Michael Jordan ran a 4.3 in the 40 yard dash

[vert48]

Go out to the track, and have someone time you running for 4.3 seconds. Look at the distance between how far you ran and 40 yards and then ask yourself if MJ could beat you by that much in a race that lasts 4.3 seconds. NOT A CHANCE!! MJ would have better luck touching the top of the backboard, which he also can't do.

[20 Dimes A Game]

Good article btw.

[Loki]

My friend, a 5"9 220lbs running back at the time ran a 4.45 40 @ a combine in NJ a few years back. It was done with a stopwatch, there's no way my friend is within .07 of Ben Johnson, he didnt even train or run in his free time. Just like there's no way MJ, Tmac or LeBron ran these times, accurately.

Like I said, I don't care or know whether or not they ran these times, but you just have to be consistent about it.

[abuC]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cCh5QswxQ6k


That's what a 4.3 40 looks like.

[RobertSwift31]

Ben Johnson ran a 4.38 40 yard Dash the day he destroyed the world record for 100m.

But Ben Johnson had to react to the gun. When recording 40 Times at the Combine, etc, time starts on players movements, with timers reacting to the runner. This difference could account for .1-.3 seconds, depending if the 40 time is hand timed or electronically timed.

[WoGiTaLiA1]

4.3 times are not unbelievable.

Most sprinters have the explosive take off for sure, but what really seperates them from the rest is that they sustain their top speed. A lot of guys in the NFL could be sprinters if they trained for that, hell a lot of the guys that run the really quick times are college sprinters. I mean Jamal Charles ran a 10 something I believe(Texas RB).

[abuC]

But Ben Johnson had to react to the gun. When recording 40 Times at the Combine, etc, time starts on players movements, with timers reacting to the runner. This difference could account for .1-.3 seconds, depending if the 40 time is hand timed or electronically timed.

n track and field races, the runner must react to the starting gun, which can take 0.10 to 0.20 seconds. For electronically timed 40 yard dashes, the runner is allowed to start when he wishes, and a timer hand-starts the clock (after a reaction time that is often considered to average 0.24 seconds when a starter reacts to the smoke of the starting gun). Although the 40-yard dash is not an official race in track and field, the 60 meter dash is an official distance in indoor track and field, with the world record for that race being 6.39 seconds (run twice by Maurice Greene, and once by Ben Johnson, whose record was annulled for Steroids). The fastest 60m split time is probably 6.32 seconds by Asafa Powell, in his 9.74 second 100m World Record run in Rieti, Italy. Fast starting elite sprinters such as Powell (and others past and present) can run a "Football 40" in less than 4 seconds, due to the sprinter not having to react to the sound of the gun, and the starter having to react to their movement before the clock starts. In the 2001 World Championship 100m final in Edmonton, Greene covered 30m in 3.75 seconds and 40m in 4.64 seconds, putting his 40 yard (36.576m) time at about 4.242 seconds. When you subtract the reaction time to the gun (0.13 seconds), and a hypothetical timer's reaction time to Greene's motion, Greene's "Football 40" time for this race would have been less than 4 seconds.

Wog, Jamaal ran around a 10.2, the difference between a 10.2 and a 9.7 is huge, and Jamaal supposedly ran a 4.2 40, do you see how ridiculous that is? World class sprinters, guys who run sub 9.9 run around 4.2 40s, nobody in the NBA or NFL is coming close to that, especially not a guy that's 6"6 like Jordan.

[Iverson3]

Back when Jordan fans ain't retarded.

[dankok8]

According to the NFL, ten players ran a sub-4.3 40-yard dash. Jordan clocking a 4.3 isn't impossible although it might have been timed with a stopwatch which isn't accurate. He could be 4.5 or so.

[3ba11]

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Confirmed proof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e5lj2qBwd8&t=07m58s

[theaussieguy]

Mac Mclung has the fastest 2/3 court sprint time since 2001.

[Xiao Yao You]

Still behind Bo Jackson's 4.12

[TheMan]

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Confirmed proof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e5lj2qBwd8&t=07m58s

I laughed when fools suggested LeBron was faster than MJ, no. LeBron has size and strength over MJ (though MJ is no slouch in that department for his size) but MJ had quickness, speed and agility over LBJ and it wasn't even close. Jumping is a tie, MJ may jump higher but since LeBron is taller, that makes it a wash. MJ hit the back of his head against the backboard in college FFS.

[3ba11]

Go out to the track, and have someone time you running for 4.3 seconds. Look at the distance between how far you ran and 40 yards and then ask yourself if MJ could beat you by that much in a race that lasts 4.3 seconds. NOT A CHANCE!! MJ would have better luck touching the top of the backboard, which he also can't do.

[TheGoatest]

We all know the truth behind the hype of jordon's athletic abilities: