Here in my country the Philippinea the NBA skyrocketed to popularity because of michael jordan. Before MJ it was not even talked about. Only a handful was into NBA. Mj is well known here as a legend the epitome of basketball.
only hardcore basketball fans knew of Bird and Magic prior to Jordan.. Jordan made it popoular to non basketball fans not only here in the Philippines but the world..
@ItzJustJP B4 AND AFTER. MJ IS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON. CHECK THE HISTORY OF THE BRAND JORDAN SALES. . IN THE PAST 7 YRS BRAND JORDAN MADE OVER $34 BILLION DOLLARS. YES THAT'S BILLION. CHECK FOMER PRESIDENT CLINTON SPEECH WHEN MJ RETURNED FROM RETIREMENT IN 95. MJ'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE USA ECONOMY. 5 OF THE 6 HIGHEST RATED PLAYOFF GAMES MJ AND THE BULLS.. MJ AND THE BULLS PLAYED IN FRONT OF A CROWD OF OVER 62 THOUSAND FANS AT FULTON STADIUM IN ATLANTA. BULLS VS THE HAWKS. MJ AND THE BULLS PLAYED IN THE 98 PRESEASON IN AN INTERNATIONAL MC DONALD'S TOURNAMENT IN FRANCE. AGAINST EUROPEAN TEAMS. NO SCOTTIE ( HAD SURGERY) OR RODMAN ( CRAZY) ON THAT TEAM. MJ WON MVP AND THE BULLS WON THE TOURNAMENT. U DIDN'T SEE THE VIDEO RECENTLY WHERE YOUNG PPL WAS FOLLOWING MJ IN THE STREETS OF ITALY MAKING THE GOAT SOUND. LOOK AT MJ RECENTLY CANNES FRANCE. MJ IN A RESTAURANT THE CROWD DANCING AND CELEBRATING WHEN THE DJ PLAYED THE BULLS TEAM SONG. WHEN MJ AND THE BULLS WERE PLAYING. THE CRIME RATE IN CHICAGO WENT DOWN DURING THE GAMES. POLICE HAD A DECRESE IN CALLS/COMPLAINTS/ARREST HERE IS SOME STATS FOR YOU. 2019. LBJ NIKE BRAND SOLD A TOTAL OF $390 MILLION DOLLARS THE HIGHEST IN THE NBA. BRAND JORDAN THE SAME YR. SOLD $1 BILLION DOLLARS INTERNATIONALLY AND $2.1 BILLION DOLLARS IN THE USA. A COMBINE TOTAL OF $3.1 BILLION DOLLARS. . THAT'S HOW STRONG AND POPULAR MJ IS. MEEE AAAA
Great stories and Jordan is the GOAT, but only the last story is MJ talking trash. The rest were people talking trash to him. MJ is the GOAT, but Bird was the GOAT for talking trash.
Never been an athlete especially a basketball player that was capable of doing whatever he wants as proof through his career, backs up anything and everything he says. It was like he would go through the motion to play to get the scores required to win but if you made him mad he would score whatever he wanted to make you look foolish on both ends of the Court there are truly will never be another Michael Jordan as well as being the most clutch player ever
There's no NBA player better than Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan is and always will be the G.O.A.T. If you want to see what I'm talking about watch more videos of Michael Jordan. Larry byrd isn't the goat.
I'll have to take Gary Payton's and Robert Parish side. Bird was the best. MJ is second. Parish played with Jordan for one season and said Jordan's trash talk was lame if you compared it to Bird's. Parish would know. LOL.
I watched him through his whole career and once he retired, I stopped watching basketball especially today with it being as soft as it is, can't touch nobody without getting foul big men can't hang around in the paint and nothing but a bunch of 3 point shots...... boring it's getting to where it's like the WNBA with nothing but layups the NBA's nothing but long shots and it's not as near as physical and hard to score as it was back in his time. He would average minimum 40 in today's NBA
