How can you say that jordon is the biggest loser of all time?

Answer: No. Bill Russell has nearly twice as many rings as Foolish jordon. Russell won 8 in a row and 11 in his 13 years. Magic Johnson won 5 championships playing in the more competitive NBA of the 1980s. That is why jordon never made the finals during the 80s.

In truth, it is Scottie Pippen who is responsible for the Bulls’ success. During his 3 years before Pippen joined the Bulls, jordon failed to lead the team to the second round of the playoffs or even post a winning record in the regular season, despite having teammates like Charles Oakley (top 2 rebounder), Orlando Woolridge (20 PPG scorer) and George Gervin (a member of the top 50 of all time). jordon is worth 2 wins to the team (proven later in this FAQ).

Pippen is the one who makes the Bulls win. This year (1997-98), without Pippen during the early months, jordon went on record as saying the Bulls were playing like an "expansion team."  jordon himself knows that Pippen is the man on the Bulls. That is why he wouldn’t return to play unless the Bulls kept Pippen. Pippen does the work and ballhog jordon gets the glory. Having jordon on your team is the same as spotting the other team points. However, Pippen wins in spite of jordon’s albatross-like performances and cancerous activity to the team.

jordon’s "will to win" is as overrated as he is. Remember who retired after 3 titles? jordon. jordon grew bored with riding Pippen’s coattails. Bill Russell didn’t grow tired of winning after a 3 peat, not even after 2 consecutive 3-peats, and even after his 9th title, or 10th.

I’m sure jordon jockers will claim jordon's grieving was why he retired, but that just isn’t true. You jordon jockers have been watching too much "Space Jam." At his retirement announcement (and perhaps I’ll post the transcript, since I do have it on videotape), jordon was specifically asked if this is why he was retiring. Many times he denied it and said he was retiring because he "had nothing left to prove." Why did he return, if he has nothing left to prove? Money. Jordon is greedy. First, he tried to break up the player’s union out of greed, then he decided to steal over $30M/year from the Bulls. To jordon, winning means nothing, outside of a means for making more money, which he desires almost as much as gunning.

One last point about jordon’s "will to win":   In game #5 of the 1996 NBA finals, jordon was coming off of a terrible game #4. He told his personal bootlicker, Ahmad Rashad, and his minions in the press that he would let his game speak for him. jordon had delusions of grandeur that he would dominate and be prophetic. However, jordon is not skilled, like Larry Bird, who on at least 2 occasions, told his opponents where he was going to take the game winning shot from, and proceeded to do it. Instead of jordon dominating in game #5, he sucked even more. See, Seattle figured out that Pippen, not jordon, needed to be double-teamed, and that jordon could shoot open shots, because he still bricks.   "Mr. Winner" (Wiener) had a pathetic 4th quarter, scoring 2 points. Pippen and Kukoc grew weary of jordon’s foolish antics, that have cost them so dearly through the years, and started taking smart shots, trying to come back and win the game.  jordon, was furious that his "supporting cast," as he once arrogantly referred to them by, was insolent and wasn’t letting him bask in the personal glory of scoring a lot of points, so the press could say "jordon tried to carry the team on his back." jordon proceeded to scream at his teammates for taking smart shots and trying to win the game, instead of letting him pad his 4th quarter stats. That spoke VOLUMES about his game, not to mention his priorities. It’s amazing that jordon didn’t send these guys packing, like he did B.J. Armstrong and Doug Collins,  when they didn’t serve jordon’s every whim. However, jordon knows he needs these guys to win, so he can get the undeserved credit for winning.  jordon was somewhat prophetic in that his game did speak for him. Unfortunately for jordon and his jockers, it said "jordon is not a team player.  He is a selfish ballhog and a has-been, as well."

You say Bill Russell won 8 titles in a row. However, if jordon had not retired, don’t you agree that the Bulls would be gunning [with jordon, a literal statement] for their 8th straight?

Answer:   No.  jordon played in the 1994-95 season and the Bulls did not win the title. They would still be going for their 3rd consecutive. For the Bulls to win, they need the following:

Pippen:   the do-everything superstar who makes the Bulls better.

A very good rebounding power forward – Dennis Rodman or Horace Grant.  jordon did not have this in 1995, and Orlando crushed the Bulls in the playoffs. This need is especially important when jordon is on the team, because somebody needs to rebound jordon’s many bricks.

How can you say that jordon is only worth 2 wins to the Bulls?

Easy.  The year before jordon retired, the Bulls were 57-25.  In the first year of jordon's retirement, with basically the same team, they were 55-27.  57 - 55 = 2.   If jordon was so valuable to the Bulls, you would think the Bulls would  struggle without him, like the Lakers did when Magic retired, or the Celtics did in 1989, when Larry Bird only played 6 games -- despite having 2 top-50 players (Parish & McHale), a former playoff MVP (Dennis Johnson), Reggie Lewis and Danny Ainge (for part of the season), they slipped 15 games and couldn't even win half of their games without Bird (who played the first 6).

If jordon is only worth 2 wins, why did they struggle so badly before he returned?

Because Horace Grant left the team after 1994.  He, not jordon, was a key to the Bulls' formula for winning.  jordon is irrelevant to the Bulls formula for winning.  After Grant left, the Bulls spent half a year trying to find team chemistry, and they found it in March and was on an incredible winning tear, when jordon came back in a vain attempt to hog the glory, but instead, ballhogged them to defeat in his first game back vs. Indiana.

If Pippen is so great, why couldn’t he win without jordon in 1993-94?

Answer: 2 words: Hue Hollins. jordon could have tackled Hubert Davis at the end of game 5 and the jordon-jocking refs wouldn’t have called a foul. (Need proof? Look at the jordon no-call at the end of the game 4 vs. Charlotte in 1995). However, unlike jordon, Pippen doesn’t control David Stern, who in turn controls the outcome of the games through the officials. The league would profit more by having the big media-city New York go to the finals than the jordon-less Bulls. If jordon had not been so selfish, and had chosen to retire before the draft, instead of before the start of camp, the Bulls could have drafted a shooting guard, or better yet, picked up somebody like Kevin Edwards, who though unspectacular, would certainly have been better than a CBA-journeyman like Pete Myers. Edwards certainly would have been able to make up the 1 point the Bulls lost by in the 5th game.

Answer: As I stated before, jordon is worth 2 wins. Without Horace Grant,  the "almighty" jordon was not able to win the title in 1995.  The Bulls set out to acquire  a rebounding power forward to gather jordon's many bricks and correct the mistakes of jordon the albatross.  The Bulls added a rebounder and a winner (2 titles) in Dennis Rodman, and they went from an "also ran" to the premiere team in basketball. The next year, they slipped 3 games, but without Pippen this year (1997-98), they swan-dived to the level of what jordon himself called "an expansion team."  jordon is dead weight. If, instead of jordon, the Bulls had a legitimate star in their backcourt,  like Mitch Richmond, Allen Iverson, Reggie Miller, or Super John Starks, the Bulls would have probably won 78-80 games in 1995-96.

How can you say that jordon is the biggest choker ever?

According to NBA.com's jordon tribute, jordon has slopped in 25 shots at the buzzer. This is proof that if you chuck it enough, it will sometimes find it's way in! Remember the Nike commercial that jordon had last year? You know -- "I fail over and over and over". According to jordon, he has bricked 28 shots when his teammates "counted on him to win the game" (actually, praying that he would pass it to them, so they wouldn't lose).  Shortly after, he fired an airball vs. New Jersey at the buzzer for #29.  Against Indiana in Game 4 of the 1998 Eastern Conference finals, jordon chucked up #30, and then in game #5 vs. Utah, he airballed #31.  This means more often than not, jordon chokes when the game is on the line. The stats speak! jordon is no Bird;  jordon is no Magic; and Jerry West's official title of "Mr. Clutch" is in no danger of being taken by jordon, a.k.a. "Mr. Choke."

Answer: I have said nothing bad about Wilt Chamberlain, and if I supposedly hate the Bulls, then why have I said so many complimentary things about Pippen? I have nothing against foolish and wretched jordon. I prove this in my review of his restaurant.  I just don’t like the excessive hype the media gives him as the greatest player ever. This FAQ would be unnecessary, if you give the man his due and call him what he really is: an o.k. player to sit on the end of the bench and hustle in practice.

You say Wilt Chamberlain is the greatest player of all-time. Wilt was a 7-foot player back when there were  few 7-foot players playing. If Michael jordon were playing back then, he would average 50 PPG also.

Answer:  Funny, but I don’t remember jordon being 7 foot. I thought he was 6’6". This logic is contradictory.  jordon could NOT average 50 PPG back in the 60s. He wouldn’t have his jordon-jocking refs giving him preferential treatment. He wouldn’t have well-defined zone rules. He wouldn’t have hand-checking rules, and he wouldn’t have flagrant foul rules, nor his chartered planes, first class hotels, specialist/trainers, and "Air jordons" (ever play in Chuck Taylors?).   jordon couldn’t make the NBA back in the more competitive and more physical 1960s, and furthermore, he  would struggle to make an ABA team.

How can you prove that Wilt Chamberlain is better than jordon?

Answer: Other than the fact that he is the greatest offensive player in history, and the only player to average 50 PPG and 40 PPG in a season? The fact that he is the greatest rebounder in history, and the only center to lead the league in assists? (This is something jordon could never DREAM of doing – jordon would beat Wilt’s single season rebounding record (27.2 per game) before he passed up that many shots!)  Wilt also holds the record for highest FG%  in a season (72.7%) and is the only player to have a "triple 20":  20+ rebounds, assists, and points in a game.

Besides all of this, SuperKnicksFan derived a statistical system for comparing players to Foolish jordon. It is called Power Points^TM . The formula for Power Points is:

     Power Points^TM  = (Rebounds + Blocks + Steals + Assists) / games

Players with higher power points are team players and defenders. For players who played most of their careers before 1974 (when blocks and steals were recorded), you must use Partial Power Points^TM. The equation for Partial Power Points is:

     Partial Power Points^TM = (rebounds + assists) / games.

(Note:  Power Points and Partial Power Points may only be used to compare players to Foolish jordon).

Using this powerful statistical measure, it is easy to see that Wilt (27.3 partial Power Points) is clearly better than Foolish jordon ( 11.76 Partial Power Points).

How can you say that jordon did not deserve to be named to the top 50 players of all-time?

Using the powerful statistical systems listed above, I have easily found 50 players with more power points than Foolish jordon. This is conclusive proof that jordon did not deserve to be in the top 50 players of all time. This doesn't mean that these 50 are necessarily the 50 best of all time, but they deserve to make the top 50 ahead of jordon.  The list is not complete, but it does include the following players:

* = This a player’s partial power points. He is so much more powerful than jordon, that even without steals and blocks, he is a much better defender and team player than Foolish jordon...for a closer comparison, compare those numbers to jordon's partial power points).

Note: ABA numbers are included. The ABA did water down the talent pool somewhat, but not as badly as the league’s talent is watered down today. Also, I am not claiming this is the list of the 50 best players of all-time. Power Points can only be used to compare other players to jordon. This list only proves that there are at least 50 players better than jordon, and that they all deserved the top 50 of all-time ahead of jordon. Finally, all numbers are current through February 12, 1998.

Answer: Because scoring is not powerful. As Charles Barkley so eloquently put it, "Any knucklehead can score. All you have to do is shoot a lot. It takes brains to rebound." Remember, more power points means a player is a better defender and better team player. Gunning accomplishes neither:   it does not make a player a better defender (although some jordon jockers have tried to argue that it does), nor does it make a player a better team player, since it usually makes your teammates mad.

If Magic is better than jordon, why did the Bulls beat Lakers in the 1991 finals?

Answer: You just answered your own question. The Bulls beat the Lakers. Yes, the jordon jockers at NBC tried to hype it as "Magic vs. Michael," but that was a farce.  Basketball is STILL a team game (even when jordon is on your team…the rest of the players have to play THAT much better like a team to make up for him).  Furthermore, Magic did not guard jordon, because he was defending better offensive threats on the Bulls, and after jordon got spanked trying to guard Magic in game #1, he no longer guarded Magic.

Before the finals, James Worthy severely sprained his ankle against the Portland Trailblazers. After game 1, which the Lakers won, BTW, Worthy’s minutes were limited. This allowed the Bulls to put Scottie Pippen on Magic Johnson, since Foolish jordon got torched by him in the game 1 Lakers’ win. Had Worthy not been injured, and Phil Jackson tried this, he would have had to put jordon or John Paxson guard on 6'9" Worthy or 6'8" A.C. Green. None of these match-ups were favorable. Furthermore, during the series, Byron Scott suffered a shoulder injury and missed game #5. In the game #5 finale, Magic was teamed up with 2nd year Vlade Divac, rookies Elden Campbell and Tony Smith, Sam Perkins, and Terry Teagle.  And even then, the Bulls depended on John Paxson's 4th quarter/last 2 minute clutch shooting to secure the win.

Answer: Dr. Jack is a fool. He was the same "genius" who engineered the trade of Wilt Chamberlain to the Lakers for Archie Clark, Darrell Imhoff, and Jerry Chambers. Then, in another stroke of Donald Sterling-inspired genius, he traded Chet Walker to the Bulls for scraps.   Dr. Jack traded 2 starters from a team that averaged 65 wins per year over the previous 2 seasons. The Sixers started a downward spiral from there. Ramsey thought using a small, mobile lineup (the same system he succeeded with in college) would result in more wins than with Wilt.  Dr. Jack was wrong. Therefore, he has to try and put down Wilt in order to save face, lest he be asked troubling question about his decision to trade Wilt. 

As for his Portland "genius", it comes down to 2 words: Bill Walton.  Look at how they fared without Walton:  In 1978, they were 50-10 with Walton and 8-14 without him.  Then, they never won more than 48 games in any season without Walton, under Dr. Jack..  For such a "legend", it seems Dr. Jack CAN'T win without a big man, and he traded the greatest one of all time!   [Note that when the Blazers lost Walton, you didn't see a 2 game drop-off, like the Bulls without jordon.  Note that Bill Walton has more Power Points than jordon.  It is no coincidence. Walton was a valuable, indispensable team player, and not a foolish, dead weight, self-centered, glory-seeking ballhog like jordon.]  Dr. Jack obviously couldn’t handle the funny cigarettes that he borrowed from Walton.

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Why has Bob Cousy said that jordon is better than Wilt?

Answer:  jealousy and money. The year before Wilt joined the league (in 1959), guess who was the highest paid player in the league? Yep, Cousy. Guess who became the 2nd highest paid player in the league after Wilt joined. Yep, Cousy, again. When Wilt contemplated retiring his rookie year and becoming a track athlete, because he grew tired of the refs allowing his opponents to physically abuse him (opposite of jordon), guess who said Wilt should retire and that the league would be better off without him? Yep, Cousy. See the jealousy angle? Now, why would he jock jordon? Cousy makes a pension. When the league succeeds, guess whom also wins? Yep, Cousy. Guess who brings money to the league (and Cousy) from the circus-like, WWF, atmosphere the league has used to market itself? No, not Cousy, but rather jordon. (I’m sure there are some jordon jockers, who can’t figure out where this is going). So when Cousy jocks jordon, he brings himself money. Kind of like, "When you dis’ Dre, you dis’ yourself", except "When he jocks jordon, he jocks himself."  Don't get me wrong:  Cousy was a great player, and he is better than jordon (see the list of 50), but Cousy wasn’t exactly the greatest evaluator of talent, as his coaching performance in Cincinnati proved.   (Well, he did help Milwaukee win a title, by giving them Oscar Robertson.)

Answer: Ha! Surely you jest. Have you forgot about Jim Thorpe, Babe Diedrickson-Zaharius, Jackie Joyner-Kersey, or any of the countless other athletes to compete in sports? Take Wilt Chamberlain, for instance: He won the NCAA national champion in the shot put and the Big 8 champion in the high jump. His vertical leap was supposedly around 50 inches, and this coming from a 7-foot man! At Philadelphia, he beat everyone on the team in sprints, including Al Attles.  Also, he is  the strongest man to ever play basketball. After retiring from basketball at the age of 36 (after leading the league in rebounds and FG%, and being named 1st team all-defense), he went on to become a successful racquetball players and international volleyball player. NBA teams were offering him contracts to return as late as 1986, when he was 49 years old! Now, I am not neccessarily saying that Wilt is the greatest athlete in history, but he is certainly ahead of jordon, who has proven little athletically. jordon was a miserable failure in baseball, and the only other sport he has had moderate success in is golf, a sport not known for it’s athletic endeavors. Furthermore, I would not be surprised if jordon cheats in golf, like he does in basketball, taking unlimited mulligans, improving his lie, grounding his club in the sand, etc.)