Vernon Maxwell recently discussed a general story about Michael Jordan.
Jordan is undoubtedly the best player of his generation, perhaps the best player of all time, winning six championships from six NBA final appearances in the 1990s.
He repeatedly prevented other great teams from winning titles, like the Utah Jazz with John Stockton and Carl Malone.
The only team that succeeded at Jordan’s Prime was the Houston Rockets, and Maxwell was talking about them.
Maxwell won two championships with the Houston Rockets (1994 and 1995), led by Haique am Olajuwon of the Hall of Fame Center.
And the shooting guards told Burns and Jackson that they knew the Rockets would win the title in ’94 as training camp before the season began.
“In 93/94, we knew we were going to win the championship. We started the year like 23-1 or that kind of year,” he explained.
“We knew it was a special year. We went into training camp knowing it was a special team and we had a big African in the middle.”
But many believe that the Chicago Bulls have won these titles. Instead, he believes Jordan did not retire to play baseball in the middle of his prime.
Maxwell did not refrain from passionate rants about why these proposals were unfair. “I don’t want to hear all of that —.
“He was in his second year. You have to understand Shaq. They (Orlando Magic) beat them. You’ll say, ‘He wasn’t in the shape of a basketball.’
Anyone who follows LeBron James’ career will know that every time he leaves to join another team his previous team fell apart.
That wasn’t the case with the Michael Jordanless Chicago Bulls in the 93-94 season.
Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant and BJ Armstrong averaged 22.0, 15.1 and 14.8 points per game, each making an All-Star game.
The Bulls lost seven games to the New York Knicks after dominating the Cleveland Cavaliers 3-0 in the first round.