Michael Jordan Posterizes Clyde Drexler vs.Blazers [Game 4-'92 Finals]

[BigRedCotter]

posterized? no way...

[RollingOrmond]

Holy crap, I think I remember seeing this (20 years ago, where'd they go sniff).

[Domini478]

@OnlyOneG1986 MJ did block Clyde shit...MJ would never get dunked on.

[SDSOverfiend]

Michael Had the "No Out of bounds" cheat code on. It look like his foot stopped a inch before the line perfectly. Amost as like as if he has a ura that pushes him back inbounds.

[Wpsfinest]

Mike hung on the rim like Prince on Chappelle's Show during Charlie Murphy's Hollywood Stories.

[maniac9565]

BRING BACK NBA ON NBC AND ITS THEME

[mytwinsandry]

Lebron was traveling at 0:16

[austin29415]

even if he didnt it would still go in bitch

[LiddoCity]

DAMN CHERRY PICKERS!!

[FavreianVengeance]

Jordan stepped out of bounds and wasn't t'd for hanging on the rim in an effort to taunt. Stern's a bitch. He gave Jordan rings with his company men bull shit.

[binka21]

@FavreianVengeance shut your ass before I slap the shit out of you. Jordan didn't step out of bounds and he didn't hang on the rim to taunt.

[FavreianVengeance]

@binka21

You see what you want to see Jordan Jocker.

[binka21]

@FavreianVengeance well it's not my fault you're blind as shit. It's pretty dam clear in slow motion so quit talking shit before I slap the shit out of you you Drexler Jocker. HAHA WHAT'S UP NOW PUNK?

[FavreianVengeance]

@binka21 Drexler Jocker? LMAO The dude was almost as good as Jordan and he couldn't even go left. But I don't really care about him. I just know Jordan got away with shit any time it was playoff time.

[KazaamJones]

@binka21 Are you watching the same video as everybody else? Pause at :15, he clearly stayed inbounds.

[binka21]

@KazaamJones You replied to the wrong comment. I agree with you that he was inbounds. That's what I was trying to tell the other guy.

[jeditwinz]

@FavreianVengeance A player may hang on the basket ring, backboard or support to prevent an injury to himself or another player, with no penalty. Straight from the NBA rule book. As long as Clyde was underneath him they were right for not calling a T.

[FavreianVengeance]

@jeditwinz Yea - I don't think Clyde wasn't really under him. Nice try though. I've seen T's called on plays just like that plenty of times. Jordan was posturing and it was obvious. Two sets of rules man.

[jeditwinz]

@FavreianVengeance Perhapsm but if you pause it at 17 seconds Clyde was holding the rim right next to MJ's hand. When he let go he dropped right under the basket. If that is where he was MJ could legally hang on the rim. Not totally disagreeing with you. There are a lot of cases where it may be true but this time I gotta respectfully disagree

[FavreianVengeance]

@jeditwinz I'll conced that it would have been a weak T. But the point is if it was any other player there's a chance that would have been called. There was a separate set of rules for Jordan. And I think you can tell from the foot placement that Jordan's foot did go out. The refs conveniently missed stuff like that all the time.

[jeditwinz]

@FavreianVengeance I don't disagree with that. And I'm glad that I can disagree without being disrespected. Too many fighting words getting dropped on this site.

[FavreianVengeance]

@jeditwinz Yea the Jordan jockers have got me into more spats than I'd prefer. I just can't stand how mindless they mostly are though.

[jeditwinz]

@FavreianVengeance I can dig it. I'm a fan as well but when I'm wrong I'm wrong. Plus if you got a chance to see b-ball in the 80s you know how great many others were too. Clyde was one of my favs as well as many others at that time.

[FavreianVengeance]

@jeditwinz Agreed - You put that Bulls team in the 80's they'd probably get a ring or two. But six. No way in hell. Clyde was a good player. There were a lot players like Olajuwon, Stockton, Malone, Barkley, Ewing, Clyde that were A-/B+ stars in the 80s and they were the A stars in the 90s. The road just was not as tough.

[jimmychuang]

@FavreianVengeance Name some players in 80s were better than Olajuwon, Malone, Barkley, please.

[jimmychuang]

@FavreianVengeance Thats totally crazy. You guys try to say even MJ's foot go out and they didn't call it?

Thats hater's thinking. Everyone has eyes can watch the video, so cut off those bullshit claim only you MJ hater can see MJ's foot step on the line.

[FavreianVengeance]

@jimmychuang You can see it go out by an inch or two easy. If you weren't all over Jordan's nuts you'd get that.

[scorpionJB]

@FavreianVengeance it looked like Jordan contorted his ankle to keep from stepping out of bounds before the dunk.....wow...

[FavreianVengeance]

@scorpionJB He stepped out. You're seeing what you want to see.

[roostercogburn190644]

@FavreianVengeance his foot doesn't go out of bounds like you say, seems ur bent on making people think that it does.

[mrmacross]

@jimmychuang That guy clicks every Jordan video he can just to say Jordan wasn't that good. It's like a crusade for him.

[RAV52]

@FavreianVengeance Your opinion stopped mattering the second you said that Drexler was almost as good as Jordan. Even Clyde would snatch his dick out of your mouth for saying something so foolish, son.

[FavreianVengeance]

@RAV52 You're an idiot? Are you 15? 20ish? Clyde was in Jordan's ballpark. That's why they were both on the Dream Team idiot.

[RAV52]

@FavreianVengeance Are you in denial? is your last name Drexler? Are you his gay lover? Drexler isn't even in the Top 25 of alltime great NBA Players. He barely cracks the Top 50 on many lists. Was he great? Yep, never denied that. He was nowhere near Jordans level in so many areas of the game, which is what MJ showed the world during the NBA Finals, where he totally outclassed Drexler, even though Clyde had the better overall team.

[Hegone81]

@RAV52 Clyde Drexler's team was nowhere near as good as that Bulls team was. Horace Grant was better than EVERY big man the Blazers had, and Pippen was significantly better than every player on that team aside from Drexler in 1992. The same Bulls team that won 3 championships won 55 games the first year (1994) without Jordan. Only really valuable addition was Toni Kukoc, who wasn't close to his top 6th man form yet. They were equal to Portland WITHOUT Jordan. Those teams weren't even close!

[FavreianVengeance]

@Hegone81 I disagree but I think you're close. Drexler was slightly worse than Jordan. It was his lack of ability to go left that didn't put him on par with Jordan. But the Blazers were better than the Bulls. The Bulls just won their 92 series. The better team doesn't always win. But you're right, Jordan was a marginal difference maker due to the fact that he didn't really make his teammates better and that is why he is vastly over-rated.

[Hegone81]

@FavreianVengeance Drexler was really good, but a step behind Jordan in every facet of the game, other than maybe rebounding. Jordan definitely made his teammates better. It wasn't in the Magic Johnson assist sense though. It was because he was so dominant that it caused defenses to ignore the marginal players, who often became lethal in big games (think Paxson vs LA and Kerr vs Utah).

[Hegone81]

@FavreianVengeance Jordan described his role as a utility man. His job was to do the things that others couldn't/weren't doing at the time. That definitely makes players better because he took it upon himself to help cover up for teammates' deficiencies with his amazing versatility, and Pippen had that quality as well.

[Hegone81]

@FavreianVengeance This allowed Wennington, Kerr, Kukoc, Paxson, Harper, Rodman, etc to become more valuable because they could cover for those players' weaknesses. They couldn't have done that without Jordan, and that's how he made his teammates better.

[Hegone81]

@FavreianVengeance Jordan is equal to Bill Russell in that respect. The same way Russell made guys better. I heard him talk about acquiring Don Nelson in the 60's. He had a rep for a good-scoring forward, who didn't defend or rebound. Russell said he told him "just do what you do well. Score the ball. Just make sure you box your man out. Don't worry about rebounding, because I'll grab them all, you just box out." That's what Jordan was. There's a reason they won 6 championships man.

[RAV52]

@FavreianVengeance The fact that you feel that Jordan didn't make his teammates better says all I need to know your basketball knowledge. Even Drexler would dispute your claim. And Jordan is probably the ONE player in NBA history who was impossible to overvalue. He was always BETTER than the hype. Drexler saw this firsthand in the NBA Finals. And I considered Buck Williams and Horace Grant even or Williams slightly better at that time. Compare their numbers.

[FavreianVengeance]

@RAV52 Jordan didn't make his teammates better. But one could argue that he was so good that he arguably made his team's marginally better. I wouldn't be quick to argue that though. He never had a winning season in 5 tries w/o Pippen and the Bulls were essentially just as good when he jetted town after the first retirement. It's actually my basketball knowledge that let's me say this. You're just a fat slobbering Jordan jocker, the lowest form of fan.

[RAV52]

@FavreianVengeance You sound angry. Typical Drexler nut-hugger. Pippen begged Jordan to return after his first retirement because he realized how hard it was to lead a team to the Finals after the Knicks knocked them off. And how in the hell is not making the Finals "essentially just as good" as 3-Peating?? That's as stupid as you saying that Clyde was "a step behind Jordan"... He was much further away than that.

[FavreianVengeance]

@RAV52 LMAO 'Typical Drexler Nut Hugger' - I seriously doubt you know 1 drexlernut hugger let alone enough to know a 'typical' one. You're an idiot.

[RAV52]

@FavreianVengeance I accept your surrender, nut-hugger. LOL

[FavreianVengeance]

@RAV52 You're idiocy is still in tact. BTW you can call whoever a bla bla but you still need to wipe the 4J (Jug of Jordan Jocking Juice) from your eyes.

[mrmacross]

@RAV52 Don't bother arguing with that guy. He goes to every Jordan video and posts the same blah blah blah Jordan's no good, blah blah blah bologna he and 4 other NBA fans think is true, while the rest of the world knows otherwise.

We can listen to Magic and Larry appraise Jordan, or we can listen to this guy.

[RAV52]

@mrmacross Eh, it's fun to toy with dummies like him who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground... He has nothing to back up his opinions, so it's pretty easy to make him look like the lame that he is.

[FavreianVengeance]

@RAV52 I'm still waiting for the answer to how old you are. B/C your logic is specious at best and you clearly have no idea how good Drexler was and you overvalue how good Jordan actually was.

[Hegone81]

@RAV52 Wow you're really exaggerating, son. Clyde Drexler is probably the 3rd greatest 2-guard in the history of the game (1 being Jordan, 2 being Kobe). Clyde was good for 25 per night, with a solid % at the time this game happened. He wasn't as good as Jordan, no. Could he compete? Absolutely.

[RAV52]

@Hegone81 Guess you never heard of a guy named Oscar Robertson, who was better than Kobe and Drexler combined. Jerry West, Elgin Baylor several others had careers that would put an underachieving athletic specimen like Clyde to shame in a comparison of overall skill. Guess what? The NBA didn't just start in the mid 80s, kid.

[Hegone81]

@RAV52 Wow, you didn't name a single player who was a 2-guard. I said he's the 3rd greatest 2 guard ever. That is a WING PLAYER who helps the point guard handle the ball. If you watch an old Lakers game, you notice two things: (1) West was a point. He brought the ball up the floor and ran the offense. (2) Baylor was a SF/PF. Not a perimeter player at all. Drove and posted. Baylor played like Charles Barkley or Larry Johnson. Oscar Robertson...also a point guard.

[RAV52]

@Hegone81 Jerry West did play shooting guard during his career and at 6-5 and an offensively aggressive style, Baylor, although considered a foward at the time, would be thought of as a 2 by today's standards. Dwyane Wade, George Gervin, Reggie Miller, Ray Allen and Iverson all posted numbers in Clyde's neighborhood and in the case of Wade, Reggie and Iverson, lead their teams on Finals runs and dominated most nights. Now if we're talking ATHLETICISM, Yeah, Clyde all day.

[twobigjets]

See how MJ plays, his eyes never leave the ball even after it's dead. You don't see that kind of class in the NBA anymore with all these showboating kids. MJ is the best, and he played against legends from 3 different eras (Shaq, Larry, Magic, Kobe, Dr. J, Clyde, Dominique, Ewing, Hakeem, etc)

[s0meguy09]

jordan looked as if he wanted to ride on clyde when he was hanging on the rim just lookin at him

[boxingfan510]

AT least clyde challenged Mike. Mike got dunked on by clyde on a few occassions but mike never jumped. Almost as if he is scared to be posterized

[SDSOverfiend]

Mike foot almost went out of bounds and he recovered fast enough to still catch the boomie. SMH!!! The oldschool players stayed banging it on Niggas off the vert.

[Kingjd87]

@SDSOverfiend

Yea that was pretty much a dead jump with little momentum. MJ did have a '48 inch vertical so he could do that. lol 

[SDSOverfiend]

@Kingjd87 LMAO!! shit was unreal how powerful they played back then.

[1PedroAmor]

Two of the best NBA athletes during th 90s thats for sure

[VinmanMJ23]

Props to Drexler for at least trying to play a little defense on an easy basket.

[JAYYJONA]

If you look closely.. LeBron traveled..

[wiiisthebest]

@JAYYJONA

Over used joke. Be a little more creative.

[JAYYJONA]

@wiiisthebest You're right.. ;)

[binka21]

@wiiisthebest ok here's more creative: knock knock who's there? Lebron. Lebron who? Lebron traveled.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHA

[tonychoitellem]

@JAYYJONA if you look closely, lebron has about 200-300 million more dollars then you.

[binka21]

@tonychoitellem everybody uses that argument. but all that money hasn't bought him a championship, and he most likely hasn't given YOU a single penny of it. so let's just accept the fact that he travels like a wide receiver. thank you and good night. (applause)

[tonychoitellem]

@binka21 its not an argument. its a fact and a st8ment. good night to u 2

[iinsanityl0ve]

@JAYYJONA if you look closely, I bet you can't play for shit. If you think lebron sucks, then you obviously don't look any closer.

[Timario007]

aaahhh that music theme song nba on nbc those were the days

[dpistons149]

strong

[loutcb]

weak

[Keenanville09]

i miss the nba on nbc song

[loutcb]

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[Rx7Force101]

I love these clips brings back so many memories ...I love the music at the end vintage classic NBA tv!

[jd55192]

Got him.