Jordan choked. The pressure was too much and he fell. Kobe would have stayed calm and made a jump shot to win the game and the series. Jordan is such a loser
@KillPeopleForFun83 Choked? lol. They won the series. How could he choked? Hahaha. Kobe even choked against the Mavs last year. I'm a Kobe Fan.. But I'm a greater MJ Fan than Kobe.
Kobe's Lakers got sweeped last year in the playoffs. The lakers are 10-8 right now. Fuck you and your stupid statements. Kobe is good, but will NEVER reach Michael Jordan. He has 6 NBA Finals MVPs. Kobe has 2.
mj at 35 here..amazing!!! but i bow down to the pacers here..they could have given me a heart attack back then!! hahaha... game 7 drove me to tears..hahaha
this game broke my heart but this only adds to mj's legen.the thing about mj is that even in a loss he plays his heart out..and more than anything plays like the usual, his best,..i mean, every superstar should do that even if they sometimes miss or make a mistake..imagine this way back when they lost, mj is blamed all the time. that is how it was, still is..so my point? superstars today should just stop whining,lol the 90's playoffs were great.. intensified and yeah, old school competitive!
Yes, but if Pip hadn't landed as a rookie with the guy who led the nb in scoring, was nba mvp and defensicvve player of the year - he would never have been who he became
If that were LeBron/Kobe/(insert bigtime player) who fell, you know damn well he would've been right up in the ref's face complaining there was no call. Look at MJ: got right up and walked away. Not only did MJ have class, but he had heart and respect as well.
@rlbfhs07 Yes. That year, Reggie and Jalen got the whole team to shave their heads (Including Smits) and everyone donned black socks and shoes. I remember they had some issues with Smits' shoes, because he had numerous foot problems during his career and usually wore custom-made white shoes. I think they ended up spray-painting them black.
God, that was a great year to be a Pacers fan. We had Game 7, too. And then they started letting Scottie Pippen get away with rape against Mark Jackson.
2:51 to 2:58 After splitting between 2 defenders going under 7ft. 4in. Rik Smits. For Fux Sake! MJ was already past his prime, but still completed the 3-peat as the G.O.A.T.
nba sucks these days. full of players crying foul (kobe, gasol) floppers (wade). mullin would have been thrown out if jordan flopped and acted it up on that fast break in today's game.
kOrOne79, this is the reason why I commenced to watch bball. along with the many ankle breakers. If you cannot dunk yet, you GOTTA start training. I definitely advise you to definitely explore the one I'm using - 50-inch-vertical(dot)com - Im 5'11 and even I can certainly dunk!
I strongly agree. Defensive intensity is no where near what it used to be. That along with the lack of any real rivalries because teams change so much along with all the whistle blowing has really taken alot of emotion out of the game which is what i loved about it so much.
honestly the defense wasnt played as well as it could have been they could have gone man to man on kerr and kukoc. play everyone man to man. big mistake because a lot of the chicago players sat on there near the threepoint line waitng for sunday lunch. for ce kerr to dribble the ball to the rim and kukoc to.
your a pacer fan i see the the team they had wasnt a bad one. if they played some better defense on kukoc and kerr and a shot or two bounces off the rim the wrong way in the next game they are going to the finals for sure. the luck of the irish was with the other team. a argument could be made this pacer team is a better team all around then the chicago team.
Coming from one the Bulls/MJ biggest fans ever, I'm glad that was a no call. Today, Kobe fans would bitch all over to get that call, and Kobe always does. That's why these players and teams in this era were probably the greatest of all-time, so far, because the evolution of the game then plus they weren't swaddled like infants.
The Pacers and the Bulls went to 7 games that year. In the Western Conference Finals, the Jazz swept the Lakers, so Utah had a 10-day layoff while waiting to host the winner of Pacers-Bulls. The long layoff made Utah very rusty and they played lousy during the first 4 games of the '98 Finals against Chicago.
94 95 and 98 PAcers were in Game 7 one game away from reaching the finals each yr and failed. 99 lost to knicks in game 6. but finally made it in 2000. Pacers could of been a dynasty
yea and they did better than utah in this year against the bulls they almost won game 7 and diddnt have home court utah had home court and lost in 6 games which means pacer would have killed utah ! this was the real nba finals
And also i'd like to point out how the refs are letting these guys play. And at a very intense level. Today the players can't build up any real intensity due to all the whistle blowing. The game is so watered down today. Its really boring comared to this era of basketball.
This just proves that even the best can make mistakesand stumble like Michael did. I miss those days though. I miss watching Michael and Reggie lighting it up out there.
i do agree with you, but in all fairness, if scottie pippen didnt play for the bulls do you think he would even be considered for the hall of fame, better yet even be considered one of the top 50 greatest players to ever play the game?
im a bulls fan til the day i die but we saw what happened that year jordan left
You're right. We DID see what happened to Scottie when Jordan left. He averaged 22.0 PPG, 8.7 RPG, 5.6 APG, 2.9 STL (LED THE LEAGUE!), & 1.9 3-pnt. He shot 49% from the field, including a career-best 32% from the three-point line. He was named to the All-NBA First Team, won the All Star MVP and finished third in the regular season MVP voting. Most impressively, the Bulls finished the season with 55 wins, only two less than the year before!!
you are 100% right, but if i am not mistaking, you can correct me on this if u really wanna try, when pippen played for the blazers, how many points did the blazers have the lakers down in the 4th quarter of that game 7, and if im not mistaking once again, the lakers did win that game after being blown the eff out. now you type this with a straight face and tell me that that would have happened with jordan as the 2 guard? jordan wouldnt allow that 2 happen and u know damn well im right
You're comparing apples to oranges. First of all, no one said Pippen is as good, or better than Jordan. All I said is Pippen is a hall of fame caliber player with, or without Jordan, so whether MJ would have done a better job in that situation or not is irrelevant. Secondly, you're talking about 2 totally different teams in different eras. MJ was unstoppable, but it certainly doesn't hurt that he had a very solid team behind him. What Scottie had to deal with at that time was different.
jordan actually need to thank kobe for crossing pip b4 throw the alley oop to shaq. otherwise pip would have got 7 rings. and all of a sudden pip is > mj
Sure, 1994 is Pippen's best season. They almost made to eastern finals. But you also should know in 1993 Bulls didn't play well in regular season, they were still the best like they were in 1992, but only had 57 wins.
@Intramorph That's all fine and dandy, not considering the roster was different, and other factors played in, BUT you're missing the most important thing-- you're comparing a 55 win team that LOST in the second round to a 57 win team that WON the finals.
at 4:57 doug collins is wrong. The crowd was upset because longley traveled not because they thought he commited an offensive foul. I dont like doug collins as commentator
This was the worst officiated series of all time . The officials made sure that this sereis went to 7 games . If this series was called correctly the bulls would have won in 5
Hue Hollins is involved...what do you expect? I swear dude had some personal vendetta against the Bulls back in the day! Remember the "phantom Foul" call, Bulls vs Knicks in 1994 Game 5? Who you think made the call?
the nba and nfl r buisnesses if u look at the bulls that year in the playoffs they won to easily i'm sure the bulls needed to make some money by making it go to seven. just like the celtics last year going 7 games with atlanta think about it. ATLANTA! they needed the money for all the money they spent on ray allen and kg. and the nfl the patriots and giants how the hell the patriots end up scoring with no problem in the fourth with less than 3 min .and the last posession samuel drop 2 picks
Game 6 of the 2002 WCF confirmed it for me. I think the league worked against the Bulls during their 6 championship seasons. The league extended the Knick Chicago series in 92 because i believe they prefered the bigger market NY team in the finals that year. In the 94 chicago knick series the league wasnt going to let chicago advance again and it was easier to manipulate the games without jordan. In the 96 finals seatle was given 2 games to extend it to 6.
the cavs series in 92 also extended. And this pacer series extended. The bulls won their 6 championships legitmately but because they where so much better than the competition they league used its fixing referees to extend series and milk as much money out of the series as possible. The league hindered the bulls in order to extend them as far as possible for revenue. I dont think players or organizations are involved with that though. So that just adds to jordans greatness that
he had an extra level of difficulty in attaining his championships. I would prefer it that way anyways rather than how it worked out for kobe. That 2002 series is always going to be a black clowd over his 3rd championship.
dude u r probably the biggest douchebag ever. u need to get ur head out of ur ass and quit thinking the nba is fixed. the bulls pacers series went to 7 games because they were both really good teams. u r a loser and u really need a life. lol
I think that the last 2:00 of game 4 of this series had to be the worst series of consecutive bad calls that I've ever seen. Jordan still almost won the game with that bank shot.
man i loved these pacers-bulls playoff games. miller against jordan. mullin against rodman. bird against jackson. absolutely epic. to me, these games represented the finest era of the NBA
this was a great series but come on this wasnt even the bulls hardest opponents during there dynasty the rivalries with the knicks are way better the jazz i can name a lot more that were better than this
Once in a lifetime series no doubt. That pacers team was damn great. any other era, it will sweep NBA finals easily specially against Shaq laker's of 3 championship. Too bad, GOAT was standing in there way here.
They're lucky that Jordan tripped because he was heading to that basket with a head of steam and Dale Davis was not going to stop whatever he had planned.
at 4:55 doug collins says the crowd is upset cause they think longley commited an offensive foul. i cant stand listening to play by play when doug collins is a commentator. the crowd was upset cause longley traveled not cause they thought he commited an offensive foul.
kerr wasnt slow of foot. ive watched kerr with san antonio and the bulls and he was very good at moving his feet side to side and staying in front of players. he wasnt a great defender but he wasnt a bad one either. kerr isnt going to stop stockton or best but hes going to make them work. and the comment u said about kerr guarding best at the end of his game, well kerr has to guard someone doesnt he? jordan was on miller and all the other substitutions were in there for reasons
im not saying he was a horrible defender, but my thing was i'd like either Ron Harper or Randy Brown guarding those two at the end of games. If you remember in the 98 Finals Stockton torched Kerr at the end of game 1, in game 2 he switched and put Harper on him at the end and Stockton couldn't get off and in game 6 Stockton's last 3 point try was blocked by Harper so my thing is I'd rather see either Brown or Harper in the game for defense. That's my thing I wasn't trying to dog Kerr out
lol!! randy brown? i dont think the played randy brown at all in this series. i dont remember this game very well. was harper on the floor during that last play? if harper was on the bench maybe they had kokoc and kerr in for the offensive possession and didnt get the chance to sub. i dont remember the exact details of this game but harper would have been better on best in that possession. id have to see this game in full to see what the circumstances were. i dont remember
This was an era when Men like MJ dominated. Defense at its toughest. Rules at their toughest. No kiddy league. Now. Shyte like Kobe thinks he is MJ when there are NO handchecking & 3 seconds rule to help him out to score as many points as possible. Not to mention the truck load of eurpean piss poor defensive talent & shyte defensive centre like Yao Ming NBA has signed so that overrated media hyped up superstar like Kobe can dominate. todays NBA is an amateur minor League of NBA of yesteryears.
When those fans say that. They compare Kobe of absolute prime to 40 yrs old Mike of Washington Wizards. Not a bad comparison BTW. hahahahahahahahahaha. I can live with that.
They should never call a foul on that, if anything, they should call less, not more. Let them play physical and stop the free throw parades, especially for superstar jumpshooters. 23 fts for Kobe? Are you kidding me?
Couldn't agree more, the atmosphere alone is amazing. This shows what the NBA was like at its height. The pathetic NBA of today doesn't even compare to 10 or 15 years ago.
What a tremendous series from an impartial observer (well, sort of... I did kinda dislike the Bulls continuous winning). Anyway every game of the series was must watch for me
ITS kinda funny how michael had 2 changes to win the games in game 4 and 6 but reggie hit the only game winner in the seris on his only chance who is more cluth
"Miller! trying to guard Jordan...but can't" that kinda sounded funny right there when the narrator said that...sounded like the narrator was talkin in a sense where you gotta be makin a fool outta yourself trying to guard the best in the nba...but as i watched this clip...jordan really looks unstoppable!!!
Watch his lead foot on the replay and you can clearly see that it hit McKey's foot and made him stumble. Not saying it should have been called a foul at that stage of the game, but there was definitely contact. He didn't just lose his balance for no reason.
i love MJ as much as you do kid but that last play it was all fatigue and just totally fatigued... even tha Greatest of them all make mistakes like that... he slipped first then his left leg got a little contact on derick mcKey which made it lo0ked like he got tripped but it was a go0d no call... and up to this day i still remember that game and i even threw tha remote control to tha flo0r and fucked up my day...
This series wasn't a real series until this game. The Jazz and Bulls fought neck and neck EVERY game. A few missed shots by the bulls in '97, and the Jazz would've won the title. The Bulls just underestimated the Pacers in this series, thus their inability to put them away in 5. Overall, the Jazz game them a harder time, even though they never went to the full 7.
Absolutely. The Pacers were better, top to bottom than the Bulls. They just didn't pull it together in the final minutes of game 7. And yes, every game except game 5 was close.
I was talking about the '97 finals against the jazz. I think the Bulls were much better then the Pacers, but they underestimated them, which is why they went 7. If the Bulls played like the 62-20 team they were, they would have put the Pacers away in 5.
utfanatic2000, I know exactly what you mean! Pippen was basicaly playing hurt the whole time and Jordan basically carried them the first half of the season. You can always make the argument, "Jordan wont let them lose" like it was in a cheesy basketball movie and the Bulls always prevailed.
Jordanlover23, Well if you mean by "the way Jordan did" that he doesn't do it as good, then I agree lol. Jordan is the master of fakes and stutter steps. Great footwork and the understanding of the defense.
It is truly amazing what the bulls did in 98. 2 time defending champs, aging, injuries all year, blown calls throughout the playoffs, facing a resting, revenge minded UTAH, and STILL Jordan and the bulls find a way to win. Making it past this IND series is testament to the mettle of Jordan and the Bulls.
Jordan choked. The pressure was too much and he fell. Kobe would have stayed calm and made a jump shot to win the game and the series. Jordan is such a loser
KillPeopleForFun83 1 week ago
@KillPeopleForFun83 Choked? lol. They won the series. How could he choked? Hahaha. Kobe even choked against the Mavs last year. I'm a Kobe Fan.. But I'm a greater MJ Fan than Kobe.
Lechokelose 1 week ago
@KillPeopleForFun83
Kobe's Lakers got sweeped last year in the playoffs. The lakers are 10-8 right now. Fuck you and your stupid statements. Kobe is good, but will NEVER reach Michael Jordan. He has 6 NBA Finals MVPs. Kobe has 2.
iTzeXile13 5 days ago
mj at 35 here..amazing!!! but i bow down to the pacers here..they could have given me a heart attack back then!! hahaha... game 7 drove me to tears..hahaha
iluvrei 3 weeks ago
this game broke my heart but this only adds to mj's legen.the thing about mj is that even in a loss he plays his heart out..and more than anything plays like the usual, his best,..i mean, every superstar should do that even if they sometimes miss or make a mistake..imagine this way back when they lost, mj is blamed all the time. that is how it was, still is..so my point? superstars today should just stop whining,lol the 90's playoffs were great.. intensified and yeah, old school competitive!
iluvrei 3 weeks ago
Only show bulls even though They kost
4321kdog 1 month ago
This eastern final series was more interesting than the bulls-jazz series
s1692914 1 month ago
What if pacers had game 7 at home? 100% bulls would have lost this series
jayevil187 2 months ago
This was a good series. Rik Smits did work!
jeanrollan 3 months ago
promise doesn't work even it was for MJ's wife
gasnaked 3 months ago
Yes, but if Pip hadn't landed as a rookie with the guy who led the nb in scoring, was nba mvp and defensicvve player of the year - he would never have been who he became
northvalleynews 5 months ago
this could be the duel between MJ and Smiths
kenelyn1000 6 months ago
this could be the duel between MJ and Smiths
kenelyn1000 6 months ago
No one comes close to MJ. Case closed...mostly.
rsohlich1 6 months ago
2:31 '...and he's coming so hard he knocks Davis down.'
ShareThaFuck 6 months ago
If that were LeBron/Kobe/(insert bigtime player) who fell, you know damn well he would've been right up in the ref's face complaining there was no call. Look at MJ: got right up and walked away. Not only did MJ have class, but he had heart and respect as well.
SquadUp5FDP 6 months ago
I was a bulls fan back then but i been a mavz fan fan since 2002
rlbfhs07 7 months ago
Was that becuz jalen did that a michigan? You kno bald heads black socks and shoes?
rlbfhs07 7 months ago
did indiana all have bald heads this series????
rlbfhs07 7 months ago
@rlbfhs07 Yes. That year, Reggie and Jalen got the whole team to shave their heads (Including Smits) and everyone donned black socks and shoes. I remember they had some issues with Smits' shoes, because he had numerous foot problems during his career and usually wore custom-made white shoes. I think they ended up spray-painting them black.
God, that was a great year to be a Pacers fan. We had Game 7, too. And then they started letting Scottie Pippen get away with rape against Mark Jackson.
G4RAWZONE 7 months ago
Man.... Pacers had this series. :(
RyanPelley1 7 months ago
2:51 to 2:58 After splitting between 2 defenders going under 7ft. 4in. Rik Smits. For Fux Sake! MJ was already past his prime, but still completed the 3-peat as the G.O.A.T.
BigBuoyant 7 months ago
nba sucks these days. full of players crying foul (kobe, gasol) floppers (wade). mullin would have been thrown out if jordan flopped and acted it up on that fast break in today's game.
JonThorn 7 months ago
@JonThorn dont forget "The Choken One" LeChoke AKA Quitness James. LOL !
sunnyboy8644 7 months ago in playlist 1998 East Finals Games 1-7 "Bulls - Pacers"
almost entirely bulls highlights despite a pacers victory... seems to be a common theme with this user. must be a bulls fan.
croz24 8 months ago 3
I wish the NBA was back on NBC. GOOD OLD DAYS!!
TheMarmar1988 8 months ago
@TheMarmar1988 indeed
popoff21 8 months ago
The look on Larry Bird is intense, he's one hell of a coach.
myez 9 months ago
Sip Rodgers just killin' it!
kennygriff24 9 months ago
Watching Bulls and Pacers 2011 in the playoffs right now and this is better.
CarlyUTube 9 months ago
Larry Bird was coaching this Pacers team, they took them to the limit, Bird is running the team, I expect no different
ThaLiveKing 9 months ago
back in the old day Pacers was good!!!!
HungKiet 9 months ago
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kOrOne79, this is the reason why I commenced to watch bball. along with the many ankle breakers. If you cannot dunk yet, you GOTTA start training. I definitely advise you to definitely explore the one I'm using - 50-inch-vertical(dot)com - Im 5'11 and even I can certainly dunk!
alicefergusony 10 months ago
"miller, trying to guard Jordan...... but can't"
dimedropper1992 10 months ago
Michael = Beastly Bull But Travis had the BEST floater
frostey91 11 months ago 3
u can see at 09 42 that jordans right foot just clips the defenders left foot and made him fall
XXskatedecksXX 1 year ago
great game
flipo9 1 year ago
I strongly agree. Defensive intensity is no where near what it used to be. That along with the lack of any real rivalries because teams change so much along with all the whistle blowing has really taken alot of emotion out of the game which is what i loved about it so much.
thechristos 1 year ago 2
How bad is Bob Costas? Just atrocious
kennygriff24 1 year ago
Excellent video. Excellent ending. We are going to win Game 7.
westsydegutta1 1 year ago
If MJ doesn't get tripped, Toni hits the series winning 3 pointer. Look how open he was.
rmur23 1 year ago
honestly the defense wasnt played as well as it could have been they could have gone man to man on kerr and kukoc. play everyone man to man. big mistake because a lot of the chicago players sat on there near the threepoint line waitng for sunday lunch. for ce kerr to dribble the ball to the rim and kukoc to.
newguydrewman 1 year ago
your a pacer fan i see the the team they had wasnt a bad one. if they played some better defense on kukoc and kerr and a shot or two bounces off the rim the wrong way in the next game they are going to the finals for sure. the luck of the irish was with the other team. a argument could be made this pacer team is a better team all around then the chicago team.
newguydrewman 1 year ago
the ends kills meeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!
deimiankm8 1 year ago
at 7:30 phil jackson says "fucking (something)"
YodaWannabEE 1 year ago
best ecf ever or one of the best
BreMass85 1 year ago
Coming from one the Bulls/MJ biggest fans ever, I'm glad that was a no call. Today, Kobe fans would bitch all over to get that call, and Kobe always does. That's why these players and teams in this era were probably the greatest of all-time, so far, because the evolution of the game then plus they weren't swaddled like infants.
Exile101882 1 year ago
i'm surprised jordan didn't cross over to the left for lay up or jump shot on the last play.
teddet87 1 year ago
this was the real 1998 finals
datruthhurts10177777 1 year ago 2
The Pacers and the Bulls went to 7 games that year. In the Western Conference Finals, the Jazz swept the Lakers, so Utah had a 10-day layoff while waiting to host the winner of Pacers-Bulls. The long layoff made Utah very rusty and they played lousy during the first 4 games of the '98 Finals against Chicago.
sean2015 1 year ago
@sean2015
Also, Karl Malone choked in game 6...
kingcam0775 1 year ago
@sean2015 including a blown out the water Game 3 disappointment
Xavier1215 1 year ago
@Xavier1215 Game 3 was a blow-out. But Games 2 and 4 and 6 could've gone either way.
sean2015 1 year ago
@sean2015 yep..
Xavier1215 1 year ago
94 95 and 98 PAcers were in Game 7 one game away from reaching the finals each yr and failed. 99 lost to knicks in game 6. but finally made it in 2000. Pacers could of been a dynasty
showstoppa01 2 years ago
yea and they did better than utah in this year against the bulls they almost won game 7 and diddnt have home court utah had home court and lost in 6 games which means pacer would have killed utah ! this was the real nba finals
datruthhurts10177777 1 year ago
please nbc take the nba back fromabc
lan79ful 2 years ago 3
Larry Bird's expression=priceless
Xavier1215 2 years ago 2
I love it when Bob Costas says 'that was a true brick' at 3:08
rpleex500 2 years ago
I remember watching Michael stumble on live TV as it happened. I was just shocked and couldn't believe it.
WHSSHHS2008 2 years ago 2
smits was on fire!!
mickyjfenwick 2 years ago
This was another heartbreaking loss. The Pacers had a really good team that year.They gave da Bulls a lot of problems in Indiana.
diehardBULLSfan 2 years ago 3
hes still the best ever
choclatesuprman 2 years ago
And also i'd like to point out how the refs are letting these guys play. And at a very intense level. Today the players can't build up any real intensity due to all the whistle blowing. The game is so watered down today. Its really boring comared to this era of basketball.
JayT98 2 years ago 24
@JayT98
If you like this you should watch some ball in the 80's.
kingcam0775 1 year ago
@JayT98 It's true in the regular season but the 2010 laker - celtics series was OK in that respect, not too many foul calls
helenlundeberg 2 months ago
Jordan was tired. He had to dig deep to win this series. I actually thought the bulls were done.
JayT98 2 years ago
This just proves that even the best can make mistakesand stumble like Michael did. I miss those days though. I miss watching Michael and Reggie lighting it up out there.
dukeheat 2 years ago 2
I didn't know MJ ever made guarantees like that.
goldenapple91 2 years ago
6:31-6:37 ''these are the moments Jordan lives for. into the lane, turn around fadeaway...that's WHY he lives for them!''
^ legendary commentating from Bob Costas
frusionnn 2 years ago 3
Rik Smits would've made most of the NBA big men today look like amateurs.
God I forgot how good that guy was.
testicularcancer 2 years ago 3
Agreed. Smits wasn't a great rebounder, but he had the shooting touch and post moves that most centers today lack.
superBernard49 2 years ago 3
the jazz had more wins than the bulls in 98!?
acsacs1 2 years ago 2
they had the same record but the Jazz owned the tiebreaker
xilisoft55 2 years ago
Man, I miss NBA on NBC with Bob Costas callin these games.
TheRatedIX7 2 years ago 3
i like MJ's determination at the press conference in the end.
amanat855 2 years ago
why is travis best playing in europe he was awsome
eazyduzzit33 2 years ago
last time i checked, reggie miller never won a championship, im just sayin
drewdeze 2 years ago
reggie miller never had a hall-of-fame second option like many championship teams have had.
whathappenedtoluv 2 years ago 2
i do agree with you, but in all fairness, if scottie pippen didnt play for the bulls do you think he would even be considered for the hall of fame, better yet even be considered one of the top 50 greatest players to ever play the game?
im a bulls fan til the day i die but we saw what happened that year jordan left
drewdeze 2 years ago
You're right. We DID see what happened to Scottie when Jordan left. He averaged 22.0 PPG, 8.7 RPG, 5.6 APG, 2.9 STL (LED THE LEAGUE!), & 1.9 3-pnt. He shot 49% from the field, including a career-best 32% from the three-point line. He was named to the All-NBA First Team, won the All Star MVP and finished third in the regular season MVP voting. Most impressively, the Bulls finished the season with 55 wins, only two less than the year before!!
Scottie is a hall of famer, with or without MJ!
Intramorph 2 years ago 39
you are 100% right, but if i am not mistaking, you can correct me on this if u really wanna try, when pippen played for the blazers, how many points did the blazers have the lakers down in the 4th quarter of that game 7, and if im not mistaking once again, the lakers did win that game after being blown the eff out. now you type this with a straight face and tell me that that would have happened with jordan as the 2 guard? jordan wouldnt allow that 2 happen and u know damn well im right
drewdeze 2 years ago 4
You're comparing apples to oranges. First of all, no one said Pippen is as good, or better than Jordan. All I said is Pippen is a hall of fame caliber player with, or without Jordan, so whether MJ would have done a better job in that situation or not is irrelevant. Secondly, you're talking about 2 totally different teams in different eras. MJ was unstoppable, but it certainly doesn't hurt that he had a very solid team behind him. What Scottie had to deal with at that time was different.
Intramorph 2 years ago
jordan actually need to thank kobe for crossing pip b4 throw the alley oop to shaq. otherwise pip would have got 7 rings. and all of a sudden pip is > mj
tkcwu 2 years ago
Sure, 1994 is Pippen's best season. They almost made to eastern finals. But you also should know in 1993 Bulls didn't play well in regular season, they were still the best like they were in 1992, but only had 57 wins.
jimmychuang 1 year ago
@Intramorph That's all fine and dandy, not considering the roster was different, and other factors played in, BUT you're missing the most important thing-- you're comparing a 55 win team that LOST in the second round to a 57 win team that WON the finals.
LorenzoCastillo7 7 months ago
@Intramorph Yes.
helenlundeberg 2 months ago
"We're gonna win game 7..." Spoken by the true God himself.
PEPEelZAPATISTA 2 years ago
the bulls won this series.seems like you forgot your history kOrOne79
reptilianwarrior 2 years ago
I can't thank you enough for puttting this stuff up!
patoutou25 2 years ago 3
at 4:57 doug collins is wrong. The crowd was upset because longley traveled not because they thought he commited an offensive foul. I dont like doug collins as commentator
dv122 2 years ago 3
Why only Bulls highlights in this clip? They lost this game...
jchapman38 2 years ago
at least they won that series but it was one of the toughest series the bulls had
bd3717 2 years ago
It's a great game,
IT'S A FUCKING GREAT GAME.
I don't mean all of you,
but indeed some of you, so called young generation are blinds.
Why don't you fucking understand that's totally and utterly fucking meaningless to compare Michael Jordan with ANY OTHER PLAYERS??
KOBE WHO???
By far, without Shaq he's not even close to SO MANY PLAYERS.
When those new NBA stars satisfy your ignorance and prejudice,
DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE TRUE LEGENDS.
seraphlgabri 2 years ago 4
KOBE RAPIST BRYANT is the most overrated player eva in the history of NBA
JUST LOOK AT THE DEFENSE PLAYED IN THIS SERIES. shit still gives me goosebumps. & love dat NO BLOOD NO FOUL RULE
CAN KOBE SURVIVE AGAINST THIS PACER DEFENSE. HE WILL SUFFOCATE TO DEATH ON THE COURT.
KOBE IS A 20ppg playoff scorer easily shooting at 40%fg in playoffs.
mnkhan2020 2 years ago 5
@mnkhan2020 Idiot.
upabittoolate 1 year ago
wow I wouldn't ever expect Jordan to slip with the ball =\
frusionnn 2 years ago
Same piece of shit Hugh Hollins calls a phantom illegal defense. Unbelievable!
scoresby33 2 years ago
This was the worst officiated series of all time . The officials made sure that this sereis went to 7 games . If this series was called correctly the bulls would have won in 5
blaq7427 2 years ago
I couldn't agree with you more. The Bulls should have won in 5.
scoresby33 2 years ago
Hue Hollins is involved...what do you expect? I swear dude had some personal vendetta against the Bulls back in the day! Remember the "phantom Foul" call, Bulls vs Knicks in 1994 Game 5? Who you think made the call?
inamikgreg 2 years ago
the nba and nfl r buisnesses if u look at the bulls that year in the playoffs they won to easily i'm sure the bulls needed to make some money by making it go to seven. just like the celtics last year going 7 games with atlanta think about it. ATLANTA! they needed the money for all the money they spent on ray allen and kg. and the nfl the patriots and giants how the hell the patriots end up scoring with no problem in the fourth with less than 3 min .and the last posession samuel drop 2 picks
josette5 2 years ago
Game 6 of the 2002 WCF confirmed it for me. I think the league worked against the Bulls during their 6 championship seasons. The league extended the Knick Chicago series in 92 because i believe they prefered the bigger market NY team in the finals that year. In the 94 chicago knick series the league wasnt going to let chicago advance again and it was easier to manipulate the games without jordan. In the 96 finals seatle was given 2 games to extend it to 6.
chasluim1 2 years ago 2
the cavs series in 92 also extended. And this pacer series extended. The bulls won their 6 championships legitmately but because they where so much better than the competition they league used its fixing referees to extend series and milk as much money out of the series as possible. The league hindered the bulls in order to extend them as far as possible for revenue. I dont think players or organizations are involved with that though. So that just adds to jordans greatness that
chasluim1 2 years ago 3
he had an extra level of difficulty in attaining his championships. I would prefer it that way anyways rather than how it worked out for kobe. That 2002 series is always going to be a black clowd over his 3rd championship.
chasluim1 2 years ago 3
dude u r probably the biggest douchebag ever. u need to get ur head out of ur ass and quit thinking the nba is fixed. the bulls pacers series went to 7 games because they were both really good teams. u r a loser and u really need a life. lol
coltkinn45 2 years ago
the lol at the end is so inappropriate
acsacs1 2 years ago
I think that the last 2:00 of game 4 of this series had to be the worst series of consecutive bad calls that I've ever seen. Jordan still almost won the game with that bank shot.
yaiqab 2 years ago
man i loved these pacers-bulls playoff games. miller against jordan. mullin against rodman. bird against jackson. absolutely epic. to me, these games represented the finest era of the NBA
Firebirdfrenzy79 3 years ago 4
this was a great series but come on this wasnt even the bulls hardest opponents during there dynasty the rivalries with the knicks are way better the jazz i can name a lot more that were better than this
moneyman237952 3 years ago
Once in a lifetime series no doubt. That pacers team was damn great. any other era, it will sweep NBA finals easily specially against Shaq laker's of 3 championship. Too bad, GOAT was standing in there way here.
mnkhan2020 2 years ago
They're lucky that Jordan tripped because he was heading to that basket with a head of steam and Dale Davis was not going to stop whatever he had planned.
yaiqab 3 years ago
I read a book about this season, and author said Jordan looked old. Fuck that, he looks amazing here.
thopkin12000 3 years ago 2
what's the book called?
dragondawgzz 2 years ago
at 4:55 doug collins says the crowd is upset cause they think longley commited an offensive foul. i cant stand listening to play by play when doug collins is a commentator. the crowd was upset cause longley traveled not cause they thought he commited an offensive foul.
dv122 3 years ago
calm down, every announcer makes a mistake no and again. if hes been working as an announcer for over 10 years he must be doing something right.
joeardinger1111 3 years ago
I was pissed why the heck Steve Kerr garding Travis Best???
jaboo82681 3 years ago
Because MJ had to guard Reggie, and also Ron was not on the court.
ass80808 3 years ago
yeah I know I just didn't like the matchups that Chicago had against Indy
jaboo82681 3 years ago
KERR WAS A UNDERRATED DEFENDER
dv122 3 years ago
No way, he always had trouble against point guards like John Stockton (remember game 1) and Travis Best. Kerr was kinda slow of foot
jaboo82681 3 years ago
kerr wasnt slow of foot. ive watched kerr with san antonio and the bulls and he was very good at moving his feet side to side and staying in front of players. he wasnt a great defender but he wasnt a bad one either. kerr isnt going to stop stockton or best but hes going to make them work. and the comment u said about kerr guarding best at the end of his game, well kerr has to guard someone doesnt he? jordan was on miller and all the other substitutions were in there for reasons
dv122 3 years ago
im not saying he was a horrible defender, but my thing was i'd like either Ron Harper or Randy Brown guarding those two at the end of games. If you remember in the 98 Finals Stockton torched Kerr at the end of game 1, in game 2 he switched and put Harper on him at the end and Stockton couldn't get off and in game 6 Stockton's last 3 point try was blocked by Harper so my thing is I'd rather see either Brown or Harper in the game for defense. That's my thing I wasn't trying to dog Kerr out
jaboo82681 3 years ago
I'm just stating the obvious
jaboo82681 3 years ago
lol!! randy brown? i dont think the played randy brown at all in this series. i dont remember this game very well. was harper on the floor during that last play? if harper was on the bench maybe they had kokoc and kerr in for the offensive possession and didnt get the chance to sub. i dont remember the exact details of this game but harper would have been better on best in that possession. id have to see this game in full to see what the circumstances were. i dont remember
dv122 3 years ago
I think RB played in games 3 and 5. But Kukoc was in, Rodman, Jordan, Pippen and Kerr. That's the lineup they usually ended those games with
jaboo82681 3 years ago
wow that jordan guy he is pretty good
GaToRGaL1224 3 years ago
This was an era when Men like MJ dominated. Defense at its toughest. Rules at their toughest. No kiddy league. Now. Shyte like Kobe thinks he is MJ when there are NO handchecking & 3 seconds rule to help him out to score as many points as possible. Not to mention the truck load of eurpean piss poor defensive talent & shyte defensive centre like Yao Ming NBA has signed so that overrated media hyped up superstar like Kobe can dominate. todays NBA is an amateur minor League of NBA of yesteryears.
mnkhan2020 3 years ago 3
Agreed. Put MJ from the '98 season in this past year's Finals in place of Kobe, the Lakers win the series in 6.
thopkin12000 3 years ago
good call bud, i hate fans that think kobe is mike
markgramenz 3 years ago
When those fans say that. They compare Kobe of absolute prime to 40 yrs old Mike of Washington Wizards. Not a bad comparison BTW. hahahahahahahahahaha. I can live with that.
mnkhan2020 3 years ago
MJ didn't do a Paul Westphal there at the end...hehe
r2baar 3 years ago
Pacers' chants of defense, whether @ Market Square or Conseco, are VERY strange.
homersimpson9 3 years ago
Jordan tripped. no one is perfect. he still won the series.
neosmndrew 3 years ago
No, he was tripped, watch the replay! And that is a foul in the NBA. I assume, the ref did not see it. You can only see that on a slow motion.
Pylecobra 3 years ago
No faul in the end! absolutely. MJ slipped that all.
namber31 3 years ago
MJ tripped, but it wasn't a foul. McKey didn't try to foul him, Jordan was just making his move when his foot caught McKeys foot, that's all.
kOrOne79 3 years ago
It is a foul though. One can not impede the progress of an offensive player by hands, legs or feet.
Pylecobra 3 years ago
They should never call a foul on that, if anything, they should call less, not more. Let them play physical and stop the free throw parades, especially for superstar jumpshooters. 23 fts for Kobe? Are you kidding me?
kOrOne79 3 years ago
"I actually thought I was tripped," Jordan said.
No Buddy, you tripped.
i'm looking at it dumbass. Jordan was tripped. 9:41 to 9:42. HE WAS TRIPPED. replay it and you'll see. Now go hang yourself for being so fuckin stupid
Malbolga77 3 years ago
He got away with so many non-call push-off's in his career...so he got tripped, big deal, man up.
CMS010764 3 years ago
he did man up, retard...thats why he said "we're going to win game 7" and they did...then they beat the jazz..again
youngndumb23 3 years ago
"I actually thought I was tripped," Jordan said.
No Buddy, you tripped.
CMS010764 3 years ago
Jordan said that?
thopkin12000 3 years ago
No he didn't say that.
Malbolga77 3 years ago
Yes, he did say that.
daleme1979 3 years ago
back when the pacers were good, reggie miller; jalen rose; rick smits; travis best; dale davis
pavlabel1 3 years ago
I love the guarantee at the end. No one else can deliver like he could.
thopkin12000 3 years ago 2
This is what people loved about the NBA back in the days. Now it's just not the same...
CowboysForever9 3 years ago
Couldn't agree more, the atmosphere alone is amazing. This shows what the NBA was like at its height. The pathetic NBA of today doesn't even compare to 10 or 15 years ago.
lunchwars 3 years ago 3
Has M J ever pushed off to get off a shot and got away with it. YES
edwinwoody 4 years ago
One of the best playoff series I've ever seen. Also, one of the few teams to take Chicago to the limit.
ercarras 4 years ago 8
What a tremendous series from an impartial observer (well, sort of... I did kinda dislike the Bulls continuous winning). Anyway every game of the series was must watch for me
jhean76 4 years ago
you have a lot of good vids man. good video AND audio editing on all of 'em. thx for keeping these old NBA playoffs alive mang!!!
phoulplae 4 years ago 5
ITS kinda funny how michael had 2 changes to win the games in game 4 and 6 but reggie hit the only game winner in the seris on his only chance who is more cluth
nateplaya88 4 years ago
Jordan could create, Reggie had to rely on screens and passes. With less than a second on the clock, I'd take Miller. Otherwise, MJ.
kOrOne79 4 years ago
"Miller! trying to guard Jordan...but can't" that kinda sounded funny right there when the narrator said that...sounded like the narrator was talkin in a sense where you gotta be makin a fool outta yourself trying to guard the best in the nba...but as i watched this clip...jordan really looks unstoppable!!!
sunike07 4 years ago
Some of the comments on this thread are ridiculous. No way that was a foul at the end.
evday 4 years ago
I love MJ, but he slipped. No foul.
thopkin12000 4 years ago
Watch his lead foot on the replay and you can clearly see that it hit McKey's foot and made him stumble. Not saying it should have been called a foul at that stage of the game, but there was definitely contact. He didn't just lose his balance for no reason.
jordanlover23 4 years ago
i love MJ as much as you do kid but that last play it was all fatigue and just totally fatigued... even tha Greatest of them all make mistakes like that... he slipped first then his left leg got a little contact on derick mcKey which made it lo0ked like he got tripped but it was a go0d no call... and up to this day i still remember that game and i even threw tha remote control to tha flo0r and fucked up my day...
topoy6 4 years ago
Was this Jordan's toughest series? I think the Jazz in '97 gave them a harder time.
thopkin12000 4 years ago
Not really. This series, Reggie Miller gave him hell from games 1-7.
clutchcity25 4 years ago
This series wasn't a real series until this game. The Jazz and Bulls fought neck and neck EVERY game. A few missed shots by the bulls in '97, and the Jazz would've won the title. The Bulls just underestimated the Pacers in this series, thus their inability to put them away in 5. Overall, the Jazz game them a harder time, even though they never went to the full 7.
thopkin12000 4 years ago
Absolutely. The Pacers were better, top to bottom than the Bulls. They just didn't pull it together in the final minutes of game 7. And yes, every game except game 5 was close.
evday 4 years ago
I was talking about the '97 finals against the jazz. I think the Bulls were much better then the Pacers, but they underestimated them, which is why they went 7. If the Bulls played like the 62-20 team they were, they would have put the Pacers away in 5.
thopkin12000 4 years ago
not only Reggie hurt Chicago, Travis Best did really well and the Bulls needed to switch Jordan to gurad him.
fb0704 4 years ago
i think scottie pippen missed some of most of the game that season with back problems
dragondawgzz 3 years ago
he missed a majority of that season with that Foot that he injured in the 97 playoffs against Miami
jaboo82681 3 years ago
the pacers did win 58 in 1998 and bird did coach that season's east all-star team...
croz24 2 years ago 2
"We're gonna win game 7. I don't make promises, not even to my wife. Bit we will win game 7."---Fuckin heroic.
thopkin12000 4 years ago 8
I loved the way Korone 79 ended this game with Jordan and the press conference!!
jaboo82681 2 years ago
Great, great post. Let's see it then, Game 7, bring it on!
jeanrollan 4 years ago 2
Watch The Jordan IMAX video. He did get tripped.
soowuave 4 years ago
utfanatic2000, I know exactly what you mean! Pippen was basicaly playing hurt the whole time and Jordan basically carried them the first half of the season. You can always make the argument, "Jordan wont let them lose" like it was in a cheesy basketball movie and the Bulls always prevailed.
furyofdawolfx 4 years ago
Jordanlover23, Well if you mean by "the way Jordan did" that he doesn't do it as good, then I agree lol. Jordan is the master of fakes and stutter steps. Great footwork and the understanding of the defense.
furyofdawolfx 4 years ago
This game is simply great basketball. This is a reminder of why I love the NBA.
mnysvr 4 years ago 3
It is truly amazing what the bulls did in 98. 2 time defending champs, aging, injuries all year, blown calls throughout the playoffs, facing a resting, revenge minded UTAH, and STILL Jordan and the bulls find a way to win. Making it past this IND series is testament to the mettle of Jordan and the Bulls.
utfanatic2000 4 years ago