Why do people say Jordan was overrated?
1) He is not overrated. Wilt was a great scorer…but Wilt was not a great Winner.
2)Jordan did win six rings with one of the best all around player’s (PiP).
But look at Bird or Magic’s roster’s when they were winning.They had 3-4 HOF on there roster and won less.Celtics had the greatest front line ever!
3)Yes the bulls still played well after Jordan retired …. Pip had a lot to do with that…bottom line they couldn’t get it done.They couldn’t close the deal……what separates good from great ?..closing the deal and winning the championship.If anything that proved Pippen is underrated.
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Bird played with a lot of HOF..from Mchale, Parish,Walton and Tiny (?hof)to Maxwell (?hof) he won 3 rings.
Bird is a great player..Jordan is a little(2 rings) better.
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Jordan’s has 3 ring’s on Bird..1 on Magic.You can’t compare era’s….from Clyde.Barkley,Magic,Stock/Malone to Payton/kemp he played some great teams…..anyways I don’t think it’s about the stats with Jordan.He had something special, I don’t know exactly what ,but I know it was there.He connected to more people then any athlete ever…that’s what really made him great.
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The fact we are even talking about him now ..means he’s the greatest……
The question is why was he the most marketed athlete?When you answer that, you will find out why he is great
He was a underdog who became a champion amongst champions! The greatest ever!………………….
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We are the fans who love the game of basketball.We are the ones who dream of last second shot’s to win the game….We are the ones who dream of being on "fire" in the NBA finals..We imagine soaring through the air and dunking…We are the fan’s..we are the ones who have the love for the game.
Michael Jordan will always be that kid dreaming…..something inside him made him never forget his love for the game.He will always be that fan dreaming of becoming a champion….he will always be just one of us.
This is what made him great.
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Pure skill and a undying love for the game, made him arguably the greatest ever…………so let’s recap..
He’s great..the most entertaining player ever(you said it).He is a champion(second to only "the great Bill russell")he is the second greatest scorer(behind Wilt) Appealed to more people and was marketed to more people then any other ATHLETE in HISTORY!
.So how in the hell is he overrated?….hope you have more then meaningless stats and a 5yrs without PiP.
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Of course if Jordan didn’t have great teammates he would have been a great player with no rings…similar to D.Wilkens
In order to be considered the greatest you have to be a NBA champion.Would MJ be a champion without Pip?…no.Would Magic be a champion without Kareem?..doubt it How about Bird without Parish etc… All these great players had pure skill and they were blessed to have great teammates also.With skill, love for the game and great teammates they all had a chance to become champions….and all three ,Bird,Magic and Jordan capitolized on it…….that’s what separated them from thier peers.Then Jordan separated himself from them…when you look at his whole body of work (his winning,his legacy,his stats, but MOST! importantly who he is) he is the greatest.
The people that think that Jordan was overrated are losers and they know nothing about basketball. Jordan was not overrated. Some people say the only reason why Jordan won championships is because he had Pippen and he was in the watered down 90′s. Jordan haters are hypocrites when they say Jordan didn’t win anything without Pippen. That is true but did Pippen win anything without Jordan. No he did not. Jordan needed Pippen and Pippen needed Jordan. You can’t do it all by yourself. You need a good supporting cast to win a championship.
And I hate it when people say the 90′s was watered down. I wouldn’t exactly call an era with Karl Malone, John Stockton, Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing, Reggie Miller, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, David Robinson, etc.. watered down. The real watered down era was the 70′s.
