More revisionist rubbish. Jordan was past it in Washington. If bullets were to make playoffs Jordan needed to take backseat to Rip then Stackhouse.
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More revisionist rubbish. Jordan was past it in Washington. If bullets were to make playoffs Jordan needed to take backseat to Rip then Stackhouse.
[QUOTE=aceman;14283741]More revisionist rubbish. Jordan was past it in Washington. If bullets were to make playoffs Jordan needed to take backseat to Rip then Stackhouse.[/QUOTE]
Not in '02. They were sitting at 27-27 with MJ averaging 25/6/5. Wizards were 30 - 30 on the season with Jordan & 7 - 15 without him.
[QUOTE=Airupthere;14283212]I wouldn't say a mistake but I would say irrelevant to his main body of work, [B]in that it does not add nor diminish his legacy[/B]. You would hardly think of MJ as a Wizard.
However, his years as a wizard provide interesting proof of what a prime Jordan could do in an era where it was toughest to score.[/QUOTE]
It most certainly diminished it. It shows he could have kept playing for the Bulls and try to defend his title in 1999 but chose to quit instead.
What league MVP and FMVP does that????
The only thing good for Jordan that came out of his Wizards years is that he was able to get 3000+ career points more and pass the 30K mark.
If he hadn't done that, then we would be anticipating whether Carmelo Anthony would pass him in career points by the time his career ends. :oldlol:
This way we only have to discuss whether Durant and/or Harden will pass him in career points. Which is still pretty embarrassing for a "GOAT", just not as embarrassing as Carmelo.