Shaq & Penny visit Jordan & The Bulls (NBA 1995-96) 

😏 True ✅

He Played for other teams though...

pretty sure there were always enough better players than Toni though...

During the 95-98 seasons he was among 24 best players in the League.

He just wasn't consistent enough. On some nights he could be crazy good, and he'll go down as one of the better sixth men ever, but the difference between that and a legitimate all-star is consistency, and that's what Kukoc lacked.

@@mikesannitti6042 Yep! I remember he missed liked 30 something three pointers in a row during the course of a couple of games in the playoffs.

Alvin K. Penny Rarely Makes Mistakes

+Tamila You know they won 4 straight in the Finals against Magic and Worthy

+Tamila 86 Celtics is one of the best of all-time but it would be a very hard choice the between them and the 96 bulls. It wasn't weak, that bulls team was so great that it made everyone look weak. Penny Hardaway could have HoF status. He is long, athletic, superior IQ, ballhandling skills, etc in the mold of players like Oscar, and a younger Tracy Mcgrady.

+Tamila In this game you can see 5 HoF calibre talent. MJ, Pip, Shaq, Rodman, and Penny (if he didnt get injured he is a HoF calibre talent). Then you have all-star talent players in their younger days like Harper, kukoc, Anderson, and Grant. Plus you have 2 of the greatest shooters of all-time 3D and Kerr.All those in this game alone. I wouldnt really call this a watered down era.

+Domini478 Penny schooled Pippen (their best defender in almost every possession). Pippen even admitted Penny was a better version of himself

+Domini478 Don't give us that excuse. MJ was BALLING and putting up big scoring numbers after he came back. He was ball hogging as always. They simply weren't as good before getting Rodman and Harper, before they got those two players the Magic had a better starting 5 that's why they beat the Bulls in 95

No excuse for poor sportsmanship. Once the game is over, leave everything on the court.

he would be avg against these dudes

Just call the game "the finals" and it doesn't matter who he's playing, Steph would be average.

if wasn't around back then, then you wouldn't know, if you was, then you totally forgot about that NBA.

LOL! Fun times. Great crowd!

Dirrty Waterz and the Rockets

BS! Just about every NBA team back then COULD beat the Bulls. You forget the Bulls lost 10 games and not all to Orlando. Even the Nuggets beat them. The NBA was STACKED backed then. On Any good night, any team could beat them, especially if they played well and the Bulls didn't.

@@Wis_Dom What no my man only a few teams had a real chance that yr to beat the Bulls And Orlando had the best opportunity bruh

@@ernestboykin3rd706 Okay? Whatever....

@@Wis_Dom I think he's talking about in a 7 game series. Any team can beat any team 1 game in the NBA, even today.

Owned*

When I see Golden State play and how good they are now, it makes me wonder what the Magic could've been. There's a whole lot of similarities regarding their styles.

+cupertinoish Good observation. They had the ability to play d and would've won that game but were young and needed a good coach, not a clueless coach like Brian Hill. He only rode talent while in Orlando. The Grizzlies made the mistaking of hiring him because of the hype of 'taking Orlando to the finals' and after he was let go there go, was never heard from again.

This is the immaturity of youth playing against a veteran team who played at the highest level, especially in terms of their attitude and confidence.

nope they never won the big one. and MJ broke that team up

facts!! also the year before when the Bulls just had pippen as their leader the Bulls played better and their team stats were better !

Ewart Simpson true, but they wasn't going to win anything without MJ so stats don't always prove anything.

Facts!

Yeah A BASEBALL MJ? When he got back in BASKETBALL SHAPE, WHAT HAPPENED? SWEEP! A WIN is A WIN...BUT THAT'S Y HASHTAGS WERE CREATED..

B-dub was non stop highlights. His skill was overlooked because of all the other great players on the bulls, but on any other team he would have started and put up 20 & 10. He didn't get his own mcdonalds sandwich for nothing. I couldn't dunk until I ate a beef wennington, I ate one every day during the 95-96 season.

Wellington was inportant i always felt that way , he was a working horse.

Orlando was nowhere near the best team in the NBA... What are you even talking about... Smh

+Thu Nguyen Not really that surprising. The Bulls added two key players that season and were much deeper and had a veteran team. Magic had overall better starting 5 but were very young and Horace Grant got injured and didn't play after the first game, Penny already playing with knee problems, Bulls had a way better coach, Phil Jackson and added Rodman and Ron Harper - the real key to the Bulls success that year.

Tamila - uh no. This is such a common and ridiculous argument about the "expansion era". Go look at the number of 50 and 60 win teams of the expansion era. Marginal differences from the 80's. And most of these expansion teams became relevant quickly. There were simply more than enough players to go around as basketball and the NBA was just getting bigger. The biggest difference was that the stars of the 80's were older and great dynasties like the Lakers and Celtics were exactly that - old. They had already started diminishing in the late 80's and then Detroit took over. This idea that this Chicago team couldn't hang with their predecessors is laughable. 6 Championships with two three peats is more than anything done by either Boston or LA. Pat Riley himself, the coach of LA during Showtime, said of Chicago that they were the best team ever. But haters have to come up with nonsensical arguments.

Uh - the original poster is somewhat correct. This Orlando team had just beat Chicago the season before and had gone to the Finals. Chicago was winning like crazy but this wasn't the end of the season and they weren't the 72 win team just yet - everybody here is talking with the clarity of hindsight. Meanwhile, Orlando was not far behind Chicago in wins and they had the number 1 rated offense in the NBA at the time - this squad if coached better could have given Chicago a much harder time in the playoffs. But Chicago had the number one rated defense and as their playoff series against Orlando proved, defense wins championships - (at least before today's era of no defense and soft rules)

Only reason why the Bulls swept the Magic. Would have been much more competitive had Horace not been injured.

@@mmafan2223 Horace wasn't injured thru the series

@@courtneywhite6036 happened the very first game

@@mmafan2223 They still woulda lost

Yes; yes he def would. Good eye