Michael Jordan ran a 4.3 in the 40 yard dash

[mjbulls23]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/1999/jordan_retires/archive/831128/




No other pair in the college game is at the level of Sam Perkins and Michael

By Curry Kirkpatrick

November 28, 1983

Sports Illustrated It may be because Sam played in the 1981 NCAA championship game as a freshman, and Michael, when he was a freshman, made the winning shot in the 1982 NCAA championship game, and because the two of them have already appeared in 21 NCAA tournament matches. It may be a result of both Sam and Michael being selected over the years to so many All-America teams and All-Tournament lineups and National Sports Festivals -- and enough Junior World Cups and other international touring squads to qualify for diplomatic immunity.

Or perhaps the explanation is simply that television has spotlighted Sam swinging those monster rubber arms down around his shoelaces and Michael wagging that tongue of his like a starving puppy so often that network execs might as well make them a weekly sitcom. Call it Chapel Hill Blues. Or, simply, Spam and Michel -- as the official report on balondesto masculino (men's basketball) at the Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela spelled their names.

Whatever the reason, North Carolina's Sam Perkins, 22, and Michael Jordan, 20, seem to have been around college basketball forever and a day. And here come Perkins, finally a senior, and Jordan, still only a junior, one more time: Pan Am stars of summer past, probable Olympic heroes of summer future and the leaders of the Tar Heels. "They excel on all the levels," Coach Dean Smith says. "Sam and Michael are the kind of players and people you search for."



:eek: :pimp:

[mjbulls23]

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[vert48]

And Dwight can touch the top of the backboard. Pics/video or it did not happen. Jordan does not have world class sprinters speed.

[mjbulls23]

And Dwight can touch the top of the backboard. Pics/video or it did not happen. Jordan does not have world class sprinters speed.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/1999/jordan_retires/archive/831128/

[abuC]

Most 40 times are absolute B.S. unless you believe MJ or pretty much every cornerback in the NFL has not just olympic speed, but world record speed. Most if not all are done with stopwatches, really accurate....


Timing officials have since broken down that famed race into 10-meter increments, and Johnson was so preposterously fast that he went through 50 meters in 5.52 seconds and 60 meters in 6.37 – both under the current world records at those distances. He went through 40 yards that day in 4.38 seconds.

He was running in spikes . . . on a warm afternoon perfectly suited for sprinting . . . with a slight tailwind . . . with years of training from arguably track’s top coach, Charlie Francis . . . with Carl Lewis and six others of the fastest men on the planet chasing him . . . with 69,000 people roaring at Seoul’s Olympic Stadium . . . with hundreds of millions of people watching on TV . . . with the ultimate prize in sports, an Olympic gold medal, at stake.


Ben Johnson ran a 4.38 40 yard Dash the day he destroyed the world record for 100m.

[vert48]

I read the article. So what. Jordan never ran a 4.3 40.

[Optimus Prime]

What do you want from us?

MJ is the GOAT at everything!

:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

:rolleyes:

[vert48]

Most 40 times are absolute B.S. unless you believe MJ or pretty much every cornerback in the NFL has not just olympic speed, but world record speed. Most if not all are done with stopwatches, really accurate....




Ben Johnson ran a 4.38 40 yard Dash the day he destroyed the world record for 100m.But Ben Johnson is not MJ. If MJ had been on the track that day, he would have destroyed Ben.

[20 Dimes A Game]

If legit = WOW

[abuC]

But Ben Johnson is not MJ. If MJ had been on the track that day, he would have destroyed Ben.


True, I figure MJ would have raced them while running backwards just to make it seem fair.

[brandonislegend]

jordan cannot run a 4.3 lol. dont be nieve

[Loki]

jordan cannot run a 4.3 lol. dont be nieve

But Tmac and Lebron, two guys reported to have run 4.4's iirc, can? Sure...

Either believe one and believe them all or reject them all (40 yard time claims) -- makes no difference to me either way, just be consistent.

[dejordan]

uh... who gives a sh!t about timed measurements in a team sport? this isn't track and field (i feel like bill walton). michael was fast enough to win the fastbreak race just about everytime. what else matters for a basketball player? the rest of the article, especially the stuff about big smooth, was really intersting.

[abuC]

But Tmac and Lebron, two guys reported to have run 4.4's iirc, can? Sure...

Either believe one and belieeve them all or reject them all (40 time claims) -- makes no difference to me either way, just be consistent.


My friend, a 5"9 220lbs running back at the time ran a 4.45 40 @ a combine in NJ a few years back. It was done with a stopwatch, there's no way my friend is within .07 of Ben Johnson, he didnt even train or run in his free time. Just like there's no way MJ, Tmac or LeBron ran these times, accurately.

[okayabc123]

I doubt Jordan can run 4.3...

and no way Tmac and Lebron can run 4.3... 4.3 is elite sprint speed...

[vert48]

Go out to the track, and have someone time you running for 4.3 seconds. Look at the distance between how far you ran and 40 yards and then ask yourself if MJ could beat you by that much in a race that lasts 4.3 seconds. NOT A CHANCE!! MJ would have better luck touching the top of the backboard, which he also can't do.

[20 Dimes A Game]

Good article btw.

[Loki]

My friend, a 5"9 220lbs running back at the time ran a 4.45 40 @ a combine in NJ a few years back. It was done with a stopwatch, there's no way my friend is within .07 of Ben Johnson, he didnt even train or run in his free time. Just like there's no way MJ, Tmac or LeBron ran these times, accurately.

Like I said, I don't care or know whether or not they ran these times, but you just have to be consistent about it.

[abuC]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cCh5QswxQ6k


That's what a 4.3 40 looks like.

[RobertSwift31]

Ben Johnson ran a 4.38 40 yard Dash the day he destroyed the world record for 100m.

But Ben Johnson had to react to the gun. When recording 40 Times at the Combine, etc, time starts on players movements, with timers reacting to the runner. This difference could account for .1-.3 seconds, depending if the 40 time is hand timed or electronically timed.

[WoGiTaLiA1]

4.3 times are not unbelievable.

Most sprinters have the explosive take off for sure, but what really seperates them from the rest is that they sustain their top speed. A lot of guys in the NFL could be sprinters if they trained for that, hell a lot of the guys that run the really quick times are college sprinters. I mean Jamal Charles ran a 10 something I believe(Texas RB).

[abuC]

But Ben Johnson had to react to the gun. When recording 40 Times at the Combine, etc, time starts on players movements, with timers reacting to the runner. This difference could account for .1-.3 seconds, depending if the 40 time is hand timed or electronically timed.


n track and field races, the runner must react to the starting gun, which can take 0.10 to 0.20 seconds. For electronically timed 40 yard dashes, the runner is allowed to start when he wishes, and a timer hand-starts the clock (after a reaction time that is often considered to average 0.24 seconds when a starter reacts to the smoke of the starting gun). Although the 40-yard dash is not an official race in track and field, the 60 meter dash is an official distance in indoor track and field, with the world record for that race being 6.39 seconds (run twice by Maurice Greene, and once by Ben Johnson, whose record was annulled for Steroids). The fastest 60m split time is probably 6.32 seconds by Asafa Powell, in his 9.74 second 100m World Record run in Rieti, Italy. Fast starting elite sprinters such as Powell (and others past and present) can run a "Football 40" in less than 4 seconds, due to the sprinter not having to react to the sound of the gun, and the starter having to react to their movement before the clock starts. In the 2001 World Championship 100m final in Edmonton, Greene covered 30m in 3.75 seconds and 40m in 4.64 seconds, putting his 40 yard (36.576m) time at about 4.242 seconds. When you subtract the reaction time to the gun (0.13 seconds), and a hypothetical timer's reaction time to Greene's motion, Greene's "Football 40" time for this race would have been less than 4 seconds.


Wog, Jamaal ran around a 10.2, the difference between a 10.2 and a 9.7 is huge, and Jamaal supposedly ran a 4.2 40, do you see how ridiculous that is? World class sprinters, guys who run sub 9.9 run around 4.2 40s, nobody in the NBA or NFL is coming close to that, especially not a guy that's 6"6 like Jordan.

[Iverson3]

Back when Jordan fans ain't retarded.

[dankok8]

According to the NFL, ten players ran a sub-4.3 40-yard dash. Jordan clocking a 4.3 isn't impossible although it might have been timed with a stopwatch which isn't accurate. He could be 4.5 or so.

[3ba11]

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Confirmed proof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e5lj2qBwd8&t=07m58s

[theaussieguy]

Mac Mclung has the fastest 2/3 court sprint time since 2001.

[Xiao Yao You]

Still behind Bo Jackson's 4.12

[TheMan]

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Confirmed proof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e5lj2qBwd8&t=07m58s

I laughed when fools suggested LeBron was faster than MJ, no. LeBron has size and strength over MJ (though MJ is no slouch in that department for his size) but MJ had quickness, speed and agility over LBJ and it wasn't even close. Jumping is a tie, MJ may jump higher but since LeBron is taller, that makes it a wash. MJ hit the back of his head against the backboard in college FFS.

[3ba11]

Go out to the track, and have someone time you running for 4.3 seconds. Look at the distance between how far you ran and 40 yards and then ask yourself if MJ could beat you by that much in a race that lasts 4.3 seconds. NOT A CHANCE!! MJ would have better luck touching the top of the backboard, which he also can't do.


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[TheGoatest]

We all know the truth behind the hype of jordon's athletic abilities:

https://images4.imagebam.com/9e/9f/d5/MEBT3ZD_o.png

[TheMan]

Goatits seething :lol

[3ba11]

We all know the truth behind the hype of jordon's athletic abilities:

https://images4.imagebam.com/9e/9f/d5/MEBT3ZD_o.png


Pippen's was ugly with less elevation and everyone knew Pippen was carried - never dominated

[AirBonner]

MJ has those wilt tall tales. Like sleeping with 1000’s of women even tho he reportedly had gay tendencies

[3ba11]

MJ has those wilt tall tales. Like sleeping with 1000’s of women even tho he reportedly had gay tendencies


Confirmed proof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e5lj2qBwd8&t=07m58s


And many other sources like Roy Williams who was there and described the entire scene in the Last Dance.. And, Sports Illustrated and Bleacher Report

It happened

[PP34Deuce]

I'd guess guys who were 4 3 speed in the nba were

Prime John Wall
Mayhe Derrick rose.

Jordan def not 4.3 I'd say 4.5 which iss till very fast.

[Baller789]

He is still plenty fast. Specially for his size.

I can't think of anybody who has as quick a first step @ 6'6.

[CountDracula]

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