I was born in 1978 & lived through the Jordan Era. After his '88 & '89 seasons, it was obvious how talented he was. After the first 3 peat, he was the best that anyone alive had seen. After the second 2 peat, there were no words. If I'm remembering right, the 45 Era was due to his number 23 being retired. There was a process to 'unretire' it, so he wore 45 while that happened. I wish I would have bought one of the 45 jerseys b/c they would be worth alot now.
@NoCodeLive I don't blame you, most people that didn't get a chance to watch him can't put it into perspective. It's not about rings and stats, he's just the greatest to ever touch a basketball period.
@NoCodeLive jordan really was way above everyone else and he beat my pacers every year and it always made me mad but I have never seen a player like him...all the fundamentals with power and finesse and could literally do everything....lebron being compared to him is disrespectful as fuck
Jordan had no weaknesses in his game. He played during the golden age of basketball. He made everything look easy. He gave basketball international recognition. Everyone knew Jordan even if you didn’t know basketball. His competitiveness, fire & playmaking ability all of these things make him the 1 & only GOAT
@@NoCodeLive it definitely was. Chicago is a busy city but back then when the Bulls were playing in the playoffs the streets were empty. I remember celebrating each championship. We would be out all night.
I saw him going left and finishing a lot with his left on here. You can be done with the 90s but Jordan was playing in the 2000s on the Wizards too. One more thing also, you don’t give yourself a nickname. People give you a nickname. Lebron said he was the goat. Jordan never hand too. Just something to think about.
Larry Legend after Jordan's still record 63pt playoff game vs C's: "That wasn't Michael Jordan out there. That was God disguised as Michael Jordan.” *Said it straight face with eyes wide, still in shock.
@NoCodeLive oh wow! What is it called? Did Jordan green light the project? Was the actor who played him convincing? I saw Air...and thought it was probably smart to keep the Jordan character kinda hidden. After seeing that, I figured Mike hadn't officially green lighted any bio pics about himself. I saw an interview during the release of Air with Jordan saying he wasn't quite "ready" for a big bio pic about himself -- but someone already did one??? Now I'm gonna immediately go watch it!
im happy living on era of michael jordan and nba, mike tyson, michael jackson, michael schumacer, tiger woods, valentino rossi, messi, ronaldo, curt cobain..ive seen these legends alive ..
GOAT List: 1. Jordan S p a c e 2. 3. It's not even close. As Magic said = “There’s Michael Jordan... and then there’s (the rest of us) everyone else.” BTW, I have Kareem #2.
I have completely scratched my whole list and as I’m doing my own research instead of hear say I’m starting to be able to get a better list and it not just being from todays players
Yeah.. this legit . I got my Book too TIER ONE Jordan 23 TIER TWO Kareem Bird Russell Magic Kobe TIER 3 Moses Malone Shaq Duncan Lebron Curry KD The rest is.
It was genuinely so big of a gap between him and everyone else that there wasn't even a conversation rival for him. You would've been seen as an actual hater if you said anyone else was the goat back then.
their teams did sure, but MJ was cooking them individually, theres a reason Bird said "god disguised as MJ" and he also said "people like to say MJ didnt play a team game in the beginning, but he didnt have a team", if MJ had the same level team as Celtics and Lakers hes destroying them. he literally took them to two overtimes in that 63pt game.@@NoCodeLive
@@NoCodeLiveno they wasn’t,bird and magic teams were better than mjs team but the ENTIRE league feared mj,bird calls him god,magic never talk shit to mj and coaches warned players and fans not to piss him off lol
@NoCodeLive Individually? absolutely fucking not. 🤣 They simply had better teams in the 80s. Jordan was dropping 63 on Bird's forehead, and we literally saw what Jordan did to Magic when he got a team.
Bird mid 80’s & Magic late 80’s were definitely considered the Goat. Admittedly they had better teams and held MJ down till injuries & age weakened them. MJ didn’t beat Magic & Kareem together. Bird just had Bulls #. It was double 3-peats that made MJ the goat in my book. 80’s had too many great teams for repeat championships until Bad Boys.
He wore #45 because, during his 2 years of retirement, The Bulls retired his Jersey (#23) in Ceremonial Honor, and hung It in the rafters of the Arena. But shortly after he returned, he decided that he wanted his old number (#23) back.
OK! that's an automatic like and sub from me when you caught the backhand/lefthand block @13:52 its one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen someone do on a basketball court. if someone blocked me like that I would sub myself out of the game and take up pingpong and never play basketball again
He wore #45 because, during the 2 years he retired, they retired his Jersey (#23) in Ceremonial Honor, and hung It in the rafters of the Arena. But shortly after he returned, he decided that he wanted his old number back.
It's not a highlight package. Its just some clips from a normal Bulls game. You watched ever night to see what he'd do next, and he never disappointed.
45 was Jordan's number when he played baseball. When he returned to the NBA he was wearing 45. During his comeback he was a little bit inconsistent. Some times he was rusty, the next game he turned into "Air Jordan" again. In game 1 of the playoff series against the Orlando Magic the Bulls lost due to some very uncharacteristic back to back turnovers by Jordan in the last seconds of the game. People were shocked. To add insult to injury his old teammate Horace Grant who was playing for the Magic then scored the game winner. After the game Orlando SG Nick Anderson said something like "45 isn't like 23". The next game Jordan was wearing 23 again and killed the Magic (though the Magic won the series). It was against the rules to change numbers in the middle of a playoff series but what was the NBA supposed to do? If the GOAT wants to change his jersey number you can't really stop him. The playoff series against the Magic was also the first time Jordan was wearing the XIs. That was against the rules as well because his team mates were wearing all black shoes (which was custom for the Bulls in the playoffs) but the NBA didn't try to stop him from doing that either. I think he got fined for that. The funny thing is that during Jordan's comeback everyone wanted to have a 45 jersey. A year later they were a joke. 45 will always be connected with rusty Jordan who still scored 55 points against the Knicks.
That play where Jordan recovers and slaps the ball from Xavier Mcdonald's hand was not a foul then. This was before the elimination of hand checking so the hand handling the ball was considered part of the ball. In today's game, that play would've never happened because a foul would've been called multiple times before even getting to that point.
Jordan was a testament to hard work and dedication... resilience and routine! This man was cut the first time he tried out for basketball in highschool...he came back the next year...the rest is history of a true legend!
When he returned, he wore 45 for two reasons. First 23 was retired, 2nd he didn't want to wear 23 because his dad wasn't there anymore to see it. He returned to 23 because he never felt right in 45. Also 45l and 5 add up to 9, which was his brother's number
In an era of truly legit hall of famers.. Jordan was that guy that nobody could touch. Eben they will tell you that the guy was different. The greatest of all time
What made Mike unstoppable was 4.3 and 48 . One of the quickest first steps , then it gets worse 4.3 40 . He accelerates every step. 48 inch vertical. Within a foot of the paint it is over because he is airborne. Then add his superior skills. Goat
We used to go to ABA games back in the day. One night, Dr J and David Thompson came to town in an exhibition game which turned into a dunk-a-thon. MJ came to town in his last year as a Tarheel so we had to go see him too. Da goat.
Larry Bird is always my favorite and is in my top five for me but Mj is number 1 . He took the torch and ran with it .He didn't wear 23 because he knew because his father wasn't there to watch him and felt it was a new beginning and 45 was his first number when he was playing in high school. That's what Mj said when asked.magic bird and Mj changed the game of basketball and made it exciting.
@@NoCodeLive it so hard because Larry was such a complete player he made every team from high school on up a better team.there was one game in high school that he got 54 points and 38 rebounds. Can you just imagine seeing that game!
@@NoCodeLive don't get me wrong Larry is my personal goat but you can't take anything away from from all the new guys coming up for the 80s Larry is definitely the goat number 1.They should pick a goat from each era.
His father got killed during a carjacking prior to his comeback so he chose #45 as the new beginning. Once he played the rust off and saw that he was still dominant, he went back to #23.....I always hated that my hands weren't big enough to palm the ball like that.... The highlight showing Bird guarding Jordan was from the double overtime, 63-point "flu" game, if I'm not mistaken... Now you see why old heads will say he would average 50pts now
The backstory of Jordan wearing #45 Bulls jersey was the number was retired when he retired but he came back & the rest is history. You definitely need to check out Jordan Rare Voyager video.
23 was retired when he quit. He chose 45 for his father. But since he returned they took his jersey out of the rafters and put it back in play. Best I can remember it!
He told the story behind both 23 and 45 once before. However...what people don't remember is that Jordan was fined for switching from 45 to 23 because the Bulls had retired #23.
He wore 45 bc 23 was retired and hanging in the rafters of the united center. He wore 45 for about a month then paid a fine to wear 23 for the last 4 or 5 games of the 95 season.
The 98 Finals are the highest rated Finals, and overall the highest rated ANYTHING in Pro basketball history. The game he came back from retirement in 95 is the highest rated game of the previous 30 or 40 years. I read some shit on SI, where they interviewed people who worked in the pacer's stadium for that game and what they described was some next level, madness type shit of how celebs were losing their minds trying to get tickets, how like they had to process like 6,000-7,000 press credentials and basically had to tell like 99% of the press they can't make it as there was no room. Even royal families from around the world were trying to get tickets. What these people described happened that day, was some shit that no movie could touch, in out of this world crazy shit. Missed the first few years of MJ's career, but I recorded on VHS just about every Bulls game from 90 until the 98 finals. Another unbelievable stat is the bulls lost the first 3 games in a row to open the 90 season, they never lost 3 games in a row again until after MJ left the bulls. Almost a decade of basketball without losing that many in a row sounds like BS lol. No team has ever done that.
Bill Walton hall of fame center played originally for Portland and they won a championship. He was past prime w celtics but still won another title with them. In their first playoff meeting MJ scored 45. Larry said that will not happen again. The next games MJ went off and dropped 63 on them. After that game is when Bird told and interviewer when they asked why they couldnt stop MJ, and Bird said "that wasnt Michael Jordan that Was God."
I've seen lots of people talking about why he wore #45, so I won't say much on that because most of it has been covered. The real thing is why he chose #23 to begin with. Michael's brother, Larry, wore #45 in school, so Michael chose #23 because he said a long time ago in an interview that he wanted to be half as good as his brother. Ironically, since you can't divide 2 numbers evenly into 45, Michael chose #23. It is as close as he could get to half of 45. In the Olympics (he was in two), he chose the #9 also to honor his brother because 4+5 = 9, and they don't or didn't use large numbers on jerseys. Other people have already mentioned why he didn't immediately go back to #23. Back after he came back from retirement, Jordan also did an interview and said he wasn't sure he wanted to go back to #23 because that was the jersey number his dad last saw him play in, so he was having some conflict with that, but we all know what he ultimately decided.
45 is because of baseball and his father. Lucky for us baseball had a strike, so he.came back. Most powerful sports moment was his first championship back was won on fathers day...
1st TIME watching. Like yur vids, but for future references whn yur doing videos for MJ. Make the video yur showing bigger and yur screen smaller. First time watching MJ and I didn’t get to see everything.
10 SCORING TITLES and 9 1ST TEAM DEFENSES in 13 YRS..2 3PEATS..DPOY..AT THE GUARD POSITION can POST BETTER than a lot of CENTERS..BY THE WAY BIG as LEFLOP is he’s NEVER had a POST GAME😳6 TITLES with the WILL to MAKE SURE his team DIDNT LOSE or EVEN go to a GAME 7😳..Can u imagine winning 6 CHAMPIONSHIPS and NEVER went to a GAME 7😩😩JORDAN CAN😩
Meet the G.O.A.T of all G.O.A.Ts we call him Air Jordan, His Airness, Black Cat, Black Jesus, Flight 23, or simply the greatest basketball player in the history of the game. #23
Anyone who has seen Mike knows there is no debate. The only one on his level is Wilt because they are Aliens. Mike 4.3 40 . Wilt 4.4 . Both 48 inch vertical. Wilt 500 lbs bench press. Anyone who has seen Mike attack 7 ft 280 plus centers does not doubt his strength
React to "Scottie Pippen Retrospective". Jordan is my G.O.A.T. 1,000%, but you'll see why they're arguably the best duo in NBA history and why they have 6 rings.
@NoCodeLive Look up Derek Anderson comments on guarding 45. He said he could never guard 23. Jordan came back the next game after Derek made that comment with the number 23. Jordan had to pay a huge fine for un retiring his old number.
After the Bulls completed the first three peat, Michael Jordan retired. The Bulls retired his number 23. After he came back out of retirement, he was good but he wasn't the same player that he was when he wore the number 45. So Michael Jordan requested to reinstate the number 23.
Discussion has to be for second place, the distance between this alien and everybody else is just too big. Take a look at the voyager video, his defensive highlights, his passing highlights, his top 60 plays and a video called MJs best highlight video. Once you go down this rabbit hole there is no way back
I'm a Larry Bird fan but there are levels to this and MJ is on a level of his own... In my lifetime and I turn 50 years old this year I have never seen an athlete in any sport that would rip your heart out then put your heart back in your chest and stitch it up so he can rip it out again
When Jordan retired to play baseball, the Bulls retired his jersey number(23). So when he came back they told him he could wear it. When he would wear 23 during a game, he was getting fined. Rumor was that he just kept paying the fines till they got tired of fining him.
Michael Jordan switched back to #23 after Nick Anderson said 45 isn't 23. Only wore #45 only 23 games. Michael Jordan was considered the G.O.A.T, before even putting a NBA jersey on. Michael Jordan destroyed Team NBA in the Olympics on Team USA. Bobby Night also considered Michael Jordan the G.O.A.T. before he even put on a NBA jersey. I say and always will say Michael Jordan is and always will be the G.O.A.T
It was a couple of games when he came back and the reason was that his Father had been murdered and last saw him in #23 so he was reluctant to come back from a year and a half off from basketball and don 23
@@NoCodeLive To me what's important is for you young guys to expand your knowledge of the game so you can speak from a place of logic and not feelings. So continue learning and you will find us "Old Heads" will listen to your arguments, because they're coming from your intellect and not your emotions☺
Jordan's number got retired after his first retirement after the first 3Peat. So he couldn't wear 23 when he came back the first season. He is the only athlete I can think of who was playing with his number in the rafters and a statue in front of the arena of him. The bulls thought he was never coming back so they built a statue right away 😂
No. That's not right. At all. He could have worn 23 when he came back. They didn't uretire it when he switched back to 23. It was still up in the rafters when he switched back. The 45 story is because of his father. He wore 45 during little league baseball through high school baseball. When he finally made the HS basketball team, (he got cut during tryouts his sophomore year) he was given 45. When he came back after baseball he chose 45 because it was the first time in his life that he played a game and his father wasn't there. Since his father wasn't going to be there for the end of his career, he wanted to wear the number he wore at the very beginning. He eventually went back to 23 because like most other star athletes, he was a little superstitious and he just wasn't comfortable in 45. Here's the direct quote from episode 4 of The Last Dance... “I didn’t want to wear 23 because I knew my father wasn’t there to watch me, and I felt it was a new beginning and 45 was my first number when I was playing in high school. I was nervous because I hadn't played competitive in a long time, and I just felt naked because my father wasn't there. It just seemed so different."
@ryane5483 He couldn't have worn it without unretiring the number first, which takes a season to do. He got fined for switching to 23 in the middle of the playoffs. It's not a super simple process to just un retire a jersey number.
@@whenisdinner2137 So, he's lying? Every interview he's ever given regarding why he switched is a lie? I've been going to Bulls games for more than 40 years. Since before anybody even knew who Jordan was. I can tell you every Bulls retired number and every player who wore a retired number after it was retired. You can also actually look it up. Or you can use common sense. How can a team fine a player for wearing a number if the team is the one who gave him the number? The NBA does not retire numbers. Individual teams retire numbers. Individual teams decide whether or not a player can wear a retired number. If the retired player gives the team the ok, the team will allow it. They retired Pippens jersey, and when he came back to finish his career with the Bulls, he wore 33 even though it was retired. The greatest Bull before Michael Jordan was Bob Love. His jersey #10 was retired. They drafted BJ Armstrong and he asked if he could have 10, Bob Love ok'd it and BJ Armstrong wore 10, which was hanging in the rafters for his whole career. Terry Cummings has his #34 retired by the Milwaukee Bucks. Giannis wears #34. Jason Tatum wears the same number as Robert Parrish did, and it's hanging up in Boston. Carmelo Anthony is right now beefing with the Nuggets because nobody in the Nuggets front office asked him if he would be cool with Jokic wearing #15. It's a little different now because of licensing for 2k games and whatnot, but you can wear retired numbers. Back then you just had to ask, today you have to file paperwork.
They had retired the # 23 after he retired so when he came back he had 45 but after 1or 3 games he went back to # 23. The NBA fined him $25,000 for wearing the # 23 because you are not allowed to wear a retired number. Michael didn’t care. GOAT
After his dad was k***ed he retired, went and played baseball for a couple of years. During that time Chicago retired #23 with a full ceremony & hung it from the rafters. When he came back he was #45 until they took it out of retirement. It's never happened before or since so I'm not sure the process of getting it back, but it was more than just taking it down. If memory serves he got it back a little less than a year later, but I'm not 💯 on that. It was a long time ago.😂
NCAA championship, 2 time ncaa player of the year, NBA rookie of the year, 6- 0 in finals championships w/ 2- three peats in 8 yrs. and only reason it wasn't 8 in a row,he played baseball 1 yr 1/2, never had to play a game 7, 6- Finals MVP, 5- regular season MVP, defensive player of the year titles, 10- scoring titles, 3- steal titles, rookie year all star invite, 3- ALL star MVP, 2- slam dunk titles, 2- olympic gold medals championships, hardest worker in the game, no weaknesses, most clutch and buzzer beaters when games on the line, etc,etc,etc...all what lebron wishes he'll be when he grows up. LeBron's been in twice as long as Jordan and still hasn't come close to his accomplishments....the dude was a cheat code and would average 40 in today's watered down version of NBA ....what is the debate
Jordan earned respect was feared. He played for his team and the crowd. He didn.t ask for goat status He legitimately earned the title of the GOAT
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No doubt@@NoCodeLive
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Larry legend fan, but MJ is the goat.Period
I think there can be more than one goat … Right ? 🤷🏽♂️
@@NoCodeLivethen it would be the greatests of all time
@@NoCodeLiveLarry bird is the best small forward ever in my opinion
@@eazymoneymane7789 I agree, he's just not on MJ's level.
Larry Bird is my all time favorite player, but MJ is the greatest of all time.
I was born in 1978 & lived through the Jordan Era. After his '88 & '89 seasons, it was obvious how talented he was. After the first 3 peat, he was the best that anyone alive had seen. After the second 2 peat, there were no words. If I'm remembering right, the 45 Era was due to his number 23 being retired. There was a process to 'unretire' it, so he wore 45 while that happened. I wish I would have bought one of the 45 jerseys b/c they would be worth alot now.
The Original 45 jersey gotta be some bank 💰 but yea seeing him before the come up had to be like this kid is about to be great vibes.
I was born in 78, too, lol
I think he wore 45 when he played baseball as a youngster
He also had to pay, I think $10 or 20,000 to bring it down from the rafters.
The league fined him when he switched back to 23, probably because a lot of stores had 45 jerseys that couldn’t sell anymore.
Mj will always be the goat. It's hard to accept or realize that if you didn't watch him night in and out. Total game domination
Seee you get me an I’m learning so bare with me
@NoCodeLive I don't blame you, most people that didn't get a chance to watch him can't put it into perspective. It's not about rings and stats, he's just the greatest to ever touch a basketball period.
@NoCodeLive jordan really was way above everyone else and he beat my pacers every year and it always made me mad but I have never seen a player like him...all the fundamentals with power and finesse and could literally do everything....lebron being compared to him is disrespectful as fuck
Jordan had no weaknesses in his game. He played during the golden age of basketball. He made everything look easy. He gave basketball international recognition. Everyone knew Jordan even if you didn’t know basketball. His competitiveness, fire & playmaking ability all of these things make him the 1 & only GOAT
I grew up in Chicago watching this team play. Some of the best basketball years for me. I miss those days
I feel like back then basketball was so much more entertaining
@@NoCodeLive it definitely was. Chicago is a busy city but back then when the Bulls were playing in the playoffs the streets were empty. I remember celebrating each championship. We would be out all night.
@@Lanetta402 Like Manny Pacquiao crime rates drops near Zero. That's legend there.
MY GOAT FOREVER 💫🌟💫🌟
I like bird & magic too. But MJ is my 4ever GOAT!❤️
They def don’t have nothing on his shoe game tho 🤣🤣
Us old heads love his game because his defense was just as hard!
He had em locked up for sure 🐐
I saw him going left and finishing a lot with his left on here. You can be done with the 90s but Jordan was playing in the 2000s on the Wizards too. One more thing also, you don’t give yourself a nickname. People give you a nickname. Lebron said he was the goat. Jordan never hand too. Just something to think about.
Walter Payton said ‘if you’re good you tell people but if you’re great people tell you!’
@@TrojanRabbit521 I like that
Jordan def earned that name for sure
Great reaction..
Larry Legend fan here..
BUT...wow.
Jordan was UNREAL
Facts Jordan secured the him card
@@NoCodeLive I know .but 0-6 against Larry Legend..
Larry Legend after Jordan's still record 63pt playoff game vs C's: "That wasn't Michael Jordan out there. That was God disguised as Michael Jordan.”
*Said it straight face with eyes wide, still in shock.
I gotta go find that game cuz that’s a big statement. An you standing in business
It would be hard to make an MJ movie... I feel like it would be hard to find someone who could be capture that Jordan swagger convincingly.
They did make one it’s like a low budget movie kinda but it was coo
@NoCodeLive oh wow! What is it called? Did Jordan green light the project? Was the actor who played him convincing?
I saw Air...and thought it was probably smart to keep the Jordan character kinda hidden. After seeing that, I figured Mike hadn't officially green lighted any bio pics about himself. I saw an interview during the release of Air with Jordan saying he wasn't quite "ready" for a big bio pic about himself -- but someone already did one??? Now I'm gonna immediately go watch it!
He's the best without a doubt.
I don’t disagree at all
im happy living on era of michael jordan and nba, mike tyson, michael jackson, michael schumacer, tiger woods, valentino rossi, messi, ronaldo, curt cobain..ive seen these legends alive ..
W era ! What a time to be alive truly !
GOAT List:
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It's not even close. As Magic said = “There’s Michael Jordan... and then there’s (the rest of us) everyone else.”
BTW, I have Kareem #2.
I have completely scratched my whole list and as I’m doing my own research instead of hear say I’m starting to be able to get a better list and it not just being from todays players
Yeah.. this legit .
I got my Book too
TIER ONE
Jordan 23
TIER TWO
Kareem
Bird
Russell
Magic
Kobe
TIER 3
Moses Malone
Shaq
Duncan
Lebron
Curry
KD
The rest is.
@@inf4mousvloglife1572 -- My Tier List is almost Identical. I just replace M.Malone with Wilt, and KD with Hakeem.
@@MasterSpade Basically I forgot Wilt, but definitely his there in 3 tier and Hakeem is there too .
@@inf4mousvloglife15721) mj
2)wilt
3) Kobe
4) Hakeem
5)bird
6) magic
7) Kareem
8) Russell
9)Shaq
10) LeBron
It was genuinely so big of a gap between him and everyone else that there wasn't even a conversation rival for him. You would've been seen as an actual hater if you said anyone else was the goat back then.
I mean you don’t think magic a bird gave him problems ?
their teams did sure, but MJ was cooking them individually, theres a reason Bird said "god disguised as MJ" and he also said "people like to say MJ didnt play a team game in the beginning, but he didnt have a team", if MJ had the same level team as Celtics and Lakers hes destroying them. he literally took them to two overtimes in that 63pt game.@@NoCodeLive
@@NoCodeLiveno they wasn’t,bird and magic teams were better than mjs team but the ENTIRE league feared mj,bird calls him god,magic never talk shit to mj and coaches warned players and fans not to piss him off lol
@NoCodeLive Individually? absolutely fucking not. 🤣
They simply had better teams in the 80s. Jordan was dropping 63 on Bird's forehead, and we literally saw what Jordan did to Magic when he got a team.
Bird mid 80’s & Magic late 80’s were definitely considered the Goat. Admittedly they had better teams and held MJ down till injuries & age weakened them. MJ didn’t beat Magic & Kareem together. Bird just had Bulls #. It was double 3-peats that made MJ the goat in my book. 80’s had too many great teams for repeat championships until Bad Boys.
He wore #45 because, during his 2 years of retirement, The Bulls retired his Jersey (#23) in Ceremonial Honor, and hung It in the rafters of the Arena. But shortly after he returned, he decided that he wanted his old number (#23) back.
MJ just moved different.
MJ all day.
OK!
that's an automatic like and sub from me when you caught the backhand/lefthand block @13:52 its one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen someone do on a basketball court. if someone blocked me like that I would sub myself out of the game and take up pingpong and never play basketball again
Michael jordan voyager is the one to watch..rare footage..great music!
Dude this legend always makes me emotional he’s an artist in motion. He’s absolutely from the heavens
Nahh facts ❤️
He wore #45 because, during the 2 years he retired, they retired his Jersey (#23) in Ceremonial Honor, and hung It in the rafters of the Arena. But shortly after he returned, he decided that he wanted his old number back.
Yup and he took 45 cuz that was his old baseball jersey number when he was young
It's not a highlight package. Its just some clips from a normal Bulls game. You watched ever night to see what he'd do next, and he never disappointed.
All done with hand checking and no defensive 3 seconds. Which makes it even more incredible
45 was Jordan's number when he played baseball. When he returned to the NBA he was wearing 45. During his comeback he was a little bit inconsistent. Some times he was rusty, the next game he turned into "Air Jordan" again. In game 1 of the playoff series against the Orlando Magic the Bulls lost due to some very uncharacteristic back to back turnovers by Jordan in the last seconds of the game. People were shocked. To add insult to injury his old teammate Horace Grant who was playing for the Magic then scored the game winner. After the game Orlando SG Nick Anderson said something like "45 isn't like 23". The next game Jordan was wearing 23 again and killed the Magic (though the Magic won the series). It was against the rules to change numbers in the middle of a playoff series but what was the NBA supposed to do? If the GOAT wants to change his jersey number you can't really stop him. The playoff series against the Magic was also the first time Jordan was wearing the XIs. That was against the rules as well because his team mates were wearing all black shoes (which was custom for the Bulls in the playoffs) but the NBA didn't try to stop him from doing that either. I think he got fined for that. The funny thing is that during Jordan's comeback everyone wanted to have a 45 jersey. A year later they were a joke. 45 will always be connected with rusty Jordan who still scored 55 points against the Knicks.
That play where Jordan recovers and slaps the ball from Xavier Mcdonald's hand was not a foul then. This was before the elimination of hand checking so the hand handling the ball was considered part of the ball. In today's game, that play would've never happened because a foul would've been called multiple times before even getting to that point.
Okay see my understanding of the game back then isn’t all the way there so that makes a lot of sense . Thank you for explaining that 🤞🏽❤️
Jordan was a testament to hard work and dedication... resilience and routine! This man was cut the first time he tried out for basketball in highschool...he came back the next year...the rest is history of a true legend!
When he returned, he wore 45 for two reasons. First 23 was retired, 2nd he didn't want to wear 23 because his dad wasn't there anymore to see it. He returned to 23 because he never felt right in 45. Also 45l and 5 add up to 9, which was his brother's number
Mj 23 only way I see it
He wore 45 cuz that was his old baseball jersey number from his young days.
Thee GOAT, no 2 ways about it.
Himothy 🙆🏽♂️🐐
The more tongue you saw the greater athletic move was about to happen. If he played today his tongue would be a social media star.
That’s a fact 🤣🤣🤣🤞🏽❤️🐐
He changed his number after his dad got murdered. He wore 45 since that was his number in High School.
Fire backstory 🤞🏽❤️🔥
21 years and “4” rings isn’t enough to get you into the goat convo .lebron is passing records not breaking them
Wait break down this comment for me.
In an era of truly legit hall of famers.. Jordan was that guy that nobody could touch. Eben they will tell you that the guy was different. The greatest of all time
They all knew he was better than they were. He'll Charles even admitted it
Nobody had those hands. His ability to palm the ball at any time …
That was always so dope to me how he could do that 🙆🏽♂️
23 was retired, so he used a different number when he came back. Plus, I think he didn't want to use the same number as when his dad was alive
What made Mike unstoppable was 4.3 and 48 . One of the quickest first steps , then it gets worse 4.3 40 . He accelerates every step. 48 inch vertical. Within a foot of the paint it is over because he is airborne. Then add his superior skills. Goat
We used to go to ABA games back in the day. One night, Dr J and David Thompson came to town in an exhibition game which turned into a dunk-a-thon. MJ came to town in his last year as a Tarheel so we had to go see him too. Da goat.
Wow, you lucky to see them. Amazing.
"Go daddy, go daddy.
Go uncle Pippen.
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Uncle Pippen 🤷?
What happened?"
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🤣🤣🤣 Yo this got me weak 🙆🏽♂️
I must have watched this thing 20 times now and each time towards the end I want to hit pause as if to stop time.
Larry Bird is always my favorite and is in my top five for me but Mj is number 1 . He took the torch and ran with it .He didn't wear 23 because he knew because his father wasn't there to watch him and felt it was a new beginning and 45 was his first number when he was playing in high school. That's what Mj said when asked.magic bird and Mj changed the game of basketball and made it exciting.
Yea MJ is def at the top of my list but overall I still can’t tell who got the number one spot !
@@NoCodeLive it so hard because Larry was such a complete player he made every team from high school on up a better team.there was one game in high school that he got 54 points and 38 rebounds. Can you just imagine seeing that game!
@@NoCodeLive don't get me wrong Larry is my personal goat but you can't take anything away from from all the new guys coming up for the 80s Larry is definitely the goat number 1.They should pick a goat from each era.
@@DeborahBuffington an this is what I argree with everyone has their own time in the game and mj , larry , kobe, and lebron all got their own time
@@NoCodeLiveif u cnt tell then I’m sorry p,u may be slightly retarded
His father got killed during a carjacking prior to his comeback so he chose #45 as the new beginning. Once he played the rust off and saw that he was still dominant, he went back to #23.....I always hated that my hands weren't big enough to palm the ball like that.... The highlight showing Bird guarding Jordan was from the double overtime, 63-point "flu" game, if I'm not mistaken... Now you see why old heads will say he would average 50pts now
The backstory of Jordan wearing #45 Bulls jersey was the number was retired when he retired but he came back & the rest is history. You definitely need to check out Jordan Rare Voyager video.
Must watch !
23 was retired when he quit. He chose 45 for his father. But since he returned they took his jersey out of the rafters and put it back in play. Best I can remember it!
Phil Jackson once said that MJ's most underrated gift was his hands. You talk about how he can palm that ball so easily, MJ has some mitts
Nahh facts
He told the story behind both 23 and 45 once before. However...what people don't remember is that Jordan was fined for switching from 45 to 23 because the Bulls had retired #23.
I got Larry Legend #2 ,
Jordan of course is the GOAT he's, #1 on a whole other level.
Nahh he def unmatched but Larry up there for sure in standing on it 🤞🏽❤️
23 had been retired by the Bulls, so when he came back, he couldn't use 23 yet.
He wore 45 bc 23 was retired and hanging in the rafters of the united center. He wore 45 for about a month then paid a fine to wear 23 for the last 4 or 5 games of the 95 season.
The goat forever timeless
The 98 Finals are the highest rated Finals, and overall the highest rated ANYTHING in Pro basketball history. The game he came back from retirement in 95 is the highest rated game of the previous 30 or 40 years. I read some shit on SI, where they interviewed people who worked in the pacer's stadium for that game and what they described was some next level, madness type shit of how celebs were losing their minds trying to get tickets, how like they had to process like 6,000-7,000 press credentials and basically had to tell like 99% of the press they can't make it as there was no room. Even royal families from around the world were trying to get tickets. What these people described happened that day, was some shit that no movie could touch, in out of this world crazy shit. Missed the first few years of MJ's career, but I recorded on VHS just about every Bulls game from 90 until the 98 finals.
Another unbelievable stat is the bulls lost the first 3 games in a row to open the 90 season, they never lost 3 games in a row again until after MJ left the bulls. Almost a decade of basketball without losing that many in a row sounds like BS lol. No team has ever done that.
45 was his original number growing up but he got to Chicago someone had 45 so he went half plus one 23 ... The rest is history!!
That’s a dope ass backstory …
So MJ many many times live he's the GOAT!
🐐🐐 for sure
Bill Walton hall of fame center played originally for Portland and they won a championship. He was past prime w celtics but still won another title with them. In their first playoff meeting MJ scored 45. Larry said that will not happen again. The next games MJ went off and dropped 63 on them. After that game is when Bird told and interviewer when they asked why they couldnt stop MJ, and Bird said "that wasnt Michael Jordan that Was God."
I've seen lots of people talking about why he wore #45, so I won't say much on that because most of it has been covered. The real thing is why he chose #23 to begin with. Michael's brother, Larry, wore #45 in school, so Michael chose #23 because he said a long time ago in an interview that he wanted to be half as good as his brother. Ironically, since you can't divide 2 numbers evenly into 45, Michael chose #23. It is as close as he could get to half of 45. In the Olympics (he was in two), he chose the #9 also to honor his brother because 4+5 = 9, and they don't or didn't use large numbers on jerseys. Other people have already mentioned why he didn't immediately go back to #23. Back after he came back from retirement, Jordan also did an interview and said he wasn't sure he wanted to go back to #23 because that was the jersey number his dad last saw him play in, so he was having some conflict with that, but we all know what he ultimately decided.
See this is different an awesome he looked up to his brother in this light
45 is because of baseball and his father. Lucky for us baseball had a strike, so he.came back. Most powerful sports moment was his first championship back was won on fathers day...
1st TIME watching. Like yur vids, but for future references whn yur doing videos for MJ. Make the video yur showing bigger and yur screen smaller. First time watching MJ and I didn’t get to see everything.
I’ll make it bigger but I like to keep my reactions the focal point 🙆🏽♂️🤞🏽❤️
45 was his childhood baseball ⚾️ number
10 SCORING TITLES and 9 1ST TEAM DEFENSES in 13 YRS..2 3PEATS..DPOY..AT THE GUARD POSITION can POST BETTER than a lot of CENTERS..BY THE WAY BIG as LEFLOP is he’s NEVER had a POST GAME😳6 TITLES with the WILL to MAKE SURE his team DIDNT LOSE or EVEN go to a GAME 7😳..Can u imagine winning 6 CHAMPIONSHIPS and NEVER went to a GAME 7😩😩JORDAN CAN😩
Went crazy his whole career never let off the gas 🙆🏽♂️🐐🐐🐐
Meet the G.O.A.T of all G.O.A.Ts we call him Air Jordan, His Airness, Black Cat, Black Jesus, Flight 23, or simply the greatest basketball player in the history of the game. #23
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He said 23 was the last jersey his father saw him play in and 45 was his little league baseball jersey if I'm not mistaken.
I understand his reasoning but 23 was him he was 23
I just don't understand why there is a debate, knock it off
knock it on
Larry Legend
W Larry
Give it up to the goat michael Jeffrey jordan
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Anyone who has seen Mike knows there is no debate. The only one on his level is Wilt because they are Aliens. Mike 4.3 40 . Wilt 4.4 . Both 48 inch vertical. Wilt 500 lbs bench press. Anyone who has seen Mike attack 7 ft 280 plus centers does not doubt his strength
React to "Scottie Pippen Retrospective". Jordan is my G.O.A.T. 1,000%, but you'll see why they're arguably the best duo in NBA history and why they have 6 rings.
@NoCodeLive Look up Derek Anderson comments on guarding 45. He said he could never guard 23. Jordan came back the next game after Derek made that comment with the number 23. Jordan had to pay a huge fine for un retiring his old number.
You have seen this before I can tell. Whatever Michael Jordan is the best player of all time. He’s really him.
Nahh hahaha I haven’t seen this before
After the Bulls completed the first three peat, Michael Jordan retired. The Bulls retired his number 23. After he came back out of retirement, he was good but he wasn't the same player that he was when he wore the number 45. So Michael Jordan requested to reinstate the number 23.
#23 was retired, and the last time his father seen him play. #45 was his baseball number in elementary baseball.
Apparently Larsa Pippen was also w a young dude that Scotty Jr is teammates with rn. 😳ScandalousSkeezer
She a wild girl!
23 was retired when he left for baseball when he came back he wore 45 until they could un-retire #23
Jordan is the true g.o.a.t for a reason.
Discussion has to be for second place, the distance between this alien and everybody else is just too big.
Take a look at the voyager video, his defensive highlights, his passing highlights, his top 60 plays and a video called MJs best highlight video. Once you go down this rabbit hole there is no way back
I gotchu 🤞🏽❤️
Real reason he wore 45 was because his dad last saw him play in 23. He wanted to start a new era with his old high school number
I'm a Larry Bird fan but there are levels to this and MJ is on a level of his own... In my lifetime and I turn 50 years old this year I have never seen an athlete in any sport that would rip your heart out then put your heart back in your chest and stitch it up so he can rip it out again
Huge kobe fan my favorite player of all time across all sports but mj is the goat
You got me there 💪🏽🐐🐐🤞🏽❤️
When Jordan retired to play baseball, the Bulls retired his jersey number(23). So when he came back they told him he could wear it. When he would wear 23 during a game, he was getting fined. Rumor was that he just kept paying the fines till they got tired of fining him.
Getting tired of fining him is crazy they woulda just kept getting paid . 🤣🤣
The Bulls actually retired Michael's 23 not knowing he would return. They had to unretire the number so he could wear it again.
Ahh that makes sense !
GOAT
4+5=9 his Dream Team number.
Michael Jordan switched back to #23 after Nick Anderson said 45 isn't 23. Only wore #45 only 23 games. Michael Jordan was considered the G.O.A.T, before even putting a NBA jersey on. Michael Jordan destroyed Team NBA in the Olympics on Team USA. Bobby Night also considered Michael Jordan the G.O.A.T. before he even put on a NBA jersey. I say and always will say Michael Jordan is and always will be the G.O.A.T
You youngsters crack me up!
GOAT 🐐 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
THE ONLY GOAT
It was a couple of games when he came back and the reason was that his Father had been murdered and last saw him in #23 so he was reluctant to come back from a year and a half off from basketball and don 23
I remember watching the Michael Jordan movie as a kid and seeing that but never knew why thank you for that ❤️🤞🏽
@@NoCodeLive To me what's important is for you young guys to expand your knowledge of the game so you can speak from a place of logic and not feelings. So continue learning and you will find us "Old Heads" will listen to your arguments, because they're coming from your intellect and not your emotions☺
Jordan's number got retired after his first retirement after the first 3Peat. So he couldn't wear 23 when he came back the first season.
He is the only athlete I can think of who was playing with his number in the rafters and a statue in front of the arena of him. The bulls thought he was never coming back so they built a statue right away 😂
🤣🤣 that’s legendary status right there completely unheard of … walking into work an seeing your status is insane
No. That's not right. At all. He could have worn 23 when he came back. They didn't uretire it when he switched back to 23. It was still up in the rafters when he switched back. The 45 story is because of his father. He wore 45 during little league baseball through high school baseball. When he finally made the HS basketball team, (he got cut during tryouts his sophomore year) he was given 45. When he came back after baseball he chose 45 because it was the first time in his life that he played a game and his father wasn't there. Since his father wasn't going to be there for the end of his career, he wanted to wear the number he wore at the very beginning. He eventually went back to 23 because like most other star athletes, he was a little superstitious and he just wasn't comfortable in 45. Here's the direct quote from episode 4 of The Last Dance...
“I didn’t want to wear 23 because I knew my father wasn’t there to watch me, and I felt it was a new beginning and 45 was my first number when I was playing in high school. I was nervous because I hadn't played competitive in a long time, and I just felt naked because my father wasn't there. It just seemed so different."
@@ryane5483 that was very informative thank you for that!
@ryane5483 He couldn't have worn it without unretiring the number first, which takes a season to do. He got fined for switching to 23 in the middle of the playoffs. It's not a super simple process to just un retire a jersey number.
@@whenisdinner2137
So, he's lying? Every interview he's ever given regarding why he switched is a lie? I've been going to Bulls games for more than 40 years. Since before anybody even knew who Jordan was. I can tell you every Bulls retired number and every player who wore a retired number after it was retired. You can also actually look it up. Or you can use common sense. How can a team fine a player for wearing a number if the team is the one who gave him the number? The NBA does not retire numbers. Individual teams retire numbers. Individual teams decide whether or not a player can wear a retired number. If the retired player gives the team the ok, the team will allow it. They retired Pippens jersey, and when he came back to finish his career with the Bulls, he wore 33 even though it was retired. The greatest Bull before Michael Jordan was Bob Love. His jersey #10 was retired. They drafted BJ Armstrong and he asked if he could have 10, Bob Love ok'd it and BJ Armstrong wore 10, which was hanging in the rafters for his whole career. Terry Cummings has his #34 retired by the Milwaukee Bucks. Giannis wears #34. Jason Tatum wears the same number as Robert Parrish did, and it's hanging up in Boston. Carmelo Anthony is right now beefing with the Nuggets because nobody in the Nuggets front office asked him if he would be cool with Jokic wearing #15. It's a little different now because of licensing for 2k games and whatnot, but you can wear retired numbers. Back then you just had to ask, today you have to file paperwork.
They had retired the # 23 after he retired so when he came back he had 45 but after 1or 3 games he went back to # 23. The NBA fined him $25,000 for wearing the # 23 because you are not allowed to wear a retired number. Michael didn’t care. GOAT
He switched to 45 after his Dad died. After 22 games, he went back to 23
It was because Nick Anderson said 45 ain't 23
Wore #45 because when he came back from his first retirement Chicago had retired #23.
23 to 45: bulls retired 23. He couldn’t use it. Even then when he went back to 23, the bulls paid the fine because 23 has been retired.
Makes sense !
Thank you for clearing that up 🤞🏽
I still remember Steve Kerr hitting last last shot of the 97 finals n I was just 10
#45 for his Dad.????
Idk?
After his dad was k***ed he retired, went and played baseball for a couple of years. During that time Chicago retired #23 with a full ceremony & hung it from the rafters. When he came back he was #45 until they took it out of retirement. It's never happened before or since so I'm not sure the process of getting it back, but it was more than just taking it down. If memory serves he got it back a little less than a year later, but I'm not 💯 on that. It was a long time ago.😂
Now check out Michael Jordan’s Best Rare Videos (Voyager) 1 & 2
I just dropped the video of part 1
My Top Three Players of all time are #1 Michael Jordan #2 Larry Bird #3 Magic Johnson.
Not a bad 3 at all
He wore 45 because they retired the 23 but he decided to wear it again even though he wasn't supposed to because of league rules.
It was Mjs league he did what he wanted when he wanted they really couldn’t say no to him for long
Great reaction. Check out Jordan "one of the best defenders ever "
Got it Scheduled to drop tomorrow at 8pm est tomorrow
@@NoCodeLive : Right on
NCAA championship, 2 time ncaa player of the year, NBA rookie of the year, 6- 0 in finals championships w/ 2- three peats in 8 yrs. and only reason it wasn't 8 in a row,he played baseball 1 yr 1/2, never had to play a game 7, 6- Finals MVP, 5- regular season MVP, defensive player of the year titles, 10- scoring titles, 3- steal titles, rookie year all star invite, 3- ALL star MVP, 2- slam dunk titles, 2- olympic gold medals championships, hardest worker in the game, no weaknesses, most clutch and buzzer beaters when games on the line, etc,etc,etc...all what lebron wishes he'll be when he grows up. LeBron's been in twice as long as Jordan and still hasn't come close to his accomplishments....the dude was a cheat code and would average 40 in today's watered down version of NBA ....what is the debate
Accolades going crazy
When the Bulls retired his #23 jersey the NBA required that it stay retired for a certain amount of time before they would allow him to have it back.