8 straight but whatever, he's rolling.

Bulls would've got knocked out the following year. I think that everything they had was drained out(the documentary will probably prove that out). But, as MJ said repeatedly, they should have had the opportunity. What Reinsdorf allowed to happen, was unforgivable.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Who would have beaten them in 98-99?

Who would have beaten them in 98-99?

Who would have beaten them in 98-99?

Shortened schedule would have kept them fresh. I can't remember how serious Jordan's finger injury was and if it would have kept him out for part of the season.

Its unfortunate that we never got the chance to see if they wouldve run off 8 in a row but the 6 without a loss cemented the legacy. If they wouldve lost one of the next 2, been knocked out before even reaching the Finals it would be diminished . Jordan never lost when it counted the most . Never.

Bulls had better depth. Shaq would get 40 and 20 but Jordan and Pippen would neutralize Kobe. Kukoc, Kerr, etc would be too much on top of Jordan and Pippen.

and my free throw shooting

I really think that when I'm done I will take a bigger stand in social and political things. I look at someone like Jackie Robinson, and I see that he became a lot more outspoken after he left the game. Same with Hank Aaron. Because you have more time and energy to devote to causes.

I anticipate that happening to me, too. For me to make social decisions while I'm totally focused on doing my job, to make decisions based on what I've heard and not what I've investigated or tried to understand, I can't do that. I can, though, when basketball is done. I want to do that. But don't criticize me now.

ESPN republished an interview with Jordan from 1998. Good stuff in there. He even shows some love to Luc Longley of all people. He also said this:


I don't think that ever happened. He's still silent on most major social issues as far as I can tell.

Also, in ripping Krause and basically saying he should be fired, he also justifies the players taking over the role of GM move we'll see happen just 12 years later.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/290 ... stand-most

He gives money, but he's still silent. Can't make billions yelling "Black Lives Matter" I guess.

Yeah I’m not sure I’d be bringing up any non professional athletic accomplishments I may have had to the best player in his craft .

Who would have beaten them in 98-99?

Who would have beaten them in 98-99?

Spurs

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

yeah I don't know about that. I get the Bulls were getting older and the Spurs were coming into their own as a great team. But I don't think the Spurs were quite ready in that season to take the trophy from the Bulls. But damn I sure wish we got the chance to see.

Are we talking the 1998-99 season where we finished 13-37?

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

yeah I don't know about that. I get the Bulls were getting older and the Spurs were coming into their own as a great team. But I don't think the Spurs were quite ready in that season to take the trophy from the Bulls. But damn I sure wish we got the chance to see.

North never understood that Truman college basketball wasn't much. Didn't he try to squat and catch an angry Dave Stieb on the street as well?

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Charley Barkley was guest on ESPN’s ‘Coffee With Cal’, hosted by Kentucky head coach John Calipari, he was asked to share some of his favorite Michael Jordan stories.
Barkley went ahead and told an unreal story of the first time he played with Jordan on the Dream Team. Before a game against Puerto Rico, Jordan played 36 holes of golf, before demanding to guard the opposing point guard, because he trash-talked him in some newspaper, not even letting him dribble.

“So we’re playing in Portland, Oregon, in the tournament of the Americas. So me, Chuck Daily, David Robinson and Michael [Jordan] go out and play [golf] at the morning of the game. We’re not playing till like eight o’clock at night. We play 18 and Chuck says ‘ok, that was a great time’. Michael says ‘I’ma play another 18!’ We’re like ‘Michael, we got a game tonight.’ He’s like ‘Chuck, I’ll be fine, bla bla bla’.
So Michael comes back after playing another 18, we’re getting ready for the game. Chuck [Daily] says ‘hey Charles, you got this guy, Patrick or David, whoever started that night, Scottie you got this guy…’ and then Michael says ‘No, I got him!’ It was the point guard from Puerto Rico, and Chuck says ‘well he’s the point guard, Michael’. Michael looks at him and says ‘I said I got him! I read something he said about me in the newspaper, and I got him.’ And the whole room’s like ‘dude you just played 36 holes of golf’ and coach says ‘and you gon guard the point guard?!’
Michael would not let this little dude dribble. He’s talking to him. You know that stupid drill when you try to turn guys and you’re like ‘yo, you can’t go, turn the other way?!’ Michael had played 36 holes of golf and he’s talking to this guy the whole time. ‘Hey don’t you ever talk about me publicly again! I’m Michael Jordan! Don’t you ever talk about me!'”

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

I don't want to go to far here...this is a dude nearing his 60s who can't let something as trivial as a 30 year old sportsmanship oversight slide. Dude, you're 60 years old. Let it go.

Secondly, remember, for all his excellence on the court, this dude is a complete joke off the court. Look at the debacle as GM in DC where instead of pushing the development of his young players forward, he signed a 40 year old SG to hog the ball and a coach who made sure to run everything through that 40 year old. This stunted the development of his players before he got rightfully canned. Then he buys a dogshit franchise and says, you know what, I think I kind of like dogshit, and they've been dogshit ever since he took over.

Just to balance our perspective...

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.