Why I became a “Michael Jordan REALIST” instead of a Jordan Jocker?
I grew up watching the Lakers and Celtics of the Great 80′s.Larry and Magic played Basketball in it’s purest form.In this Great era(80′s) Michael Jordan was a Highlight waiting to happen, But HIS TEAMS were LACKLUSTER and were stepping stones for the Celtics and Pistons…..as the 80′s closed the waterd down 90′s opened up.The NBA Expanded, Highschool Kids were flooding the seen and Michael Jordan started to win Titles…Finally!
at first I was happy for him….he was an exciting player who was fun to watch. But somwhere down the line he started to believe his own hype.I saw the media make up LIES about him, in order to make money(he was never cut from his highschool team)…the media twisted words to make it seem like he was the best!…..Larry and Magic were GONE…so the NBA needed to make money!….Phantom calls and Blatant coddling helped Michael jordan win 3 NBA Titles…..I had grown so sick of hearing how Michael Jordan was the best ever that I was Happy when he QUIT to play baseball…(remember Jordan could’nt win JACK in the 80′s,,,,and the NBA was saying he was better then Magic and Bird?)…He quit to play beseball because he believed his own hype about his greatness,,,HE ACTUALLY THOUGHT HE COULD SAVE BASEBALL……when he found out that he could’nt I thought the NBA would hand him the LOTrophy upon his return.The next year they did…..they gave him Rodman!…..
3 more years and 3 more Titles….and all these Kids who never saw Magic and Bird play were calling MJ "THE BEST EVER"…"HE WILLED HIMSELF TO VICTORY"…."HE WAS A GREAT LEADER WHO COULD DO NO WRONG"…..I would just laugh…..these people do not know what basketball is….they are SHEEP to the media….and I will tell them the TRUTH!…..I will be the WOLF!….are you a WOLF?….or are you a SHEEP?……
One of the greatest Hip Hop groupes (from the 80′s) once said…"Don’t believe the Hype"……………
Famous qoutes from MJ….
"We’re beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs…Can Pip keep it up?"
"I hate being out there with those garbagemen. They don’t get you the ball."
"They’ve got no idea what it’s all about. The white guys, they work hard, but they don’t have the talent. And the rest of them? Who knows what to expect? They’re not good for much of anything."
"I know what’s gonna happen. We’ll wait until the last minute and then they’ll say something like they couldn’t get a deal done because of the cap or somebody pulled out at the last minute. It happens here all the time. I don’t know why I’m surprised every year."
"He can’t do anything with the ball. Don’t give it to him." – Michael yelling at Paxson who passed the ball to Perdue
"You ever hear of a guy, six-eleven maybe and two hundred sixty pounds, a guy big and fat like that and he can’t get but two rebounds, if that many, running all over the damn court and he gets two rebounds? Big guy like that and he gets one rebound. Can’t even stick his [Swearing is not permitted at **********. You must edit this post prior to submitting.] into people and get more than that…Big, fat, fat guy. One rebound in three games. Power forward. Maybe they should call it powerless forward." – Michael ripping Stacey King a new one
"He was scared in there and panicking. He just lost it when Stockton scored." – Michael on B.J. Armstrong’s mental fragility
I’ll let them stand up and take responsibility for themselves."
"We have to do some things. We need to make some changes."
"…I call them ‘the Looney Tunes.’ Physically, they were the best. Mentally, they weren’t even close."
"He’s scared. He’s got no heart…Nobody told me that. If I had spoken up, he wouldn’t have been here."
"I know I can recognize what to do, but I’m not sure they can."
"It’s a hell of a lot easier to make Earl Monroe look good than it is Brad Sellers."
"I hope there’s a jumpshot in there." – Michael to Stacey King who was walking into the locker room with a box
"They don’t need a ticket to watch you sitting on the bench. They can go to your house for that." – Michael to Charles Davis who was sorting through his tickets for his family and friends
"Give me the ******* ball." – Michael to Doug Collins who drew up a play for Dave Corzine
"I hate when I have to read that in the papers the next day, that I couldn’t do something. It wasn’t my fault."
"You’re an idiot. You’ve screwed up every play we ever ran. You’re too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you." – Michael to Horace Grant
"If you [pass the ball to Bill Cartwright], you’ll never get the ball from me."
"We’re not winning because of talent. We’re just beating bad teams."
"Headache tonight, Scottie?" – Michael asks Scottie, while showing him his 2-for-16 line
"It’s probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up." – Michael on a ten-day contract teammate
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Michael Jordan is OVERHYPED but not OVERRATED except in rare circumstances.
Like when Jordan jockers say that he, a guy who ONLY won 5 MVP’s and 6 rings in 15yrs, is greater than a guy who won 5 MVP’s and 11 rings in 13 years.
Deconstructing Jordan:
http://www.providencephoenix.com/archive/features/99/01/21/MJ.html
Unlike Bill Russell who is a civil rights activist, Jordan distanced himself from controversial issues. Unlike Chris Webber who quarreled with Nike on the company’s sweat shop issues and inflated prices, Jordan did NOTHING. Is this really the kind of role model you’d want?
"If [sports stars] can sell these wares with the power of their personas, they also can sell civic responsibility with the power of their personas."
— Jesse Jackson
Jordan’s little gambling addiction:
http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1635/pg1/index.html
Mind you, Pete Rose ain’t going into the Baseball Hall of Fame because of his gambling problems.
FAIL
kobe is better than robert horry
Man what is up with you fans who read too much into what they say or do off the court?
just enjoy the game for what it is and enjoy what MJ brought to the game man.
Let it go.
Nice report. Kings still owns you. And Laker Haters own this section.
BTW is this all because your a kobe jocker and hate people dissing your main man. You would never say any of this if people didn’t say kobe sucks.
EDIT: DEATH RAVEN DESTROYED YOU. yOU JUST GOT OWNED FOR LIFE. LMFAO.
"Jordan could not win in ’84, ’85, and ’86 because Jordan was too young.. He couldn’t win in ’87, ’88 and ’89 because he was still developing.. And he couldn’t win in ’02 and in ’03 because he was too old.."
-KING
LMAFO!
Hell no I won’t read all that.
Right. I remember Bird and Magic also having 3-4 great teammates when they were raking the championships. I also remember both of them (Magic and Bid, Magic even returned in 1995) still playing up to 1992, Jordan’s second championship ring… About High School issues you raised it started out in the 80′s don’t you remember? Kemp, Dawkins and Moses were products of those prep to pros jump.
When you say high schoolers weren’t your favorite player Kobe Bryant a part of that movement? By saying that, you are accusing your hero indirectly of being suck-y.
Another issue you raised is that the trophies were given to Mike? Why haven’t the NBA given it to him when he returned in 1995 then? LOL. The NBA won’t even give him All-NBA team honors when he came back in 2002 and 2003 LOL. You don’t make sense.
As for your watered down 90′s I remember Shaq, the most dominant player of this decade only getting 2 All-NBA nod in the 90′s. What????? Only two and he terrorized the NBA early this decade? LOL. If the NBA was so watered down in the 90′s why haven’t the Laker team that had Shaq, Eddie Jones, Nick Van Exel and Kobe Bryant himself won 72 games? You said it yourself it so easy to win, why haven’t they done it? A more apt question is why no team has ever done it if it’s so easy to win?
Not even the Olajuwon, Barkley, Pippen triumvirate do that. How about that Knicks team that had Ewing, Sprewell and Houston?
If Jordan was ever overrated Red Auerbach, the greatest determiner of talent, wouldn’t have included Jordan in his list of the Greatest of All-Time which includes: Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Oscar Robertson.
My advice Wolf, stop the hate… Just admit that the 90′s was Jordan’s decade and nobody else came ever close to the Bulls.
Quotes:
Pippen talking about Michael heroics on game five of the 1997 Finals “He was at the point where we didn’t know if he was going to play or not,” Pippen recalled. “Normally when you’re sick or something of that nature and you try to play, though, you tend to try and go above and beyond. You’ve got to reach down deep. We didn’t know if he was going to make it, so every bit of energy that he had, we wanted to make sure was used in the right situation… not like walking to the bench.”
“As teammates, we should have played better basketball, but we really appreciate the way he CARRIES the team,” Pippen said after the game.
"It’s going to take a team effort to win championships," Grant said. "Michael’s Michael. You can’t compare anybody to a guy of his stature. We didn’t mind ‘getting overlooked’ as long as we won championships and Michael respected our abilities."
Hope this helps.
Psycho Jordan will always be OVERRATED to me.
MJ is the real deal. He’s not overrated like, Kobe Bryant.
"Another issue you raised is that the trophies were given to Mike? Why haven’t the NBA given it to him when he returned in 1995 then?"
No era had the backing of the NBA commissioner like Jordan did. David Stern saw once the 80′s talent pool dwindled and the popularity of the NBA diminished he had to act to save the NBA.
MJ is a legend what a voice that bloke had, superb talent, shame he was no good at sport really
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Thanks for the post, but I don’t think Michael Jordan was overrated, I just think the media was expanding more and so he got more recognition.
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MichaelX got it right. I started out as a Jordan fan,having the Chicago station on our cable(which was still a new thing around here) when he first came into the league. I hated the Celtics and Milwaukee and Chicago were my two favorites in the east. But it didn’t take me long to see he was getting even more favoritism on calls then other superstars were.
He was great, but not the greatest ever. Go to youtube and search for “michael jordan overhyped and over-rated” to see a few other reasons.
And his Bulls are over-rated too. They were simply very good in an decade when that was enough to dominate.Move them back ten years and they don’t win even one. Move them up ten and they might squeeze out one or two.