greatest player of his generation yet couldn't accomplish anything without having to create a 'superteam' to do it. no respect for him, his whining and the ridiculous superstar treatment he received the moment he stepped on the court as a rookie. The ridiculous stretches he'd enjoy without being called for a single foul were egregious and blatant show of favoritism by the league.
The only one of his career moments I ever enjoyed was the game where he fouled out against the Celtics in the playoffs and he couldn't get over the fact that the refs dared to foul him out.
Ah yes because the greatest players of all time weren't winning their multiple championships on super teams.
the collusion Bron pulled off with Wade and Bosh in Miami sickens me. it's one thing if a team's front office management pulls it off but to have the top players in the game collude to play together because they want to stack the deck in their favor is shameful and unworthy of any respect of their 'accomplishments'. only title I give him credit for is the one he won in Cleveland.
I know I am not going to change Moranis' mind on this, but for what it is worth, Bosh is at 99% to go into the hall of game. Kevin love is at 70%. Irving and Wade are probably locks. Jordan really only played with one other hall of famer outside of Rodman who, while productive, was 34 when he got to the bulls and thought to be washed up before his arrival. For comparison, Rodman was 36 in the last title run and I believe that was same age as Ray Allen when he got there. Guys like Grant, Armstrong, Kukoc are not sniffing the hall of fame.
And in the entirety of the 6 championship runs by the Bulls the 91 Pistons, 91 Lakers, and 97 and 98 Jazz are the only teams they beat that had more than 1 HOFer. And most of the time Pippen was the 2nd best player on the floor (I think only Barkley, Shaq, and Malone were better and perhaps Payton). Jordan was great, but he was also on the best team in the league with more talent then any of his competition. I mean they won 55 games and a playoff series without him (that team also should have beaten the Knicks in that 7 game classic in the ECS - and the Knicks ended up 1 win away from winning the title).
The 90's were quite simply a weak decade in the sport's history. There was pretty significant expansion and the stars of the prior generation disappeared far more quickly then most stars did for artificial reason (Bird's back, Magic's disease) or just fell completely off a cliff earlier than most (Thomas). I mean we saw this pretty clearly with the 94 Rockets. As great as Hakeem was, that team was terrible, yet there it was winning the title and becoming arguably the worst champion in league history (seriously Otis Thorpe was the 2nd best player on that team). From about 92 until about 03 or 04, the league just wasn't very good. The Bulls were great, all time great (especially the last 3), but they were also beating teams that had at most 1 HOFer and that quite simply weren't very good. I mean seriously look at the Pacers and Knicks. They had 1 star, who wasn't a top tier star, and then a bunch of role players, yet they were winning a lot of games and pushing the Bulls.