Michael Jordan ran a 4.3 40 yard dash, and had a 48" vertical!

[plowking]

Wow, this thread has seriously gotten out of hand. Just random, childish name-calling, as seems to be the custom around ISH. Not that it even matters since guys will complain about the angle as with all videos and pics provided here... but here's Jordan in '88 during an intercepted alley-oop attempt. Notice, his head is rim level and I am 100% positive he could get higher if he ran full speed and jumped straight up like he somewhat did here:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ajygPaNyE

The man got his head rim level doing leaning, double pump dunks, some from the free throw line. But for some reason some of you think it was impossible for him to get his head over the rim from a running start, going straight up as high as he could without flailing his legs, w/o a ball in his hand? Just plain disrespectful.

What is it that you so called "knowledgeable" posters not understand about angles?

He was not even rim height on that play.

[sekachu]

No honestly. Cut the crap. Show me a pic of Jordan with his head above the rim. I'm sure it would be a treat for all of us. I'd actually like to see it. No BS needed here. We want the truth. No point in saying Jordan had that kind of vertical if he didn't. Post a pic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlvfx9ODM8

stop at 1:53-1:55, hope this will satisfy you

[plowking]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlvfx9ODM8

stop at 1:53-1:55, hope this will satisfy you

Once again, angles.

It's taken from the floor. It's going to look higher then it actually is.

[bruceblitz]

Once again, angles.

It's taken from the floor. It's going to look higher then it actually is.

http://www.celebheights.com/s/Michael-Jordan-1482.html
Jordan is 6'4"
The rim is 10"

Jordan is 76 inches tall
the rim is 120 inches tall

Jordan gets 2 inches above the rim on the free throw line dunk and visually I've seen him do it in game at least 6 times.

120
-76
44+2 = 46
(with the ball)

Jordan's vertical was viewed live on TV. Sorry I didn't record it. I remember it. Deion Sanders was the host of the show and it was his idea. Jordan had a 48" inch vertical. I've remembered it ever since I saw that show. Sorry if you need the internet to validate a fact. Unlike you, I understand that the documented information from the 90's and 80's is very very limited due to the fact that the internet didn't become truly popular until the 00's. Thanks for playing troll.

48" max vert.

Period.

You keep saying you've seen nothing but pictures of Jordan under the rim which further proves that you are blind or refuse the true facts.

Charles Barkley and Jordan were the EXACT SAME HEIGHT

Even Barkley admitted he was 6'3" coming out of college and he exaggerated his height because it looked good:
http://www.celebheights.com/s/Charles-Barkley-2722.html

What do you know? They are falling right into my hands like usual.

Another article on Sports Illustrated said: "If they aren't smoked out at the pre-draft camp, padded heights get exposed at USA Basketball team trials. It was in the run-up to the 1992 Olympics that the world finally learned what the cognoscenti had long suspected -- that Charles Barkley was more like 6-4 5/8 than 6-6, and Magic Johnson closer to 6-7 than 6-9"

http://www.celebheights.com/s/Charles-Barkley-2722.html

6'4" Jordan standing next to 6'7" Magic, (true heights):

(Barkley and Malone are obviously standing on "studio platforms" to accentuate the picture. Magic and Jordan are both on the floor, obviously.)

Jordan = 195 cm's tall
Jordan = 76.8 inches tall to be exact

If you want to argue that Jordan's max vertical was 47.5 inches, fine.

How does James White get his head as high as Jordan's? If not a little higher? He's 3 inches taller. Game over.

[QUOTE=bruceblitz]To further prove my facts about Jordan's height.

Gary Payton 6'4" tall, true height, standing next to Jordan, Jordan only looked half an inch taller.

Comment posted by a Drazen Petrovich fan:
"I've just watched the 1992 OG Final Game - there was this competitive match-up between Jordan and late Dra

[TearDrop]

Jordan is the GOAT dunker as well... he can get his dick over the rim and dunk his balls if he wants to.

[the.powerhouse]

Some say he used to be able to pick coins of the top of the backboard...

[AznBBoyX]

LOL at saying Barkley is 6''3



Clearly hes around 6''7 .

This was exaggerated so he can be more intimating if he went to prison.

[detrimental]

Wasn't 48 inch though, Bruce.

Just add these few bits in...

"I've never had my vertical leap measured," says the child-pilot himself, "but sometimes I think about how high I get up." He, too, marvels at his gravity-defying feats, searching for an explanation. "I always spread my legs when I jump high, like on my Rock-a-baby, and it seems like I've opened a parachute, like, that slowly brings me back to the floor. I was really up against New York in our first game. On my last dunk I think I was close to eye level with the rim. Sometimes you just hit your wrists on the rim, but this time it was my elbows and everything. I almost overdunked the whole rim."

... "So many things have gone just right for him in his life—including the fact that he was not a spoiled high school superstar, that he was coached by Smith, that as a North Carolina freshman he was able to hit the jump shot that won the NCAA championship, that even though he rested his foot last summer and didn't work out, he reported to camp with 3.4% body fat and ran the mile in 5:22."

He's not an athlete to take lightly, by any means.

[Showtime]

[QUOTE=detrimental]



Wasn't 48 inch though, Bruce.

Just add these few bits in...

"I've never had my vertical leap measured," says the child-pilot himself, "but sometimes I think about how high I get up." He, too, marvels at his gravity-defying feats, searching for an explanation. "I always spread my legs when I jump high, like on my Rock-a-baby, and it seems like I've opened a parachute, like, that slowly brings me back to the floor. I was really up against New York in our first game. On my last dunk I think I was close to eye level with the rim. Sometimes you just hit your wrists on the rim, but this time it was my elbows and everything. I almost overdunked the whole rim."

... "So many things have gone just right for him in his life

[HighFlyer23]

@ jordan having a 48" vert ... bruceblitz must have been escaped from the same mental institution as PAH .. and lmao @ the idiots backing him up

[detrimental]

loooooooool finally decided to post huh?

GL?

I originally signed up to own the **** out of Alborz, but never got around to it. Just stumbled across this thread while searching for a post of mine on M2.

[Showtime]

GL?

I originally signed up to own the **** out of Alborz, but never got around to it. Just stumbled across this thread while searching for a post of mine on M2.

Too late. Borz and Blitz have already arrived...and subsequently been banned. Borz pops up with alts every now and then.

[detrimental]

Yeah, I knew they both got banned.

Neither are too good at staying alive on internet message boards.

[momo]

I will not stupidly bump posts... I will not stupidly bump posts...

Keep going, you are doing fine. Just keep repeating it.

[el_locoteee]

They this guy had a 50 inch vertical jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoKhEiAHfYs