Who Was Jordan's Greatest Adversary?

[Lamar Odumbb]

[Marlo_Stanfield]

[MavsSuperFan]

his small wiener

[Young X]

Bron in '11 Finals: 17.8 PPG

Starks in '94 Finals: 17.7 PPG

Pathetic

[secund2nun]

Jordan was never on the brink of being eliminated from the Finals.

So winning the finals in 7 is worse than losing in the first round 3 times?

[Marlo_Stanfield]

Bron in '11 Finals: 17.8 PPG

Starks in '94 Finals: 17.7 PPG

Pathetic

im sure entire teams made their defensive schemes to not allow Starks to score and make him a Pointguard

[SamuraiSWISH]

Bad Boy Pistons
Gambling
Boredom
Baseball
Hot White Women
Pippen's Dong Size
Comebacks
Drafting
Baggy Jeans

[ImKobe]

Clyde Drexler? Isiah Thomas? Gary Payton? Penny Hardaway? Reggie Miller? Magic Johnson? Larry Bird?

He played against all of those guys in the Playoffs & defeated all of them, except for Larry, because when MJ hit his prime Larry was at the end of the road with his back problems. Magic & MJ were rivals, even when they were on the dream team they led separate practice squad teams and had battles against them until Magic had to admit MJ's supremacy.

It's not MJ's fault that in his era there weren't that many great SGs on the offensive end, but he still had his hands full with guarding the opposing PGs and SFs.

KD is a great player, but it's not like it has effected Bran's legacy one bit. He averaged 30 ppg in the Finals on above 50% shooting and Miami still won it easily thanks to rest of OKC playing like garbage and Heat's 3pt shooters making everything.

[ImKobe]

So winning the finals in 7 is worse than losing in the first round 3 times?

Lebron never lost in the Finals in 7 games, he got swept once and lost in 6 with HCA

Getting embarrassed in the Finals is worse than losing in the first round as an underdog. Shame on MJ for returning from his foot injury late in the season (playing 17 games) and going up against the legendary Celtics squad against prime Larry.

[secund2nun]

No he didn't, he got cooked.

EDIT: You can't lose in the 1st round when you face 38 win teams every year.

He outperformed Terry and Barae. Get over it and stop lying.

Jordan= Mr. 3 times first round loser

MJ and the Bulls entered the playoffs as a 7th seed, 8th seed, and 8th seed in those 3 first round losses. I guess those 38 win teams kept handing MJ his azz in the regular season because they couldn't finish better than a 7th seed

It took MJ like 4 seasons to get his team above .500 and to finally win a playoff series, but coincidently that was the first season he had Pippen.

Jordan= 0 playoff series wins, 0 .500 or above team before Pippen.

[DonDadda59]

Teams:

Magics Lakers
Birds Celtics
Pistons
Knicks

Players:

Magic
Bird
Nique
Drexler
Barkley
Shaq
Hakeem
Robinson
Malone
Ewing
Mourning

Fixed (partial list). Jordan dominated in an era that had the best collection of big men of any era, before the league rigged the rules to help the Jordan impostors in the middle of the last decade.

And if we're talking purely SGs, then you have

Miller
Drexler
Dumars
Richmond
Sprewell
Hardaway
Smith
Moncrief
Blackman

I'm sure I'm missing some.

[secund2nun]

Lebron never lost in the Finals in 7 games, he got swept once and lost in 6 with HCA

Getting embarrassed in the Finals is worse than losing in the first round as an underdog. Shame on MJ for returning from his foot injury late in the season (playing 17 games) and going up against the legendary Celtics squad against prime Larry.

I am talking about his latest finals since you said brink of elimination. A win is a win.

As for losing in the finals twice, please tell me that you do not actually believe that losing in the first round 3 times is better than winning the Eastern Conference Title twice without the NBA title.

I mean really....losing in the first round is better than winning the first, second, and third round while losing in the 4th round?

[eliteballer]

Bron in '11 Finals: 17.8 PPG

Starks in '94 Finals: 17.7 PPG

Pathetic

[ImKobe]

I am talking about his latest finals since you said brink of elimination. A win is a win.

As for losing in the finals twice, please tell me that you do not actually believe that losing in the first round 3 times is better than winning the Eastern Conference Title twice without the NBA title.

I mean really....losing in the first round is better than winning the first, second, and third round while losing in the 4th round?

MJ lost in the first round when he was young and Bulls barely had any talent around him, losing against one of the greatest Celtic teams in history in 1986 is something he should be ashamed of, though he dropped the Playoff scoring record for 63 points?

MJ won all his Finals series and never was on the brink of elimination. Lebron choked and lost despite having HCA and being heavily favored. The end. MJ is the GOAT, deal with it.

[SamuraiSWISH]

The hell are you laughing at? Magic, and Kobe have both had horrendous Finals.