Jordan still averaged 31 points for the series, but the Knicks certainly slowed him down. The Bulls were then taken to six games against the Cavs in the Conference Finals. Instead, game 1 saw Jordan light it up from downtown hitting six threes, an unheard-of stat for how the game was played in the early 90s.
The Bulls and Blazers were tied at two games apiece when the Bulls put on the afterburners and won the next two, giving MJ his second ring.
Jordan had become a global phenom the previous summer starring on the infamous Dream Team in Barcelona. He was, however, exhausted. The Bulls routed the Hawks and the Cavs in the first two rounds of the playoffs, then met their new semi-rival in the Knicks for a shot at the Finals. The Knicks thought that this was the year— but they were mistaken.
After going down two games to none in the series, the Bulls dug deep, winning the next four to face the Phoenix Suns in the Finals. After going down two games to none, the Suns were never really in the series even though they went on to win two games. Then Jordan and the Bulls did the unthinkable: a three-peat for the ages. Unfortunately for everyone in the Bulls organization, the fourth would have to wait a few years.
A lot happened with Michael Jordan in between rings 3 and 4. First, after the tragic death of his father, Jordan walked away from the sport. Then, in the middle of the season, he was back. The result was an understandably rocky season. However, Jordan and the Bulls were primed to make their triumphant return to the top in The Bulls made history in more ways than one. At this point, it was almost a given the Bulls would make the Finals.
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Contact Us. The truth is they aren't even sufficiently showing Jordan's dominance. The thing is, that's only scratching the surface because when you look at relative value, Jordan stands out even more. I looked at two things to see the relative value of the team. First, I looked at how many Hall of Famers each player played alongside. Then, I looked at how much disparity there was between each player and the next best player on the team. The reason for doing it this way is to prevent instances where players played only one season with a Hall of Famer rather than playing an entire career.
For instance, Charles Oakley and Scottie Pippen were not the same. For Kobe Bryant, it's a little more difficult as most of the players he played with aren't even eligible yet. Only two players he played with are currently in the Hall of Fame, Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone, and both were only for one year a piece. Players with at least a percent chance of getting in as of now I counted as HOF years.
The first thing that pops out is the enormous difference between Russell and the rest of the players, even Kareem. He was teamed with more Hall of Famers than the other three combined. When you look at "his" 11 rings, this simply cannot be ignored.
That Celtic dynasty may very well have been the greatest team in North American professional sports. In , they literally had eight Hall of Famers playing at the same time. It was a different era with fewer teams, regional draft choice claims, and no free agency. The Celtics amassed great players on the team, and they were able to keep them without worrying about salary caps or cost.
Additionally, the league was only between eight and 14 teams deep at that time. It goes without saying that it's easier to win a league that has only eight teams, not In many ways, you can compare winning the division title now to winning the league then. Kareem's Lakers were somewhat in the middle.
While he was with Milwaukee , he didn't have a lot of Hall of Fame teammates. He had Oscar Robertson for four seasons, and that was it. He only won one title there. It was in the middle of his career that there was the merger—the league was considerably more developed when he retired than when he started.
It also merits stating that all but one of his championships came after the merger, where the "modern age" of basketball started.
Jordan and Bryant played in an era of free agency, which essentially means they weren't able to keep the same team together. Both players won with essentially two different teams in the sense of who was put around them. Their teams were also decisively thinner.
Note that I didn't say "thin" but "thinner. It should viewed as crediting Kobe and Jordan for their accomplishment. Now, another huge factor that needs to be accounted for is the second best player on the team. Since the merger, more than half of all championship teams have had at least two players among the top 15 in PER. Over 75 percent have at least two players in the top 25 and only the Rockets have won without at least two players in the top The "Robin" factor is undeniable, too.
Every player needs another star to complement them, and these four were no exception. However, were all "Robins" the same? I went through and took the PER and WS of all four players through each postseason where they won a title, as well as the best scores that didn't belong to them. I then found the difference in each case and added the scores together to come up with a "Robin Factor" to give an estimate of how much help each player received from their superstar teammates.
First, here are the average "Robin Factor" scores for each player and their teammates:. It's pretty evident by looking at the year-by-year Robin Factors that Jordan isn't benefiting from a skewed season by anyone in any way, shape or form. His six rings account for six of the highest seven scores. Furthermore, he's the only player who you can't argue was ever the "Robin" on a championship team. Clearly, in through , Shaquille O'Neal was the driving force.
For Kareem, it was because Magic Johnson was in charge. In fact, while Jordan has six finals MVPs, the other two have only two a piece. For Russell, on his first two championship teams and his last one, it is evident that he wasn't even the second best player on the team. That's not a swipe though. He was first a very young player on a team loaded with Hall of Famers and a veteran past his prime.
There were no Finals MVPs awarded then, but it's likely he could have won six.
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