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  • roubadaço...Jazz campeao moral de 98!!!!!

  • What a dishonest referee. Fuck u Bavetta! We wont forget!

  • Even Russel HIMSELF said Jordan didn't push off and cause the slip up, MJ crossed Russel like a bitch. If you study the whole sequence you can clearly see there is NOWHERE NEAR enough force from Jordan's left hand to cause Russel to spill over like that.

  • As a jazz fan, I don't suspect any foul play. But those were 2 bad calls on the shot clock. Too bad instant replay wasn't able to be used to correct those calls.

  • Why on this video are people still talking about the "push off"? This has nothing to do with it. I am a die hard Jazz fan and I don't think it was a push off. Everyone talks about the push off but no one ever talks about these two terrible calls. Eisley's three is pretty early in the game, but it is safe to say that Harper's two that was allowed in the fourth changed the aspect of the game. Jordan is still a better player, but Jazz haters need to get over sucking Jordan's dick.

  • IN ENGLISH huqc52uFk6A at the 7 min mark if you're looking for the Howard Eisley shot

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  • Bavetta saw something good for Bulls and not good for Jazz. I wonder how much he got paid for that.

  • type "short guy dunks" in the youtube search box to see a 5ft 5in guy dunking a 10ft hoop

  • @mikenotnumber1 enjoying the game? bitch

  • Jerry Sloan put up with that shit for his entire career...

  • GIVE KOBE BRYANT 30 FREE THROWS PER GAME SO LA CAN WIN AND BEAT THE GERMAN DIRK NOWITSKI. HAHAHAHA. JEW DAVID STERN RACIST. LA COCKSUCKERS. FREE TACOS FOR FIRST 5000 SPICS.

  • YOU CAN STILL WIN SERIES. MAYBE THE REFEREES WILL HELP U WIN SERIES LIKE IN 2002 WCF. I THINK JEW DAVID STERN WILL STEP IN AND HELP LA BEAT THE GERMAN DIRK NOWITSKI. YOU KNOW DAVID STERN DONT LIKE GERMAN DIRK NOWITSKI. REMEMBER THE 2006 NBA FINALS WHEN THE DALLS MAVS WERE UP 2-0 AND STERN SAY GIVE WADE 30 FREE THROWS PER GAME SO THE HEAT CAN WIN. SO MAYBE LA STILL WINS.

  • Dick Bavetta, baby!

  • This coming from a Bulls fan, that call at 0:23 was garbage. How can you wave that off? I have a feeling that he made the call before the fact - either way, in the NBA Finals as a referee - BIG mistake. Simple as that.

  • Thats a 3 by Utah. Sorry but there should have been a game 7 in this series and it would have been great.

  • Then to find out years later that some of these games were bought! That ref that got busted for cheeting!

  • mj get paid, mj jacket. got some mj's on my feet just to match it

  • You people are bitter over a blown call from the second quarter? I mean do you really think the Bulls wouldn't be able to erase a seven-point deficit?

  • @SenatorGovernment Maybe they would maybe they wouldn't. That call just made it easier for the Bulls though. Oh and the 2 pointer by harper that shouldn't have counted.

  • Does anyone have the game between the Bulls and Rockets on 1/11/97? This game has Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman vs Olajuwon, Barkley, and Drexler.

  • Another ref sucking at his job. That shot was clearly off in time.

  • WHICH MEANS HE LIKES RAPPIST.

  • The guys talking sound stuped

  • no, unless something happemed in the 40's or something,

    closest are: Don Nelson in 69, Paxson in 93, and Michael here in 98

  • ugh. always people complaining about refs. get the fuck over it.

  • byu1984 nice vid, reminds me of someone I know - me - ha. I'm five'seven and I am able to windmill dunk. I followed the famous workout plan that real nba players use. For more info about the training program, go to - 50inch vertical[dot]com

    1998 NBA Finals Game Six - Chicago Bulls 87 Utah Jazz 86

  • byu1984, johnsmithe97101 is 5 9, American and can dunk easily. what do you mean white guys can t jump? It s (just|simply|all)# about the training people do to get their jump to be high enough to dunk. For me, I just used the training program over at snipr{dot}com/verticaldunk

  • lol nobody would have known that MJ pushed off had it not been for the replay. That's how well executed it was. That is skill.

  • yeah it probably was a pushoff but what a great a creative way to raise the level everybody at that time knew mj would just blow past bruss maybe create some contact u know win it that way but nope that was really special and besides if there was a better ball player in utah stockton has a pretty good look at the end, jordan would of hit that 2, jazz lookin real good now thou i hear from what little basketball i follow nowa days

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  • You can't say Utah would of won that game just because the Bulls won by 2, because if the refs would of awarded of the points, you could also say that the bulls would of worked extra hard to get those points back, or maybe one of the Jazz players could of and made another 3 and made up for the play, too many variables, the point is in sports, there are gonna be bad calls made by the refs, u just have to play through them. If the Jazz would of won, no one would of complained.

  • @VeneRican1 Please learn some grammar, before making yourself look like an idiot. "would of, could of" Next time, try using "would have" and "could have" and see how that works out for you.

  • Yup Utah should have won that game. I still think the Bulls would have won in 7 though.

  • byu1984 don't say that "everyone knows that MJ pushed off on Bryon Russell" cos I'm sure that wasn't any push on that play .

  • hola

  • If you think that was a push then you are either blinded by hate or just utterly deluded.

  • bye1984,

    If you've ever played regulation basketball, or even streetball, you know that wasn't a push off...

    That little hand on his leg did nothing to make Russell slip. His body was already turned defending the drive. Jordan caught him way out of position and pulled up for the jumper.

  • love this commentator

  • that wasnt a push off. Jordan never extended his arm. it looked like a push because jordan stopped on a dime and russel couldnt and slipped. simple as that

  • I definitely agree with the other plays being miscalled though, and he probably was lookin to take those shots away from the jazz. However replay was not done then, so its actually a close call, and it wasn't nearly as bad as other games like game 6 2002, or even typical shit today where i think its gotten out of hand.

    ps. fuck dick bavetta/stern

    youtube . com/watch?v=1Nyu69Oj1q4

    youtube . com/watch?v=3fHi0TADk3o

  • Jordan didn't push him hard enough, if at all. Since when were you not able to put your hand on defenders in 1998? Theres no way MJ can muster that kinda energy from where he touched him with his posture to just push a (huge) guy like Russell to the ground like that. Back then hand checking rules didn't preclude people from putting hands on each other.

    It only looks like he pushed because he fell down. Have you ever seen MJ crossover people before? They trip up all the time

  • utah jazz and their fans still suck regardless!! they will never win a championship!! hahaha!!!

  • You're probably a Lakers fan.

  • Yeah pretty much bullcrap. I remember this.

  • Jajajaja who cares about the Utha Jazz.......such a boring team

  • bullshit calls. utah should have won the finals that year.

  • LOL You cannot understand can you? Learn to read plz, you keep getting your own words fired back at you. I.E. you say your a laker fan and yet you rather pick Horace Grant over Gasol? and you call gasol "gasoft"? ROFL what fan you are. fuckin burned.

  • LOL? I think someone who takes Horace Grant over Pau Gasol needs some help. And someone who talks like you needs some serious help. You just keep getting your words fired back at you. Sadness.

  • Rofl. Mommy told you to go to bed? rofl Lieutenant Nerd.

  • Rofl Convo done,there you go, you admitted it, it makes you feel better. The fact that all you are a spoiled kid will not change how people percieve MJ. People dont believe what people like you have to say. So staying on topic now, Push off or not, he is still the icon of basketball and kobe will always be under that shadow (no offfense)

  • LMFAO... YOu said you'd take Horace Grant over "Gasoft" LMao so you love someone who cant defend now? You misplace your thoughts by your own self-proclaimed words. Requiem of a spoiled kid, just keep making yourself feel better. I know why you comment on MJ vids, to make yourself feel better. Lol

  • hahhahaha insult much? lolol u can keep up comming, they do you nothing but make yourself better that about it. Thats what spoiled people do the best, make themselves feel better. wow..lol

  • Rofl Ok, if what you said is not what you think, then what does that make you? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. A fucking liar prick. Grow up, kid.

  • Rofl? its not what you think, its what you said. LMfao, deny much? your too scared on getting burned, yet you get burned too much. dude.. lol

  • You? you need to grow up. rofl kid, Kobe fan boys. The reason why you youngsters nut-hug kobe way too much.

  • Rofl Calling Gasol, Gasoft? tell me does that make you love him? Rofl...wow

  • rofl only one thing to say : Look whose talking. LOL hope your Room will stay in good shape, brainhole kid.

  • Lmfao, Oh I am a lakers fan and I hate pau gasol.. ROFL.. ohh and Im a lakers fan, and Boston is one of my Favorite teams. Oh ANd im 18 years old that is a laker-ticket holder. And im not rich. Rofl much

  • ROFL now RESORTING to lying, omg, you are burned too much man. You lke boston? LMFAO LMFAOOO wow you are one desparate kid.

  • You? got a life? ROFL. hey pansy lil laker-ticket holder kid, You have a life? oh yeah anyone can fucking tell that your one spoiled good liar kid, just listen to yourself maybe you'll realize it too.

  • Rofl its one thing bragging over the internet about yourself, its another thing bragging over the internet but with lies. You are one sad kid.

  • Rofl, kid, if you i wonder how much you cried when they lost last year. Rofl bynum? heck, he coulve played and still wouldnt be enough with that game 40 point blowout? heck, mj have never lost that badly in the finals, I mean no suprise chokejob kobe did.

  • rofl? insult much? u can keep trying to talk shit, its just so sad that it satisfies you to do it over the internet rofl. Get a life.

  • ok I'll tell you where you got burned on, u asked y i brought up kobe, cause your a kobe-nuthugger, i know why u comment on MJ videos, cause your a kobe-nut hugger. i know why you are one spoiled rich kid and idolize kobe, cause kobe is no different. I know why your ego is way up there, cause of the person you idolize. want more?

  • ROFL holy shit, who would you rather have your best defender guard? posey or pierce? wow brainhole you need to stop forcing the issue, you got burned in this one, just go compare Posey and Peirce's career stats, i just hope you can do the math, cause quite frankly it seems like you cant.

  • well, sorry that i find this entertaining. there are lots of people like you that is always self-proclaimed and is so fun to see what you have to say about yourself. Its so funny how when you get burned in one topic, u just go to your bag of insults. rofl

  • ROFL, capable of hitting big shots? hahaha who was making big shot after big shot in that series? who won the MVP in that finals? rofl

  • There is one thing that is true why you try to bash MJ with the push off. Because your a kobe nut-hugger. And there is also another thing that is true why you try to tell why i keep bringing up kobe, its because your a nut-hugger.

  • You are still self-proclaiming because you know your facts are fucked up, if there are neutral people that are on neither side here, you know it yourself, your gonna get burned and get your sensitive ego hurt. Bro, you need anger management, because you let your anger off the internet. U can try denying it, but its true.

  • ROFL wow HAHAHA if you think I said kobe fell in love with the girl? ROFL wow he fell to the girls seduction and yes HE fell for it and raped her, get it straight brainhole.

  • ROFL posey?? you think Kobe so good but he have to guard posey? I mean hey brainhole, whose a better defender? kobe or walton? and who was killing the lakers? Pierce or posey? burned.. again.. wow

  • ROFL now your talking about the years JORDAN didnt have pippen. Holy shit you are a joke. You talk like Kobe can do shit with him being the superstar in a mediocre team. Not to mention that Jordan was young and had alot to learn in those years. burned once again.

  • raping someone intentionally is one thing, but falling for a girl knowing that your reputation is on the line and everybody in the world is gonna know about it is another thing. You just got fucking burned again.

  • ROFL, not that walton wantd to guard him, walton HAD to guard him, cause Kobe couldnt, roflcakes, MJ guarded Clyde in that finals and got him bad. 05 season u can keep making excuses, they missed the playoffs cause kobe nutcried wanted to get rid of shaq, if shaq was still there they wouldve made the playoffs. LOL burned

  • ROFL, shaq was on his way down that year, and kobe was still on his prime, and he fucking hogged the ball in that finals, shot like 41% thats all u fucking need to know. Kobe wanted to be in charge, and wut happened? choked. just like how you choke on every reply you make by making yourself feel better by talking shit over the internet rofl.

  • oh yes, Kobe got his entire roster turned upside down last year, and uhhm yea where are the rings? As I said, if you cant win the championship then your no different than the other ringless teams. nuff said, kobe choked, pierce fucking owned him.

  • Rofl, heres one thing for sure, I rather gamble than rape somebody. Idk about you, you'll probably go otherwise. hhahahahah

  • ROFL, you think kobe made the playoffs without shaq every year? LMao wow u just got burned, heres a fact brainhole, 04-05 season please? hahaha and you try to bash someone who is 37 years old? rofl Shaq is done for, but his legacy with the lakers will always be there, because he's the one who won those rings. Fucking owned.

  • god i hope your not the offspring of who KObe raped, omg if thats so, then that explains why you are like that. roflcakes

  • yup 1-9 without pippen, oh whats Kobe without shaq? ROFL. enough said. No shaq, no championships, one year no PLAYOFFS ROFL, choked againts the suns in 7. i can keep going on and on baby. nerdrage more plz.

  • oh and your page is nothing intimidating (as you self-proclaimed) its something worth puking on.

  • ROFL, you missed the part that MJ made the shot, and thats why i said he won the 6th championship, oh u know what you can suck on? Kobe with malone, payton and SHAQ ? rofl. Jordan without pippen? yeah i know what jordan did without Pippen, he didnt have pippen on this game in the final minutes. ROFL suck on that

  • ROFL ya and you missed one thing, and he WON his 6th championship and 6th Finals mvp. umm ya 6>3 and 6>0. do the math. ROFL it would be best if you think facts first.

  • oh and one last word: proclaiming that winning the conversation wouldnt change anything that happened 11 years ago. Rofl enough fucking said, i hope you get yourself fixed. bye

  • lol man, you are so proud of yourself by proclaiming to yourself that you won, this jsut keeps getting better and better hahaha. I hope people read this conversation we had, and hope you realize how much of a fool you make yourself. Anyways, I hope you get that ego popped, its not good for ya. good luck

  • ROFL, you got a big ego right there, that only speaks that you just wont let up, Youre so desparate man, I'll let you go, its what people thinks that matters to me, unlike you, its what you think is what matters rofl, you make yourself feel good through your words, I know what the people really think about this Call, and obviously your just one of those who try to make a big deal out of it. and i know the reason why.

  • umm ya sorry to disappoint that im not much of a nerd like you. Bragging over your page? rofl, bragging over the internet, talking shit over the internet. fuck that, me im just trying to stand up of what MJ has done to the game.

  • LOL why are you so desparate to make me stop talking about kobe? ROFL obviously cause it offends you too much, it hurts your sensitive ego whenever I say facts about Kobe. You sir, have some serious issues. Your a laker ticket holder who hates Pau Gasol, roflcakes, you got some serious issues.

  • oh you want to talk about the topic? ok the topic is why did the refs let the so called "push off" go? why? because thats the era MJ played, refs let the players PLAY rough, nobody gets T'ed up by saying magic words before, unlike todays.

  • Jordan fanatacism? do you have any fucking idea who evolved NBA? If you try to scrutinize whats done years and years ago, and your a laker fan, that can only mean one thing, I mean just look at your fucking youtube account name. thats all ppl need to know, enough fucking said.

  • kobe got to the finals? LOL, you can reach the finals but if you lose it, your no different than a team that lost in the first round, where your ring at? nuff said. Kobe's got 3 rings ya, 0 mvps, thats all u need to know. oh and push off? refs before dont babysit anyone, unlike todays, with the touch fouls and shit. nuff said

  • why do you have a problem with me bringing up kobe? your a fucking laker fan you said it yourself, and also you said u dont like gasol... ohh let me guess, who do u like in the lakers? Phil Jackson? wake up kid, Every laker fan nut-hugs kobe, period. DOnt act like your not one of em, cause that would be sad

  • why? because you make it obvious of how much a kobe nut-hugger you are. And if you think its not obvious to alot of people, then you got some serious issues. I mean actually, you do have serious issues. you need to stop nerdraging over the internet just to prove what you think. Its sad.

  • hahah without pippen, whose MJ got? whats Kobe won with Shaq, and payton? and malone? and gasol? Nuff said. You can keep nut huggin and keep getting fucked with facts, people here know whose the brainhole.

  • hahaha wow now your so off topic, FEAR? my goodness most of your replys are insults, and its so sad that it makes you feel better to insult someone over the internet. rofl that spells out of your being a spoiled rich kid. Its not easy lying over the internet kid, you can keep saying stuff that make you feel better, just hope u dont lose your mind.

  • your so accustomed to tlaking shit over the internet. no suprised spoiled kid, add being a wanabe MJ nut hugger to that a lethal combination of Nerdrage over the internet dose. Whats kobe done? win 3 championships? no Shaq won those, what kobe's done is choke 2 championships. nuffsaid go cheer about that, nut-huggin spoiled nerd

  • hahaha of course you have no number one, kobe is the only one for you nut-hugger. Your a laker fan? thats the saddest fucking joke yet, you say your a laker fan, yet you scrutinize the player who is the main reason you guys won 60 somethin games? No fucking wonder your like that, your a ticket-holder, a fucking spoiled rich kid. I just feel so sorry for you.

  • so classless, your good at talkin shit i give you that, but thats about it. You scrutenize hall of famers? Horace grant? who the fuck would take horace grant over pau gasol? or shaq? hey brainhole you need to wake up. your the one who needs to stop crying about what happend 11 years ago when MJ proved people like you wrong. Sad stuff.

  • Even if the bulls didnt win that game 6, who said they cant win game 7? oh yes and even if they lose game 7 does that take away the other 5 championships MJ won? Kobe would still be nowhere near MJ even if MJ had lost this series. Nuff said. Nut-hugger. Get your facts straights before you nuthug. Get a life.

  • oh and btw, MJ didnt have rodman in his first 3peat, he only had pippen. Kobe had the luxury of having Shaq, payton and Malone, 3 hall of famers. nuff said. nut-hugger, get a life.

  • wow how sad, your no different than kobe arent ya. you even scutenize his own teammate? all about me me me huh? how typical, no wonder you nut-hug him.

  • hey mikenotnumber1, get a life and stop searching mj videos to prove how much of a joke Kobe bryant is. You call kobe the best, yet he hasnt even won a finals w/o shaq, no finals mvp either. MJ didnt have a dominant center like shaq OR GASOL. nuff said

  • gah mikenotnumber1 stfu everywhere I go your at these videos. One bad game call fuck man. Whether it was intentional or not let it go. They would have won in game 7 anyways

  • Game 6 had its missed calls. The Jordan push off is a good noncall, imho.

    The 42 point ass whooping wasn't a regular season game. it was The Finals, btw.

  • What I meant, Mr. YT fighter, was that the Ron Harper shot shouldn't have counted. And the Howard Eisley three should have counted. Those were missed calls in favor of CHI. But the Jordan "push-off" was minor contact and deserved no call. Imo, the Bulls were the best team. 99% of people would agree.

  • The refs definetly fucked up, but i don't think that's y the Jazz lost, and u can't blame the refs dude, that Bulls team was the best of all time. and MJ did NOT push off Russle, I think it was the momentum of doin a step back dribble, and all his momentum was pulling him forward as he was going back ward, and it lookd like he pushed off, maby did a little, but it was NOT a foul

  • yeah..plead your case at end of the game and get a T for it? I will beat your ass down bitch

  • The Bulls were one of the best teams in NBA history then.

  • They were the best.

  • Utah Jazz, o Botafogo da NBA

  • cry me a river

  • I don't see how anybody can say the Jazz were the better team. Pippen only played like 47 regular season games. And the Bulls crushed them in Game 3: 96 - 54.

    I have the ultimate respect for Sloan, Malone, and Stockton. But still...

  • Chicago won, but thje Jazz were the better team that year.

  • all these bulls haters/jazz fans need to quit whining. there is no way one can say how the game would have turned out. changing the score would influence how teams approached the rest of the game.

    Don't talk that shit about how the jazz could have one, THEY WERE UP 3 WITH 43 SEC LEFT. The Jazz let jordan score in 5 seconds, then let him STEAL the ball from them in the most important game of their lives in the last minute. Then he drilled the game winner.

  • Lol, that's not a push off. He had his hand on him, it slips off easily, and russel slips because he was out of position

  • Jordon got away with so much shit. I guess thats what you get when you are a super star.

  • UTAH JAZZ

  • you guys are just jealous. can never measure up to greatness. remember that OT game 1 in which the bulls lost and when Jordan was fouled, no call, while attempting a shot in G5? In that OT period in G1 a violation should have been called against the Jazz when Malone kicked the ball and then Russel was able to call time out. besides, the bulls were bound to win the championship anyway. they were a better defensive team; and the jazz, being favorites, after game 3's 42 pt blowout were no longer so

  • MJ pushed off Russell..Russell probably over-sold the push, but before the push he had his arm around MJ's neck/back area trying to push him down. Fouls could have been called either way.

  • vaya robo

  • What gets me about this game is that there were TWO calls that both went in Chicago's favor that cost Utah the game. Not just the Eisley non-three call early, but a late basket by Ron Harper that came after the buzzer sounded. If both calls went the other way, Utah would have been up six instead of one. And the refs wonder why fans think the game is rigged.

  • I still can't watch the finish because I felt Utah was robbed. I thought it then, and I think it now.

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  • Hey guys,

    It's quite sad to call the Utah jazz fans.

    The whole world knows that the title was delivered by Stern to his buddy MJ thru the referees. The obvious 6pts steal against Utah was not even denied by the NBC commentators.

    Malone, an often outspoken person, against the commissioner wouldn't get what M-the crybaby-J woukd get from the refs. "Oh, refs didn't show me respect" when the Buls were demolished was always rewarded by 20-30 free shots in the next game.

  • Why do you think Bavetta and the gang would never really officiate any Olympic Games and the like?

    At any rate, as an international basketball referee I was really appalled by that game and lost quite a bit of my interest in NBA. As far as the last (non)-call is concerned that is quite justified. The question whether it's a foul or not entered no one's minds. Yes, it seemed that MJ just touched Russell.

  • haha... international referee my ass... bulls won... get over it

  • whatever you guys can come up with a 'ship soon with deron

  • sosad for the jazz....

  • haha dick bavetta looks the same

  • I'm sorry for you, not sorry for me.

  • Even if Howard Eisley's shot would of counted the Bulls would of still won the game and of course, the Chapionship.

  • excelentes observaciones amigo, tienes rzon dichs jugadas incidieron en el resultado final y casi es seguro que se hubiera jugado un septimo partido y quien sabe que hubiera pasado, viva el Utah Jazz

  • that eisley shot should of counted...this series should of went 7 games

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  • Did that guy just tell me to shit up? Explain K-Malone not protecting the ball; then explain B-Russ being crazy bad at defense... then take some prozac.

  • The damage was done with the cross-over. If Russel goes flying from that "push-off" then he is a little bitch. Which he is. Jordan pwns. And the Jazz go home crying again. And Jordan proves once again why he is hands down the greatest. Jazz fans can suck my dick.

  • dude what the hell.

  • wow i cant believe you guys are mad about a play in the 2nd quarter. I mean come on do you really think that that play changed the game?

  • that first play was clean it didnt violate the clock but again utah had no chance

  • StudmuffBH are you on crack? Hello...Michael Jordan! Utah had no chance...bunch of crybabies!

  • the Jazz stood no chance because its all a conspiracy...The NBA wanted the Bulls and MJ to win the championship, and they did whatever it takes to make that happen...blowing calls early in the game changes momentum, but doesn't make the refs look as bad at the end, even though we all know about the blown calls at the end...

    Terrible officiating...but the Jazz still had their chances...

  • lol wow thats the biggest Jazz fanboy explanation ive ever heard of. You wish there was something to blame other than your damn team for losing the finals. Its easy to blame refs but does that mean that all basketball games MUST be fixed? Do you even play basketball, if so you'd know that refs on the whole are usually always terrible at officiating. IN ALL GAMES there are bad calls, its as much a part of basketball as anything else. MJ knew how to play the refs ex. slapping himself for fouls.

  • Do you even watch the news homeboy?Maybe you haven't heard about a little referee named Tim Donaghy

    He admitted that he bet on games, the NBA wants the big market/big name teams in the finals, and that for a while there questionable calls were made to make that happen

    Maybe you didn't read the last sentence.I said the Jazz still had their chances, which they did, but there is no questioning that these aren't even close.You can argue against many calls made during a game, but not these ones

  • and I said the NBA wanted the Bulls and MJ to win the championship...I never said all games MUST be fixed...

    I think certain teams get more favorable calls sometimes, but I think since the whole Donaghy thing, refs are much more careful to get the call right...

    And MJ had nothing to do with this video...they were just blatent misses that everyone in America, including those at the arena, could see were wrong...without any replays...

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  • Final score should have been Utah 89 Chicago 85. Still not sure about the MJ bryon Russell "push off" but the jazz might just have won in game 7 who knows. I think it came down to just lousy refereeing.

  • What the fuck he got that shot off before the shot clock expired

  • And Bryon Russells asshole still hurts to this day

  • Anyways dude. Bryon Russell even said Jordan didn't actually push him like everyone thought. He said He had his arm on him you can see that, but he slipped and that's what left jordan open.

  • You're an idiot. This was 10 years ago. And you're still trying to make excuses. Shutup.

  • You cannot fight destiny, with that...Jordan is the GREATEST TO EVER PLAY THE GAME. What a terrific finish!

  • No matter how much you say they could have won, they couldn't have. You know why? because MJ is the best. What if that three had of counted? maybe they go on a horrible run to end it, that one being their last point in the entire game? Don't try to make proclamations on how your team *could* have won, if you had of gotten the correct call.

    Give the respect to MJ, he earned it.

  • For everyone who claims Jordan pushed off on Russell, i have never heard an explanation on why Russell never complained right after. He didn't throw his hands up in protest, the Utah bench was silent, not a word. Russell just quietly walks over to the bench. It was only after they saw the replay that the Jazz and Russell started to bitch and moan.

  • Russell complained in the locker room immediately after the game long before he would have had a chance to see the replay. Isiah Thomas on NBC immediately pointed out the push off. Sloan, Stockton, Malone never complained about the refs AFTER the game. It's not their style (remember I'm talking POST-game comments). There was also a little time left on the clock; not the best time to pick up a technical.

  • Jordan haters would probably have nothing to say about the hard shove Reggie Miller gave Jordan in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Besides, if the Bulls had lost Game 6, Bulls fans could counter that Pippen was injured and was ineffective most of the game. Also, if Utah had won, it would have only evened up the series.

  • Bavetta won the game

    UTAH JAZZ - THE REAL NBA CHAMPIONS 97-98

  • wtf???

  • I remember watching that game & I remember saying,"those stupid refs have just given the Bulls the championship with those 2 calls." 6 point swing because of those refs being told to swing the game the Bulls way by David Stern. There would have never been The shot situation because the Jazz would have finished the game off. The Jazz would have won game seven with the momentum they had, & how Malone was just destroying them down low. 10 yrs later its still a damn dirty shame.

  • Randy, you must be some kind of stupid. Did your mom drop you as a baby - guess so. Your just a loser and mad your jazz got killed by MJ because he didn't give them no mercy. haha, blame it on stern. You think he would risk his whole career,

    on getting tv ratings higher. Wow. You are probably thinking "yeah, huhuh."

    That is why you are some kind of retarded.

  • that is the funniest commentary ever duh duh dah dah dah dahhhhhh

  • Stockton and Malone both deserved championship rings.

  • Bavetta is under investigation by the FBI. Wonder why...

  • asterisk

  • I don't like to make blanket generalizations, but if you don't think Jordan pushed off, you're just an idiot. The only plausible argument you can make is that refs shouldn't decide the end of the game by making that call. This is a BS argument, of course, but to state he didn't push off is just complete denial/idiocy. Get a clue.

  • you're an idiot to think he pushed off.

  • You have a point about the refs OsterTagShotTupac BUT its not fair and unsportsmen like when ya swipe at the defenders legs to throw him off balance coupled with a push-off makes you a cheater and fraud. Don't make the a case about jordan wanting it more cause it was just a cheap dirty trick to get a basket, how about passing the ball when you are well covered. He actually had NO help under or around the basket that makes ya wonder why he did push-off and clip the defenders legs.