And some people still have the balls to say that MJ faced no good defenders in his career. 90's basketball was a low scoring era because defense was a real deal back then. Now you have a lazy James Harden not defending at all and who ever is guarding him won't even put a hand on him and will just watch his ass dribble like an idiot while both teams fall asleep.
You saw Starks play like this and it made you feel you could do better at something. Jordan gets the best of Starks and the Knicks but the fact that a guy with mostly heart could take him on and do well every once in a while made you believe we all have it in us to be greater at something.
Have it now he had a lot of heart but he was a very good player as well... very athletic, knockdown shooter, good defender, solid size for a combo guard at 6’3(especially in that era)... it wasn’t mostly heart... he was far from a bum
Both teams were locked in their respective seeds. Ewing, MJ and Pip have been playing ball non-stop since October '91 (Olympics included). Every star including Starks was nursing injuries, yet, they all PLAYED! Check out this concept: Fans pay their hard-earned money to see the league's biggest superstars battle it out on NATIONAL TV, on the world's biggest stage, in the NBA's most heated rivalry at the time, and nobody is resting! lol. It made it even better that they met again in the playoffs. Incredible.
blade brown - and back then, you had a couple of back to back games in the playoffs. It was different and more difficult. I remember playoff games where MJ was just burned out and fatigued and played poorly for his lofty standards because he played the night before. Of course, he would come out like fire in the next game with a few days rest. Today's commercialized game is much easier for these guys.
I'll give John Starks a ton of credit. He really played Jordan tough in those games. He gets his finger dislocated, runs to the team trainer, gets it popped back into place, and returns and finishes the game. If LeQueen James had gotten his finger dislocated, he would've whined and left the floor.
What I love about watching games like this is that it dispels the narrative that MJ wasnt a good passer. He was a great overall player and quite frankly the best playmaker on all the bulls teams
Starks was always known for getting finger dislocations, it’s quite painful watching the trainer put it back in, but the man had a great threshold of pain
MJ earned every bucket that day, shout out to Starks he is gritty as they come. Nd the Knicks supporting cast was hitting when necessary, this era of basketball is always fun to watch.
Anytime you start to think so and so might be as good or some people think even better than MJ, just go back and watch MJ highlights and then you’ll quickly realize he’s still the 🐐 by a good ways.
Damn, I forgot Starks was a pretty good defender on top of his offensive game. He even blocked Jordan several times and stole a lot of good passes from opposing teams and whatnot. I guess I'm used to idiot know it alls who think they know everything about basketball telling me he sucks just cuz they dwell upon the one game he choked. Yet they don't think about any of the other games he basically carried the Knicks though. Even more and better than Ewing who no one seems to say anything bad about. Also I realized that Jordan even fucked up on the court at times. I have been so used to saying his game was so perfect and hearing everyone else and their mommas say it too, I forget he's also human. A still live otherworldly human, but he's still just human like the rest of us. Starks will forever be my #1 favorite Knick of all time and I'm gonna honor that nigga as one of my top 5 favorite shooting guards of all time too. He deserves better than what the public says.
This was the NBA that I watched and enjoyed, and not the current NBA which has kind of pushed me away from the sport. I still enjoy watching these old games, though, it's so great they are available. Download them while you can!
I really think that the only people who could survive that particular NBA back, then was a non-complaining, LeBron James, Giannis, of course, and maybe even Draymond Green
That's style Michael Jordan playing the game is beautiful he was doing everything in that game number 1 in the league stealing rebounding I mean he was doing everything
Can you imagine how frustrated and how shut down the splash brothers (Curry and Thompson )would have been in that era vs this ferocious and lock down defense of the KYK's. and 'm pretty sure that Smith would have put the clamps on Durant....I mean Pippen was locked down....smothering and suffocating defense, where it's difficult to even get the ball.
Starks has always been my favorite player. Definitely not the best player, but the dude played with all the heart in the world. Changed my three point shot to his when I was a teenager and 30 years later, I still do it. Makes it difficult to follow up on rebounds though. 😂
Two just absurdly talented defensive teams. Perhaps two of the best ever. I mean, man oh man, it may not be as pretty as 32'ers but, this was mean, good ball. Love this.
John starks was a warrior and made MJ earn every bucket. When your greatest like MJ you cound only hope to make him work for every basket and perhaps make him shoot a lower percentage, and starks did that on many occasions. MJ loved JOhn Starks
Forever Respected how hard Starks played Defense against MJ... He didnt lay down like most people did .. They bowed to MJ .. Where as Starks knew in his heart MJ is the best on the planet.. But let me just play my heart out anyway.. Forever RESP3CT
Those were some great times back then, the Knicks at that time were my absolute favorite team (definitely not the post Dolan franchise) Starks was a ferocious defender even though a prime Rolondo Blackman was probably one of the best defendors of Jordan there was. Charles Smith was absolute booty, I don’t know why the Knicks didn’t work harder to retain X-Man. As much as I love Starks, once MJ did that lean in the post, you were pretty much finished.
The Knicks won the season series, and choked in the ECF that year after leading 2:0. Charles Smith should have been crucified for getting stuff 4 times under the basket in Game 5
When Charles Smith got blocked those 4 times I’m sure he was highly embarrassed. Professional athletes don’t let themselves get blocked consecutively like that. Although New York won this game and won the season series, but Chicago always proved to be better in the playoffs.
starks blocked jordans fadeaway, stole the ball from him, dunked on him, even got under his skin and jordan wanted to fight starks. stop the nut riding.
I believe the knicks had a better record than chicago that year but didn't matter, chicago still owned the east... hell owned the league at that time. The 92 semi finals series between chicago and NY is probably the best and most intense series of all time
One of the many Good Games Starks has against Jordan history and the Media covered up. Jordan shot horrible this game at 10-28 and was clamped. Refs tried to free him up tho. The same way they did when this powerful Knicks team dismantled them first 2 games in the ECF before the Big Machine that Pushed Jordan decided to step in.
Jordan fouls terribly and gets away with them.....Starks owned Jordan and frustrated Jordan....more than the irritating Jazz...and Malone.antics.....that´s not basketball....its theater....or cheating....Starks was up to the task better than anybody else back in the day....I wonder if Starks could have fit in with the Pistons....interesting thought...
@Ulysses432 still here you butt hurt mj groupie trynna restore his destroyed fame and dignity??? Tje xomment above is 101 per cent accurate, jordan was fouling terribly all career long and wad getting away with it, he is the most fake and manufactured idol of all time!!! Starks was kicking his ass you cheerleading loser of chi town!!
I'm Chicago to my core. Hated starks w a passion. He was the most annoying player. Knicks bulls rivalry was legendary but Jordan pip n Chicago could never be beat in finals in 90s.we ruled.
well did you see the game or even the highlights? Starks guards Jordan. Jordan rarely guards starks. I guess the bulls didnt want to tire out his airness by chasing Starks around screens all day long..
Cwm368 MJ shot 10-28 this game and in the playoffs against the Knicks that year he shot 40% for the series. WTF are u talking about "tough D never bothered him?"
Highschool LBJ better than Overated prime MJ W asf I swear MJ is overrated asf bruh. Keep this between us he better than MJ, but on other channels I'ma say MJ better bro
m Khan EXCUSES like a typical MJ fan. During the 1996 finals he shot like 41% and the next year in the playoffs for a full series against the Heat, he shot 38% against tough defense, look www.basketball-reference.com/playoffs/1997-nba-eastern-conference-finals-heat-vs-bulls.html
Michaeljordan by lifting weights so much lost a step he became big way too big his arms or not as long as before and his speed was a little bit slower so most of those guys we're able to guard him a little bit much better because the weightlifting then he had to realize that he has to change his game to a post-op top of game there were no flashy dunks penetration dribbles and fancy moves it was more now of a mostly michaeljordan with slow-speed and kids like just Starks we're able to Garden much better because of that but he needed the muscles to withstand a little bit more the physicality of the game but at the same time he f***** up his game so much that he became a Slowpoke he still was a monster but guys like John Starks were able make a dent in his offense
LOL Who the hell is John Starks? We have guys in this league today like Durant, Curry, Leonard, LeBron, Westbrook and John Wall.... yet Michael's biggest competition was some overrated scrub named John Starks who was barely 6'1, 180 pounds. I'd like to see Jordan try those same moves with Jimmy Butler or Kawhi guarding him. He'd get locked down 🔒🔒🔒
Kevin Costner Wizards jordan was still schooling kobe, t-mac, Allen iverson, Vince carter, ray allen, Dirk, KG, and duncan all in their primes while he was a 40 year old man and was still having mulitple 40 to 50 point games. So it wouldn't matter.
HE GOT GAME23 Yeah....he averaged 20 points a game with a 47 TS%....which is pretty bad. MJ was a high volume shooter on a bad team back in 2002. Stop overrating his abilities. Yeah, he was old but he was an objectively below-average player. Yet you bring it up like it's a positive.
HE GOT GAME23 but yeah...if John Starks is able to do this to Michael, imagine what would happen if he faced Kawhi Leonard and John Wall? LOL it would be abuse. Starks doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as these guys. MJ was just ahead of his time, that's all.
And some people still have the balls to say that MJ faced no good defenders in his career. 90's basketball was a low scoring era because defense was a real deal back then. Now you have a lazy James Harden not defending at all and who ever is guarding him won't even put a hand on him and will just watch his ass dribble like an idiot while both teams fall asleep.
Always enjoyed the Starks Jordan rivalry. Starks was a very good defender and great competitor.
Starks-Miller rivalry was also very intense
Simon Patterson facts
@@ThePistolp23 fu
Don't forget starks choked in game 7 against Houston 😂
@@nastynas7 2 for 18.
You saw Starks play like this and it made you feel you could do better at something. Jordan gets the best of Starks and the Knicks but the fact that a guy with mostly heart could take him on and do well every once in a while made you believe we all have it in us to be greater at something.
Have it now he had a lot of heart but he was a very good player as well... very athletic, knockdown shooter, good defender, solid size for a combo guard at 6’3(especially in that era)... it wasn’t mostly heart... he was far from a bum
Both teams were locked in their respective seeds. Ewing, MJ and Pip have been playing ball non-stop since October '91 (Olympics included). Every star including Starks was nursing injuries, yet, they all PLAYED! Check out this concept: Fans pay their hard-earned money to see the league's biggest superstars battle it out on NATIONAL TV, on the world's biggest stage, in the NBA's most heated rivalry at the time, and nobody is resting! lol. It made it even better that they met again in the playoffs. Incredible.
blade brown Exactly...Well said Sir!
blade brown back when "fans" were actually fans, and not getting corporate handouts tickets to impress clients ....
Even if there's Playstation 4 by that time, I'd still choose to watch their game over PS4
blade brown - and back then, you had a couple of back to back games in the playoffs. It was different and more difficult. I remember playoff games where MJ was just burned out and fatigued and played poorly for his lofty standards because he played the night before. Of course, he would come out like fire in the next game with a few days rest.
Today's commercialized game is much easier for these guys.
Man, the Knicks really had a squad back then. Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason (R.I.P.), Doc Rivers... 60-22
Just not good enough. But damn good.
Even as a native Chicagoan, that whole 93 season was "yeah, let's get to Bulls/Knicks in the playoffs".
This basketball I miss.
Kuirt Dukes Hand's down the best Era of basketball...EVER!
RichieValinz this is a REGULAR SEASON game too!
Those were the days!
the younger generation really MISSED OUT! This was back when basketball was physical, where "no blood no foul" was real
I'll give John Starks a ton of credit. He really played Jordan tough in those games. He gets his finger dislocated, runs to the team trainer, gets it popped back into place, and returns and finishes the game. If LeQueen James had gotten his finger dislocated, he would've whined and left the floor.
I'll take these low scoring games over any high scoring games today, this is just so fun and beautiful to watch
What I love about watching games like this is that it dispels the narrative that MJ wasnt a good passer. He was a great overall player and quite frankly the best playmaker on all the bulls teams
I miss watching the 90's 😔
I remember my eyes would not look away from start to finish, Tough games.
Bind the finger and back to court.That is 90's real basketball.
8:16
God bless the 90s ! Everything was there, balling, music, movies ! Im 37 yo and proud !
Anthony Davis would have been out for the season 😂
Starks was always known for getting finger dislocations, it’s quite painful watching the trainer put it back in, but the man had a great threshold of pain
MJ earned every bucket that day, shout out to Starks he is gritty as they come. Nd the Knicks supporting cast was hitting when necessary, this era of basketball is always fun to watch.
Anytime you start to think so and so might be as good or some people think even better than MJ, just go back and watch MJ highlights and then you’ll quickly realize he’s still the 🐐 by a good ways.
Two of the greatest players for their teams. I wish this basketball was back again.
Damn, I forgot Starks was a pretty good defender on top of his offensive game. He even blocked Jordan several times and stole a lot of good passes from opposing teams and whatnot. I guess I'm used to idiot know it alls who think they know everything about basketball telling me he sucks just cuz they dwell upon the one game he choked. Yet they don't think about any of the other games he basically carried the Knicks though. Even more and better than Ewing who no one seems to say anything bad about. Also I realized that Jordan even fucked up on the court at times. I have been so used to saying his game was so perfect and hearing everyone else and their mommas say it too, I forget he's also human. A still live otherworldly human, but he's still just human like the rest of us. Starks will forever be my #1 favorite Knick of all time and I'm gonna honor that nigga as one of my top 5 favorite shooting guards of all time too. He deserves better than what the public says.
Amen brother.
Those were the good ole days...LOL! Knicks vs Bulls was always a battle.
I've noticed that MJ truly jumps at least 3ft off the ground when he releases his jumpers. The best jump shooting form of all time.
48 inch vertical. Think about that a moment. That’s where the hang time comes in. He got up higher and took longer to come down.
I don't think today's nba could handle all the contact of yesterday's NBA.
NOPE KD, MELO, and HARDEN would be average with this era.
@@jamesschultz3706 They'd be wanting a foul for every handcheck and whining about any hard contact when coming down the lane.
Not gonna lie JOHN STARKS was a BEAST at 6,5 when he was on his game 🏆💯🔥
He was really 6'2", but don't tell the NBA that.
Starks was tougher than his "can't breathe on him" refereeness...
good times when you had intense defense. Stark was a great defender and had a good game, MJ passed so much out of double teams. That guy was smart.
All those hand checks and bumping, backing down a defender and being allowed to push back
This was the NBA that I watched and enjoyed, and not the current NBA which has kind of pushed me away from the sport. I still enjoy watching these old games, though, it's so great they are available. Download them while you can!
I really think that the only people who could survive that particular NBA back, then was a non-complaining, LeBron James, Giannis, of course, and maybe even Draymond Green
Watched this as a child in New York City...90s ball was so great... But admit they weren't as fast as the league is today
ASMR CARBON They were... Just there was pain on the other side waiting for them
I hated the Knicks and Starks... but look at his story coming up. He's the people's champ.
Much respect to you for acknowledging a rivals greatness. That's real class!👍🏾
Dyam I remember this, I was barely 8 hahahah Starks had heart!
That's style Michael Jordan playing the game is beautiful he was doing everything in that game number 1 in the league stealing rebounding I mean he was doing everything
Starks with the spark!! John SPARKS!! went from bagging groceries to being a formidable rival to Jordan and the Bulls.. lol!!
Can you imagine how frustrated and how shut down the splash brothers (Curry and Thompson )would have been in that era vs this ferocious and lock down defense of the KYK's. and 'm pretty sure that Smith would have put the clamps on Durant....I mean Pippen was locked down....smothering and suffocating defense, where it's difficult to even get the ball.
Starks would shut down Curry.
Starks had a very good game on this one. He only got up for MJ/Bulls games unfortunately.
Before there was Stephen Curry.... There was John Starks making it hard on Jordan MADD and the Bulls
John Starks was formidable.
Well said. Short and sweet.
2:16 !!! Wow that's why I love Starks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No doubt, baby! No doubt.
I like how everyone just ignores the fact that Jordan has two injuries on his shooting hand LOL🤣
John stark hold his own ... frfr
Real.
Competitive.
Basketball.
#BullsVsKnicks!
I missed them Golden Years
today's Knicks could use guys like Starks, Ewing, Oakley and Mason...
Starks has always been my favorite player. Definitely not the best player, but the dude played with all the heart in the world. Changed my three point shot to his when I was a teenager and 30 years later, I still do it. Makes it difficult to follow up on rebounds though. 😂
Loved watching the 90's Bulls - Knicks. Such great basketball back then. Today is a yawn comparatively.
The hart ❤ of the Knicks was John Starks in the 90s .He never got Boo bye the Knicks fans, we always saw how hard he played 🎉🎉
Two just absurdly talented defensive teams. Perhaps two of the best ever. I mean, man oh man, it may not be as pretty as 32'ers but, this was mean, good ball. Love this.
John starks was a warrior and made MJ earn every bucket. When your greatest like MJ you cound only hope to make him work for every basket and perhaps make him shoot a lower percentage, and starks did that on many occasions. MJ loved JOhn Starks
Forever Respected how hard Starks played Defense against MJ... He didnt lay down like most people did .. They bowed to MJ .. Where as Starks knew in his heart MJ is the best on the planet.. But let me just play my heart out anyway.. Forever RESP3CT
Why did the NBA change from this style of play? Strong defense, body-checking, etc...
Good question. And people actually say the league was diluted at this time and the quality was worse than what it was today.
why? the league no longer has Michael Jordan
New commissioner, too many divas playing, the owners having no balls...
How good was Stark's?
pat riley starks and ewing vs phil jackson mj and pippen..dont forget the superstar coach both teams had
Stark... epic
Those were some great times back then, the Knicks at that time were my absolute favorite team (definitely not the post Dolan franchise) Starks was a ferocious defender even though a prime Rolondo Blackman was probably one of the best defendors of Jordan there was. Charles Smith was absolute booty, I don’t know why the Knicks didn’t work harder to retain X-Man. As much as I love Starks, once MJ did that lean in the post, you were pretty much finished.
Who are the imposters wearing Knicks uniforms and playing in the Garden in 2019?
La grandeza de Michael jordán inigualable😊
John Starks 👏👏👏👏👏👏 amazing
The Knicks won the season series, and choked in the ECF that year after leading 2:0. Charles Smith should have been crucified for getting stuff 4 times under the basket in Game 5
Wu Liwei even my Pop-the biggest Bulls' fan you'll likely meet-said he felt bad for Charles....
Smith stopped Smith stopped Smith stopped again!
Kels3618 Keljo Classic call by marv
When Charles Smith got blocked those 4 times I’m sure he was highly embarrassed. Professional athletes don’t let themselves get blocked consecutively like that. Although New York won this game and won the season series, but Chicago always proved to be better in the playoffs.
They didn’t choke. They got beat. There is a difference. By saying they choked, you discredit what the Bulls did. ✌🏾
8:40 ewing has always been like the big brother for John starks 😊
John Starks development and toughness on display. The Jordan era emerged and killed one great Knock team. It hurts.
MJ was quoted saying Starks was his nightmare and the fiercest competitor he ever faced.
I thought he said that about Mitch Richmond
Nice upload but honestly, why didn't you include Ewing's BRUTAL MONSTER dunk on THE WHOLE Bulls squad??
Great win NY Knicks!! 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
3:37, thanks for clarifying it was the same right wrist, I thought it was the other right wrist he had.
Flight [] 🤣🤣
Starks's jersey should be retired
Damn even the supporting players were good on both teams.
Didn't Starks pull off that play that's called "The Dunk" over Horace Grant and the famous MJ in this game?
I think that was 93.. or during the playoffs.. this was regular season..
No. This game was their last meeting in the regular season. "The Dunk" happened in Game 2 of the ECF.
Oh yeah, Starks dunked on the two of them 3 months earlier, @@coachcarter8238, right?
Starks was good with occasional very good moments. JORDAN never was bothered by Starks.
starks blocked jordans fadeaway, stole the ball from him, dunked on him, even got under his skin and jordan wanted to fight starks. stop the nut riding.
Dam! The Knicks beat them 3-1 in season games then had a 2-0 lead on them in the playoffs. Then Michael Jordan activated kill mode. SMH.
and took the bulls to 7 games the year before if im not mistaken.. and took the rockets to game 7 in 94... smh.. shit sucks..
Ain't Going To Lie Chicago Bulls Got Whooping Their Asses Tho.
Not a Easy job from Starks
Cool !!
NBA at its best
Starks was a perfect backdroper for Michcheal.
I believe the knicks had a better record than chicago that year but didn't matter, chicago still owned the east... hell owned the league at that time. The 92 semi finals series between chicago and NY is probably the best and most intense series of all time
Y’all know that John Starks was always getting pissed on by MJ
Not only Starks everyone in that Era did.
John Starks was MJ’s nightmare
I might b wrong, but could Starks b one of those players with T-Rex arms? Also he really doesn't look like he's 6"4'
Malaysian Man He is 6’5”
They both owned east
Us Chicago Boys Really Wanted To Kick Starks Ass Every Time We Played The Knicks!
One of the many Good Games Starks has against Jordan history and the Media covered up. Jordan shot horrible this game at 10-28 and was clamped. Refs tried to free him up tho. The same way they did when this powerful Knicks team dismantled them first 2 games in the ECF before the Big Machine that Pushed Jordan decided to step in.
This is what I call basket-ball.
Jordan fouls terribly and gets away with them.....Starks owned Jordan and frustrated Jordan....more than the irritating Jazz...and Malone.antics.....that´s not basketball....its theater....or cheating....Starks was up to the task better than anybody else back in the day....I wonder if Starks could have fit in with the Pistons....interesting thought...
@Ulysses432 still here you butt hurt mj groupie trynna restore his destroyed fame and dignity??? Tje xomment above is 101 per cent accurate, jordan was fouling terribly all career long and wad getting away with it, he is the most fake and manufactured idol of all time!!! Starks was kicking his ass you cheerleading loser of chi town!!
5:10 Michael Would have been called for a Hook... U can't do that.. but refs and players were in goo goo Gaga mode half the time in the 90s.
John Starks Can't Fuck With Mike.
John Stark's wearing Jordan shoes trying to stop him lol lol
I can't find any NBA players wearing his shoes prior to the air jordan 9 tbh
Loved Starks spunkiness
I'm Chicago to my core. Hated starks w a passion. He was the most annoying player. Knicks bulls rivalry was legendary but Jordan pip n Chicago could never be beat in finals in 90s.we ruled.
Jordan was finding Grant
Straks can't fuck with mike
Lmao 1:50 was a foul but it's Jordan so...
MANY PEOPLE FEEL...... STACY KING WAS A BUST!!!!!!
watching this, i swear lebron would score 60 pts each game
that just shows how foolish you are
Starks has nothing on jordan
well did you see the game or even the highlights? Starks guards Jordan. Jordan rarely guards starks. I guess the bulls didnt want to tire out his airness by chasing Starks around screens all day long..
title should say "MJ vs John Starks and Patrick Ewing.......
Starks tried, in his face... Jordan. Was just complete... and tough D never bothered him.
Cwm368 MJ shot 10-28 this game and in the playoffs against the Knicks that year he shot 40% for the series. WTF are u talking about "tough D never bothered him?"
Steph Curry The G.O.A.T Legendary W. the Nigga MJ shot 40% when guarded by payton in the Bulls vs Sonic series. But of course his team bails him out
Highschool LBJ better than Overated prime MJ W asf I swear MJ is overrated asf bruh. Keep this between us he better than MJ, but on other channels I'ma say MJ better bro
Nikesh .m that defense is trash. MJ only faced garbage defense. Defense back then sucked
m Khan EXCUSES like a typical MJ fan. During the 1996 finals he shot like 41% and the next year in the playoffs for a full series against the Heat, he shot 38% against tough defense, look www.basketball-reference.com/playoffs/1997-nba-eastern-conference-finals-heat-vs-bulls.html
Share, the GOAT still owns the NBA.
Michaeljordan by lifting weights so much lost a step he became big way too big his arms or not as long as before and his speed was a little bit slower so most of those guys we're able to guard him a little bit much better because the weightlifting then he had to realize that he has to change his game to a post-op top of game there were no flashy dunks penetration dribbles and fancy moves it was more now of a mostly michaeljordan with slow-speed and kids like just Starks we're able to Garden much better because of that but he needed the muscles to withstand a little bit more the physicality of the game but at the same time he f***** up his game so much that he became a Slowpoke he still was a monster but guys like John Starks were able make a dent in his offense
Tim Grover messed up Mike's game imo
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Jordan played terrible
MJ is the GOAT, just to be clear, but almost everybody “owned” Starks
@@KR-ln5qw Jordan, Miller, Hardaway...
LOL Who the hell is John Starks? We have guys in this league today like Durant, Curry, Leonard, LeBron, Westbrook and John Wall.... yet Michael's biggest competition was some overrated scrub named John Starks who was barely 6'1, 180 pounds.
I'd like to see Jordan try those same moves with Jimmy Butler or Kawhi guarding him. He'd get locked down 🔒🔒🔒
Kevin Costner Wizards jordan was still schooling kobe, t-mac, Allen iverson, Vince carter, ray allen, Dirk, KG, and duncan all in their primes while he was a 40 year old man and was still having mulitple 40 to 50 point games. So it wouldn't matter.
HE GOT GAME23 Yeah....he averaged 20 points a game with a 47 TS%....which is pretty bad.
MJ was a high volume shooter on a bad team back in 2002. Stop overrating his abilities. Yeah, he was old but he was an objectively below-average player. Yet you bring it up like it's a positive.
HE GOT GAME23 but yeah...if John Starks is able to do this to Michael, imagine what would happen if he faced Kawhi Leonard and John Wall? LOL it would be abuse.
Starks doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as these guys.
MJ was just ahead of his time, that's all.
Kevin Costner Uh oh, DumbAss ALERT****
Kevin Costner stark was 6 4 190..stark would dominate today s era..small ball..If he could compete with the GOAT, anything is possible.