Michael Jordan OWNS Mark Jackson

Nasty, what was Mark Jackson thinking he cant jump with Mike but he did & he ended up being in 1 of the greatest alley oops of alltime.


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April 19, 1988

Psychologists talk about two kinds of events in our lives: character-revealing and character-defining, the latter occurring far less often. One's response to receiving too much change is character-revealing; one's response to war is character-defining.

Without comparing sports to war, this would be a character- and career-defining game for Michael Jordan as he scored 47 points and led the Bulls toward their first 50-victory season, denying the Knicks a playoff berth, 121-118.

This year was a watershed year for Michael. He was named MVP for the first time for both the regular season and the All-Star Game, leading the league in scoring, and -- most impressively for a scorer -- also was named Defensive Player of the Year. This was his valedictory performance in front of the influential New York media who would vote for those awards.

Jordan put on a dunking clinic throughout the contest, reaching his apogee on a rim-rocking stuff as he hit a board -- crashing Patrick Ewing in the head with his knee and then his hip. ("Welcome to Air Jordan. We'll be cruising tonight at an altitude of seven feet.") How good was Jordan this night? Said Ewing after being poster-ized, "He was simply amazing. Nobody could stop him tonight."

MJ shot 18 for 27 from the floor, faking drives and hitting open 17-footers, flying over defenders to the hole, and whipping around others along the baseline as well. A particularly impressive hustle sequence occurred in the third quarter as Jordan drives toward the bucket, passes back to a wide-open Dave Corzine, who misses a 15-footer, which Jordan then rebounds in a crowd and stuffs. "He's just killing the Knicks," said announcer Marv Albert. After another flying dunk, Marv marvels, "He's angry."

Jordan poured in 11 points in just over three minutes early in the fourth quarter to guarantee the victory. "Michael Jordan was as great as I have ever seen him," said then-Knicks coach Rick Pitino. "You can't stop Jordan. He was like Superman, and I didn't have any Kryptonite." True that; all he had was Rookie of the Year Mark Jackson on MJ.

Character-defining? Before the Tuesday night game, Jordan had been sick since Friday with the flu, not practicing Monday and not falling asleep until four in the morning of game day. The pattern: When Jordan suffers before the game, his opponents suffer during the game.

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[koalalauncher]

This is probly why Mark Jackson says Kobe is better than Jordan. Cause he cant get the taste of Michael's ass out of his mouth and it pisses him off.

[mdwivedi]

No wonder Mark says Kobe is better than MJ ... He's still butt hurt about this facial!

[TheRafaelBond]

which of them is mark??lol

[franchisejr15]

Why the hell did Pat Ewing just stand there after he dunked? lmfao

[ChrisMuadDib]

@mwgzero so true markalious need to do his research I think Wilt scored 4000 in a season

[mwgzero]

@markalious what does that have to do with what I just said?

[markalious]

@mwgzero okey.. but MJ is better than kobe

[mwgzero]

@markalious Wilt Chamberlain scored 3,000 first. Just sayin.

[lightaspliff420]

why are the top two comments the same damn thing? like one of them... not both

[EGarrett01]

Acclaimed screenwriter William Goldman on the left side of the screen at :13.

[markalious]

5mvp, 3time all star mvp, 1 time defensive player of the year, and the only player who score 3000+ points in 1 season.. well if there some of you who believe that kobe is better than MJ well watch the video of MJ when he is 20yrs old, and compare it to kobe.. then i think you would realize that MJ is the greatest player of all time