It just doesn't get more cinematic than this. The NBA Finals. Less than a minute left. Down one. The opposing team has the ball. You steal it from their best player. You dribble down the court. Your defender picks you up. Less than ten seconds left. You hit him with the cross over and break him. You take the game winning shot. And you hit nothing but net. The game ends. Forty-five points. Six championships. Zero Finals losses. That's perfection right there.
Except from the fact that Michael Jordan has the worst performance in the history of the 3 point contest. He only made 5/30. Jordan only averages 28% from the 3 point line, while LeBron averages 34% from the point line (I am talking of Jordan's stats the seasons that the 3 point line was actually as far as nowadays, excluding 1994/1995, 1995/1996 and 1996/1997 when the 3 point line was put closer). In addition, Jordan never made more than 100 three points in a regular season, while LeBron James has 14 seasons with over 100 three points scored. James is not only a better 3 point shooter than Jordan. James averages more assists, rebounds and blocks per game than Jordan in the playoffs. Most complete player ever, Mr. James, LeBron James.
Jordan he's a best to way player by far so in reality he's a more complete player Unless you do not take into consideration the defensive aspect of the game
@@jameswalker6864 3pters wernt shit in the 90s I'm sick of you kids beating your meat to 3pt shooting! Jordan and the coaching staff admitted that they and Jordan thought It was irrelevant and he never practised them, do you think the greatest workers all time if he knew it was important he wouldn't practise it? He has I believe the 2nd most 3pters made in a finals half when a reporter asked him why he never took them he said "I don't like them, I feel like it doesn't show the other aspects of my game and what I can do" please not everything is about the 3pter even LeBron was absolute garbage at them when he was younger but as they became more relevant he practise more on them and got better
@@jameswalker6864 and stop lying bpg play-off average Jordan averaged more and with his bulls days he averaged more bpg in the regular season you are just assuming that LeBron is bigger than jordan and that fancy chase down blocks you assumed he averaged more, i can tell you never watched Jordan
This is a very good point. Players today are doing load management when MJ was doing game management! These players today haven't developed their games fully. MJ added his post game where he got to a spot catch one or two dribble bucket. Throw in catch and shoots from different spots and no wasted effort. It became not how many can I score, but how many do I need too?
You can really see how awful the defender was with allowing him to do the same move 4 times in a row. After that finally the defender was able to make 2 stops when he caught on. Also it looks like Utah was just cool with one on one coverages the whole game? Bad coaching imo.
@@hddngems3117, bad coaching? You are talking about Coach Jerry Sloan, one of the best ever coaches in the history of the NBA. Why dont you haters admit that MJ has perfected a very simple, but effective jump shot that is hard to stop, that even Kobe Bryant copied? Bad coaching? STFU! Dont hate on that generation, because they were the pillars who paved way to the present day basketball players and coaches and they have copied and learned from the best.
For me personally this game along with his performance the entire 98 season cemented MJ status as the GOAT. No pippen for much of the season, rodman's decline, age, fatigue and dead legs yet MJ willed a bulls team on fumes to the championship.
@Nice2787Oh yes he would. 70% of the league is absolute horseshit. That's why a Euroleague player can come in and up his scoring by almost 5 ppg, because NBA is filled with teenage athletes who can't play a lick of basketball. LeBron James went to Finals last season while facing OG Anubody, Bogdanovic, and two teenagers from Boston. Russell wasn't much of a scorer, but he was one of the better perimeter defenders in a league where defense was still allowed. Shawn Marion's corpse was able to shut down James in the Finals even though every rule was against it. Good try, but try to have a clue about this lovely game we call basketball. Hating someone with no clue about the game is just sad.
People said that when he scored against NBA players in an exhibition game while still in college. People said this when he scored 63 against Boston and lost. People said this when he beat an HIV positive Magic with ho Worthy or Scott to win the title. People said that when the repeated. People said that when they three peated. People said that when he came back in 1996. Point is they we're soooooooooooooooo eager to elevate him that if he farted as a rookie, they bloviated that this fart proves he is goat.
@@emmanuelenyinwa1443 I really don't mean to embarrass you but you are kind of asking for it, aren't you? Pippen played only 44 games that season and Rodman was a shell of his former self. MJ and the Bulls won 62 games that season. Also during the second three peat Jordan missed exactly zero games. No resting during the season, no missed games in the playoffs. He was also 35 years old and was asked to be the only scorer in a league where teams still played defense and games ended in the 80's. So in you SMH game, he scored more than half his teams points. Which was his job because Kukoc was the only guy in the team who had any ability offensively. Now to the most idiotic part of your nonsense: "He was scoreless in the 4th". I guess you were trying to say he scored 16 points in the fourth quarter, right? Because that's what he did. He also pulled them within one, stole the ball and put Russell on skates. If you believe a 200 pound man can throw another man the same size ten feet with his off hand while barely touching him, you probably believe in flat earth as well because physics don't concern you. But hey, thanks for your illuminating response. Maybe try being alive when the game was actually played or doing just a little bit of homework before you tell the whole world what a little idiot you are. Goodnight.
@@pk_fauxtaux Yea, they did a poll on the last 50 Finals about the top 10 worse supporting cast. MJ had 4 of the 10 team's, '93 Bulls '96 Bulls '97 Bulls And the '98 Bulls we're #1 as the worse in NBA history. If MJ didn't get it done that Shit usually did not get done.
"He's still Michael Jordan" the announcer states... truer words were never spoken. Game 6 away against a 60 win team, scoring hot. All the pressure in the world on you to deliver again, like you do usually do. I love when they show his misses with his highlights, you really appreciate it more that way. 35 years old, completing a three-peat, thats transcendent. Compare the rest to each other. There was nothing like him before and there hasn't been one close yet.
Yo Bo -How would Reggie on the Jazz be fair. Adding the best shooter in the league who just carried his team to the ECF and went 7 with MJ to a team with the best PF who came in 2nd for MVP, Stockton who was still one of the top 5 PG in the league still, had a very efficient season. That going against MJ and the bulls. Rodman averaged 3 and 8 in the finals , couldn’t move around the court like he once was able to, was a liability on defense most of the time and couldn’t score to save himself. Add that to Scottie who didn’t want play with the bulls anymore , Inefficient in the series and no longer an elite defender. It wouldn’t be fair for the time period.
Bk Crystal reggie miller on the rockets in 1994 would be a sight. Hakeem and Reggie going to gm7 and winning by a game winner with MJ avg 40 ppg, hakeem with 33 ppg and reggie with 21 ppg
@@wanilimbe That would be sick but i don't think even with reggie in 94 on the rockets, i do not think the bulls would need to go 7. Prime MJ isn't going to a game 7. If the Knicks took them to 7 and almost won in 6 by a finger tip, MJ would dominate and win that series.
He was giving the Jazz and their fans respect for making it "tough", even though it didn't go to a 7th game. Such a killer, there's never been a better closer in the history of the NBA than MJ.
I love how MJ always passed WHEN IT WAS actually the right play, but because he was the greatest scorer in the history of the game (forever) he shoot the ball because THAT was the right play. That’s my GOAT.
His movement, his footwork, he shot release all just flowed so effortlessly and smoothly, nothing ever looked forced, His fade away's are legendary the way he just hangs in the air. There has been nobody like him ever.
When Bob Costas says, “He’s STILL Michael Jordan”, as MJ nails another crucial midrange jumper….i felt that, especially now as a old man remembering seeing this live as a kid back in the CHI feeling as invincible as i felt-funny how a memory can trigger a rush of thought and emotion
Go look up Vinnie the Microwave Johnson, 1990 Finals, Game 5, Portland. That was a clutch sequence. This guy committed two fouls that weren't called. Nothing special.
m.ua-cam.com/video/zBOw0wGNxQA/v-deo.html Here's a REAL clutch 4th quarter, not going 15-35 and going SCORELESS in the 4th and having your teammates make up a 10 point deficit without and help from you.
It's hard to overstate how epic this performance was. Bulls up 3-2 in Utah and this is the era of the 2-3-2 playoff format. So if the Bulls lose, they play Game 7 again in Utah. They had just come off a grueling 7 game series against Indiana, they looked old and vulnerable. Utah had just swept the Shaq and Kobe Lakers 4-0 and it showed. Pippen goes down early with a back injury and is completely invisible, finishing with 8pts, 4asts, 3 rebs. It's all up to 35 year old Mike to bring them to the Promised Land. He drags the limping Bulls to victory with an all-time great performance when everything was going against them. Utah had all the advantages except for one... they didn't have the GOAT.
This series was just unbelievable. The last game, the way Jordan just killed it, and at the end scored then stole the ball and scored with that beautiful shot. I was a little kid when it happened, but I just remember thinking how amazing that whole sequence was. Watching him hit that last shot made you realize even more how unbelievable he was. Thing always seemed to go his way in basketball games, and it was no coincidence, that last sequence was just poetry or art. It was his other worldly skill and ability.
Jazz took em to 6 games in a very rigged series (shotclock violations that counted for the bulls, and against the jazz, very clear uncalled fouls, pushoffs, etc...) Don't argue with me on it til you actually go back and watch the full uncut series. All these bull shit calls and the jazz still managed to take it to 6 games. if the series was officiated without the purpose of marketing then the jazz would have won in 5 or 6.
@Makaveli Pac haha you're about to get exposed, bronsexuals like you are 100% biased when lebron brings a "bad" team to the finals but loses he gets padded on the back for trying but when Jordan plays a great team in the eastern conferance like a 67 win celtics team or a 60 win celtics team another year or a 57 win piston team or a 58 win bucks team then you guys bring him down even though it's the same retrospect, who does lebron play in the eastern conference
watch at 4:18 the kickout to Pip, then right before he even gets the ball back MJ starts his move fake to the right to get the defender thinking, then another fake to the left and shoots the fade away, utterly focused on making the shot not even worried about Hornacek closing in.
WHAT. A. LEGEND. it gives me goosebumps just watching these highlights. Part of my wishes I was born in the 80s so I could have witnessed this greatness with my own eyes. Lebum will never come close to this type of domination.
😂 David Stern was like "Michael get over here and pick up your annual Nba Finals MVP" lol thats like the same kid getting the gold stars in the classroom lmao GOAT Shit 🐐
Watched this game live in 98 at a friend's house, watched the replay many times, watched highlight videos a million times.. Still gives me goosebumps when MJ made the last shot..
I'm so glad I was old enough to witness this game and the era of the NBA. I never really watched basketball since this game I remember being so freaking nervous during this series and that Pacers series. I was 23 in 1998
Anyone with half a brain can clearly look at MJ an all the other great player's an clearly see a difference between them and him. IMO he's the Undisputed G.O.A.T
Mike was the perfect player. He could do everything in the game( hit free throws, threes, mid range, drive, play defense, distribute, rebound etc.) That's crazy.
why so serious? They ain't the two greatest in history,who's gonna defend mj,whos gonna defend pippen,whos gonna keep rodman off the boards Yeah nice try moron
eazyduzit5150 What the fuck doea shannon and nick got to do with anything I just said? If Lebron wasn't just as good as Jordan than why does this debate get talked about every single year?
Beyond amazing Jordan played like the champ he always is he knew he would win and his Final shot would be the final nail in the coffin for the Jazz he scored 45 points the same Jersey number he wore when he came back to the Bulls all the hard work and years of winning came full cricle MJ is truly The Greatest of all time 6-0 NBA finals history .
Wow 45 pts!!! Just realized this fact. He came back as number 45 second time around for the Bulls. What a circle of events. Truly god sent one of a kind!!!
The number 45 wasn’t so successful for him, but he knew it meant something so he wore it. Last game as a Bull, he scores 45, last shot for the Championship... its like a prophecy.
Jordan to Malone: “You trample on my turf and I’ll trample on yours” 😂😂 In Game 5 at the United Center, the Mailman who struggled in the previous 4 games delivered by scoring 39 points and singlehandedly sent the series back to Utah. MJ retaliated in Game 6 by upstaging Malone at the Delta Center, scoring 45 points including 3 crucial plays in the last 42 seconds . Down by 3, Jordan went for a quick layup, then double-teamed Malone and stripped him of the ball and up the other end, beat Russell with a crossover before delivering “The Shot” to cement his legacy as the GOAT bringing the Bulls their 6th NBA title making it 6 Finals, 6 Finals MVPs and 6 Titles.
Jordan’s last game as a Bull: 23 points in the first half, 45 by the end of the game. That’s too perfect. And Freaky. Plus the last second shot to seal the title to go 6 for 6 in the finals. If you wrote that as fiction nobody would find it believable.
It's crazy to say this considering MJ scored 45, but Russell actually defended him really well in this game. I've watched the full game back so many times and apart from maybe a couple of plays, there was really not a whole lot Russell did wrong, defensively. He funneled Jordan to help, didn't give him any space, kept him out of the lane (as well as anyone could hope to do), and contested really well. In short, he made him work for every single point, which is really all you can do. MJ is just MJ.
@@iamthenight8683 he bringing up stats to determine who's better lmao, guess Draymond better than kyrie now because of you didnt know Draymond has better stats
This is like an anime or movie. Just so unreal, as mentioned, Magnificent perpormance by MJ. He's aged but his will is 100%. Saving his energy and taking only the right shots. Wow. Just wow. And you see how Jazz respects MJ when he speaks, they listen.
Legendary. Conserve yourself on defense. Ball hog on offense. That keeps the pressure on you and allows your teammates to play stifling defense. He took all the pressure , responsibility for his team. That allowed them to be energized on the boards and on defense. Plus by him playing 1 on 1 so much --- he had all the jazz players disengaged and standing around for half the game. Then MJ gets the steal very timely. This was beyond words. I'm VERYY impressed by the 1 assist and 1 rebound 45 point stat line. ZERO SARCASM. that's what champs do. Good players just PLAY good and hope they win. And have balanced box scores. Legends do only what it takes to win. They accept all pressure. Not try and involve everyone and pass the buck ... This the finals. Use your teammates to win. But don't just get them involved to get them involved ... I'm talking to you MODERN KING. Enter your championship , NEVER LOSE no matter what wisdom years by playing like this man- Mike And you'll win 3 more chips
This is how you close-out a championship game: With 3:00 left, misses a shot but gets back to steal a fast-break attempt. Scores 8 points in the last 2:07 of game. Gets the STEAL before hitting the game-winner WITHOUT using a time out to draw up a play. Bahahahaha!
Uh, no. Jordan was 15-35 with ONE REBOUND AND ONE ASSIST. He was scoreless in the 4th until the last minute when he had a whopping FOUR points. In fact, he was so bad he was benched by Jackson with his team down 10 in the 4th, but they made up that 10 point deficit with hero baller Mike waving a towel on the bench. You can worship the guy, but you don't get to make up facts.
@@emmanuelenyinwa1443 He also had 4 steals including that clutch steal against Malone. You also have to put in consideration that MJ was exhausted in this game as he carried the team since Pippen was suffering from a back injury (look at 6:38 on how slow Pippen got up) but was forced to play and only scored 8 points. Kukoc was the only player other than MJ who had double digit in points (15 pts)
@@TheMrKobeBryant2012 no he has a point: if LeBron was in MJ's shoes, he would get 29 pts, 13 rebounds and 11 assists and get blown out by 40 points. Then he would put on a cast and complain about his teammates and his supposed injured hand after getting blown out in game 7 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Legend I’m going to use your “Alpha” or “Beta” BS that you most likely live by ,because you’re a “beta”. “Alphas”are able to choose what they like. “Betas” Judge people of what they choose to like. Smh damn “Beta”.
I like that he acknowledges the Jazz fans, gives the Jazz credit for making the finals competitive, and you hear the Jazz fans applaud and cheer him. Shows respect once the game is done, gives them hell when playing.
I remember in 1998 a high school buddy and I was watching this I just had graduated out of high school that Friday because game 6 was on Sunday although I supposed to graduate two years earlier that's because I was skipping school a lot but I remember that last shot me in the high school buddy ran outside and star to cheer
For younger people who didn’t witness this real time... the media pressure in 98 was immense, all that was EVER talked about for 85% of that season was - would this be Chicago’s final season together. It was constant. Despite all that pressure, he delivered like this.
Overall, Michael Jordan played a great game. Not only did he hit the game-winning shot, he also scored something like 45 points for the game. It was a perfect ending for a great guy like Michael.
After he hit that game winner you notice there was no obnoxious celebration, no histrionics, no stupid hand gestures or dances or bow and arrow shooting shit. Just daps up Scottie and his teammates and goes to sit on the bench like it's all business. Yet another reason why Michael is the fucking GOAT and none of these corny stars today can compare.
Probably the most impressive championship win of his career. Pippen had a bad back, was out most of the season. Rodman was declining. Only had one player off the bench on 10 ppg. Jordan carried the Bullls in this final series. The final 3 minutes is the most clutch and ruthless you well ever see in sports.
That last sequence sums up Jordan career in a nutshell. I'm gonna make a GREAT defensive play followed by an unbelievable offensive play " That's Michael Jordan.
Shaheryar Khan Right now LeBron literally has no mid range game. stats.nba.com/player/2544/ Most of his shots come from within 5 feet, that is why his FG% is so high, for the ENTIRE 2017-18 SEASON, LeBron shot 157 midrange shots compared to 547 within 5 feet lol.
Product of Crew yeah I have seen him alot , he can get hot from that turnaround jumper but he doesn't trust it enough to make it his go too shot. He needs to add more, can't keep banging with centres when he is 36 37
yeah , he could do it if he is willing , Hero ball is easy to fall in love with especially if he has average team mates .Lets hope he plays wihtin a system with young two way players from now on , would be exciting to see
It just doesn't get more cinematic than this. The NBA Finals. Less than a minute left. Down one. The opposing team has the ball. You steal it from their best player. You dribble down the court. Your defender picks you up. Less than ten seconds left. You hit him with the cross over and break him. You take the game winning shot. And you hit nothing but net. The game ends. Forty-five points. Six championships. Zero Finals losses. That's perfection right there.
Except from the fact that Michael Jordan has the worst performance in the history of the 3 point contest. He only made 5/30. Jordan only averages 28% from the 3 point line, while LeBron averages 34% from the point line (I am talking of Jordan's stats the seasons that the 3 point line was actually as far as nowadays, excluding 1994/1995, 1995/1996 and 1996/1997 when the 3 point line was put closer). In addition, Jordan never made more than 100 three points in a regular season, while LeBron James has 14 seasons with over 100 three points scored. James is not only a better 3 point shooter than Jordan. James averages more assists, rebounds and blocks per game than Jordan in the playoffs. Most complete player ever, Mr. James, LeBron James.
Jordan he's a best to way player by far so in reality he's a more complete player Unless you do not take into consideration the defensive aspect of the game
James Walker stats stats stats.... gets you a nice basketball card... Michael Jordan got you rings... keep the stats, and I’ll keep the rings
@@jameswalker6864 3pters wernt shit in the 90s I'm sick of you kids beating your meat to 3pt shooting! Jordan and the coaching staff admitted that they and Jordan thought It was irrelevant and he never practised them, do you think the greatest workers all time if he knew it was important he wouldn't practise it? He has I believe the 2nd most 3pters made in a finals half when a reporter asked him why he never took them he said "I don't like them, I feel like it doesn't show the other aspects of my game and what I can do" please not everything is about the 3pter even LeBron was absolute garbage at them when he was younger but as they became more relevant he practise more on them and got better
@@jameswalker6864 and stop lying bpg play-off average Jordan averaged more and with his bulls days he averaged more bpg in the regular season you are just assuming that LeBron is bigger than jordan and that fancy chase down blocks you assumed he averaged more, i can tell you never watched Jordan
His footwork was flawless
His Game was flawless, But I agree the Footwork was a masterpiece in itself.
Right
So fun to watch him when the ballbis in his hand..its like a sure bucket already
Imagine if Jordan air balled
Nikil Pakianathan he did
This man was fearless. 🐐 Never afraid to take the tough shots. Win or Lose.
lil.dripptv yeah right play passing to bum ass Rodney hood right
Doesn’t make him the goat
Austin Yipeo great statistical comparison👍👍 if oni all the retarded lbj haters cud see tis
David Mutchler Lebron has made many game winners in playoffs or finals lol
Charles Jiles exactly. Those haters who say lebron aint clutch nid to watch more games😑
If you really watch him, you can clearly see that every move, every play, every shot is with purpose...no wasted energy ... the man was smart
Well stated
This is a very good point. Players today are doing load management when MJ was doing game management! These players today haven't developed their games fully.
MJ added his post game where he got to a spot catch one or two dribble bucket. Throw in catch and shoots from different spots and no wasted effort. It became not how many can I score, but how many do I need too?
His mechanic，post moves，iq，etc is just phenomenal
You can really see how awful the defender was with allowing him to do the same move 4 times in a row. After that finally the defender was able to make 2 stops when he caught on. Also it looks like Utah was just cool with one on one coverages the whole game? Bad coaching imo.
@@hddngems3117, bad coaching? You are talking about Coach Jerry Sloan, one of the best ever coaches in the history of the NBA. Why dont you haters admit that MJ has perfected a very simple, but effective jump shot that is hard to stop, that even Kobe Bryant copied? Bad coaching? STFU! Dont hate on that generation, because they were the pillars who paved way to the present day basketball players and coaches and they have copied and learned from the best.
More than half the points are from him... Insanely unstoppable
The highest percentage of points by a player for his team in an NBA Finals closeout Game...ever! 51.7%!
For me personally this game along with his performance the entire 98 season cemented MJ status as the GOAT. No pippen for much of the season, rodman's decline, age, fatigue and dead legs yet MJ willed a bulls team on fumes to the championship.
@Nice2787 still better than getting killed by J Terry in my humble opinion.
@Nice2787Oh yes he would. 70% of the league is absolute horseshit. That's why a Euroleague player can come in and up his scoring by almost 5 ppg, because NBA is filled with teenage athletes who can't play a lick of basketball.
LeBron James went to Finals last season while facing OG Anubody, Bogdanovic, and two teenagers from Boston. Russell wasn't much of a scorer, but he was one of the better perimeter defenders in a league where defense was still allowed. Shawn Marion's corpse was able to shut down James in the Finals even though every rule was against it. Good try, but try to have a clue about this lovely game we call basketball. Hating someone with no clue about the game is just sad.
People said that when he scored against NBA players in an exhibition game while still in college. People said this when he scored 63 against Boston and lost. People said this when he beat an HIV positive Magic with ho Worthy or Scott to win the title. People said that when the repeated. People said that when they three peated. People said that when he came back in 1996. Point is they we're soooooooooooooooo eager to elevate him that if he farted as a rookie, they bloviated that this fart proves he is goat.
By the way, Jordan was a Westbrook like 15-35 with ONE rebound and ONE assist in this game. Goat, alright. SMH.
@@emmanuelenyinwa1443 I really don't mean to embarrass you but you are kind of asking for it, aren't you? Pippen played only 44 games that season and Rodman was a shell of his former self. MJ and the Bulls won 62 games that season. Also during the second three peat Jordan missed exactly zero games. No resting during the season, no missed games in the playoffs.
He was also 35 years old and was asked to be the only scorer in a league where teams still played defense and games ended in the 80's. So in you SMH game, he scored more than half his teams points. Which was his job because Kukoc was the only guy in the team who had any ability offensively.
Now to the most idiotic part of your nonsense: "He was scoreless in the 4th". I guess you were trying to say he scored 16 points in the fourth quarter, right? Because that's what he did. He also pulled them within one, stole the ball and put Russell on skates. If you believe a 200 pound man can throw another man the same size ten feet with his off hand while barely touching him, you probably believe in flat earth as well because physics don't concern you.
But hey, thanks for your illuminating response. Maybe try being alive when the game was actually played or doing just a little bit of homework before you tell the whole world what a little idiot you are. Goodnight.
6 out of 6. Amazing, legend.
And amazing team, don't forget them !!
3 out of 9. Overrated bum lol
@@TheMrKobeBryant2012 😂😂😂😂
@@pk_fauxtaux Yea, they did a poll on the last 50 Finals about the top 10 worse supporting cast. MJ had 4 of the 10 team's,
'93 Bulls
'96 Bulls
'97 Bulls
And the '98 Bulls we're #1 as the worse in NBA history.
If MJ didn't get it done that Shit usually did not get done.
Avril Lavigne who did MJ beat in the finals? Dirk? Steph? Duncan? Nope. He beat Barkley. That’s the best player he played in the finals.
"He's still Michael Jordan" the announcer states... truer words were never spoken. Game 6 away against a 60 win team, scoring hot. All the pressure in the world on you to deliver again, like you do usually do. I love when they show his misses with his highlights, you really appreciate it more that way. 35 years old, completing a three-peat, thats transcendent. Compare the rest to each other. There was nothing like him before and there hasn't been one close yet.
Fullmetal it’s so legendary how he says „he‘s still Michael Jordan“. Gets me every time!
Lebron would not have made that simply because he is not MJ
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This was actually the toughest road to the finals Jordan has ever pulled off.
Victor Fernandez // Bigdestroyer Pacers took them to 7 games in the ECF too.
@@felix3033 Backthen I do kind of wish some of the players moved around. Imagine Reggie on the Jazz. Now thats fair.
Yo Bo -How would Reggie on the Jazz be fair. Adding the best shooter in the league who just carried his team to the ECF and went 7 with MJ to a team with the best PF who came in 2nd for MVP, Stockton who was still one of the top 5 PG in the league still, had a very efficient season. That going against MJ and the bulls. Rodman averaged 3 and 8 in the finals , couldn’t move around the court like he once was able to, was a liability on defense most of the time and couldn’t score to save himself. Add that to Scottie who didn’t want play with the bulls anymore , Inefficient in the series and no longer an elite defender. It wouldn’t be fair for the time period.
Bk Crystal reggie miller on the rockets in 1994 would be a sight. Hakeem and Reggie going to gm7 and winning by a game winner with MJ avg 40 ppg, hakeem with 33 ppg and reggie with 21 ppg
@@wanilimbe That would be sick but i don't think even with reggie in 94 on the rockets, i do not think the bulls would need to go 7. Prime MJ isn't going to a game 7. If the Knicks took them to 7 and almost won in 6 by a finger tip, MJ would dominate and win that series.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what a GOAT looks like. GOAT of his era and GOAT of all eras. Simply greatness.
goat of all eras is Satan..ask his bitch LL Cool Bitch
How can he be the goat of all eras when he hasn't played in this era
Lebrons era are gettinh triggered.
Jayr Eckert Lebron is the goat of his era lmao what you mean
Legend of the greatest NBA Players All time
He was giving the Jazz and their fans respect for making it "tough", even though it didn't go to a 7th game. Such a killer, there's never been a better closer in the history of the NBA than MJ.
History of Sports
He never allowed a game 7.
What about Kobe ?
@@brianlin6109 this wasn't about Kobe.
@@brianlin6109 he allowed a game 7 in the finals bruh
Final minute of the game. No Timeouts called. Ain’t nobody drawing up nothing. Let’s Play‼️ Real NBA
steve kerr style!!! wonder why steve call time out when game is on the line!!!now i know couz he has d best couch in the league
Watch the full game there was timeout called in the last min.
8:20 They called a timeout are you blind or stupid
Well, the timeout basically give jordan the damn ball and get out of the way lol
king djack3000 he’s talking about after the steal. Teams nowadays would call a timeout and draw up a play
First half 23 pts matching his number, end of the game 45 matching his number coming out of retirement. Damn this dude is a magician 🐐 🐐
Damn
And now 23 likes to your comment to match Jordan's number.
@@Advent616 🤣
And that my friend is not a coincidence
Still the most watched game in NBA history. And what a finish. MJ was just indomitable.
I love how MJ always passed WHEN IT WAS actually the right play, but because he was the greatest scorer in the history of the game (forever) he shoot the ball because THAT was the right play. That’s my GOAT.
The Guy naw Kobe
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Kobe is a shit scorer compared to MJ. I would like to hear your arguments.
Dat would be Kevin Durant
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Devin Bridgeman lol know who has the most missed shots in nba history????
KOBE!
I will never get tired of watching this. A true classic.
I remember having a disk of MJ' s greatest games and this was one of them. Watched it like 100 times as a kid
that last shot should be the nba logo. That was poetry in motion mj just killed it. goat
I swear!!!
MJ lettin the family stay back home so he can focus on the game
Now thats what u call focus, determination..
That man wanted to party afterwards lmao I don’t doubt that him wanting to focus was a factor but he knew what was coming after.
When he's focused, he's in the zone.
MJ’s wife wanted his family to stay home because the Jazz was hostile
Same with Caruso not attending his sisters wedding. They are the real GOAT
and at the other end,we see jamal murray bringing his gf into the bubble(she is the real mvp tho)
Damn.......that fade away is master piece........
His movement, his footwork, he shot release all just flowed so effortlessly and smoothly, nothing ever looked forced, His fade away's are legendary the way he just hangs in the air. There has been nobody like him ever.
Phil Jackson: "Oh my God Michael! That was beautiful!"
😂😂
Man how many coaches say that to their players? MJ is incredible
@@_cesarjoseph certainly not lebron lol
stauf09 thank you
Fax
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion”
Good guote, I need to live by this
When Bob Costas says, “He’s STILL Michael Jordan”, as MJ nails another crucial midrange jumper….i felt that, especially now as a old man remembering seeing this live as a kid back in the CHI feeling as invincible as i felt-funny how a memory can trigger a rush of thought and emotion
8:20 - greatest clutch sequence in the history of the game. Period
a offensive foul
@@SuperHarris59 Nah, that was for a regular season game. This was for the championship.
Go look up Vinnie the Microwave Johnson, 1990 Finals, Game 5, Portland. That was a clutch sequence. This guy committed two fouls that weren't called. Nothing special.
m.ua-cam.com/video/zBOw0wGNxQA/v-deo.html
Here's a REAL clutch 4th quarter, not going 15-35 and going SCORELESS in the 4th and having your teammates make up a 10 point deficit without and help from you.
Game. Blouses.
The last 3 plays of MJ never gets old.. 🐐
No one can touch this legacy!😍
It's hard to overstate how epic this performance was. Bulls up 3-2 in Utah and this is the era of the 2-3-2 playoff format. So if the Bulls lose, they play Game 7 again in Utah. They had just come off a grueling 7 game series against Indiana, they looked old and vulnerable. Utah had just swept the Shaq and Kobe Lakers 4-0 and it showed. Pippen goes down early with a back injury and is completely invisible, finishing with 8pts, 4asts, 3 rebs. It's all up to 35 year old Mike to bring them to the Promised Land. He drags the limping Bulls to victory with an all-time great performance when everything was going against them. Utah had all the advantages except for one... they didn't have the GOAT.
This series was just unbelievable. The last game, the way Jordan just killed it, and at the end scored then stole the ball and scored with that beautiful shot. I was a little kid when it happened, but I just remember thinking how amazing that whole sequence was. Watching him hit that last shot made you realize even more how unbelievable he was. Thing always seemed to go his way in basketball games, and it was no coincidence, that last sequence was just poetry or art. It was his other worldly skill and ability.
MJ, Larry Bird and Kobe were fearless to take the shot at the end of the game, they are the 3 cluchest players in my book!😎
who cares about stats, its about chucking shots at the end right
Jordan will always be the 🐐! Hell No other dude can bring his team to the promised land. 2 three peats in 1 decade and in 1 team!
Bullseye.. MJ the 🐐 knows how to close a game and that pose says everything
Jordan owns the state of Utah
Jazz took em to 6 games in a very rigged series (shotclock violations that counted for the bulls, and against the jazz, very clear uncalled fouls, pushoffs, etc...) Don't argue with me on it til you actually go back and watch the full uncut series. All these bull shit calls and the jazz still managed to take it to 6 games. if the series was officiated without the purpose of marketing then the jazz would have won in 5 or 6.
@@Pepperoni10125 OK BOOMER
Mister Multirotor your definitely a salty jazz fan
@@Pepperoni10125 Ur sooo right!
Jordan pushed off
That steal and shot in the last and the most important moment of his Bulls career make me speechless everytime I watch this for 20+ years.
The greatest player to ever touch the basketball.
*now thats how a true goat plays in an elimination game.*
NBA Players That wasn't an elimination game for him. It was a close out game.
to eliminate the jazz from the playoffs, u get the point
+Makaveli Pac
Kyries performance was better... 40 points. Clutch shot for the dagger
Fortnite😂😂
@Makaveli Pac haha you're about to get exposed, bronsexuals like you are 100% biased when lebron brings a "bad" team to the finals but loses he gets padded on the back for trying but when Jordan plays a great team in the eastern conferance like a 67 win celtics team or a 60 win celtics team another year or a 57 win piston team or a 58 win bucks team then you guys bring him down even though it's the same retrospect, who does lebron play in the eastern conference
watch at 4:18 the kickout to Pip, then right before he even gets the ball back MJ starts his move fake to the right to get the defender thinking, then another fake to the left and shoots the fade away, utterly focused on making the shot not even worried about Hornacek closing in.
WHAT. A. LEGEND.
it gives me goosebumps just watching these highlights. Part of my wishes I was born in the 80s so I could have witnessed this greatness with my own eyes. Lebum will never come close to this type of domination.
😂 David Stern was like "Michael get over here and pick up your annual Nba Finals MVP" lol
thats like the same kid getting the gold stars in the classroom lmao
GOAT Shit 🐐
Fr bro
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@@bobbyvalentino6773 don’t say lebron 🤨
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Lebron never even came up in my head lol
@@bobbyvalentino6773 better not be
Man Jordan was so skilled man it’s beautiful to watch back on video the moves and footwork
GREATNESS. MJ THE GOAT FOREVER.
Watched this game live in 98 at a friend's house, watched the replay many times, watched highlight videos a million times.. Still gives me goosebumps when MJ made the last shot..
It's awesome that Jordan's last shot was an ankle breaker
What MJ did on the last 3 plays of a Finals road clinching victory will forever make him the 🐐!!
Word
Truly no.1 GOAT for me after watching this. Mann so unstoppable
Never get tired of watching this.
Love the respect he showed to the Utah fans in his speech-- class act.
I'm so glad I was old enough to witness this game and the era of the NBA. I never really watched basketball since this game I remember being so freaking nervous during this series and that Pacers series. I was 23 in 1998
Legends never die!!!🏀🏀🏀🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅
On everything, MJ is the greatest player of all time and ima lebron fan
MUI 13 Ima huge Lebron fan too and I can’t that MJ is the 🐐. Lebron is #2 tho
@@youtubeaccount2396 why you think that.
11:33 - The greatness of the 90's era ended there.
I'm 23 but I think Jordan the 🐐 real talk.
I'm 22 and same
well you smart then
Anyone with half a brain can clearly look at MJ an all the other great player's an clearly see a difference between them and him.
IMO he's the Undisputed G.O.A.T
Tf does age matter
@@PathOfDistrAction tf does your comment matter
23 points at halftime, 45 in the game 👀🐐
After 22 yrs, this game is still the best game ever. MJ is still the best basketball player of all time.
Mike was the perfect player. He could do everything in the game( hit free throws, threes, mid range, drive, play defense, distribute, rebound etc.) That's crazy.
When you realize Lebron lost as many Finals
As Jordan won
10k subscribers Without any videos Your profile picture matches your comment perfectly lol
why so serious? And yet he still can't win when it counts
Austin Yipeo nice try but no
why so serious? They ain't the two greatest in history,who's gonna defend mj,whos gonna defend pippen,whos gonna keep rodman off the boards
Yeah nice try moron
I Am The Night and yes you idiot thonpson is a top 10 3 point shooter of all time
How dare you new heads compare LeBron to Jordan.. Jordan was breath taking.. most poised killer ever
You cant compare them, They play differently, How bout we just call them both GOAT
Black Bond I’m 70+ and I think Lebron better
untouchable 1000
Umm but he ain’t though, just bc LBJ groupies like Shannon or Nick think he is doesn’t mean he’s equal to Mike.
TheRightPerson
Naw...
Jordan is the goat and Mr. 3-6 is just a great player who wants to be like Mike, how bout that..
eazyduzit5150 What the fuck doea shannon and nick got to do with anything I just said? If Lebron wasn't just as good as Jordan than why does this debate get talked about every single year?
Beyond amazing Jordan played like the champ he always is he knew he would win and his Final shot would be the final nail in the coffin for the Jazz he scored 45 points the same Jersey number he wore when he came back to the Bulls all the hard work and years of winning came full cricle MJ is truly The Greatest of all time 6-0 NBA finals history .
Wow 45 pts!!! Just realized this fact. He came back as number 45 second time around for the Bulls. What a circle of events. Truly god sent one of a kind!!!
The number 45 wasn’t so successful for him, but he knew it meant something so he wore it. Last game as a Bull, he scores 45, last shot for the Championship... its like a prophecy.
Jordan to Malone:
“You trample on my turf and I’ll trample on yours” 😂😂
In Game 5 at the United Center, the Mailman who struggled in the previous 4 games delivered by scoring 39 points and singlehandedly sent the series back to Utah. MJ retaliated in Game 6 by upstaging Malone at the Delta Center, scoring 45 points including 3 crucial plays in the last 42 seconds . Down by 3, Jordan went for a quick layup, then double-teamed Malone and stripped him of the ball and up the other end, beat Russell with a crossover before delivering “The Shot” to cement his legacy as the GOAT bringing the Bulls their 6th NBA title making it 6 Finals, 6 Finals MVPs and 6 Titles.
Was this an actual quote by MJ?
Jordan’s last game as a Bull: 23 points in the first half, 45 by the end of the game. That’s too perfect. And Freaky.
Plus the last second shot to seal the title to go 6 for 6 in the finals. If you wrote that as fiction nobody would find it believable.
It's crazy to say this considering MJ scored 45, but Russell actually defended him really well in this game. I've watched the full game back so many times and apart from maybe a couple of plays, there was really not a whole lot Russell did wrong, defensively. He funneled Jordan to help, didn't give him any space, kept him out of the lane (as well as anyone could hope to do), and contested really well. In short, he made him work for every single point, which is really all you can do. MJ is just MJ.
GOAT
Austin Yipeo nobody cares
@@iamthenight8683 he bringing up stats to determine who's better lmao, guess Draymond better than kyrie now because of you didnt know Draymond has better stats
name calling is rude jordan does not look.like a goat
@Austin Yipeo LMFAO ur a fool for bringin stats into this if were goin by Stats Russell Westbrook will be the goat 10 years from now
The GOAT of GOATS.. when you think of excellence in sports there’s no way this man’s name isn’t brought up
Ali
@@benoh3417 Ali is in there too. He's the original GOAT, but he was supplanted by MJ.
Thank you MJ for this perfect ending!😘
Greatest of all time 6-0 nuff said 🙃
Black Lyfe Bill Russel has 11 rings nuff said
@@Kilooma if jordan didn't retire twice he would be 12-0 nuff said
@@LEC1857-6inFinalsGotReverseSwe no he wouldnt
@@Kilooma Bill Russell had 5 HOFers in an 8-team league with Wilt and Willis Reed being the only one in his way nuff said
The Chosen One it was a joke he was bringing up rings so I brought up Bill Russel
Even till today, Jordan’s skill at that time still looks flawless offensively.
Poetry in motion.the real goat
This is like an anime or movie. Just so unreal, as mentioned, Magnificent perpormance by MJ. He's aged but his will is 100%. Saving his energy and taking only the right shots. Wow. Just wow. And you see how Jazz respects MJ when he speaks, they listen.
Legendary.
Conserve yourself on defense. Ball hog on offense.
That keeps the pressure on you and allows your teammates to play stifling defense. He took all the pressure , responsibility for his team. That allowed them to be energized on the boards and on defense.
Plus by him playing 1 on 1 so much --- he had all the jazz players disengaged and standing around for half the game.
Then MJ gets the steal very timely.
This was beyond words.
I'm VERYY impressed by the 1 assist and 1 rebound 45 point stat line. ZERO SARCASM. that's what champs do.
Good players just PLAY good and hope they win. And have balanced box scores.
Legends do only what it takes to win. They accept all pressure. Not try and involve everyone and pass the buck ... This the finals. Use your teammates to win. But don't just get them involved to get them involved ...
I'm talking to you MODERN KING.
Enter your championship , NEVER LOSE no matter what wisdom years by playing like this man- Mike
And you'll win 3 more chips
MJ all day
This is how you close-out a championship game:
With 3:00 left, misses a shot but gets back to steal a fast-break attempt.
Scores 8 points in the last 2:07 of game.
Gets the STEAL before hitting the game-winner WITHOUT using a time out to draw up a play. Bahahahaha!
Uh, no. Jordan was 15-35 with ONE REBOUND AND ONE ASSIST. He was scoreless in the 4th until the last minute when he had a whopping FOUR points. In fact, he was so bad he was benched by Jackson with his team down 10 in the 4th, but they made up that 10 point deficit with hero baller Mike waving a towel on the bench. You can worship the guy, but you don't get to make up facts.
@@emmanuelenyinwa1443 He also had 4 steals including that clutch steal against Malone. You also have to put in consideration that MJ was exhausted in this game as he carried the team since Pippen was suffering from a back injury (look at 6:38 on how slow Pippen got up) but was forced to play and only scored 8 points. Kukoc was the only player other than MJ who had double digit in points (15 pts)
Nah free ft when somone closes him out on the baseline....bc no d on mj allowed more like how to close a game out
Emmanuel you have no idea how dumb you sound.
@@TheMrKobeBryant2012 no he has a point: if LeBron was in MJ's shoes, he would get 29 pts, 13 rebounds and 11 assists and get blown out by 40 points. Then he would put on a cast and complain about his teammates and his supposed injured hand after getting blown out in game 7 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm a Lebron fan but since I'm now 39 years old, meaning I watched Magic , Bad Boys and MJ I have to admit that... man that was 100% legendary
39 years old and a Lebron fan? Hahahahaha beta male
The Legend I’m going to use your “Alpha” or “Beta” BS that you most likely live by ,because you’re a “beta”. “Alphas”are able to choose what they like. “Betas” Judge people of what they choose to like. Smh damn “Beta”.
I realized that this GOAT discussion been over since 1998.🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
Who's here after hearing ESPN is releasing the Jordan documentary early?
I like that he acknowledges the Jazz fans, gives the Jazz credit for making the finals competitive, and you hear the Jazz fans applaud and cheer him. Shows respect once the game is done, gives them hell when playing.
Pippen played this game w/ a very bad back. He cant even jump.
I remember in 1998 a high school buddy and I was watching this I just had graduated out of high school that Friday because game 6 was on Sunday although I supposed to graduate two years earlier that's because I was skipping school a lot but I remember that last shot me in the high school buddy ran outside and star to cheer
For younger people who didn’t witness this real time... the media pressure in 98 was immense, all that was EVER talked about for 85% of that season was - would this be Chicago’s final season together. It was constant. Despite all that pressure, he delivered like this.
Some of these shots he made are just so damn hard. He’s just too good man
Game on the line. Jordan. Game 6.🐐🏆
Jordan would average 40 in today's league don't @ me
50
He's still scores 40-50 points when he's in Wizard. That's late 30's and early 40' version of Mike.
And Lebron barely averaging 27 pts in todays NBA cant even win a scoring title talking about im the greatest ever lmfao.
He would average at least 50-55 of how soft it is in this era
Hed average 25. Defense was shit on his era.
Overall, Michael Jordan played a great game. Not only did he hit the game-winning shot, he also scored something like 45 points for the game. It was a perfect ending for a great guy like Michael.
I love this comment section mj is just the 🐐🐐🐐
That fadeaway was just something of beauty! It wasn't just the same fadeaway shit either...there were multiple angles with it. Absolute killer
Man is literally scoring more than half of the team's score..
Bulls was so great that day, team is full of superstars: Scottie, Steve Kerr, Rodman but Jordan still is the key, the one to championship
Of course we will get to witness great players making great plays again. However we will never again witness greatness being achieved by the greatest.
Ladies & Gentlemen This Is..
Michael Jordan 🐐
The best of the best handsdown 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐 I was 16 stills remember this game…
Jordan career is like a movie! And that shot at the end was just great movie ending
I like how fast the announcer said MJ's name and full information
After he hit that game winner you notice there was no obnoxious celebration, no histrionics, no stupid hand gestures or dances or bow and arrow shooting shit. Just daps up Scottie and his teammates and goes to sit on the bench like it's all business. Yet another reason why Michael is the fucking GOAT and none of these corny stars today can compare.
Probably the most impressive championship win of his career. Pippen had a bad back, was out most of the season. Rodman was declining. Only had one player off the bench on 10 ppg. Jordan carried the Bullls in this final series. The final 3 minutes is the most clutch and ruthless you well ever see in sports.
There's a monumental difference between wanting to win and refusing to lose. That's why Jordan is the GOAT.
That last sequence sums up Jordan career in a nutshell. I'm gonna make a GREAT defensive play followed by an unbelievable offensive play " That's Michael Jordan.
Old man MJ the best version of him , king from the midrange.
Lets see if lebron adds more from the post and the mid as he gets older
Shaheryar Khan Right now LeBron literally has no mid range game.
stats.nba.com/player/2544/
Most of his shots come from within 5 feet, that is why his FG% is so high, for the ENTIRE 2017-18 SEASON, LeBron shot 157 midrange shots compared to 547 within 5 feet lol.
Product of Crew yeah I have seen him alot , he can get hot from that turnaround jumper but he doesn't trust it enough to make it his go too shot.
He needs to add more, can't keep banging with centres when he is 36 37
Shaheryar Khan Exactly, I assume he’s smart enough to realize that and develop a mid range game which will be exciting to see.
yeah , he could do it if he is willing , Hero ball is easy to fall in love with especially if he has average team mates .Lets hope he plays wihtin a system with young two way players from now on , would be exciting to see
Not the best version of him what ru talking bout lol
The GOAT OF ALL GOATS, I agree
He got on fire when the refs got em for traveling, especially since they were letting Malone get away with the same thing. That shot @ 2:40 is insane
MJ and The Bulls are the reason I love basketball
This real greatness
This is my goat 🐐 absolutely flawless
Power DF his 3 point game was meh but Jordan was a cold blooded assassin. Could sink any shot he wanted.