will win for all the reasons you mentioned.  The Bulls had their 3 headed monster centers, plus Rodman did a great job double teaming Shaq, the bulls had better shooters and would out-muscle the Lakers.  \n\nHowever, the Lakers might have a chance if they had home court and if they played under today's rules - no hand checking and those new foul rules inside 2 minutes of the game - that would prevent the hack a Shaq.  But if they played back in the 90's when basketball was a physical game - the Bulls would win in 6.  If they played under today's rules - who ever gets home court would win in 7 games.\n\nPlus who are these dummies who keep saying Kobe will out work MJ???   and that MJ wasn't a great defensive player!!! MJ was a defensive player of the year, Nine-time All-Defensive First Team, top ten all time in steals, and he even once blocked Patrick Ewing inside the paint during the playoffs.  Kobe was never defensive player of the year and and Kobe has struggled against Rubin Patterson, Correy Maggetie, and Bobby Jackson.  Kobe would have a tough time trying to score against Jordan - cause Jordan wouldn't have to get into foul trouble cause Harper and Pippen could share in the duties of guarding Kobe.\n\nAnd Jordan never scored 81 cause back when he was in his prime there was a little thing called Hand Checking.  Basketball was a more physical game back we he played.
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1) Michael beats Kobe - They're even offensively, but no one can lock a man down like Jordan when he wanted to. \n\n2) Shaq over Wilt - Shaq would muscle Wilt...he's much bigger and more physical than the big dipper\n\n3) Wade over Drexler - I saw Drexler play...he would be eaten alive by Wade one on one, he was more of a wing player on a running team, not so much a one on one type guy with moves an dribbling ability. \n\n4) LeBron and the Doctor....wow....that's a tough one. I think I'd have to go with LeBron, cuz he'd muscle Doc inside.\n\n5) Magic would back Vince down and drop little skyhooks over his head all day long. Vince would be a tough guard for Magic though....I think Erv would take him in the end....because Erv's a winner and Vince is a L-O-S-E-R! ;) \n\n6) Gervin would punish Chauncey billups! He would pour in so many fingerolls that Chauncey would have to play without undies because his jock would be flying off everytime Gervin had the ball!\n\n7) Dominique I think takes the cake over mello....just because Nique was a potent scorer....he wasn't much of anything else, but he could score like a champ....kind of a really ppor mans jordan....actually he was just Isiah Rider with a brain! I take Nique.
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1.  1995-1996 Chicago Bulls: They're the only team thus far to achieve 70 wins.\n2.  Red Auerbach's Boston Celtics from the 1958-59 season to 1965-66 season:  8 straight NBA championships. \n3.  1996-1997 Chicago Bulls: A 69-13 record has tied the 1972 Lakers and 2nd championship in a row.\n4.  1972 L.A. Lakers: First team to achieve a 69-13 record, the best record for 24 seasons.\n5.  1999 to 2001 L.A. Lakers: They're simply the most dominant team during that span with Kobe and Shaq with Phil Jackson as coach.\n6.  1991 to 1993 Chicago Bulls: 1st team to win 3 straight since the Celtics of Auerbach.\n7.  2002-2003 San Antonio Spurs: They ended the Laker dynasty.\n8.  2003-2004 Detriot Pistons: Playing the game the right way.\n9.  L.A. Lakers of the 80's: Arguably the most exciting team to watch.\n10.  Boston Celtic of the 80's: Just overshadowed by Magic and Kareen by a little bit.\n11.  1988-89 and 1989-1990 Detriot Pistons: The era of the Bad Boys.\n12.  1997-1998 Chicago Bulls: The last dance of great dynasty.\n13.  Bill Russell coached Celtics in the 1967-68 to 1968-69 season.\n14.  1969-70 New York Knicks\n15.  1993-94 and 1994-95 Houston Rockets\n16.  1982-83 Philadelphia 76ers\n17.  Minneapolis Lakers (early 50's)\n18.  1977-78 Washington Bullets\n\nI can only come up with 18.  :)
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Detroit Pistons.. cause they have "d"... and remember the "Jordan Rules" that the old pistons used 2 beat them in the early 90's?  And the Pistons are a team, not a duo of jordan and pippen...
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MJ has better numbers - this is the only season that Kobe even comes close to Jordan's numbers.  This is Kobe's first scoring title, Jordan has won a few.  Jordan is a 6 time finals MVP and so far a much, much better defensive player.  Jordan lead the league in steals once, and was always in the top 10 (not counting his years with the Wizards).  Kobe was only the second best player on his team - so you should be asking who is better, Scottie Pippen or Kobe Bryant.  Those two are in the same league, compare Jordan to Shaq, and Kobe to Pippen cause Shaq won all 3 finals MVP's.\n\nEven Jordan's dunk contest was better than Kobe's.  We still see highlights of Jordan's free-throw dunk, and dunk from the side, but none from Kobe's cause his dunks weren't all that good (that was one of the worst dunk-contestes ever - I think that's why they didn't have one the following year).\n\nI understand Jordan had Pippen, Rodman, Harper, Kuckoc, Kerr, Paxson, Armstrong, and some other good players - but so what - Jordan was still the best and almost always game MVP.  Only in a few playoff games did Pippen score more than Jordan, and only once Kukcoc socred more.  Lots of times Robert Horry or Shaq, and ever Fisher, or Glen Rice, score more than Kobe in the playoffs.\n\nI think Kobe is the best player today, and his single best season may top Jordan's single best season, but it is near impossible for him to top Jordan's career.  Someone would have to win 7 titles and 4 mvp's to top MJ's career.  \n\nDon't you remember a few years ago people were saying Randy Moss will be considered to be better than Jerry Rice, and then a couple years later they said that about TO.  Last year Jerry Rice was on dancing with the start and still had almost more touchdowns than Moss and TO combined - Moss had a crappy year and TO didn't even play.  They may have had one great single season better than any of Rice's seasons, but their career fell way short of Jerry Rice's career.
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Jordan... VC's dunks have all been improved on. Dr J was a great dunker, but Jordan can alwayz one up him, Dawkins wouldnt win, he was too big on power dunks, Nique lost to Jordan, Kobe only won one dunk contest, and it was a crappy one. Spud Webb only won because he is so short, just like that 5'9" guy who won this last one.
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KOBE. Scores more and is a better defender.
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First of all, Kobe Bryant is the best player since Michael Jordan, and even in their primes, if they played one on one...I would lean towards Kobe...he plays a totally different game than anyone else...he takes it to the rim when he has to, he dishes it out when he needs to, he goes up for the rebounds, and most importantly of all...he puts the team on his shoulders and and carries them to victory...\n\nPeople will tend to say that without shaq Kobe wouldn't have gotten those rings...that may be true but without Shaq, the Heat wouldn't be the number two team in the Eastern Conference...he's a one in a 100 years player, there won't be another like him anytime soon (shaq that is...) Kobe can't do it all, all the time though...he's proved he can win games squarely by himself...ala 81 point games and numerous 60 point outings as well...one more player would make the Lakers a true title contender as well...The thing about Jordan was that he made the players on his team better...well if you look at the players around Kobe, he makes them better as well, Lamar Odom is good but he's not almost triple double average good...Kwame Brown never really produced until he got to LA, now he's almost averaging a double double, smush parker is an up and coming point guard...wonder why?  They need a true big man to push them over the top...\n\nI'm glad you asked this question because I feel the exact same way, but I've gotten used to all the Kobe haters.  He's a one in a life time player and everyone knows that, it's just that he got a bad rap after the whole rape incident and it was proclaimed that he ran phil jackson out of town, but miracuously he is back coaching them...it was "supposedly" his doing was the reason Shaq wanted a trade...people just don't understand, Jordan came around and was a one in life time player that never made mistakes...except reportedly using drugs...but everyone looked past that because he was a nice guy...that's not the case with Kobe, he's not a jordan esque player, but he's just as good....\n\nOh by the way, just tell whoever comes at you with this arguement...ask them who else averages 35.0 points a game...see what they say about that...
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Look at the stats. Points per game, rebounds, FT%, FG%...take any major basketball stat you want. Jordan blows Kobe away. Not to mention the fact that Bryant is a jackass who couldn't work with his coach and his teammates. Jordan never caused a problem like that. And now Jordan has so many rings he can barely hold his hands up. \n\nJordan is better. It's like comparing a prime rib to a McDonald's burger. Sure, they're both good...but the prime rib is clearly better.
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duke, but u know kobe is da best. LAKERS ALL DA WAY
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Pippen was better.  \n\nPippen was a starter, Horry has only had 5 seasons in which he's started more than 60 games... in Horry's other years, he's started 29, 5, 0, 1, 24, 26, 1, 16 and 3 games. (Horry has been in the league for 14 seasons).\n\nHorry has hit some big shots in the playoffs, but has only averaged 8.7 ppg in playoff competition, Pippen's career playoff average is 17.5 ppg.\nPippen is also one of the best defensive forwards ever to play the game... (Horry is an excellent defender as well, but more so in the post...Pippen is a great open-court defender as well).\n\nPippen is also a better passer and a better ball-handler. Pippen could play guard if he had to...Horry most definitley could not.\n\nScottie has averaged 35 min/game over his career, Horry 25 min/game. But Scottie averaged 39 min/game in the postseason, while Horry's postseason min/game is at 30.  So both played more in the playoffs than in the regular season. That tells us a lot about the quality of play for both men.\n\nIn spite of his 'clutch' shots (which occured in earlier rounds), Horry has never been a truly key player on a championship team...Olajuwon was by far the MVP of the Rockets, Shaq and Kobe for the Lakers, and Duncan for the Spurs... \n\nMeanwhile, it was actually Pippen's ability to step up as a player that put the Bulls over the top...Jordan wasn't getting any better than he had been, but when Pippen stepped up his game in 1991, the Bulls began their little dynasty.  So while Jordan was, deservedly, the MVP of their championship finals, Pippen stepping up his game was really the key.\n\nJordan certainly would never have won a title without Pippen.  But I think it's safe to say that at least some of Horry's teams would have won the title, with our without him.\n\nHorry never made the all star team... Pippen made the All Star team seven times.  That's a pretty big gap right there.\n\nI wouldn't mind having Horry on my team any day of the week, but Pippen was a better basketball player.\n\nRings are important, but they are a team accomplishment, in spite of what a lot of people say about MJ winning these rings by himself. \n\nA lot of people keep trying to put Pippen down by pointing out that he never won a ring without Jordan... they think they're making a brilliant point, but they fail to point out that the reverse is also true... Jordan never came close to a ring without Pippen either.\n\nTough to argue that Bill Wenington was better than Wilt Chamberlain, just because he 'won' three rings to Wilt's two.\nAnd, to compare a couple of TNT analysts, Kenny Smith was nowhere near as good as Charles Barkley, despite the fact that Smith was able to ride Olajuwon's coat tails to a couple of titles..
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past- michael jordan\npresent- shaq
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Yeah, I wish the Lakers will win. But Kobe will have to shot more than usuall. Though the critics will get the best of him, I think Kobe and the Lakers can do it. I can take Detroit winning as long it's not Miami. I won't also mind Spurs winning as long it's not Miami.
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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.
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Shaquille O'Neal, no doubt about that. He's bigger, stronger, and has more experience. I think Yao might be faster though. However, they both tire fast and I think they are both bad free throw shooters. Also, Shaq has more championships and was once a part of one of the best teams ever in the NBA - The Los Angeles Lakers!
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You go with Jordan. He's the better pure shooter, and would probably make the shot. However, if there was about 10 seconds left, I wouldn't mind giving the ball to Kobe because he has the ability to drive and create his own, open shot. As a Phoenix Suns fan, I've seen this happen to us many times in games when we cannot stop him at all.
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Well sure, one pair has a championship and the other doesn't.  But in the future that could change, since Yao is on his way up and Shaq on the way down.  Nobody can beat Wade at the moment, though.