![]() ![]() Jordan shoves Nance out of the play and takes Sellers’ pass, with Ehlo scrambling after him in a panic. Larry Nance and Craig Ehlo double-teaming Jordan. Brad Sellers inbounding the ball from midcourt. Game 5, Eastern Conference first round, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland.Įd Wagner Jr./Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images and Image: Visual Concepts/2K Sports At the time, it was 2 points short of Wilt Chamberlain’s record for All-Star Game scoring. ![]() ![]() One day after a leap from the free-throw line to beat the Human Highlight Film, Dominique Wilkins, in one of the greatest NBA Dunk Contests ever, Jordan dumped 40 points on Magic Johnson and the Western Conference All-Stars in front of his own home crowd. “That wasn’t Michael Jordan out there that was God disguised as Michael Jordan,” Bird said. His between-the-legs dribble and stepback jumper in Bird’s face is still one of the greatest highlights in NBA history. Although Boston overpowered Chicago 135-131 in the second game of the first-round series, the Celtics had to survive Jordan’s eye-goggling 63-point barrage, which remains a record for an NBA playoff game. In 1986, the Bulls were 30-52 and seeded eighth against a powerful Celtics team steaming toward that franchise’s 16th NBA title. The Chicago Bulls selected Jordan third overall from a 1984 NBA draft whose top five included future Hall of Famers Hakeem Olajuwon and Charles Barkley. Game 2, Eastern Conference first round, Boston Garden, Boston. He would reunite with 1984 Team USA teammates Ewing and Chris Mullin on the 1992 “Dream Team,” the greatest assembly of talent in basketball history. Jordan scored 14 points in this game, which the collegians won 97-82. at that time President Ronald Reagan addressed the team and crowd in a recorded speech played on the arena scoreboard. ![]() The crowd of 67,596 was the largest to see a basketball game in the U.S. The United States’ men’s national basketball team opened Indiana’s brand-new Hoosier Dome with a scrimmage against a team of NBA stars that included Hall of Famers Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, and Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics. 23 is one of seven numbers fully retired from service at Chapel Hill. In the 1982 NCAA final against Patrick Ewing and Georgetown, Jordan buried an 18-foot jumper with 15 seconds left to give UNC a 63-62 lead and Dean Smith his first national championship, after six Final Four appearances. The 6-6 swingman from Wilmington Laney High School cracked a Tar Heel lineup that included future Hall of Famer James Worthy and three-time all-American Sam Perkins. “Mike Jordan” was just the fourth freshman in North Carolina basketball history to start in his first game for the Tar Heels. Photo: Manny Millan/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images The National Championship ![]()
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