Descrip to come

Descrip to come

Although it was early in the season and the Wolve's weren't exactly title contenders, the unusually tight game made MJ shift gears. With awesome jumpers and incredible shots at crucial moments, MJ's shift brought out the convincing victory. And as always, the usual circus shots and incredible moves were there to accentuate the momentum and give the...

Taking on the young'uns, it took the collective athletic youth of Walker, Pierce and Joe Johnson to narrowly defeat Professor Jordan in this game. In the individual matchup, Pierce was unfairly outmatched by Father MJ but the war was won by Walker and the hustle from the rest of the Celtics. Pierce had one moment of individual glory with a perfectl...

Descrip to come

Itching to 3-peat, MJ wrapped up the first round sweep of the Atlanta Hawks in typical, dominant fashion. Dominique Wilkins, as awesome as he was, simply was no match for the complete game of MJ's. Yes, you had your beautiful jumpers, cunning drives and smart defensive plays all in this game as usual but the story of the game was MJ's ankle sprain ...

The 1993 Bulls 'coasted' during the regular season just enough to secure home court. And after that, it was all business. MJ said he wanted to just skip the regular season altogether just to get to this first playoff game. Meeting Dominique's Hawks here, MJ again raised his adrenaline for the real season; notching 18 first quarter points and 35 ove...

What more can be said? Yoda Mike here basically abused All-First-D-prime-KG like he wasn't even there. 5-7 possessions in a row with KG trying to guard him, MJ just ran around him, through him, mind-faked him and shot over him as if it was KG who was about to turn 40 years old. With 26 pts on 59% in the first half on KG and the 1st place Wolves, MJ...

The Houston Rockets always gave MJ's Bulls a tough time in the regular season. With the greatest finesse center ever (and perhaps the greatest center period) in Olajuwon patrolling the paint, MJ's competitive juices rose to the nth level. Olajuwon and Rodney McCray together played hard and tough with sticky defense, lane clogging and body blows whe...

In the game prior to this against Indiana, MJ would suffer a severely bruised thigh which nearly put him on the injured list. However, with the playoffs still in sight, there was no such thing as injuries of course. I believe a teammate looked at the swelling in MJ's leg in shock and said, "You're going to play with THAT!?" To which MJ said, "Yes"....

In the 80s, MJ was Air Jordan and this game was your typical showcase of his unique and unparalleled athleticism during his 37.1ppg year. With his supposed nemesis Clyde Drexler in town, MJ raised it up just a tad and basically took on the entire team by himself, bringing them back throughout the whole game for the win in the final minutes. With dr...

What a sneak preview of that year's Finals. With the Bulls meeting the top-winning team that year in the Suns, we all knew MJ would raise his game and enter his zone - which he obviously did. MJ mixed in his regular amazing shots with some rarities you'll ever see anyone do ever and today: a half-court, lefty-drive dunk, a fast-break stop/pop jumpe...

When MJ said his injured knee was feeling 'not horrible' during this grandfatherly phase (which was not often), he was dropping 40+ with ease. Here he is getting 41 just after hitting 40 against Cleveland at age 38 and a half. I assume that Dan Majerle brought out the inspiration in Father MJ due to memories of the 1993 Finals and unfortunately, Th...

MJ sealed his first ring with yet another brilliant performance. While this version of MJ could have taken over an entire series with his athleticism alone, he put a lid on his individual superiority perhaps because he was too busy out-Magic-ing Magic's all-around game. MJ balanced his own dominance with a superb, team game that was reflected in hi...

MJ entered this game with a severely bruised toe which he suffered at the end of Game 3 on a miraculous clutch shot over Vlade Divac. Limited in overall mobility, one would have thought MJ would take more jumpers or resort to taking 10+ three pointers like most perimeters today. But of course not. MJ picked his spots and opponents and attacked the ...

After a rare, clutch miss in Game 1, MJ would redeem himself here to bring Game 3 into OT. The stunning shot over Divac's outstretched arms dropped even with MJ unable to follow through due to Divac's length. But it was MJ's clutch defense that truly saved the win - coming up with the crucial strip to prevent LA from taking a clean, game-winner to ...

MJ's very first Finals game started off with a bang. With the Magic Vs. Michael theme being the dream storyline the world wanted, all eyes were on MJ to see if he could knock out the Champ to be the Champ. Game 1 was an almost perfect performance from The Master as he dominated on both ends of the floor -- scoring his customary and efficient 36 on ...

This 2nd meeting between MJ and Shaq's Lakers somewhat lost its luster due to Shaq being grounded from an injury. With the Bulls playing their 3rd road game in 4 nights, no one but MJ and Pip bothered to show up. MJ's crystal ball "words of wisdom" before the game should have been heeded but the energy just wasn't there. MJ, however, was his usual ...

If I remember correctly, I believe MJ had one of his all-night-golf outings before this game which was one reason why his shot might have eluded him this night. This game was interesting in that MJ was meeting Shaq in LA for the first time. On a side note, the appetizer was a very young and skinny Kobe Bryant who was given 10 minutes in his first e...

There really seemed to be no reason for MJ to come out against the mediocre Bullets with this sort of tenacity. But watching the game closely, it seemed MJ purposely set up his jumpers in order to open up his drives to challenge the 7-7 Muresan for a dunk. Big Men were just the main course during MJ's reign and Muresan just came along a little to l...

MJ's last regular season game ever as a Bull was yet another 40+pt performance without breaking a sweat. Although MJ came out with perhaps a bit too much energy on 1-5 shooting, his polished game finished him strong with 10-19 accuracy the rest of the way for another close, comeback win in his stadium. The usual heroics were on display for the last...

Out of Michael Jordan's career 179 playoff games, he has the astonishing record of 109 playoff games with 30+pts so this one might be lucky to make his list of top 100 playoff games if one wants to judge it on efficiency and victory. However, all MJ games - wins or losses - should be required viewing because of Magic Johnson's superlative quote: "....

The most efficient player in history would get his 3rd game over 40pts in just the 4th game of the young season. Larry Legend was his usual legendary self with a brilliant game - scoring 30 on 13-22 shooting and 9 assists. But wait, MJ would switch gears as he normally did against the greatest teams on the road. This time, he would hit 12 of his fi...

Just a good time here with MJ shooting 74% for 40pts for the second highest All-Star scoring game in history (Wilt has 42). MJ with his standard proclivity for spectacular improvisation around the rim was in full view here. No more words are necessary for this one.

A beastly game by MJ. This is the game where MJ dunks on Stockton and Utah's owner heckles MJ to pick on someone his own size so on the very next play, he powers one over 7-foot Mel Turpin saying, "Was he big enough?" while sauntering back down the court. But aside from that, this game was awesome to watch because of MJ's relentless attack on both...

With just 20 games left in MJ's epilogue season, the game itself took a backstage to MJ's historical presence. And at age 40, even Father Time could not steal MJ's singular ability to raise his game at will. With Madison Square Garden as the center stage one last time, there was no doubt we'd see once again why there will never be anyone quite like...

MJ wanted to celebrate his 40th career game in the real season with a sweep of the Bucks and ended up producing his 14th playoff game with over 40 points - which equated to a statistically stunning 35% of his playoff games hitting the 40 mark at the time. With defensive maestro Alvin Robertson sticking to him like glue and the Bucks clogging all th...

This was my last game seeing MJ play live. The opening photo is from my camera. Here's the story: I had just started to date a new girlfriend around this time who happened to hate basketball. Thankfully, MJ was in town so I decided to get some quick tickets at $400 apiece so she could say she saw MJ live to her grandkids. I heard standing room tic...

The Golden State Warriors were one of the most exciting teams for a while. Chris Mullin was one of the best shooters who ever lived and Tim Hardaway complemented the perimeter with his vicious crossover. These guys were two of my favorite players and it was a treat to watch them battle the Bulls. In this game, Mullin was his usual sharpshooting sel...

In years before, if you took away MJ's driving lanes, he'd kill you from the outside. If you took away his jumper with perimeter double teams, he'd kill you with his drives. If you tried to do both, he'd kill you with creativity, mental will and wisdom. At the age of 39, father time and injury took away his legs but it could not take away his mind....

And so began MJ's legacy as the greatest playoff performer there ever will be, which, of course, is the main reason why he is the greatest there ever will be. Although we had already seen MJ perform his miracles on the college and Olympic level, this was MJ's first great NBA playoff game - a game in which he dominated by balancing the fine line bet...

I had forgotten about this game until I stumbled upon it. This was MJ's last game against Clyde, Hakeem and Barkley (aside from MJ and Hakeem meeting during the 2002 season). The veteran gathering brought out some interest in Mike and on top of that, Barkley strongly suggested that he was going to win his last game against him. Well we know what u...