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Michael Jordan
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Born: 02/17/63
Height: 6-6 / 1.98
Weight:216 lbs. / 98 kg.
Earnings: $86,760,000 ($176,269,876*)
Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander reached 20 points Friday night against the Houston Rockets for the 70th straight game, moving past Michael Jordan for the fourth-longest single-season streak in NBA history. Gilgeous-Alexander made 1 of 2 free throws at the end of the third quarter to give him 20 points and eclipse the 69-game streak Jordan had in 1990-91 and become the first player to have a 70-game streak since the 1960s. He finished with 22 points in the Thunder’s 125-111 loss to the Rockets, the No. 2 team behind OKC in the Western Conference, as Oklahoma City’s win streak ended at 11. Wilt Chamberlain tops the list with 80-game streaks in both the 1961-62 and 1963-64 seasons. Oscar Robertson is third with a 76-game streak in 1963-64.
15 hours ago via ESPN
Pablo Torre: What I did was confirm with multiple sources that Diana Taurasi never saw LeBron James at the memorial that day. So this person held up as the proof did not see LeBron that day. So claim number two: That LeBron James was there but he chose to be left off camera. And what we did was we talked to a lead producer on the memorial, a longtime award show producer named Ron Basile. He helped coordinate everything from Beyonce’s 6:40 a.m soundcheck to Michael Jordan’s eulogy and the producer told us when we asked him about any directive from LeBron James about having him on camera, quote: “The off-camerara thing is bullsh*t.” End quote. And so I want to be careful here but he wasn’t stage left. He wasn’t off camera, and we can further tell you that according to two additional independent high-level sources involved in the planning of this whole event, who were in attendance, what they tell us here at Pablo Finds Out is that they did not see LeBron in the building. They don’t know of a single person who did see him in the building. And one of the people who did not see LeBron at all that day was in fact Lakers owner Jeanie Buss. So as one of the sources who spent that morning in the events VIP areas says of LeBron quote “There’s no f*cking way he was there. If he was there he was Casper the Ghost.” End quote.
1 day ago via YouTube

Gilbert Arenas: I dropped 41 on Michael Jordan

Gilbert Arenas: When I played against him in the NBA — it’s Jordan. So, for the most part, you’re admiring him as a young fan. But you’re also trying to show him that you belong, too. So, you know — I dropped 41 on him. Dan Patrick: — ‘Do you think he remembers that as well as you remember it?’ Gilbert Arenas: Yeah. No — yeah, he remembers it. Because, you know, I was a Jordan Camp kid. I was a counselor. I was performing very well then too. So when I got to the NBA, I used to talk a bunch of trash about how I did him. And he said, ‘This is the big league — nothing changed.’

Dan Patrick: Mike — and a lot of great players, former players — have a hard time assessing other players because their standards are so high. Gilbert Arenas: It’s the standard, but it’s also the delusion of what makes you great, right? Someone like Jordan, he thinks he’s great — or he was great — because of his fundamentals of the game, right? He doesn’t consider the raw athleticism that he had: the big hands, the 40-something-inch vertical, the fast twitch. He doesn’t consider that. So he looks at what made him the greatest of all time — not what he came into the environment with. You already had a Bugatti engine, and then you tweaked it for every terrain. He’s buying Hondas — drafting Hondas — thinking he can turn them into Bugattis. Like, no. It’s a little bit of the delusion — that he came into the world with the Bugatti already.”
The Last Dance documentary gave fans a glimpse into the ‘98 All-Star Game locker room, where Michael Jordan famously spoke about a young Kobe Bryant. But as Jayson explained, there was more to the story. “Well, you know Michael is the loudest one in the room, right? He was coming in there letting us all know he wasn’t going to take the ball out because in the All-Star Game, when you take the ball out, you don’t get it back. He was just saying, ‘I want the ball and I want it every time!’ He was looking to create an enemy on the court so he could go out there and do what he’s gotta do. He’s MJ, baby! He’s the best who ever did it. You agree with that, right?”