The reason Michael Jordan retired to go to baseball is his father wanted him to play baseball more than anything growing up and they had talked about it before his death. He was so close to his father that he just felt it was something he had to do. What helped at that point was he was burnt out on Basketball. 3 nba champions, olympic gold, he never did anything but win and he was bored.
Jordan didn't trash talk much, but what he did is take every single slight he heard from any opponent and use it to fuel him to beat that guy. It got to the point where he actually made up stories about someone in his head so he would have reason to want to crush them. Plus he really did trash talk his teammates and drove them incredibly hard. Some actually hated him, but in the end most knew the rings on their fingers were all because of Michael. I'm sure someone else has already mentioned it but the documentary "The Last Dance" about The Bulls final championship run and primarily about Jordan is as great a sports doc as you will ever see.
I got to see Jordan play live once when I was a kid. The bulls and suns played an exhibition in my town one summer. I got to see Jordan and Barkley play. It was one of the best days of my life. Anyone who says he is not the best wasn’t around to see him play.
He retired for less than two seasons. He returned with 15 or so games left in the 1994-95 season. He wore #45 only for the remainder of that season. He went back to wearing #23 for following season. The three years the narrator mentioned was in reference to the Bulls being basketball royalty during their first three-peat (1991-1993).
Remember he did change the his number back to 23 during the playoffs series with the Orlando Magic. Nick Anderson made the mistake of saying 45 isn’t better than 23 after game 1 and that very next game he went back to 23.
I grew up watching Jordan every guy in my highschool was wearing his jersey. It was a thing of beauty. In today's game theres no way anyone could touch him. I put Kobe above LeBron, but even then I still think Jordan comes out on top 100% of the time. It's always fun watching them react to Jordans highlights most of them really had no idea how good he actually was.
It's difficult to explain just how great the Jordan era was bc we watched it live and it was electric. Pippin and Jordan were like a hand and glove situation and Jordan knew he needed Pippen and Scottie rose to the challenge. MJ bulked up bc he was getting seriously beaten by other teams, but he never stopped going down the middle into all of them. He had that charming smile, but he was a killer on the court.
@@ryanc9888 Draymond got suspended which was Bs and I’m talking about when you have your team what did you do with it Jordan 3 peat twice Lebron has been jumping team to team trying to build super teams for example failing to lure Kawhi to LA
Horace Grant told a story that when the Bulls were playing the Magic(the Shaq and Penny Hardaway team)in the Conference Finals, Nick Anderson of the Magic stole the ball from Mike and then Nick said something to the effect of “that’s 45, that’s not 23” and the very next game switched back to 23. The best ever.
I was and still am a huge Boston Celtics fan, but Jordan was the one athlete who was so transcendent that I became a Bulls fan as long as he was there (and not playing the Celts, which was easy because Larry Bird's career was ending just as Jordan was getting started, and the Celts ceased to be contenders after that). I think Michael Jordan may be the only player in any sport who was clearly the most athletic, the most competitive, the smartest, and the most clutch all in one person.
I was thinking as I watched this that MJ worked hard to build his body into the perfect basketball machine. He got truly buff and sculpted his physique to be strong, reliable, quick to recover - and he didn't go overboard and make himself into a monster body that wouldn't fit basketball. Some guys who train hard to build themself up and to be come better players just go too far and kind of outsmart themselves.
@@blakerh Yeah when MJ scored 64 or whatever it was against Boston and barely lost the playoff series, you could sense it was the start of a new era (which would ultimately be Chicago vs Detroit).
I was HERE, in Chicago, for ALL 6 Bulls championships, driving through the city as it erupted for each one, year after year, and let me tell you, it was THRILLING!
Michael had full-blown flu, blood shot eyes, red as can be and you could SEE them bloodshot, riddled with flu, and that performance, was singular in the history of sport.
MJ wore #45 in the 94-95 season, in which he rejoined the league towards the end of the season and only played 17 games before the playoffs (they eventually lost in the playoffs, with MJ on the team).
2:36 In the early 80s power forwards/centers who could post-up and rebound were highly coveted. That's how the game was played in that era. Everybody wanted a player like Buck Williams or Terry Cummings. Sam Bowie appeared to be the next great player in that mold. Plus, Portland needed a big man. Selecting a guard as a high draft pick was considered risky. That's why they passed on MJ.
Stockton has the NBA record for assists and steals by an ENORMOUS amount. He is ahead of 2nd by 580 steals and by 3,715 assists. That’s how far AHEAD of 2nd place he is.
Back in the day centers where what people believed won championships so Jordan was taken third because the other two where considered the best big men. Story goes Bobby knight a legendary coach was asked by Portland who they should draft he said Michael Jordan but we need a center. Bobby said fine draft Michael Jordan and play him at center. The last dance was amazing if you two haven’t watched it. It shows a lot of Jordan’s greatness and what he went through.
The 1992 Dream Team: Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, three of the greatest players of all time, along with David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, John Stockton, Scottie Pippen, Christian Laettner, Clyde Drexler and Chris Mullin.
Jordan spent a solitary season (1994) with the Birmingham Barons, a Double-A minor league affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. Over the span of this season, he participated in 127 games, contributing to his team's performance in various ways. He unretired in March 1995... They made the playoffs that year, but didn't make it to the Finals....
15:30 Michael played baseball for 2 years 1993-1995 and returned from 1995-98. The baseball team he played for were the Birmingham Barons and Scottsdale Scorpions (minor league teams, he never played major). After that we retired for the second time and return for one more return from 2001-2003 with the Washington Wizards He eventually bought (and just recently sold) the Charlotte Hornets.
Jordan played baseball for 2 years with the white sox wore 45 for I want to say part of the beginning of the season, Michael Jordan was by far one of the greatest trash talkers on the court, and thank you for doing a Joseph Vincent video. Joseph Vincent does the best videos.
Jordan didn't have all of the theatrics of modern day "trash talkers"...no arm flailing, no yelling....he would just casually drop some of the coldest trash talk you could think into his defenders ear while he absolutely torched you on both ends of the court for 48mins straight.
Micheal Jordan obviously went to North Carolina… I live in Chapel Hill (where UNC is) and go to every home basketball game. His #23 is one of the retired jerseys in the rafters. They still show his highlights on the pregame hype videos. As a diehard Tar Heel he’s my GOAT by far. Go Heels!
He had 45 on briefly because his number 23 was retired by the team immediately after he retired to play baseball. Later they took the number down from the ceiling and unretired the number so he can wear it again. Number 45 was his older brother's number and 23 he wore was half of 45.
If you ever get the chance, watch what happens when people talk to Jordan. Both good and bad. He is a huge gambler. But backs up his bets. And will take on almost any challenges.
Sneakerhead's brains in meltdown when Daz scores early Jordans, and then spends 3 years wearing them out, and throwing them away. Bro just wiped his ass with collectors' dreams lol.
"The Flu game." A lot of people didn't know this at the time, but what they really think happened was that the game was in Utah, and MJ had a few people in his room playing poker. Jordan said he was hungry and decided to order a pepperoni pizza. The pizza was delivered to his hotel room, and he asked if anyone else wanted some of the food. No one else ate it and Jordan ate the entire pizza. Later that night Jordan called the Bulls trainer at like 3AM and told him to come to his hotel room he wasn't feeling well. By the time the trainer got to the room Jordan was lying on the bathroom floor in the fetal position. They believe someone from the restaurant used expired food or put something on the pizza to make him sick, knowing that it was going to Jordan in order to try and help the Utah Jazz win the game.
People in Chicago had played pranks on Utah players. They sent a Playboy model and cakes to Antoine Carr's hotel room the night before a game trying to mess him up. The pizza was retribution.
@@cygnusx-3217 I don't know if intentionally giving someone food poisoning falls in the category of "prank" but to each their own. And it backfired in the most spectacular way. Not only did it not help the Jazz win the game, but it also only helped cement the legend of Michael Jordan. To be that sick and still perform at the highest level on the biggest stage of the NBA. Just wow.
Pat Riley played in the league in the 60-70’s. Eventually becoming the coach of the Lakers through their dynasty in the 80’s. Moved on to New York in the 90’s and eventually landed him to Miami since. Winner as a player, coach, and executive.
It’s the fact it may be one of the most athletic sports and MJ was the best at it. He was super fast, huge vertical, technical skills, amazing touch around the baskets, could shoot, amazing defense. I think the comparison is MJ is the basketball version of Ronaldo athleticism with Messi brain and skill.
SO many feats they didn't even discuss. For instance...that crazy shot in the finals against the Lakers was his 13th straight FG in a row without a miss. Still a finals record. So many.
I still remember Michael Jordan's last season with the Bulls in 1998 I was 5 at that time I remember Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippin were staying on Chicago Media remember someone telling me when we won that we were the World Champion
Played basketball competitively until I went to college. Never went past varsity basketball senior year of high school. Anyone who steps on the court and has taken a foul shot...remember that Mike dunked from there.. it doesn't seem physically possible when you're standing there.
The Portland Trailblazers already had Clyde Drexler as their shooting guard from the draft a year before. They would’ve had to trade him or play one of them out of position which teams didn’t do back then and they needed a center since the game was still dominated by the center position…so Bowie it was.
I don't really remember Beatlemania since i was only 3 when the Beatles came to the USA so this was as close to Beatlemania for my generation when the Dream team played in the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona.
1 season minor league baseball with Chicago White Sox. Returned to Bulls in March 1995 and wore number 45 bc 23 was retired; later went back to 23... won 3 more championships then went to play for Wizards. Then retired and bought Hornets which he sold most of his shares earlier this year.
You're missing a very important part of his 2nd retirement. He did in fact buy minority stake in the Washington Wizards and became team president of basketball operations. During which time he gave Kwame Brown ptsd while also leading the team in nearly every statistical category. He didn't buy the bobcats/hornets until many years later
Michael Jordan co-owns a NASCAR Cup Series team called 23XI Racing along with Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin, Denny also has Michael's sports apparel the Jordan brand as a partner on his firesuit, Denny and Michael are close friends and the numbers on the race cars for 23XI Racing is #23 and #45
The Bulls had retired MJ's #23 when he left so when he came back he had to wear #45....some player on another team made a negative comment about MJ's playing saying "look like MJ aint playing well wearing that #45......MJ returned back the next game with his #23....but he had to pay a hefty fine to remove his #23 jersey out of retirement.
I hated Jordan back in the day.. He played for the tar heels and I’m a Duke fan. He won all the time in the NBA and my favorite teams were the Hornets, Knicks, and Sonics but Michael Jordan was the greatest to play ever.. Never changed teams to chase championships…. LeBron.
Joe Vincent has TONS of amazing career highlight reels like this one for various athletes in a number of sports. Definitely worth taking a look at some of the others too.
10:00. The 1992 Dream Team had 12 players on the team. 11 of them are in the NBA Hall of Fame--hahaha. That team was the U.S, saying that we are tired our sending college students against National teams. Do you want the United State's best basketball team? Here you go.....! 11:45. The Dream Team had Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippin, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, John Stockton, Chris Mullins, David Robinson, Clyde Drexler, & Christian Laetner (the collegiate player of the year that won the National Championship).
Jordan wore the number 45 when he came back toward the tail end of the 1994-95 season and switched back to 23 after Jordan had a bad game 1, giving away two critical turnovers in the last 2 minutes and Nick Anderson of the Magic dissed him after the game saying "Number 45 is not number 23." Jordan came back in game 2 with the number 23 and smoked the Magic. They eventually lost in 6 because Jordan hadn't fully gotten back to 100% basketball shape and the Bulls had yet to fill the void left by Horace Grant.
Eh problem with Michael Phelps is that he won the most in swimming, but Spitz won the most that was possible to win in the sport when he won -- there weren't as many medals in the 70s / as many events. It wasn't possible to win as many as Phelps won back then, so that's more of a conversation of eras. But with Jordan, other players have had chances (and even have won more championships), but it's more about the overall stats and accolades combined, and how good he was overall, not just how many he won.
The man who owns the Chicago Bulls (Jerry Reinsdorf) also owns the Chicago White Sox (Major League Baseball). Reinsdorf opened up a spot on the White Sox *minor league team* for Jordan.
*Daz and Aiden* LOVE this channel guys.! In regards to most dominant/well known over all sports I put it into (2) categories... *WORLDWIDE MOST KNOWN* I think it's a tie to be fair A) Michael Jordan B) Muhammad Ali *MOST DOMINANT* my top 5 in no particular order A) Tom Brady B) Michael Jordan C) Wayne Gretzky D) Babe Ruth E) Tiger Woods (although Jack Nicholas has more *major* titles) Now being an American where we call it soccer not football, you guys might put Messi or Pele, I don't know enough about the sport to comment..... *EXCELLENT CONTENT GUYS* Now I've got 4 channels with blokes, lol... *CHEERS*
That’s great mate but you’ve chose all American. There’s a lot more sporting ability outside of America. Look at some of the best cricketers or rugby players 👍🏻
@@officeblokedaz *Fair Play* to be clear, it isn't the stereotypical "America, number one" thing, lol..... I know OF Cricket & Rugby but know ZERO about it..... that's on me, I'll give them their due and check it out.....
BTW Daz you're dead wrong about Jordan. He was respected because of his talent but most of his teammates didn't like him. Some hated him When they made that documentary series about him, a bunch of guys refused to even be a part of it. The over competitiveness that made him great is the same thing that made him hard to be around.
It was to Chicago's advantage that the NBA Draft was held before the start of the '84 Olympic Games, had the draft started afterward, MJ probably would've gone first in the draft. IMO, if it weren't for the Dream Team with the Big 3 legends, it probably would have taken longer for the rest of the basketball world to be where they are now. Yeah, the Dream Team was too good for any team to compete with, but it's that greatness that propelled the foreign stars of today to be as great as they are.
Greatest ever in any sport--football: Jim Brown (overall GOAT--should be done by position); Golf: Jack Nicklaus, Tiger very close; Baseball: Willie Mays everyday player; pitcher: tough one--righty Tom Seaver, Maddux, Ryan, Clemens, Gibson; Lefty: Koufax, Carlton, R. Johnson. Hockey: Gretzky, with Lemieux right there. Soccer/Football: Pele/Messi/fill in the blank with your favorite.
Muhammad Ali, in his day was the most recognizable person in the world, and some say the greatest heavyweight. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest pound for pound boxer, ever. There's a video called "Pound for Pound" about Sugar Ray if you want to check that out.
I grew up in the in the 80s and 90s and jordan was probably the greatest athlete I ever witnessed. Other than that Barry sanders in the NFL was probably my second best in my opinion.
The 1992 Olympic Dream Team was just that: the greatest team ever assembled. The roster was made up of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Clyde Drexler, Scottie Pippen, Chris Mullin, and Christian Laettner. All the members of the Dream Team (except Christian Laettner) will be or already are in the Hall of Fame as individual.
Michael Jordan's used to be until this year majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets. Michael Jordan was a minority owner of the Wizards and vice president of operations
Jordan bought a majority ownership of the Charlotte Hornets for about $275 million. He has now sold his majority ownership for $3 Billion. Not a bad profit margin, lol
