Check out my blog - www.basketballf... 11-8-1984 - Michael Jordans 7th career NBA game and first game in Madison Square Garden. Showing his athleticism, Jordan provides many highlights on route to 33 pts, 8 rebs, 5 asts.
Even in his rookie year he is and was tbe most spectacular and dominant player in the world. He is arguably the greatest athlete in the history of sports.
Eric Gold ...As a rookie, Michael Jeffrey Jordan wasn't the most dominant player in the world. The latter also wasn't the greatest athlete in the history of sports. Air Jordan was one of the greatest basketball player of all, not the greatest. Take a deep breath, and stop exaggerating.
Jordan's form and execution is so superior its simply amazing to witness. Even in his first few games as a rookie, he demonstrated complete mastery over the game. 🐐
I remember watching this game. I was ALL about Bernard being a Knick fan. Why they hype this Jordan kid so much.......... I suffered from this point on!
No one drives to the hoop in a more graceful fashion. It's sport, but he turned it into an art. I guess that's why we are still watching these video clips.
@@ram0666 ...Bill Russell and the rest of his teammates stopped Wilt Chamberlain, PERIOD!!! There's no such thing as a one-man team, which is why Air Jordan didn't get to the NBA Finals until 1991.
Jordan was a beast from the 1st year to the last year. Always gave 100 pct. Deserves all the props bestowed upon him by fans and analysts that know the real deal when they see it.#The Goat.
@@husslegroovy2513True. But I believe being raised well plays more of a part in overall demeanor and the way a person is trying to come across. Still I understand where you are coming from. College likely opened his eyes to his enormous business potential and that played a HUGE role in his image building which we all know starts and sometimes ends with a pro athlete's interviewing skills.
Hey slim I told my son that @ the time I honestly didn’t know I was watching what we consider the goat. I 1st seen him when I was 12 against my Hoyas & I seen the shot but I didn’t know he would become who he was.
Even as a rookie he was unstoppable. I grew up watching LeBron, but the eye test really does show who is the GOAT. Jordan's moves are one of a kind and he was all over the floor on offense and defense throughout his whole career.
wow! he was wearing Jordans in practice in 1984! They didn't hit the market until well into 85. *bought them as soon as they did/when NO ONE else had them.
My aunt in Chicago saw him very early on in his career at the arena there... She didn't really know a lot about basketball then (& probably still doesn't, tbh...) I was very young but I remember her saying to the family, though, after seeing a game... "I just saw something tonight & I couldn't believe my eyes at first"... "The Bulls have a basketball player now, that looks like he's suspended in mid-air when he jumps!" I just thought...'Yeah, she's probably talking about 'Air Jordan.'...Haha!!
@@vika0194 the league keeps getting softer, not harder. The rules, blatant disregard for violations, all set up to make scoring (all stats) easier. That's why scoring is at an all time high. You might say it's because of the 3 ball. But in the 80's a touch after the release was NOT a foul. And there was no rule for giving a player a place to land, so you could actually defend the 3.
@9:24 that dunk is legendary..that dunk could be used in a dunk contest..the way he cradled that ball and flew in the air is amazing..he was so fast and he jumped high and floated in the air..it's incredible how he pulled this dunk off and he also did this dunk while a player from the other team was chasing him. for him to steal the ball and run with it while the other player is chasing him and for him to do that dunk while being chased is absolutely amazing!
agree. theres a reason you've yet to see ANYONE do the "rock the cradle"(name of the dunk) again! even these new high flying dunkers today can't do it because you have to have immense upper body strength and control(something MJ obviously had). also, you have to catch the rim AS YOU'RE FALLING! thats why mj stumbles every time he did the dunk, truly the GOAT!
New York Times recap: History will note that the Chicago Bulls, leading for all but 1 minute 40 seconds last night, routed the staggering Knicks, 121-106, before a crowd of 19,252 in Madison Square Garden. The Knicks lost their sixth consecutive game, but overshadowing that was the first regular-season New York appearance of Michael Jordan, the phenomenal rookie of the Bulls. Jordan left the crowd aghast. He scored from over, under and around the basket, as well as from the outside. The 6-foot-6-inch guard did it with dunks and nifty drives. By the time he snatched the ball from a helpless Ernie Grunfeld and dashed for a flying one-handed dunk that gave the Bulls a 23-point lead at the end of the third period, the crowd was standing, voicing approval for nearly a minute. Jordan, who played 33 minutes, finished with 33 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocked shots.
Really fun watching early GOAT. Already clearly phenomenal player. Another thing I personally enjoyed was listening to Jim Karvellas, who sort of introduced me to the NBA as the voice of the Baltimore Bullets in late sixties-early seventies. I’ll always remember listening to him doing Bullets (Earl Monroe and Gus Johnson) vs. Knicks (Walt Frazier and Willis Reed). “BULLSEYE” was his trademark expression. Of course, he later became voice of Knicks (and the Pearl went there, too, sadly). One of the best basketball play-by-play guys ever.
He did the rock the cradle earlier in the year when he was still at UNC versus Maryland. I think it was in January of that year. Here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jqwVTE4k-SM.html
Ben DC4L not top 10 ? Jordan finished 6th place in MVP voting as a rookie....out the gate he was already a top 5 player in the NBA possibly top 3....he finished 3rd in ppg behind Benard King and Larry Bird.....Bird was the MVP that season and his numbers was 28.7ppg 10.5rpg 6.6apg who been in the league about 5 years and a rookie MJ averaged 28.2ppg 6.5rpg 5.9apg....Just because he didn’t have that great team from jump don’t mean he wasn’t a top 10 player already because he was so much better than majority of the NBA as a rookie and by 3rd year was already the best player in the league and we may as well say his second year because he sat his entire second year out besides the playoffs....he was by far the rookie of the year
And the guy was just a rookie!!!! Please stop the GOAT debate. I always said it is just a joke to compare him with anybody; especially today's players. Imagine mj with today's technology, personal trainer, treatment, recovery drugs that lebron and kawi take, he would averaged 50. Mj didn't start lifting weights until he was almost 30!!!
Its cool seeing a rookie Jordan showing some love to Bernard King. BK was absolutely legit. The Tracy McGrady of his time. "I think hes an outstanding player. You learn a lot playing against Bernard. You can't really stop him. You just have to contain him"
The commentators are funny, "They've been entertained!!" I was in the garden that night and when Jordan had the break away dunk, the whole arena cheered for him.
I was fortunate enough to live through the 6 NBA championships- after left the second time, I hardly ever watched basketball anymore. Wish I could find all those MJ cards I had collected.
I know this comment may never be seen on a 12 yr old video, but that play at 8:30 when Mike broke King down and hit the most beautiful turn-around jumper shows all you need to see how far ahead MJ was as a rookie. Simply unbelievable. We’ll never witness anything again like GOAT23.
Very very very very rare and thinking about it right now, rookies are never the best player in the league…. There’s a learning curve…. Michael Jordan as a rookie in his first game was already the best player in the league
i find this to be the definitive video to understand Michael Jordan. this game, this first season. scoring, steals, blocks. FIRST season. the word was circulating around the league about Jordan. another thing that very interests me is how articulate Jordan is . wow, did he change that much later ? Jordan - at this stage - comes off as super-human - a kind of sentiment or label that seemed possibly appropriate many years later.
One of my favorite Jordan performances ever. So exciting to watch! Sometimes I wish I could go back to that mid-1980s era (even though I wasn't born until 1999) just to see Jordan play haha! 🤩
Portland needed a big man and Bowie wasnt a bad player. Back then it was a big man's game and they had Clyde Drexler on the team, but yeah MJ became a god and Bowie was always hurt.
@@ardie77 the only God there is as we all will find out on judgement day happens to be Lord Jesus Christ. We as wrong doers have to willing accept God=Lord Jesus Christ and His salvation proposal and repent from our wrong doings and pray that we all avoid His judgement and of being thrown by His angels into the lake of fire and brimstone. Where there is weeping and the gashing of teeth. Unfortunately the unrepentant and other disbelievers end up there.
