Salley is right; people talking about how everything is fixed by the powers at be for this and that player (LeBron, Kobe,...) to win titles but exactly the same happened back then with Jordan. The guy was marketed to be a superstar and he got his ass handed to him by the not-glamorous-enough Pistons. By the time he won his first ring, he was the most protected player ever, he could do anything and Basketball had become a game for pussies. There's more contact at Jewish Orthodox weddings then in this sport thanks to him. Fuck, the Conference Finals in 93 against the Knicks was embarrassing, thank God the refs made it sure the Bulls didn't lose their title.
Complete BS, Jordan came in to the league in 84, missed practically a whole season breaking his ankle, his team fucking blew until 88 when they got Grant and Pippen as rookies.They should have won the title in 1990 but the whole team APART from Jordan decided not to show up in Game 7, with the rest of the team going something like 7-40 from the field.
The next year with the exact same Pistons lineup and Jordan finally having a more mature supporting cast they swept the Pistons in 4 games and went on to win the title, and this is with Daley still using the Jordan rules which meant they tried to force Jordan left every play and double or triple him, and were told any-time he left his feet to try to get to the rim to take him down.He dethroned the champs.
Sure Jordan shot bad in the 93 series against the Knicks, but he didnt play bad, he realised his shot was off because of a wrist injury and did other things to help his team, he came through when it mattered.The fact you bring up one series as embarrassing and only one is a testament to how good he was, he was always the best player on the floor in a series, always had the highest ppg, never lost in an nba finals, never lost to a team with equal or worse record, never lost with homecourt.
Its well known Salley has an axe to grind with Jordan, he's always making stupid comments, more than likely Jordan treated him like the scrub he was when he was at the bulls.Also Salley is trying to make himself relevant and heard in the media, and no better way to do this than say outlandish things, heres Salley saying Jordan is the best ever in another interview.
