Michael Jordan’s Greatest Playoff Series 

63 against the Celtics easily

Tune Squad vs Monstars

For me his finals series in 93 averaging 41 is still the most impressive. Especially considering he had Dan Majerle guarding him who outside MJ himself was the best defender at the sg position that season.

@@mkbzam I totally forgot about Dumars, but yea ur right, he was 1st team all defense that year while being listed as a sg.

As for a single game, I would have to go with his final game in Chicago. Carrying that team with his best teammate being a hobbled Pippen, scoring 45 of his teams 87 points to win his 6th chip, the final sequence being the greatest sequence in NBA history in my opinion.

Lebron better

LBJ

Jokic doing this rn but with assists and rebounds too

@@BTLBill he cant even sink a wide open game winning shot lol

Doesn’t rly separate him from everyone else when we got jokic having triple doubles with near 100% efficiency 😂

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Wonderful comment.

His help was on drugs. Jordan and the crackheads smh.

Scottie Pittman exists

@@davidwilliams316he wasn’t even on the team when jordan dropped 63🤦‍♂️

@@user-pf8hk8se7i how many times he pass the ball and play defense on the other end

He average more assists in the playoffs than regular season over his career... . He's also a top 5 all time perimeter defender by accolades alone​@@davidwilliams316he was always playing full tilt on both ends.

How many first round exits did he have again?

​@@skynyrdjesus I believe the dude said "Showed up big" not always won.

​@@skynyrdjesusLike 3. But that was early in his career and that was against either the bad boy pistons or the Larry bird Celtics so.........

@@thespacecowboy4124 That's almost a quarter of his career, so....

Cap. He had moments where he struggled.

Yeah, 93 was not fun for my dad

One MJ series that deserves mention: 1988 first round vs the Cavs: 45.2 points per game on I believe 63% true shooting, and was his team’s leader in steals and blocked shots. A look through NBA history will reveal a lot of excellent playoff series statlines that aren’t talked about because they didn’t occur in the finals. There’s plenty, but another I’ll shout out is Magic Johnson, who averaged a triple double in the 1983 western conference finals vs San Antonio.

If you want to know, go watch his games and see.

The modern NBA is great imo

@demirg1421 Why? Explain what's so great about it. I'm honestly curious.

​@@Tyrannosaurus_STFU_III Why isn't it great? Imo there's a different interesting area in every era. Isolation scoring was at it's peak in the 00's, 90's featured arguably the best player ever and tons of dominant post-centric bigs, 80's had 2 superteams who played beautiful games. In the current game, we have more skilled players than ever before (Not that players got more skilled but skill-less guys who mostly defend and rebound can't survive anymore, IE Andre Roberson), as a result we have more spacing than ever before, and team defense very innovative (You'd never see something like a box-and-one or 10 PnR coverages in the 90's, partly thanks to illegal defense and iso-heavy offense). The game certainly allows more travelling/carrying than ever before, but it's statistically untrue that the game has allowed less physicality (There has never been a month with as less foul calls per game as March 2024). Modern Basketball isn't old-school basketball, and if you like the way old-school basketball played with a packed paint of rebounders and defenders, that's fine. But to say modern NBA isn't great is just as ignorant as "We done with the 90's". The game is more than chucking up 3s than you think -- especially on teams with great coaches, such as the Heat with Spo, Warriors with Kerr, Spurs with Pop or even OKC with Mark Daigneault

@@Time_Lapse_Master. NIce points Sir, I'd like to interject that defense and Rebounding guys are still needed and can be of great use even in todays NBA.....The NBA-Commisioner has had a wrong idea that more offense enhanced by making it harder to play defense and the calling of phantom fouls, accelerated Flopping has led to lower viewership ratings...The NBA was at its height when there was a "Struggle" to obtain greatness and success..."Heroes" in the League could count on thier favorite players, playing the Majority if not all of thier Careers in one place, location, one team.... It's why Dirk Nowitzki's one title with Dallas; is looked upon more respect; Isiah Thomas' two; Larry Birds-3; with more reverence than the 4-LeFake and 2-KD have gotten as the Paid-Mercenaries of Basketball... I could say more But When Magic who has -{5-for-9}-enters the Lakers arena he's though of higher that LeFlop; Kobe-{5=for-7} is revered more then LeCheat; MJ-{6 for 6}-made Chicago the NBA's Most recent version of Titletown USA in the 90's.....made that city the place to be and the team to see... 🙂

OP is talking about modern basketball ignorance, which is true. Modern fans have forgotten or never knew about what happened before, so they are ignorant.

Good suggestion. However, it wouldn't do any good. They look at LeBron with lovey-dovey eyes and disregard any truth that might detract them from their "queen". If I didn't know any better, Shannon, Nick and few other media (so-called) giants are in love with LeBron. Why? Is beyond me. There's never been a more overrated and narcissistic player who is quick to blame everybody else when things don't go his way.

Maybe?? Depends how the video does. This will definitely go in MJ’s 3rd compilation though.

Be quiet trolll

@@NoNameWillBeGiven-ii5hu ? Mr. Arnett liked my honest comment, so YOU quieten down, dullard.

It’s almost laughable how good Jordan was. He was a basketball machine.

We got people saying “XYZ player can’t go right.” What next? This player has no middle?

Could you imagine LeBron getting smacked like that? He would be rolling and crying for his momma. Then he would get up and argue with the refs why he didn't get the call, all while the opposing team is on their end of the floor scoring at will.

Lmao, this isn't about LeBron goofy. You boys act gay about that man.

Happy birthday!! Hope you have a great time celebrating :)

I’m 34, but I think that’s totally fair. No one wants to see their favorite player getting hurt. For me, I think the balance between the finesse and the physical was perfect in the 2000s.

@@jonnyarnett same. I always thought the 2000s had a perfect balance between physical defense and skilled defense.

Because so much time has passed, a 34 year old thinks he's old. The 90s were trash and it's the reason the league is worst today. That 76ers team was garbage.

I was wrong that you would choose that series vs bird, but I still stand on what I said. MJ dropped 60 and still lost.

He was a great player the moment he stepped foot in the league.

I’m not gonna lie, don’t wanna talk about how my Lakers stink, and MJ videos get the views on this channel… You’d do it too if it was your job 😂

when you compare him to today's standards yes hes underwhelming, but back then, he did okay at the 3 pointer he did make them when it counted but hes more known for his incredible field goal efficiency as a guard, its ridiculous even by today's standards 43ppg on 55fg in a playoff series FOR A GUARD is unheard of in recent years

He's not horrible at all. He was league average in the era despite his horrible tank years in the beginning. He shoots better than Lebron in the playoffs from everywhere.

Jordan shot better when he started taking MORE threes, which shows how much more effective he’d be in today’s era which encourages it. (A lot of his early year threes were half-court heaves at the buzzer or a rushed attempt before the shot clock expired) He hardly focused on them. When he started to focus on threes, he became effective. Seasons with less than 75 attempts: 1984-85: 52 attempts - .173 1985-86: 18 attempts .167 1986-87: 66 attempts - .182 1987-88: 53 attempts - .132 Jordan (in seasons BEFORE the league shortened free throw line for three seasons), 200+ attempts: 1989-90: 245 attempts - .376 1992-93: 230 attempts - .352 And yes, Jordan was also great in the Finals, when it mattered. In the three Finals series in 91, 92, and 93, he shot 42% from three and held a record at the time for three pointers made in a half.

The 3 pt shot was not a high IQ shot during those times. Team play more fundamentally sound basketball by taking higher IQ shots. MJ knows the midrange was a more higher IQ shot. Thus why i said he was horrible since he was so effective/efficient with his midrange game and postgame that he didn't need it but just saying he nail it when it matters most. If he shot that wide open 3 Lebron shot he would've nail it.

In what world? 🤔

In 1991? lol ugh no. You can argue he had a better regular seasons in 90 or 93 based on mvp voting but that’s about it. And Barkley was great but not Jordan level great.