Gil's Arena DESTROYS JJ Redick For Disrespecting Jordan 

CAUSE THEY WANT HIS ATTENTION AND BAITING HIM TO SPEAK OUT IN RETALIATION...

To put LBJ over MJ

⁠@@lcasanova2546no one thinks MJ is going to respond to them cuz he hasn’t done that in decades pal. Why do people discredit Lebron? Why do people discredit Kobe? Y’all just be waffling

Lebron is about to retire and they want him to have a valid goat case and the majority of people on social media now are not old enough to see MJ play

90s aren’t as good as everyone says they were. That’s not discrediting anything accomplished back then, it’s being realistic.

Facts bunch of wimps in today’s league anyway

That part

And throw in 2 way players in today's league. Is that top talent.

Why can't they ALL be great n just leave it at that? 🤷🏿

That klutch sports line brought out all the lebron hate in you lol

Facts 💯

The league bribed, to democratize winning 🥇

George Karl and chip Kelly. The worst coaches in professional sports history

how did he dow as a gm?

@@blade4174 Who cares.

Wow excellent point, but he'll never bring that up

Adding 3 ppl to an extra roster doesn't really change. But when you're adding extra teams, adding players to those teams w no experience of nba play, and you playing them as competition for a title. The extra 3 in 06 still don't really even play

Ehhh that’s basically just reserves lol you got that on any team even in little league

@@mikevick9581They drafted from other teams. How did adding teams make players inexperienced?😂 You’re telling me these teams drafted nothing but rookies?😭

No! they drafted from other teams. The players deserved to be in the league. Look at the expansion grizzlies team.

Kept hall of famers prime hall of famers? Who other than Scottie was in their prime ? Back then 30 was old.

Mick also worked with 2 other hall of famers on each of them.

@@denowattley6602 im sorry Kucoc did what in the NBA? Rodman. Was past his prime. Scottie was drafted to the Bulls. Lebron had guys averaged 26 and 12 before, and back then age 30 was considered old that was one of many reasons he retired.

@@lancehood7916 sure keep telling yourself that. You might eventually believe your own bullshit. Jordan is the GOAT in any era…deal with it

@@alexandermarquez2177 Jordans my Goat as well your comment looked like you were saying he had a bunch of help

Skill wise yes by a long shot look at just the spacing from 2013 to now shooting is a skill the nba implemented euro rules where you get a gather step before your 2 steps

@@sebastianlang6314 You just described one way the NBA watered the rules down to artificially advance the game and enhance viewership... And the skills you're talking about are based on the past. NBA trainers look at the things that worked and didn't work the last 10 years for former NBA players. And train current players to do the moves that work. So those advanced skills are only there because of people watching the past. So I do agree offensive skills are at a all time high. But I also understand that it's based on the watering down of officiating and NBA rules. Allowing NBA level athletes more freedom of movement and space.

@@sebastianlang6314 When was the last time you seen a ref call carry or traveling? Not blaming players I'm just saying. This is a watering down of the rules that makes players look more skilled and increases scoring.

Last time I checked, double dribbling, traveling, and carrying the ball shows a lack of skill. Players today get a gather step, but the refa srill refuse to call steps in adition to the gather step. That simply a lack of the most basic basketball skills. The skill players have today is greater shooting, but it comes at the expense of proper ball handling and defense. Look at the 2004 Pistons, a modern team that played locked down defense. 2020 teams and players simply lack that

@@rusone2516 I’ve seen it this playoffs and the play in and the regular season. Every single man on the roster can contribute on offense back then they had dudes who couldn’t do anything and was there just to foul. Remember how everyone reacted when kd was about to go to the league now everyone has kd skill set the game evolved perfect offense always trumps perfect defense

5 rings. Kobe was the best player twice Lol foh

We're witnessing it now with Anthony Edwards. I think he's next up.

you cant replicate what lebron does with that ball!!!

MJ, Kobe and AI are my favorite player because the way they play makes you want to play basketball

You sound stupid

You're speaking the truth, bro. I want to be Mike and kobe. They inspired many filipinos to pick up the basketball and play. Even today, Jordan and Kobe are still inspired by many filipinos.

Kareem was never in the goat debate until they wanted the scoring record to matter for Lebron’s goat case

@@Augrillsgrowing up in the 80s kareem was definitely in the goat debate, we just didn’t call it that back then, nobody considered jordan until he started winning, even now some still do argue 33 is the goat

Exactly… I’m 46 and grew up in Chicago watching us get whooped by Detroit for the longest. I remember they always had questions about MJ..can he play Defense? Can he win Defensive POY? Can he shoot consistently? Can he make teammates better? He checked all the boxes, but it took time. Kareem, Magic, Bird, Isaiah were already established. My 2 best are MJ and Kareem!!! Everyone else is a tier below in my opinion.

Won’t be compared until wemby starts winning and getting rings, they compare by similarities and position for the most part… you’ll never hear James harden getting compared to Anthony Davis etc

Because it's fan base vs. Fan Base (not actually player vs. Player comparison).

6 rings in 13 years. 4 rings in 21 years and counting. What’s the debate?

​@@uncleb7821they don't get it

@@uncleb7821 bill russell 11 rings in 13 years whats the debate?

@@uncleb7821 11 rings in 13 years… if that’s how we’re deciding you’re right there is no debate it’s Bill Russell and it’s not close

​@uncleb7821 so we're only comparing rings? We are not looking at the total resume? Which includes the non championship seasons as well as measuring their competition

JJ clearly doesn’t comprehend how an expansion draft works

The league was exactly watered down because of that. JJ is right that they added new players to the league but the number is 72 not 90. Expansion draft means they took players from existing teams so now other teams had to replace players with people who weren't currently playing in the NBA. Expansion draft didn't change the fact 72 new roster spots were created it just means they were spread across various teams. So the new teams stunk for a few years (in the case of the Grizzlies, 9 years) and the new teams had a moratorium on how high they could pick in the lottery so the new teams were guaranteed to be bad for a few years. Now other teams lost depth because of the expansion draft so yes, the league was watered down.

​@@rpbnsthey didn't lose depth if those guys were still in the league they were getting rid of guys who weren't playing anyway. It's not like teams went from 15 men to 9 lol they would still have like 12/13 players and they would just pick up new bench warmers that didn't play 🤷. You can say it was weaker because those players were now starters and didn't deserve to be but watered down is just not factual. Everyone drafted was already an NBA player

​@@itsmeflacko1618 This is a ridiculous take. If you create 72 new nba jobs, which is what happens when you add 6 teams, those 72 players are made up of dudes who weren't in the NBA. Doesn't matter if you scatter those new 72 players around across all the teams. If you lost the 8th best player on your team, everyone else moves up and the last guy is replaced by someone who wasn't even in the league. Add to that you now have teams created to fail for years. That waters down the league.

@@rpbns that's where you and JJ are wrong. They didn't gain 72 new players, all of the players were already in the league or about to be drafted to the league or free agents. Think of the Charlotte bobcats, their first roster was a bunch of NBA guys that teams either had on expiring contracts or just didn't want like Gerald Wallace and Jason kapono. Then they drafted emeka the next year, there's nobody stepping in from off the street to play. Think about it like this, if they made an expansion team today it would have players like thanasis and Jeff Green and boban, etc. guys who are in the NBA but nobody really wants or cares for

Facts! Raja the arch nemesis 😂

He had to go up against the Kobe stopper Ruben Patterson

Also don't forget how bad that Lakers team was.....he was chucking shots like he Bradley Beal in Washington

​@@AMC12345 He was shooting like 47-48% field goal percentage while being a double team, which is really efficient . Also, if you really watched laker games he always shot whent clock was about to expire or every quarter chucking it got lucky. If you notice NBA doesn't do that as much because over 82 it drops your percentage for 3 pointers.

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@ai… That’s just a scary level of delusion… to try and slight the 90’s to by default prop up Lebron. It’s like they didn’t even watch his career. 03-04 - no playoffs 04-05 - no playoffs 05-06 Chauncey, Rip, ‘Sheed, 06-07 TDuncan, Ginobili, Finley, BB 07-08 KG, PPierce, Ray Allen 08-09 - 09-10 KG, PPierce, *Ray Allen 10-11 JKidd, Dirk 90’s players are the biggest reason why Lebron didn’t end his season with a win til almost a decade in (2012)… why he started 0-2 in the Finals… and also *why he did not start 1-4. Lebron didn’t get his first win in the Finals til ‘12 when he played OKC… and what kind of roster did OKC have, a no 90’s players roster.

He didn’t start win-ing til those (and other) 90’s players (Shaq, Kobe) were all older and outta the way/done winning.

The plumbers quote was for the 50s and 60s 70s era not the 90s

Literally no one says the 90s, it's pre merger that JJ and people who make that point are talking about. And it's because they were literally plumbers, back then the players had to have other jobs, some of which was plumbing.

Huh?

Because he carried to get to a lot of those like 07 and 18

Because everybody who really watch basketball nd don’t get Dey opinion frm highlights nd instagram kno Lebron literally had to carry his franchise y do ppl like to ignore that fact🤦‍♂️

2 of 10 not a lot man..lol​@@masonbg6

​@Noluvcitykezo all the greats carried their franchise

Great point!!!!

SA and skip: hell yeah.

The league did it for him

Lol they labeled him the goat after 91 with only one ring…. The nba marketed the hell out of jordan they needed to continue the magic and larry viewership….. jordan brought those viewers in

​@@212keith, true, but I'm from that era AND Chicago when MJ came in. Jordan came in and SHOCKED the LEAGUE. No coverage like now, no Internet, the league had NO IDEA he'd avg 28 pts, dunking on everybody, he was DIFFERENT. EVRYONE SAW IT. No one moved like Jordan. ON THE COURT, EVERYONE could see the explosiveness, athleticism, hang time, grace, Competitiveness, the charisma, the cockiness, no one did it better. He's the TEMPLATE of every player now in the intangibles

Neither did Kobe

Most of this clip sounds ignorant and incoherent.

That was Gil's point. That BEFORE Jordan's reign you had a bunch of pointless drafted players. He never said it was in the 90s.

So

Facts

Kendall Gill was on that Charlotte team too.

😂😂😂

100% said that

lmao ah wtf

Lmfaooo bro I just said the same shit. Lmaooo wtf?!

😂😂😂😂

Its way too much respect for Bron out there lol

Like who? Yall be yapping yet giving no names. Brons whole issue with Cleveland is no one wanting to go there lmfao worst from office of all time

And Shaq is right Kobe should be in the conversation

@@bigcohiba298 everytime he should be. JJ Redick perception of basketball is good at times but he not on que with this one.

@@thomasturner5225 I think he overrated tbvh. Basketball is basketball it's not nuclear physics, it's not brain surgery but a lot of times he tries to sound like basketball is more complex than it is and that already makes him an ineffective communicator or teacher of the game. Guys like him would be humbled pretty quickly if they got into coaching

lol I guarantee you that you don't get a respond to this because it's facts and ppl like to always argue against facts with theories

@@Rambo20244 There's no retort. And if it is, it'll be a bonehead statement. I don't even know why I bother, man.

Yeah people forget to mention those expansion teams became playoff teams in a really short amount of time: Orlando Magic - Shaq and Penny (playoff team) Charlotte Hornets - Alonzo Mourning, Larry Johnson, Glenn Rice (playoff team) Miami Heat - Alonzo Mourning (traded from Charlotte), Tim Hardaway (playoff team) Minnesota Timberwolves - Kevin Garnett, Stephon Marbury (playoff team) Toronto Raptors - Damon Stoudamire, Vince Carter (playoff team) Compare those teams to the tanking teams of today, which of them is watering down the league?

@@TomCruz54321 yep ppl also forget that one of those expansion teams were the only team to knock the bulls out of the playoffs in the 90s... but the jordan haters always tell half the truth

It’s the truth tho

@@jaysouthmusic8230except it’s not lol most of them don’t want to go to bum ass Cleveland lol

@@felixalfaro3119when the last time lebron played for Cleveland?

Not really because Jordan fanboys claim how strong the NBA was in the 1990's and alot of us who remember the 1990's call BS

This is a really simple concept to understand. When you add that many new teams to a league in such a short span of time it’s bound to dilute the overall product as vastly superior teams are going to inflate their records by beating down the newcomers. Please feel free to take at look at the standings from back then, the evidence is quite clear. Neither the Hornets, Heat, Grizzlies, Wolves or Raptors eclipsed 40 wins in their first four seasons. The Magic was the only team to do it, going 41-41 during their fourth season after totaling just 70 wins over the span of their first 3. Lastly, how is this at all comparable to the average two-way G-League player who might play a total of 200 minutes in an entire season? There are no teams in the league today that are comprised of mostly G-League players.

Russell can dominate paint not whole court

​@@theeAListerfacts all it takes is a quick Google search

15 man roster now vs 12, 4 years vs 3, so an extra year. And a bunch of g leaguers, you're literally proving it's more watered down now given more guys that are only staying 1 year longer.

Name all of the best shooting guards Jordan faced

Agreed. He expanded on the appeal of and excitement for the game that started to take off when Magic and Bird came on the scene, taking it to another level. David Stern was savvy enough to recognize this and market it, not just in the US, but around the world. That interest led to more teams and a bigger talent pool concurrently - more international players, more players coming out of college early and straight out of high school. The game had also become steadily more athletic, which further expanded its appeal and attracted more talent to the game. A good example is the old question and answer, “where are all the talented tight ends we used to see coming to the NFL? They’re power forwards in the NBA.” It wasn’t talent dilution caused by expansion. It was talent infusion that enabled expansion.

Agreed. He expanded on the appeal of and excitement for the game that started to take off when Magic and Bird came on the scene, taking it to another level. David Stern was savvy enough to recognize this and market it, not just in the US, but around the world. That interest led to more teams and a bigger talent pool concurrently - more international players, more players coming out of college early and straight out of high school. The game had also become steadily more athletic, which further expanded its appeal and attracted more talent to the game. A good example is the old question and answer, “where are all the talented tight ends we used to see coming to the NFL? They’re power forwards in the NBA.” It wasn’t talent dilution caused by expansion. It was talent infusion that enabled expansion.

and curry also lebrin def top 5 but not 3

Goat James were able to BEAT dynasties, while Jordan was being swept by them in the playoffs. LBJ finals competition 7/10 dynasty teams. Jordan 0/6 dynasty teams.

@user-th5rs4zv4c How???? By having the best defensive player on the opposing team get suspended on some fluke shit. But yet Lebum still lost two Finals to GS while getting his ass bust by KD! OH and let's not forget how many times Lebum got swept in the Finals twice! Not once but twice! Gtfoh!

@@marlonnicholson8410 Are you slow? Green played game 6 and 7. Stop making excuses. WE ARE DONE WITH THE 90s!

@user-th5rs4zv4c 😂😂😂😂 Done with the 90s???? I bet you one of them people who can't even afford Jordan's. GOATS don't get swept in the Finals twice and cry for All Stars to win and get 50 coaches fired

I caught that

Exactly. Lebron not the best. Mj is basically the most entertaining to watch, he's more competitive. How is lebron greater when everyone rather watch MJ AND MJ won more? And MJ has better stats overall.... lebron just averaged 1 more rebound and 2 more assists... mj beats lebron in every other stat

@@grizzlymac-tight Yes having 2 more assists actually means you generate more points for your team to make up the difference in ppg so that argument is stupid.

​@@suegsprBron also averaged 2 more turnovers..look at +/- Jordan dominates him

@@Silencedfixer well he’s the playmaker of the team I would expect it to be that way

@@Silencedfixer +/- is a team stat bro. Jordan had the best team in the league and was always the favorite in his prime. It’s not his fault but you can’t hold it against bron either. If you’re gonna compare players and eras then you gotta take every little thing into consideration.

“Watered Down” is when all 30 teams play with the same offensive scheme.

That’s not watering it down. That’s just putting an emphasis on offense. Back then you could argue it was a more defensive emphasis given the rules. Not watered down, just different rules.

This it's the same for the NFL people push the game is evolving when it really isn't they are making it more offensive friendly

You realize Jordans era they was still giving it to Bill Cartwright on the block passed his prime lol

Like they did with Jordan?

Crazy thing is…. He HAS lmaooooooooo

​@@DjGaiden 🤣🤣🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

@@DjGaiden i think he said it like a month ago or so 😂

Gil staying on code,cant let that white man diminish Jordan😅

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nah it was dumb. Didn’t make any sense, people who are Jordan/Kobe c*cksuckers are usually the human beings with the lowest iq

Aye! Real talk tho! He made plenty of sense and was also accurate AF!!

The realest shit I heard 💯🔥

Lmao. The classic reply.

Anything that happened white you were a child or before you were born you shouldn’t have an opinion on then Lmao.

Because he wasn't the best player on those championship teams, only thing I can think of

@@gerbilbaby242 he indeed was the best player on the team, guarding the other teams best player example wilt chamberlain in most of those finals he beat him in, he was the anchor of their defense and Boston’s center piece for their success. See how y’all try to find any loop hole. He got more chips that jordan, same amount of mvps, more finals appearances? See how dat work but when bron fans use the same logic y’all bring the same exact shit up 🤷‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣

@johnjovanovichwick4194 I'm speaking of the lack of finals mvps Also one of his mvps he was only 2nd team all nba. I'm not arguing I'm just pointing out some things

@@gerbilbaby242Finals MVPS were started in 1969

@@gerbilbaby242He was easily the best player 😂 he averaged 15 points and TWENTY TWO REBOUNDS. 22 REBOUNDS. That’s more than anyone EVER.

While you’re riding MJ every night like an addict

Nah I just think he unbiased

​@@justchillin2194oh yeah he's unbiased. Podcast with perceived Goat?, possible Lakers coaching. Candidate. Yeah he's unbiased. Lol.

JJ is a professional jock strap.

Lol if he said MJ better den Bron the show would get canceled 😂

Exactly

That's a solid argument for why the physicality of the league is watered down. But I don't see how the rules changing or refs calling the game differently would affect the average skill level of nba players. If a ref makes it easier to score, then it is now harder to defend. If a ref makes it easier to defend, it is now harder to score. Either way the average level of skill of the players would not change in either scenario.

They allow traveling and all kinds of dribble errors now too

It was clearly more watered down then because there were less skilled players in that era. It's really not that big of deal. A lot of players in past era's wouldn't be a water boy in today's league. They beat the shit out of MJ and other players in past era's. MJ going to the commissioner to express his issues with that type of play ushered in the beginning of more fouls being called up to what we have today. Players were forced to become more skilled basketball players because enforcer's were outlawed.

So you are saying 1. There was less talent in the 90s because players were hired because they were physical...but not actually good at basketball 2. What rules specifically did they change to make it "watered down"? If anything, getting rid of the illegal defense helped make offense and defense more equal. 3. What is the "type of play" you are talking about? You do understand the 3pt shot was the main reason teams are not being as "physical" (which is not exactly true actually) than before right? Because...you can exploit it. I completely disagree that today's nba is "watered down". I know you would just name things like not calling travels or carries or too strict on flagrants, all of which can be true, but every player has the same precedent. The talent in the NBA has never been higher and the most parity I have seen in years. When 6 new teams joined throughout MJ's career, it DID water down the league. Those players on those teams were players who wouldn't make the current teams. The regular season would have been a bit easier for the current group of players. Now of course that doesn't change the playoffs which JJ mentioned. This would have an affect on regular season wins and stats though. This is why it is dumb to compare players from different eras.

@@carontorliak2760 seems like the issue is with the phrase "watered down". That era was easier just like the era before that one. Gilbert implies this fact a lot so I'm not sure why he's so but hurt about it.

Phil made it famous lol

If you are an idiot.

Facts by simply common sense

​@@XtremeproductsRashad isn't emboldened by Cutch Sports.

@@diplomat249 true

And the other guys all treat him like he doesn't know what he's talking about. I don't get it.

Hof Jason Kidd..DPOY CHANDLER 6th man of the year Jason Terry but yea Dirk didn’t have anyone lmao

Lmaoo what

​@@jmickens313they literally swept kobe and the defending champs, it's ok these mfs clueless 😂

That part

Phil created the triangle offense to help Mike ima Jordan fan but Phil was a hell of a coach for the bulls

​@@rashanrevell6097yo, it was Tex Winters who initially created the Triangle Offense. and applied it with Phil to the Bulls.

Phil hadn't won anything before MJ and MJ still was MJ!

No matter how good you are but your coach is stupid and the system flawed, you can only get too far. If MJ was drafted by charlotte he probably will get 2 championships his whole career at best.

Bro the way he said it to 😂😂😂😂

Lmaoo 😂😂😂

They played at the end of Jordan career

Shaq's first year was 92-93 too , jj trying to hard to sound smart

LMAO…what?! Nash - 96 Dirk - 98 Kobe - 96 Carter - 98 McGrady - 97 Jordan truly retired 98….. NONE of those guys mattered yet! Kobe didn’t even start his rookie season.. and averaged 7.6 point, 1.9 boards and 1.3 assists…. Nash averaged 3.3 points 2.1 assist, 1 board….. WHAT are you talking about! Lmao

​@@guevarasamson1165is my point exactly there was nothing watered down about the 90s. Jamal Murray's were everywhere coming off the bench that weren't Allstars or 1st team guys but could still kill. I've watched ball since the 80s. I think like Gil said JJ didn't do his research. Duncan Robinson Hakeem Rice there were monsters everywhere on every team. I just got done arguing in the barber shop with cats last year saying Jordan Poole world have averaged 30 in the 90s. These style narratives are crazy in my opinion

You're dumb

They got there because of LeBron james

Golden Child how? An that magic team was stacked an shooters at damn near ever position.i like all 3 but damn ppl be so quick to throw shots with no facts.

@@codebreaker00x You are probably too young to remember the magazine era where Lebron was literally propagated as the NBA's "Golden Child"

@@davidjohnsonGT With your logic, if they got there because of LBJ, they failed because of LBJ. As the leader/best player, you can't take the good without the bad.

@@codebreaker00x Lebron wasn’t the golden child? The chosen one? They were hyping him up for years, even making film from Lenny Cooke embarrassing him in his rookie summer league. It’s not far fetched to say the NBA wanted to protect their main guy’s legacy especially since they dropped Kobe after his scandal.

Yeah and it wasn’t just basketball. I watched some old MLB video from the early 90s and at the time they had just added the Colorado Rockies and the Miami(Florida) Marlins and the people in the video said verbatim that it would at least in the short term water down the league because guys who probably weren’t good enough to be an everyday player became one, guys who had no business being in a teams rotation all of sudden were pitching 20 plus games and guys who weren’t ready to be called up from AA and AAA got called up. These guys were MLB players but there was a reason they were made available

But Rashad be speaking facts

I think gil should be an coach

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Every one else starting is no lower than 6'7. But their death line up was harper, jordan,pip, kukoc, Rodman.

he's a complete clown for the most part maccants and kenyon martin are the ones i tune in for

Mj was 6-6 ​@@ajhaynes8204

They def played small ball lineups at times. Harp, MJ, pip, Rodman, kukoc. It was their defensive versatility and switch ability that was modern, not necessarily modern small ball offense.

​@@samhui9433 alot of teams played small ball. Zo hornets, nets with Littles, Kemp and Seattle,Suns KJ.

Well he didn’t denied this claim. He talking relative to their era on this topic.

Bron has been dominating for 21 years fam! What are you talking about?

There's a range where the number of teams make a difference. 8 teams is too little to make that kind of impact.

@@mattblock6616 id respectfully argue for Bill Russel by saying the best players are less spread so teams are better/more competitive... but that's just me.... which I think is the point JJ was making and it was more about the reg season cos the better teams always make playoffs

It’s literally just a fact there was only 8 teams and the Celtics had 6 hall of famers lol

and the competition was trash compared to just 20 years later. its more than just the number of teams

What about James Naismith? At one point he was the GOAT.

How can you be the best player in the NBA when you’re playing minor league baseball?

@@jimbo26582aint that crazy? Man was playing baseball and was still considered the best

​@@jimbo26582you are desperate

@jimbo26582 You show it by winning 3 and coming back and winning 3 more....All while being the scoring Champion, 1st team nba and 1st team all defense....And you win Finals MVP every single time

No he wasn't

That's not watered down. Those r bad teams not new teams.

What’s the difference if they both trash?30% winning percentage at best

1989-90 Heat 18 Magic 18 Nets 17 Kings 23 Twolves 22 Hornets 19 It only ever happened today, right? There were never expansion teams added to the league that watered it down, as you just said, by win totals? So you don't know history just to old hear with your dumbass "you kids don't know ball." Why don't you go outside and keep telling kids to get off your lawn?

@@704chevygang so all NBA history is watered down. U see how ridiculous that is? Those teams already exist. They aren't brand new teams. Wtf r u talkin bout

@@Traylormade_Chief bruh wtf are you talking about. What don’t you get about all the players on the new teams wasn’t brand new into the NBA? So if they’re already in the NBA what’s the difference between a NEW team and a horrible team?

How, when the players were picked from the other teams, they didn't come in off the street. Also, they were 12 man rosters back then. It's 15 now, which makes the league even more " watered down".

Because Jordan fans are emotional

@@hulkdaddy71 lol you think anyone good is playing minutes in the playoffs thats not top 8 on the roster? Buddy Rick Mahorn a bench Center was the best player picked in one of those expansion drafts lol. Solid player, but thats gonna be one the guys to build around? You wanna surround a bunch of barely/non rotation players for the most part and pair them with college players coming out the draft? Its obviously watered down a bit

@@kobebayuk3692 or you can actually look at the context like what the other reply provided

@@hulkdaddy71regardless that’s 6 teams having to start from scratch with all players assembled through a draft. Also 12 men rosters and 15 men rosters aren’t that much different lol considering teams usually have 9-10 guys in the rotation either way

Compared to today's NBA, the league only had 4 legit teams from the late 80's to the early 2000s. You had the Bad Boys, the Celtics, Lakers, and the Bulls. Lakers, Celtics, and Pistons in the late 80s, Bulls in the 90s and then the Lakers and Pistons again in the early 2000s. Everyone else's rosters were meh at best and that includes the '94 Rockets. In '95 they were substantially better with the addition of Clyde. The Magic were young, and the Pacers and Knicks were one star teams with okay at best supporting staffs. And all of us who were alive back then knew how boo-boo the West was back in the Bulls era.

@@cljackson512 Not sure what you mean by 4 legit teams. There were like 14 legit contenders.

All these imaginary words to fill the nostalgia in your head when you have no actual proof of anything you said. Who tf fears playing a basketball team when you make millions from doing it. Stfu ya old heads.

@@cljackson512 Don't conflate the 80s with the 90s you Jordan jockers love doing that and will even include 2000s players like Kobe to boost up Jordans competition . The 90s was far different from the 80s which had more talented legendary teams like Pistons 76ers Celtics Lakers it's no comparison There is nothing legendary about the Sonics lol. The 80s lakers would destroy a team like that with Magic Kareem worthy Michael cooper. Proof that the 80s were better is Jordan gets swept by the 80s Celtics and Utah could never win the 80s against the Lakers fast forward to the 90s, where the jazz finally makes the finals in 97 98 lol . The bulls finally started winning championships after getting smacked in the 80s for almost a decade. Just so you know the 80s jazz were actually better talent wise than the 90s jazz

You know your facts. MJ don't wanna hear that part of his legacy.