Michael Jordan Myth GETS DESTROYED By Former NBA Player 

MJ did more for the franchise of the Wizards than Agent 0 relevancy did for it

Seeing Kareem’s stats and accomplishments at 38 after Gil just said he wasn’t good had me dead 💀

It is very unfortunate that the Wizards were unable to make it to the playoffs despite Michael Jordan's efforts.

He was straight schooling all those flashy young dudes with fundamentals…

Wasn't Jordan the biggest pick up when joining the Wizards? Didn't they go from bottom of the league in defense in the previous year to as high as #3 in defense when he was playing before his injury?? Jordan was handling business on defense

The guys on roids! Of course he still looks to be in shape.

Context... Teams flew commercial to games, teams practiced on the off days, no load management, flagrant fouls today were called as common fouls, if at all. Jordan also came into the Wizards off of having his ribs broken in the off-season. As he got into basketball shape he was averaging 27ppg in the twenty games prior to the knee injury. In the ten games before the injury he averaged 29ppg. The Wizards ran off a 15-1 win streak. So playing after the injury dropped his stats down to 25ppg for the session. We'll never know how good he would have been due to injury.

7:37 the great irony of this sequence is that while Agent Zero Sense is ranting about nonsense, this guy to his right is literally on his laptop where he could use three clicks to see Kareem was still very productive by 38 and still with back to back rings to be won! 🤣🤣. Maybe this is why more hoppers will remember/know more about a Robert Horry than him because the objective is to *win*

It's amazing that they continue to take shots at Jordan, his game. I'm surprised they don't go another direction because his time while playing in comparison to other players is unmatched. Plus, who in the NBA now is doing what Jordan or even Kobe did for the NBA. Absolutely no one, no one stands out, heck even Vince Carter stood out amongst great players. These players today can't even do that in a league that is soft. So what does that tell you? These arguments are foolish and absolutely ridiculous. Here's a nail in the coffin. Put Jordan in any era, and he dominates.

MJ's competitiveness wouldn't allow him to take designer drugs and he'd play any minute if he could still move. On the other hand, Bron spends millions on PEDs and would force rest if he doesn't need to

Jordan didn’t join the Wizards to compete for a championship unlike LeBron and the Lakers. Also, we know LeBron is on PEDs why is it surprising he’s still playing at a high level 😂

Uh leClown is not running like he's 20 he's taking plays off and looks tired trailing behind. MJ was playing defense and was hurt there's a big difference and MJ actually has real skill, let alone just have a big body ramming through people and not getting called for an offensive foul and racking up turnovers like bron is. Smh

I just saw Gilbert's BS take. Everything Gil says about MJ is a lie. 😒 He also said that MJ wasn't criticized for not winning the first 6 years, when I remember the media saying MJ couldn't win without a big man and compared him to Mitch Richmond.

Lebron is not running like he was when he was younger

Kareem at 38 was still elite. Wasn't his prime, but was still elite.

Love your final point. Some people must not believe in holding themselves or their favorite players accountable, because they talk a big game of "LeBron's so amazing at age 38 and our Lakers are going to the Finals this year" then when they fail they say "What do you expect, he's old and [insert teammate names] didn't help enough!" They're not real fans. Real fans hold their teams accountable to win and call out problems when they see them.

MJ's basketball era WAS SO DIFFERENT COMPARED to LbJ era. MJ went in to NBA where basketball is so physical and some other NBA stars was still existing those times- 80s- 90s.. but despite of the physicality kind of games that time, he was still able to produce positive ends of a ball game- even there was games with superb crucial situations. Flagrant and acting rules was not that available yet compared to LbJ's era. 2nd, MJ didn't had a situation of having a new team. The Bulls' player- regardless of player (newly draft picked or traded players) who comes where the management (with the Coach) gets, MJ played with them and teaches them. LbJ already had 3 teams to be with. Obviously he plays for the money offer and who he wants to play with. MJ gave a NEW DEFINITION of REALITY how basketball SHOULD BE PLAYED. That's the Main FACT.

JORDAN is the 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐. And no one can do anything about it!! 🤣🤣🤣

Someone needs to send this to Gilbert. Great video as always.

I just saw the worst take ive heard from gilbert arenas the fact that the 90s are overrated

Where was Kareem at 38? He was winning finals mvp. Agent zero rings should stfu

I appreciate your fact checking. People can say anything these days, but real context is everything.

That's the difference right there, he was injured and still played, now they take days off for rest.

This analysis does not consider the extreme officiating bias LeBron has received. It's just at a completely different level from what MJ experienced.

Imagine if a 38, 40 year old MJ had another 1 or 2 all star players like LBJ have always been having? 🎉

The meatglazing is so crazy. Why don’t we compare Lebron to Timmy??

Bronsexuals literally play it both ways. He's top ten player until he loses and then he's old.

Arenas knows so little about the game & league that he played in. Yes, there are more scoring guards in today's league, but that's also because it's easier for guards to score today than in past. Also, Jordan played a lot of Forward in his Wizards days. He was also still effective defensively despite not making an All-Defense team. The Wizards were better defensively with him on the court than without & he occasionally took on the opposing team's best scorer in certain spots (Vince Carter, Paul Pierce, etc).

How can Gilbert say LeBron can still play and run like hes 20, but then say we shouldnt expect anything from him cause hes 38? Like no, if you gonna imply he can play just as good as he can when he was young, then imma still have the same expectations from him. If hypothetically Jordan at 40 was still JORDAN and still played just as good as prime Jordan that we knew, i'd still have the same Jordan expectations from him.

but the 1 thing people dont think about wit mj and bron at that age. is mj sat out for a couple years. not saying he wasnt in shape, but its a big diff between running year after year. than sitting down for a couple years and trying to get back in basketball shape

You can defend Jordan and his efforts in his last 2 seasons, you can defend Kareem at 38 having a great year of success. Just dont forget that Lebron at 38 played 21 years of the NBA. Those guys at that age played 13 seasons and 18 respectively, with the Playoffs included Lebron at this stage played way more. Yes technology is better, but this guy doesnt have the same milage as them

when people compare Jordan to LeBron at 38 years old, they forget that MICHAEL’s early playing years in the 80s and 90s / the contact of the game was brutal. That’s why his body did not hold up as well. as time goes on, we will see players last a lot longer because the contact of the game is a lot less 38 years old is impressive to still be playing but I have a feeling it won’t be that impressive in the next 20 years.

Arenas definitely has personal issues with MJ. The game is different and has been since LBJ entered the league. This argument needs to stop. MJ adjusted his game as he got hurt older which hurt his super athleticism. Jordan scored 37ppg when teams were scoring 85pts.

All I know is I've seen only two RU-vidrs credit MJ for his efforts in turning the Wizards around defensively. Everyone else is just ignorant about it but let Lebron come to a team that was a bottom 3 team in the league defensively and turn them to a top 5-10 defense he would be considered an all defensive player. It's just like his first year with LA and how they were in 4th place by Christmas but ended up not making the playoffs because he missed 12 games from a "groin injury" Something he didn't need surgery on. 🙄I wish Jordan would've been able to come back to a team and recruit GP and KG. That would've been another 3peat

People don't take into consideration that when MJ came out of retirement w/Wizards, he had been sitting for 2 years. So he was not in the same conditioning had he remained in the NBA instead of retiring.

If you compare Jordan's 03 stats to his 98 stats you will see he averaged more rebounds and more assists while shooting a higher percentage from 3 and the foul line. He lead the 03 Wizards in steals + assists which is an indication he was their best defensive player. He did shoot less than in 98 because he was the #2 option behind Stackhouse, but he actually had a much better season than Stackhouse. The year before Jordan was a bit rusty and did not have a great year, but his last year with the Wizards he was good.

Gilbert loves attention more than logic and reason. That sums it up

Real truth for the MJ haters... He played most of his NBA career a drunk gambler. Imagine if he had Lebrons nutritionist. Man abused his physical ability and still put up numbers.

Well said, especially towards the end of the video. Your videos are always very informative, thank you for all the hard work behind the scenes.

he was 25 5 5 before the injury. that was in a more defensive era.

Lebron hasn't run "like he's 20" for about 10 years

Gil more famous today for his hot takes than his entire career as a player.

I loved those two years he was back; he still was better than 90% of the league. For me, it was a gift of having to witness him once again... After so many years kind of hating the excellence of him.

GILBERT WHO?

Dominates on the break and at the basket, im saying he's a modern, leaner perimeter oriented Karl Malone, trading mid range post/face ups for the occasional 3s. Karl Malone could get near 5apg playing as a true Power Forward, get him leaner and working on his handle and let the offense run through him and now he's easily getting 3more apg. He's still rebounding, still dominating the fast break(best floor running PF ever, Bron best floor running SF). Hes still strong and bullying his way downhill at the basket-only now there's rarely true HOF C's camping the paint and he's being defended by Small Forwards instead of true Power Forwards most of the time. No, he wouldn't be as fast or have the verticality, that still separates the 2, but neither is lebron anywhere near as strong as Malone and Malone would rebound at a higher rate and had the softer shooting touch-reliable from FT and both had their come up small in crunch time genes. Both flop. Both stat machines. Both longevity freaks of nature. Karl was putting up better numbers than Jordan at 39 also. Became 2nd all time in points. No one cared. Make the league offense oriented where defenders can't defend-up the pace and possessions and now 39 year old Karl Malone likely putting up better numbers than his MVP seasons just like LeBron. No one actually believes LeBron is better now than his prime right? Bc thats what the numbers say. That's how badly unbalanced the NBA currently is to benefit offense vs when Malone and Jordan were old in the slowest era ever. LeBron in the 90s is a mix of Karl Malone and you could say Scottie or Clyde or Hill, but his aesthetic probably closer to Clyde. That's a HOFer and one of the greatest ever still, but it would still be Jordan on the mountain top.

Gilbert 'Never Filled Any' Arenas and the other Bron bootlickers are just mad, because all those players he mentioned(except for Larry Bird). Has more rings than Bron, as leaders of their respected teams. And they did it in less time.

there's always going to be myths about him, whether they're true or not...just talking about him in this day and age gets these so-called analysts notoriety

They never bring up the fact that Bron has benefited from modern medicine & the ability to spend a million a yr on his body alone.. Kareem, Bird, Magic, MJ.. none of them had this luxury.. so Bron @38 is 1000% gonna look different than those guys @38.

Gilbert is an example of talking off the cuff without doing any research on stats or facts. What a clown😂

Basketball was so much better back then as far as the style of it,and the funny thing is that jordan way of playing on the wizards would probably be more deadly in today's game than his 80s style of play in today's game.

Injury is HOW aging manifests itself. A player can't do what he might have used to do. Therefore their averages go down. The injury aren't context they ARE the story.

If Ron Artest never broke his ribs that summer, he wouldn’t came in overweight and trying to catch up, he was killing them in the summer

Tim Duncan, David Robinson, Gary Payton and Jason Kidd also won a title at 37 too.

Scoring in this soft era can't be compared to previous eras😂

Comparing a guys body at 38 on steroids to a guy that’s natural is the dumbest argument ever

Kareem won a ring at 38 Gil 😭😭bro they be doing backflips on this man shit ! And bron my fav player all time like this is a sad the way they go out

MJ could've still played in the NBA @50 yo. He would have been upper mid-tier, not GOAT level but still a starting SG on most teams if you think about it. At 50, he would have had 'forced rest' (Popovich did the game a great dis-service with implementing that all those years ago, IMO), the lack of hockey style defense from opponents nowadays (Wilt & MJ forced the League to change the rules because of them, they were that good, remember), more roster rotation in-game, and the implementation of the review system & the newer flagrant foul rules... he would still be putting up starting SG numbers, making the franchise $$$, mentoring younger players (as he did with the Wizards), and bringing the MATURITY level up in the league post-50. I didn't say post-55 but he could've played another 3 or 4 years, just to prove that he could at that level. That would've ended ALL GOAT talk all-time BUT owner's of professional sport teams/clubs cannot be professional players also. "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know.".

Whoa! Whoa! The fact is Washington never put Jordan on the floor to relive his glory days. He was put on the team to mentor the likes of Arenas and Stackhouse and teach them to be winners in the league. To pin point it correctly, he should have been the Wizards versions of Udonis Haslem, but averaging 15 to 16 points a game. The point was learning to win, not maintaining a scoring standard. And Jordan's UNC years, Bulls years and Wizards years reveal that a team with him cannot win titles or playoff series without the right players sacrificing parts of their offensive game to make his offensive game look better. Pippen, Rodman, Kukoc, Grant and Harper all played harder on defense and sacrificed their offensive skills to accommodate his 24+ fg attempts a game. Had Washington had the same type of players willing to sacrifice for Michael like Bulls players did, they might have made it to the playoffs. Scottie Pippen's real beef with Jordan is that all he sacrificed in scoring, effort, pay and ego to keep the Bulls winning the narrative stills remains Jordan won six titles and the rest of the Bulls just watched and passed Michael the ball.

NO ONE known for FLOPPING, quitting, & standing around at defense could EVER be in the same SENTENCE as MJ😂. Play 82 games LeQuit...

Arenas was charged with carrying a pistol without a license into the locker room. Arenas admitted that he ran about 60 red lights in 4 months and got away with it by keeping his dealer plates on his vehicle. On June 27, 2013, Arenas was arrested by the LAPD for the possession of illegal fireworks. Gilbert Arenas skirts the rules, hasn't won a championship and basically has a podcast because he scored a lot.

That underrated remark should have ben proof on the floor. Anybody can build castles out of thin hot air

Mj and kobe are in a league on by themselves. LeBron should never be mentioned with them. LBJ isn't a killer like them. He's mister nice guy and doesn't want to take the last shot or guard the best player on opposing teams 😂

I know everyone just saw Michael put the Heats LaPhonso Ellis on his Backside!!! 😂

Gilbert is nuts, he’s team Jordan some days & the other days he’s new era.

I don’t know why anyone listens to a genius that brought a loaded gun to the locker room.

If you were alive to watch those 90s bulls teams it was always an event. You knew you were gonna see mj on tv and he was gonna do some amazing things than you wake up for school throw your Jordan’s on with your bulls pullover starter jacket with the matching starter hat and you were lit…

One thing ya forget… Jordan retired first at 31 after his father died… Then retired at 36…. Then retired in his 40s in the wizards… Imagine if he never retired 😅

It’s wild to see how much Gil roots for LeBron, even though he punked Gil in the playoffs at the free throw line, Gil missed both free throws and they lost the game

LeBron career below 40% on shots past 3ft should be an automatic disqualification for GOAT.

The one's Gilbert talk about at 38 probably had multiple injuries because the game was more fisical and the staff didn't have the knowledge that they have today about diet, traning and recovery.

I still have my original Wizard's Jordan jersey. In the conversation about the GOAT, the only real question is who is second.

taking a break and leaving for years then coming back at 38 vs not leaving the nba, not needing to get into shape and in softer league. Cant compare it. big difference.

This is the biggest NBA What if video on the internet

I hate how here guys act like they can’t see nothing. Lebron has missed 90 games total in last 3 seasons. He walks on defence plays when he wants to. If Jordan had that luxury he’d play well into his 40s easy.

Gilbert takes everything out of context

Came back old after hella time off, limited role, tryna develop younger talent and give back, all in a tougher era of ball....still avg 24.6 with all around stats. Just another reason why hes the Goat.

There's a reason Bron is still "running like he is 20" and it's not his diet.

That must be so demoralizing being the GOAT and not being able to get 30 anymore. I wonder when most players will finally admit they either need to retire or sit on the bench. It kind of reminds me of the lack of awareness that Melo had thinking he's still a star.

Imagine if Jordan was on Bron’s steroid regime. He’d still be playing today 😂😂😂

That’s Gilbert always disrespecting Jordan it’s a joke

Jordan's time requires "tons of context" yet Lebron aint allowed to have context.

Gilbert is so annoying with his silly takes.

LeChina lovers love to point out how much money he spends to keep his body in shape. play more games. be an Ironman. do what Kareem did at 38. Jordan and Kareem were a different type of player. a player we will never see again.

Thanks for educating these youngsters. They believe everything in their era/time is better than it was and I would disagree.

Lebron aint playin NO defense!!

Bottom line… only Lebron stans and MJ haters diminish Jordan’s Wizard years. A honest basketball fan has appreciation for what he did at that age… coming back after 3 years off… playing in all 82 games his final season… putting up top 10 numbers before the knee injury… elevating a struggling team to playoff hopes. It wasn’t earth shaking, but good stuff for non-haters and jock-riders.

While others were playing basketball Jordan was creating art!

Arenas knows he couldn't hold Jordan's jock strap

Lebron just stands around, plays no defense, garbage points and just scores against no defense.

Why are we talking about Arenas in the first place? No time should be wasted on that 🤡

Jordan at age 39, with one knee played 82 games…. Enough said Lebron from age 34-38 (excluding age 35 when he played 67 games) has played under 55 games a season.. in an era where defense is basically non existent

It's so crazy how this ringless players be hating on MJ!😂😂

Funniest comment of Arenas : "Think about it Lebron at 38 he is still running like he is 20 lololololol. The Fact is LeBron saves his energy abandoning his defense for open-court scoring. Comparing LeBron's stats abandoning defense for stat padding even in today`s high scoring league, to Jordan's stats in the early 00s, when the league was ultra low-scoring and unfavorable to offenses, is nonsense. The 01-02 season, when Jordan returned, was the season that the league introduced zone defense while leaving handchecking intact. Despite the introduction of a zone defense and the addition of a defensive 3 seconds rule, most swingmen's scoring stats plummeted and they never really adjusted. Eventually, in the 04-05 season, hand checking rule was tightened up and swingmen's scoring started to pick up. Plus from the 07 season onwards, the league added the gather-step rule, which further empowered the offense. Some have speculated that LeBron`s losing in the '07 Finals, when he looked like he couldn't do anything and lost to San Antonio Spurs, introduced the gather-step rule in response to make him better in penetration, but we don't know for sure. Since then, with the maximization of three-point tactics, the league has become even more scoring-oriented, and here we are.

Also lets not forget that MJ almost played every single game every year and did not use this time management shit they use nowadays

The AMAZING irony of them comparing LJ at 38 to someone who WON THE FINALS at 38 and was finals MVP. Like dang, that actually got my mad when he brought up Kareem

I was shocked when he tried saying Kareem wasn’t good at 38. He just doesn’t know ig

And this was before performance enhancement drugs in which these current players are on. They are juiced these days

Gilbert didn’t say Kareen was ineffective he said that people didn’t expect nothing from him🤷🏿‍♂️

the difference is the physicality that's why. defense are no jokes. narrative is being hype.

Gilbert is getting paid a lot of money by Lebron to be his son's "trainer" so he has to say this shit.