The crazy thing is that he had a series like that and it wasn't a big deal. He was so routinely spectacular this type of performance was normal.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

MJ was truly on a league of his OWN🐐

@saber6722

5 ай бұрын

He left everything on the court every game

@rjtimtiman8483

5 ай бұрын

Yep. 45pgg in the 1st round? No biggie. The next year, he had 41ppg in the Finals 😅

Jordan: "Who's gona play against me in today's NBA?" LeBron: "Me" Jordan: "Fifty!!!"

@PETERODZZ

5 ай бұрын

😅😅😅😅

@Marco-sq4ki

5 ай бұрын

Nice semicit

@KrispyKleenex365

4 ай бұрын

I believe it too

@KrispyKleenex365

4 ай бұрын

Actually Now that i think about it, MJ wouldnt score 50 on Bron kuz Bron wouldnt dare to guard MJ until 4th Quarter and even then he will Double team him not 1v1. Go watch Lebron try to guard Kobe 😂😂😂 its hilarious especially the Xmas game 2010-11 season if im not mistaken when Kobe pushed Bron on the floor in the 1st Quarter and did Bron durty right b4 half time 😂😂😂

Current NBA is so thirsty to make a new GOAT by making the league softer and easier. It was the physicality of that era that honed Jordan into the machine he was.

@beardown555

5 ай бұрын

Well said sir.

@titansfan4215

5 ай бұрын

Well said. I lost all interest in the NBA about ten years ago.

50 ppg easily in todays NBA. I was blessed to come to America in 1990 and witness the GOAT play.

@lisafarrell5996

5 ай бұрын

Yeh it is easy to get the ball shoot a 3 pointer with no one guarding you. The nbq is a joke today.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

glad that you witnessed him at his peak 🐐

@fredrickwhynn6225

5 ай бұрын

​@@lisafarrell5996You guys don't get it; we don't care...nothing you can say will ever stop him from being ranked as #1. The vast majority of fans are for him. I feel bad for anti-MJ fans, since you guys are such a small minority. Every poll etc is embarrassing/a landslide. But yea, we don't care who you play, finals lose is finals lose.

@georgio2976

5 ай бұрын

@@fredrickwhynn6225i got bill russell. 11 rings is in another stratosphere 🐐🐐

@inefekt

5 ай бұрын

Doubtful. He may push 40-45ppg but it's almost impossible for anybody to average 50ppg++ in today's game. In order to score that much, even if you are MJ, you need to be given the opportunity to take the number of shots required to get to 50 points. MJ topped out at 28 shots per game in his 37ppg season. He did that on a team with an average pace of 96. Today's pace is around 100. Today's highest shot taker is Luka Doncic and his team is at almost exactly a 100 pace. So, at a pace of 100 MJ would take 29 shots per game. That would be his absolute limit for his career so we can work on that number. MJ averaged 37.1ppg taking nearly 28 shots so that would equate to 38.7ppg at 29 shots. But we also need to factor in ease of scoring. This can be reflected in total team points across the league, the easier it is to score in an era, the higher the average team score per game. Sticking with that 28 shot season, MJ's team was averaging a little under 105ppg. Luka's Mavs are averaging a little over 118ppg. It's much easier to score in the modern era. So again, factoring in team scoring, which averages 115.6ppg today, MJ's personal scoring output increases to 42.7ppg. Finally, we must consider the three point shot. Players are taking way more threes today and they are slightly more efficient than the two point shot. MJ took just 0.8 threes that season. Luka is taking over 10 this season. MJ would not take that many, even today. I'd say his close comparison as a scorer today would be SGA who takes 3.4 threes while taking 20 shots overall. If we use that as our bar, MJ would then take 5 threes per game, four more than he did in reality. Taking four more threes means he is taking four less twos. If he is shooting league average on threes then he is making 1.8 per game, that's 5.4 points off of threes. Four two point shots would have netted him 4.4 points, so he's making an additional one point per game by taking more threes. His scoring average therefore would peak at 43.7ppg.

Nobody had a game as beautiful as Jordan. That's why people bought tickets.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

Box Office ☑️🐐

@Uprising771

5 ай бұрын

oh im sure the media giving him exposure every night has nothing to do with it

One thing about it when you compare ANYONE to JORDAN..you CANT ERASE the PURE DOMINANCE this man had and the NUMBERS he put up had meaning..it wasn’t JACKING a bunch of 3’s it was ARTISTIC and FOCUSED..EVERYBODY has their own favorite player and that’s cool HOWEVER THE GOAT IS MICHAEL JORDAN 😳

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

Truly One of a KIND‼️

@J24J

5 ай бұрын

Exactly right. There is a huge difference between favorite player and GOAT. When someone is your favorite player, it means......that he's your favorite player.

@junglekutz5625

5 ай бұрын

All day every day! Hands down. As the need to compare is really coming off as content that is needed to stir the pot. As for this video placing the word menace on top......I'm definitely going to be hitting, don't recommend this channel. As that's a theme for most. Name calling and the need to turn everything or one that is productive into a freak side sbow.

The GOAT “debate” between Jordan and Lebron isn’t really a debate at all….it’s a joke. Jordan was a better offensive player, defensive player and winner and it’s really not even close.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

I do think there is a debate but as of right now MJ is still the GOAT imo 🤷‍♂️

@kdogg716

5 ай бұрын

FACTS💯

@Tigerbrown44

5 ай бұрын

Lebron is way behind so many players. Bird, Magic, Tim Duncan, Kobe, Kareem and Hakeem. Going back even more, Baylor, and Russell. It’s all Hype with LBJ. Lebron is the king of longevity and that’s it.

@rjtimtiman8483

5 ай бұрын

Only ones pushing that debate are Bron stans.

@perpetualmotion357

5 ай бұрын

The debate was manufactured by the league and media. They always want a product they can milk for all its worth to generate money, whether it's real or not. With Jordan, the same thing went on but in a more organic fashion. Magic knew it was the truth when MJ said he was the new sheriff in town. Bird/Magic saved the NBA, but Jordan took it to the stratosphere where he became bigger than the game itself. He was one of the few athletes that transcended their sport, and he's probably the greatest in that area too from a skill standpoint. The only other guy would be Ali but for different reasons. His hype would never have lasted if he didn't come through time and time again. Coaches and hall of fame players were saying he was the g.o.a.t basketball player they ever saw before he ever won a ring. Jordan was a straight up killer. The closest players I've ever seen move like MJ are Kobe and maybe Drexler for a short period of time. Drexler lacked Michaels killer instinct/competitive drive while Kobe lacked his god given talent where there was no way he could play 36 rounds of golf and then go drop 50 the next night. Both didn't possess the kind of leaping ability and hand size Jordan was born with which separated him even further. Jackson was right when he points out the importance of Jordans hand size and how he's able to manipulate the ball. He could break ankles without even dribbling. It was just another attribute that enabled him to perform all that ariel artistry a long with his 42+ vertical. Jordan was an amalgamation of one player possessing all the attributes that would make a basketball player great. His "Black Cat" nickname was so fitting given how he could slash and dash his way into the paint or stop on a dime and pull up a jumper. If I had no knowledge about Michaels or other players accolades and statistics and just judged all these guys from a visual standpoint in how they played the game, Jordan would pass the eye test without the marketing and rings. He just moved unlike any player I've seen before his time or since. You can't fake that.

MJ the 🐐

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

🐐🐐

@frankiefernandez9225

5 ай бұрын

@@bballtotal 👍🏽

MJ da GOAT

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

🐐

As SEVERAL notable NBA HOFers and Stars have said: "What would Mike average in today's game with today's rules?" "Mike? Today? Mike would average whatever he wanted to average." "Look, as someone who played against Mike and Lebron, Mike would be the best player in the league, if he wanted 40 he'd get 40. If he wanted 50 he'd get 50".

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

💯

I feel blessed to be alive to watch games while he was playing live. Something about MJ that I love is he like most elite athletes makes you at awe at not just meeting heightened expectations, but somehow surpassing it and going beyond. Their ability to redefine what's possible and trailblaze is just outstanding. The special thing about MJ is he redefined expectations just in general as a player, but when he was at his peak he was Revolutionary and Evolutionary at the same time. He's my goat, and I can understand if others have their own, but basketball in my mind is either Pre MJ, or post MJ. Great video. Those numbers at the end are gaudy. I wish you put the a comparison of what the numbers for the other players during that playoff game was as a comparison though.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for insights man!🙏🏾 Glad you enjoyed the Vid🙌 I will include those comps in the future for sure!

Thing people don’t understand about Mj is he liked to get his teammates going early then second half he’d go to work.

@ahmadfaisal6267

5 ай бұрын

2nd quarter 🙌

@rankarat

5 ай бұрын

This isnso true, if he went full throttle from the beginning it was 45 55 ppg easy.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

Teamwork makes the dreamwork 🤝

Best player, best team and best era.

What makes Jordan the best is he did the best he could as long as he was official... & did better than everybody who didn't in every circumstance he faced. Where's the lie?

@bballtotal

6 ай бұрын

There is no lie 🤷‍♂️

That layup at 2:34 is underrated.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

His layup package was mesmerizing 😮‍💨

40 year old Jordan would average 25 a game today. Prime MJ would easily average 45 a game today.

@Jeeezyy

4 ай бұрын

Why would someone who was playing 30 years ago average 45 in the modern era do you know how stupid that sounds

@jeremybroderson2236

4 ай бұрын

Can you read?

@Jeeezyy

4 ай бұрын

@@jeremybroderson2236 you said prime MJ would averaged 45

Experts think Jordan would average 45 in today’s NBA without issue.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

45 is CRAZY

He was always a scoring machine. To me, prime MJ was in all the 3 peat years - where he could actually trust his teammates.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

Agree!

its funny to me when people say that someone would be considered as equal to him(apart from kobe, who was his shadow), and think that what mj was doing at that time is comparable to today's players. It is not. Most of the great players of that time equally say, he would not only dominate and destroy today's league, but he would average what ever he wanted to average, and noone could stop him.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

See Kawhi for example He is the closest thing to MJ Playstyle wise and look how good he has been… And now imagine MJ in today’s NBA…..🐐🤷‍♂️

"What the hell" summarizes our exact thoughts as kids, basically every other day, reading his Stat lines 😂

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

Would loved to witnessing him in his prime 😆

@SpiritSquadMTG

5 ай бұрын

Shit was just as peak as everybody says it was. Maybe even more insane. That one commercial with MJ x MJ broke the internet and we didn't even HAVE internet yet.

Reaching behind me just to have my palm tickled by MJ would be such a confusing high point of my life.🤣 Love this video, thank you.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣 Glad that you enjoyed it !

I think the question should be how much would of he averaged back then if he truly wanted to be a ball hog or was allowed to be. People need to watch old bulls games to realise how the offence was almost equal opportunity most of the time. Watching modern players like Donovan Mitchell, prime J Harden or any other ball dominant volume scorer always makes me think geez imagine if Jordan had that opportunity back in the day. Same as Curry, Klay etc with shooting, awesome shooters of course but you can’t tell me Reggie Miller, Mark Price, Ray Allen etc would of been putting up crazy numbers too if they had the ‘shoot any shot you want’ green light these guys do. 90’s players would of been benched for Curry’s shot selection even if they went in! Jordan playing today jacking a few more 3’s a game with the green light todays stars get to hog the ball averages 45 IMO.

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

Can’t agree more!

Jordan was on some Anakin Skywalker ish, channeling his anger towards his competition & slaughtering them.

In my opinion, the greatest game he ever played was game one of the 1992 finals. If he wanted to, he could have scored 80 that game.

Easy 50 ppg in todays nba now you cant even touch the offense player if he wanted he could have had multiple 100 point games

MJ tickles that mans hand, he probably never forgot that one

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

MJ was really a SAVAGE 🤣

*The Oliver Miller in the room is that Jordan's son is the Miami Heats best player at the moment so Jordan has that connection to the Heat as well.*

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

💯

MJ is the 🐐 and it’s really not close

This lack of D is going to fuck up a lot of stats and records

late 40's as an average a the least and he would play at least 75+ regular season games. The GOAT debate is a media narrative not a fan narrative we know who the GOAT is and have known for 30+ years

I have a theory, they say Jordan would have a higher scoring average today than he did back then, I think he would score exactly what he scored back then, why? Well, back then he did whatever he wanted with the defenders and was just as impossible to defend as he would be today. If he had wanted to score more earlier, he could have scored even more, but a good horse only jumps as high as it must…

That man could basically do what he wanted when wanted to.

GOAT

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

🐐

He would be averaging 50...and for multiple seasons...in the context of today's nba.

I love micheal jordan❤

It will take 4 or 5 millenniums till another MJ will be introduced.

Mj will average 42 a game

amen

Miami was celebrating that jordan retired and they dont have to lose to him anymore

Average 60 today

Awesome people from 1984-1990 Air Jordan wasn’t in his prime yet air was murder in the league. The scary part about that his prime started 1991-1998 🥹😎❤️‍🩹 Damn I miss watching Air Jordan ☹️😖

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

The Greatest 🐐

Looking at the numbers quickly, Jordan probably would've averaged a good 4-5 points more per game in this era based on the % of points he scored for his team

prime mj now?40+ easy

45 points Average

"jordan is a bad playmaker" wtf are people on when saying this LOL

Black Jesus is a miracle worker...

MJ could have easily averaged 50 points in today’s NBA.

50+ per game today.

100 x game

MJ would average 50 in todays game why if everyone can score 40 now means he averages 20 points above all superstars 😂

Yeah dude....thats why MJ Is the greatest of All Time...he played in an era of killers defenders like Detroit Pistons Bad Boys o New York Knicks o Miami Heat of Alonso Mourning...the defense in that times was wild...the referíes let most punches and fouls ...the NBA was an Serengueti Selva...and Jordan beat him all 😎💪

An easy 40 ppg.

first time I've heard an English accent talking about NBA basketball....must be another AI account 😂

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

Europeans can make NBA Content too 🤷‍♂️

WTH indeed

45 a night

Oh as a Heat fan, i remember & i hated his guts! I hated MJ! He always blocked the Heat from proceeding in the playoffs. I wasn't a fan of his at all. That being said, MJ is the undisputed goat in my book! I also still hate the Knicks, those who know, know! Been a fan since the days of Glen Rice & Tunder Dan, Tim Bug & Zo! It was beautiful back in the days, because every basket made was exciting to watch, as the defense was fierce back in those days! It was a man's sport, basketball was in those days! Now it's just a water down league, but still fun to watch, but not that impressive!

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

Definitely agree! The NBA seems to go backwards..

50 easy and 60 if he wants to....and 70 if he have to....even 80 is in the range. the soft soy boy era with 180 points a game is not a big task at all....no defense rule

Lets say he averages 1-1-1-2 per quarter 1 threes, 1 mid range, 1 dunk/ layup, 2 ft Thats 36 a game. Man can probably do that in 5 mins of playing time in a quarter. 😂😂

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

😆😆

Remember PEAK MJ still couldn’t beat Larry Bird!

This a video Lebron James will never have made as he simply isn't MJ. There is only one GOAT and it will always be JORDAN

@bballtotal

5 ай бұрын

👀👀

LeBron fans always say that Jordan fans are biased. If they took a closer look at the goat Michael Jeffrey Jordan, they would know there’s no bias at all. It’s as clear as clean water

Wasn't going to say anything , you asked for comments. It's true that the league was more physical then, but there were few very athletic players playing....Today, there are so many athletic freaks playing, and their skill levels are of the chart. I saw players guarding Jordan that you would never put on today's top players!

@YouGotServed835

5 ай бұрын

The idea that somehow humnaity has evolved athletically in the last 20 years is so tiring... Sure the talent pool has grown considerably and I agree that level for the average and below average player has improved, and even sometimes even the superstars. BUT EVERYONE PLAYING PROFESIONAL SPORTS IS ATHLETIC. Why do so many sons of NBA players continue to play? Why hasn't the NFL and other sports changed so dramatically? The NBA and changes in technology have fostered these changes that greatly benefited the players that would also benefit MJ and other players today if we had a time machine bring them to now. Before responding I challenge you to search "Ted talk Athletes" on YT. It's not long and actually pretty interesting.

@difficsambalao

5 ай бұрын

Because you saw the era of No Defense, no hand checking with defensive 3sec violation rules. "there are so many athletic freaks playing, and their skill levels are of the chart." In offense you maybe right but how bout their defense? "I saw players guarding Jordan that you would never put on today's top players!" Coaches put them to guard MJ because they were good defender

NBA players- Jordan is goat Casual commenter on social media and internet- Lebron is goat

6-0rdan >>>>> L3-6ron

MJ + Pippen is what it actually is. The MJ hype machine fails to acknowledge that.

Todays game....... Too much 3 ball. All i ever see is dudes jackin up 3's. Boring. MJ....... THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER. EVER.