I Build My Perfect Modern Team Around Michael Jordan Using Today's NBA Players 

Make this a series with a bunch of NBA greats from the past as the centerpiece and modern players as their cast and I’m in

JJ building a team around Shaq: PG: Derrick White SG: Derrick White SF: Derrick White PF: Derrick White C: Shaq

He gonna put Derrick White on every single one of these teams

I LOVE how JJ uses the salary cap consideration to make it realistic and more interesting, keep it up

Nah JJ got it, I find myself watching him more than ESPN and undisputed

Died when JJ said DW. If I didn't know any better, JJ would've drafted White before MJ 🤣

MJ + Jokic with a bunch of solid role players is automatically championship favourite.

I have a feeling that every "build around" segment is gonna have derrick white on the roster 🤣 love JJ man

Jokic and mj 2 man game would be the greatest thing ever created

I knew Derick White was gonna be first pick lol

I like that he considers salary. It's too easy to make a dream team lineup. Limitations foster creativity. Sometimes, the best five players don't win because their skills aren't complementary or they aren't willing to sacrifice.

PG - T. Halliburton - $5.8 M SG - Jordan - $51 M SF - M. Bridges - $21.7 M PF - Giannis - $45.6 M C - A. Sengun - $3.5 M J. Kuminga - $6 M S. Adams - $12.6 M Grayson Allen - $8.9 M A. Reeves - $12 M J. Jaquez - $3.5 M Salary Cap - $170.6 M

Hakeem next JJ 🙏

JJ really did something with this new segment ‘Build Around’…can’t wait to see who he does next

MJ and Joker on the same team would be deadly.

I want to see Barkley. I don’t think he gets enough credit for how unique a player he was. He was actually the first small ball big.

look at what nikolas jokic is doing with an injury prone Jamal murray . Imagine what he could do with MJ

Getting Naz Reid in at that last pick was really good 💯💯

I love that JJ love DWhite. The guy just makes so many plays. Flies around, timely offensive rebounds, moves the ball quickly, has turned into a reliable shooter. Every game he just does all these great little things that don't show up on a stat sheet too. What a player!

I'm really surprised you didn't go with 4 derrick whites

Pretty cool you got the GOAT bulls player in Caruso along with MJ

I need more of this jj PLEASE

JJ…this is your best segment yet. I love it. You wanna know how much I love it? I commented on your video…for the first time…I left a comment. This team is on point and the segment is amazing! Thank you and keep it up!

this is an awesome segment. I can't wait to see more of this

Great segment, I love this kind of stuff. Theorizing, but adding in realistic scenarios.

Brilliant segment, loved it, more pls chief

I want to see this series with Shaq, Bird, Chuck, and Kareem.

Kareem next! We need more of this as a series for sure

More of this JJ!!! Thanks!

Probably the most unstoppable team ever damn.

Continue doing this series forever please this is so excellent.

JJ auditioning for that front office job

OMG 😱Jokić& Jordan would be scary

Jordan & Jokic yea thats tough

This is genius!! Gunna love watching more of these segments 🙌🏽 p.s magic Johnson next ✨

Absolute delight to watch this, such a brain massage to contemplate around this idea, brilliant delivery of his approach. You are a true intellectual JJ.

For a second with the extra $$$ I thought he was gonna hire Doc as his coach! 😂😂 Gotta do Larry Legend too 🙏🏾

Mikal Bridges at PF is insane.

This is a captivating series! Looking forward to more. A Jordan & Jokic combo is among the scariest duos I can think of in a flowing and functional offense as opposed to just taking two all-time greats and slapping them on the same team and wondering what might happen.

Love this segment, JJ. Can't wait for more of those. 😁😁

Jokic passes and Jordans big hands a perfect setup

This is a perfect roster lol even ignoring MJ himself and substituting him with another max-level combo guard ie Booker. Williams (PG in college until his massive growth spurt), White, and Bridges especially would all be able to operate in both PnR and DHOs with a big and be trusted to initiate the offense. Caruso & Royce as well, albeit less effectively than the other 3. That being said, all 5 would be very active off ball and understand maintaining spacing while also being opportunistic with basketcuts for layups and be able to be knock down spot up guys that will be in the right place at the right time. The backcourt and wings on this team has great positional size and 2way versatility, which all pairs perfectly with Jokic. But then the true beauty of this team is that Jokic's backups have comparable enough skillsets to run the exact same actions. Hart in LAC and his chemistry with Mann is a great example, and Naz is just a hyper-dynamic basketball player. You could run the same base offense regardless of personnel which is huge for continuity between starters and the bench since they'd have a shared identity. I'd even go so far as to say, I'd want to see Jokic on the court with Naz especially but also see about the twin towers approach with Hart. People forget that Malone played Jokic at PF next to Plumlee for ~8min per game from 2018-2020 and the Nuggets were +7.7 NET RTG in those minutes.

“Imagine a 2 man game with Michael Jordan and Nikola Jokic.” I chuckled when I heard that. Because that would be flat out amazing and absolutely unbeatable. My God🤯🤯🤯

Love JJ’s analytics. Keep it up man.

This is the ‘98 Bulls but instead of Jordan pulling Rodman from Vegas he’s pulling Jokic back from the Horse races

How would you build around the plumbers from the 60s?

This was a cool segment. Keep it going...

Great video need more of this.

2:13 I think Jalen Brunson w/ Michael Jordan would be a great backcourt.

C - AD - 40.5m PF - Kawhi - 45.6m SF - Franz - 5.5m SG - MJ - 51m PG - White - 18.3m PG/SG - Suggs - 7.2m SF/PF- Jalen W - 4.5m C - Wemby - 12.1m 184.7m

At first I thought it was going to be another boring super team, but putting the salary restrictions in made this a really fun thought experiment. Great team, cant wait for more of these! 💪

Love this new episode concept! Players you could also make a modern team around for future episodes: 2006 Kobe, 1994 Olajuwon, 1987 Magic Johnson, 1972 Kareem, 2001 Iverson

MJ GREATEST OF ALL TIME 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 💯🔥 (BULLS)

This build around a past player content is 🔥 this is great JJ

Very fun new segment! Would love to see one on Duncan or Shaq

Loved this segment JJ!

We need one of these daily 🤣🤣🤣 I was very intrigued by this.

This was great stuff

Love videos like this!

This battles with the Hoops tank for my favorite segment! Awesome

This is an awesome segment 👌🏽

I like the salary cap here. It makes this soooooo much better. Plus Jordan yelling at Bridges would be golden

This was very good!!

Love this series JJ, you got it

This was really good!

Great idea for the video! This must become a series

Absolutely love this idea!

great segment

Love the segment. The ise of salary really puts it in perspective

I need more of these!!!

Need more of these

I could have sworn he was gonna say Jrue Holiday 🤣

More of this please!

This is an incredible segment! Please make this reoccurring segment!

I like this keep this going 💯

This was fun to watch

I'm digging this segment

Great segment

I thought he was gonna jrue holiday with the first pick but when JJ started smirking I smacked my forehead and said Derrick white at the same time he did lol 😂😂I should of known

as soon as you said "point of atta-" i knew it was derrick lmaooooooo

Great show JJ. NBA and JJ Reddick fan all the way from Nigeria

Sir JJ! You got the best analysis game out here. Keep it up idol! #moneyballman

Great idea ... Should start a series from this

this is a great segment

Awesome video JJ, amazing team

U got my subscription!! Smart picks 💯that’s a tough out in a 7 game series 😅

This is a great build. Love it.

This would be good for when you get guests on you can use past players for current players too and they can make suggestions as well

Great segment idea

You got something going here JJ, keep it up!

🔥🔥🔥🔥 JJ! This is some good high quality CONTENT(WATERBOY VOICE)😂😂

Really cool concept

Amazing video!

I really like this! Maybe this should be its own series where you make teams for legends of the game

more of these!

JJ, you are The GOAT of basketball podcasting! 🙌

PG - Jrue (Snubbed DPOY) SG - Jordan (DPOY) SF - Brandon Miller PF - Jaren Jackson Jr (DPOY) C - Wemby (Future DPOY) Porzingis, Draymond (DPOY), Drummond (Board getter, play him like Rodman)

I KNEW you were going to say Derrick White as soon as you started describing the point guard 😂😂

Great Video idea👍, please do a series

Wow this was really fun 🔥