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Magic Johnson: "Michael Jordan couldn't run a team like I could"
Elano The One And Only:
--- Quote from: Mr. Bones on September 23, 2013, 11:45:43 AM ---Elano likes these two because they both have gay, black sons.
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I didn't know their sons were gay, but obviously you got a radar for the fags since you're one of them :loser:
Mietek23:
--- Quote from: NIKCC on September 23, 2013, 08:10:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mr. Bones on September 23, 2013, 08:04:29 PM ---gave him a breather? lmao
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yea..that break was a chance for him to take a rest and come back re-energized...what the fuc is so funny?
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Michael wasen't tired physically, when he retired for the first time - he was rather "burned out", lost his love for the game itself and needed a step back.
Sccit:
--- Quote from: Mietek23 on September 24, 2013, 09:02:27 AM ---
--- Quote from: NIKCC on September 23, 2013, 08:10:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mr. Bones on September 23, 2013, 08:04:29 PM ---gave him a breather? lmao
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yea..that break was a chance for him to take a rest and come back re-energized...what the fuc is so funny?
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Michael wasen't tired physically, when he retired for the first time - he was rather "burned out", lost his love for the game itself and needed a step back.
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Either way, the break helped him
Mietek23:
--- Quote from: NIKCC on September 24, 2013, 09:47:13 AM ---
--- Quote from: Mietek23 on September 24, 2013, 09:02:27 AM ---
--- Quote from: NIKCC on September 23, 2013, 08:10:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mr. Bones on September 23, 2013, 08:04:29 PM ---gave him a breather? lmao
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yea..that break was a chance for him to take a rest and come back re-energized...what the fuc is so funny?
--- End quote ---
Michael wasen't tired physically, when he retired for the first time - he was rather "burned out", lost his love for the game itself and needed a step back.
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Either way, the break helped him
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Not quite. That's debatable - he retired in his prime and wasen't the same player coming back.
Have he not retired, the Bulls could've won 8 or maybe even 9 tittles in a row, had they not break-up in 1999. The truth is - we will never know, so let's stop it right there.
whoisthis:
Magic was 5-11 as a Coach, I fully realize that his record was only through 16 games, but it was a real bad 16 games. As an executive, what did he really do? He owned 5% of the Lakers. All direction came from Dr. Buss or Jerry West (later Mitch Kupchak) in terms of running the team.
Jordan has been terrible. He's made some very bad decisions as an Executive and Owner.
Both of them need to call Larry Bird up. He was a pretty good Coach and a good Executive, too.
As far as what would have happened had Magic never tested HIV Postive.. no one knows. What we do know is that the team hovered at or around .500 for the 3 years following Magic's retirement. They were bounced in the 1st round twice and missed the playoffs all together in 94. They were not that good.
In the year after Jordan retired the team was good enough to push the Knicks to 7 games in the 2nd round. The next season, Jordan played in 17 regular season games and was still getting his legs back after close to 2 years of not playing. They took the Magic to 6 games in the 2nd round.
Add a healthy Magic and a full season of Michael to those teams. I'll give the Lakers a shot at the WCF, but I don't know that they were good enough to beat those Blazers or Suns teams. In the 93-94 season, I don't think that Laker teams make it out of the first round. Those Bulls in 93-94 & 94-95 make it to the Finals, no doubt and according to Phil:
"Jackson agreed with the argument that the Rockets' championships were tainted because Michael Jordan was out of the league for the first of their title seasons and much of the next. 'Definitely,' Jackson said. 'Without a doubt. Clearly, if the Bulls were whole, we would have won. It's pretty much registered by now. When Michael played, we won the championship.'"
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