The 1996 Post-Game Interview That Shut Down The GOAT Debate 

Stop he didn't have to say nothing because the entire world allready granted him that goat status allready so he could play it cool like well you cant compare eras lol stop mj knows he's the best but with lebron he deals with so muxh unwarranted hate he has to speak his mi d rightfully so

only a moron like lebron would say that.

@@goatstature8263blame the media for the hate. They’re always crownin him the Paper Champ because the NBA needs the publicity so badly. They don’t care as long as it’s advertisement. And Lebron is rewarded as a billionaire. He’s also a complete politician when speaking and not the good kind.

@@goatstature8263”rightfully so…” Right… 😏

​@@goatstature8263nah, the whole "goat" debate is a relatively new topic of discussion.

dont argue with them, they are ignorant... we are just happy we saw the best of the best for a decade... thats something they will never see... Our generation ignores Wilt Chamberlain too... i do believe, Wilt and MJ is the Real 1A/1B Goat of Basketball but hey we are ignorant with Chamberlain... so... yeah its fair to say, our Goat is MJ.

@@MrDotaleavers The sad part about Wilt, is that a huge portion of his career wasn't televised.

They don't even understand the "every night" part

Preach Brother...preach

@@johnnewsham5193 they ignore the PPG part... because they cannot grasp the gravity of these numbers.

You can't apply that. That must mean Muhammad Ali was just good.

I see what you did there

Damn bro, that hurts.

73-9 and 3-1 on the finals. Then LeBron happened.

@@victordevis7541 LeBum*

@@GenghisClaus I still think MJ is the GOAT though

It truly was the golden era.

If you guys remember, he sat for long periods during this run, he wasnt stats padding like you know who

Well said

Dame straight

He was too mature for his age the God of basketball

And no purse or handbag

davidvickers8425, this gen of nba players think they are being fashionistas but instead they just look like damn fools.

​@@barney5583

Yall sound old asf lmao you probably want the players to all shave thier dreads to huh? This is basketball not a damn black tie wedding or something,their going to play basketball not a funeral smh.

Always gambling. Always hogging the ball the first half of his career.....Stop being a sheep and think for yourself

“I want my $5 Vin!” ~ Michael Jordan

@@eddawson9617 you deserve more votes

Hence why ALL kinds of Brands wanted his presence on their product in the 80's and 90's. 😎

And have you seen that interview of Lechoke where he was bragging that he's the GOAT because he won a championship for Cleveland? What do you think of that clown's bragging?

In basketball, yes, overall ever, Ali 100%.

​@@DJKHOTTA

@@joebuss8835 Ali was as good of a talker as he was a fighter, the man had rhymes, charisma, and a sea of insults that little kids could hear but they would still hurt big men. Interviews and press conferences are key aspects of Boxing, and Ali gave a spectacle outside the ring many many times. Michael was just one heck of a professional with the microphone, he knew how to elevate the game and the income for everyone else, because if everybody got paid more, he would get paid even more, and he didn't like to be antagonized by his words, but his play on the court.

Thank you. A man who doesn’t dance like a single mother

@@meltin9026 😂

@@meltin9026 🤣🤣

We can imagine him having a gambling problem that got his father killed though

@@Doggfather4343 THAT STATEMENT IS PROBABLY MORE IDIOTIC THAN YOU. JORDAN'S A RICH MAN, WHY WOULD SOMEONE WANT TO KILL HIM WHEN HE HAS THE MONEY TO PAY OFF ANY DEBT. I GUESS WHEN GOD WAS GIVING OUT THE COMMON SENSE YOU WASN'T ON THE LINE.

💯.. Agreed. They had real animals on that team and were led by the apex predator of the league. There was no way they were gonna lose that year

Both of guys speak real knowledge.

The bulls lost to Indiana the next to last game by 1 point. I remember after 70 wins they rested ppl. They could have squeezed out another win and got 73 but they had no reason to.

Well golden state didn’t win the ring so doesn’t mean anything Lebron sucks

With Steve as the Warriors’ head coach, they know they gotta finish the job. Thanks to Klay’s big mouth and Draymond not focusing on just playing, they allowed the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history.

@@eduardsondeguzman9421 yes, that comeback was fueled by LeBron AND Kyrie Irving....but don't tell Bron stans that, they like to think it was Lebron putting the entire team on his back and willing them to victory....doesn't matter that he had a teammate average 30ppg over those last three games on 52/53/100 shooting. Nope, it was all LeBron LOL

@@inefekt Total team effort lead by their coaches and superstars.

The day the king nickname came out I knew he was a joke.

😂 Larry Bird torched the "GOAT" every chance they met........

So true. Here's a few other things he also did -punched Steve Kerr in the eye? check -was 'secretly' banned from the NBA [July 1993] for prohibited gambling? check -be a sore loser, so he got Isiah Thomas blackballed from the Dream Team? check bullied the heck out of 17-yr-old Kwame Brown, on the Wizards? checkk -got Craig Hodges blackballed from ever playing in the NBA again ---all because Hodges asked President Bush about helping Black America, when the Bulls visited the White House after that championship? check Lebron is the only GOAT. MJ is ineligible, for obvious reasons.

@@carlbrenda6518 just like Barea torched your Queen

The thing with Michael is he didn't have to give himself his own nicknames. His opponents, who feared him, called him nicknames like The Black Cat or Black Jesus. And stuff like Air Jordan or His Airness came about because of the Nike marketing and such I think. Michael's style was great in that he let his dominance do the talking and he rarely if ever failed to back up his trash talk.

Well he knew that is the ultimate goal in playing the sport.

He most definitely care about winning those titles.

some say he didn't care. some say he took them personally.

I think the biggest difference between him and LeBron is a very small nuance. Michael DID want to be the best, but he didn't care about being CALLED the best.

Thats bcuz those are subjective rewards whereas being champion is objective its not bcuz he was this “selfless demigod”

I was searching for the right words. He’s very articulate in the way he speaks.

Slow to anger, rich in mercy.

god of the expansion era 😅😅

@@williamalexander9485 Use whatever fits your delusions, kid !

@@williamalexander9485Still better than LeSteroids.

Well said.

Correction. MJ earned respect

@@SokinRidis true….but I used my example of Demanding and Deserving to show contrast of their character 🤷🏾‍♂️

Actually LeBron demands respect. Jordan commands respect.

@@nightrainrose2228 Well said.

That’s what I was saying. Lebron needs to see this. Least his fans and crew do

True👍👍👍

Totally Agree....There is a HUGE Difference between winning the Championship and just getting to the Finals. 2nd place is hardly remembered. Its like if u made it to the finals 9 times, wouldn't any team trade that for even 1 championship vs getting there and losing it 9 times?

@@Chase023 Absolutely correct 👍👍👍

@@Chase023 Used that same argument a few times myself 👍

As an aside to the point of his quote-- there is a video where he talks about his hands and how they're like his paint brushes (not sure how accurate my description is but it was something to that effect). It was cool to see the way he also views the beauty of basketball and there was even a video on youtube that I came across several years back that highlighted the way he moves through the air and his ball control. I think it was titled something like the elegance of MJ. Reeeeeallly wish I could that video. Jordan really highlighted a lot of beauty of the game in SO many ways.👏

M@@sophieb5440 awesome. The beauty of the art. I would love to hear/see what you’re talking about..

It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that ring shoo bop shoo bop shoo bop dee dah!

72-10, It has a nice ring to it

Pretty sure Seattle didn't celebrate

Jordan admitted in a interview he dosent want the goat name , so calling him that shows you don’t respect MJ … Jordan competed against plumbers and mailmen , go back and look at some more games they were barely guarding him .. todays league is far more talented and athletic , if Jordan is the goat why he couldn’t get to the finals before pippen came ?

Pretty sure more then his state celebrated y’all just be lying

before pippen came. jordan led the bulls in scoring, rebounds and steals. their second best player only scored 10 points a game. but jordan shows clutchness early on. lebron is more often than not chokes.

⁠@@Asapfortune you must be thinking about bill Russell when the nba wasn’t big and people said they were playing against plumbers and mailman because the talent and toughness was way more difficult in Jordan’s time rules were different as well that made it harder. Yes players today are more skilled because of the evolution of the game with training and technology in how players are developed but 90s basketball and 2000 basketball talent was not that far off from today. I don’t understand why people keep saying he didn’t win before pippen this isn’t an individual sport every champion had a second star or even a 3. Lebron didn’t win by himself

I doubt he even says that. He just knows it

He put it on every pair of shoes he sold but, yeah humble.

@@ucanhitme only one shoe he put his accomplishments on. Nike puts that slogan you’re implying to on the shoeboxes. Nice try tho famo

@@ucanhitme tf does that have to do with anything. It would have been strange if he didn’t put on the shoes he was trying to get everyone to wear. Weirdo lol

@@ucanhitmemeanwhile your number 1 fairy fake goat is still demanding us to respect him 😂😂😂😂 how pathetic

Lol

😂😂😂😂😂😂

tristanthompson9002, right and even if the warriors had won one more win than the bulls is way to slim of a margin to call them better.

@@barney5583 people forget the 96 bulls only lost 1 game on the road to the finals, they swept the first round, won 4-1 the second round, and swept the eastern finals... The warriors lost 5 games on road to the finals, and lost the damn finals. Had KD and Russel Westbrick not choke like little kids on halloween, and the warriors would have lost in 7 to OKC in the Western Finals.

72-10 just has a RING to it.

@@joaopescusareally?? Injuries were the reason!! N’ suspensions! You know it, I know it!!!!

​@@brianbanks8570sure blame it on those

Winning 70 is probably lower now that he also won 3 more rings.

He is in his thirties here so it’s to be expected

This is hilarious especially after knowing what we now know

What’s the context here? 🙂

@@vinm.2987 i think MJ had a bet with that guy on 5$

When MJ I want my $5 dollars that was funny as hell😂😂😂😂

That’s laughable. Today’s shooting guards are required to shoot 3s and are exposed to zone defenses. And if they make it to 6 finals they will be seeing more than 2 All defensive wing defenders

@@williamalexander9485 Shooting 3s is the easiest thing against a zone defense...you are laughable.

@@cinegabweb Well the shooting guard who has 3 seasons of shooting 13,16,17% from 3 and 2x seasons of shooting 18% from 3 will not be the one to bust the zone. No surprise Michael Jordan’s beat seasons is shooting 3s was in the shortened 3 point line era. Of course the 🐐shooting guard went on to shoot a gaudy 23% from 3 the season that the distance was restored 🤣🤣🤣

@@williamalexander9485 obviously he didn’t need to be a great 3 point shooter to be the greatest to ever play, he still dominated as the greatest scorer of all time as well, because he understood being a great basketball player was more than shooting 3s

@@zach1389 You’re assuming he’s the greatest player of all time. He was a shooting guard🙄so shooting 3s is a part of the job. He was averaging in the 30s winning scoring titles when the competition was scoring in the 20s, and he like his peers needed a shortened 3 point line. In his era Michael Jordan’s style of playing was acceptable, but primitive by today’s standards.

I just posted this

yea jokic is realy not that guy.

Kobe threw the 2004 championship

@@melvynsngltn27Proof? No? Figured.

@JohnDoe-zr8pc did you see the finals? I knew that goofball was going to throw the finals before it started

@@melvynsngltn27 So you have zero proof. Got it.

Which is probably why most of those Super Teams fail.

Kobe was inbetween as well, he felt the need to tell people who he was as well, not as much as Lebron, but halfway.

yep. legendary team, coach included.

True...half of those came against non playoffs teams

He is a team player, he demanded excellence to all of his teammates.

MJ had 5.3 APG, Scottie had 5.2 APG. MJ literally was the team player ...

I think a lot of guys go out of their way speak as if theyre uneducated because they feel like its cooler to that.

macbethdemilo7253, you mean like lebum?🤣🤣🤣

It don't mean a thing without the ring. I'm sure the 2016 Warriors would exchange their 73-9 record for the championship that year.

Their record doesn't count. The purpose of the regular season is for the playoffs. They shot their wad in the regular season and went to two seven game series.

IIRC most of their losses were when MJ had a sub-par game (for him) and no-one else stepped up.

@@philagon The record is the record, but not winning the title pretty much disqualifies the 2016 Warriors as the greatest team of all time. Now the 2017 Warriors, on the other hand...

@@mrmacross I disagree. Records must be contextualized for their real meaning to be understood. For instance, one could claim that $40,000 is just more than $30,000. But what if the 40k was today and the 30k was in 1970? Anyone with sense would admit that 30k in 1970 made more than 40k today. Numbers never mean anything on their own.

He cared more about the $5 than winning 70. That's the mindset of a champion

They make these current NBA clowns look good these days dressed like damn drag queens

They way they wore suit like it's business. Today they go to games and make a fool out of themselves on what they wear. Makes iverson look like a sunday school kid

It’s all about who can make the most 3 pointers in a game.

Seriously. I wanted a suit cause of Jordan. And I have an earring cause of Jordan. That one earring was hugely controversial!

@@ZorzGaming Yep Jordan always looked great in his suits. Not like the hideous so-called suits they wear today. Nauseating to look at

Ai the goat between 96-06

DA eye test tells me MICHEAL AIR JORDAN is a far more superior player AN DA G.O.A.T. GREATEST OF ALL TIME. where is as LECRACKHEAD IS DA G.L.O.A.T GREATEST LOSER OF ALL TIME - LOl HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

LeBron never went crying to the commissioner to stop those bad Detroit men from playing tough. Then daddy David Stern fixed so Jordan can get phantom calls and you call LeBron weak lol

@@MMReason13 No. Lebron just throws himself on the floor to cheat and get others thrown out of games. BTW - physical assault is not playing tough.

​@@MMReason13Nah, Jordan got tougher as well as the Bulls. The Pistons were dirty and bad for basketball but the Bulls had to go through them. David Stern was gonna make those rules anyway and most of those didn't take effect until 2004

They are a bunch of lazy, entitled crybabies.

Facts😂

I hear a little Dean Smith in him. When you hear LeBron speak, you hear AAU.

@@xxphactorbest comment on this thread…you nailed it

Mj's the greatest player of all-time but please stop the blasphemy, even if it is to jokingly emphasise a point. There is only 1 GOD and HE'S not human...

@@ahmadfaisal6267not everyone believes in your god or is religious, so they can say what they want, no one forcing you to be blasphemous.

@@98oreHe’s right calling a human being a god is nonsense

MJ the GOAT but please don't capitalize "god" for some mere mortal. Makes us MJ fans look like some weirdo Jordan version of a LBJ fanboy worshiper.

Cause now agents control NBA media. NFL has more players and more sources but NBA with Klutch - if you are in the media you almost HAVE to say LeBron is the top player or number 2 because you will get black balled otherwise. The people in the media who say “LeBron goat” are paid by him to say it. Many of them are represented by Klutch sports too. Shanon Sharp and Nick Wrong fall into this category of people. They give really good logical spots takes - until they talk about LeBron. Then it’s twisting in pretzels to discredit Jordan with absolutely absurd arguments. A guy that built super teams and team hopped constantly is better than someone who accomplished way more with WAY less help? It’s crazy. You add KD and LeBron together and you have Jordan with zero three peats and needing super teams to get there.

Drop their shorts, bend over behind xi and kiss their behind goodbye. Good thing they will not feel anything because this race has microdecks 😂

They dont have to ask him

And they gave the MVP to Malone.

ROFL @ giving MJ credit for talking like Lebron has talked his entire career/make sure he's giving 'lesser' teammates a chance to go be great, empowering mediocre teammates to be elite players in the playoffs

​@@1sagacious1cry more brony.

@@tchlin lie more Jordan