Young MJ’s reaction to Magic winning MVP over him
Magic Johnson was voted the league’s MVP this year. You were the runner up. Do you have any quarrel with the with the vote? No, not at all. I think that u you know both of us had good years, but you know, sometimes you have to question what is credentials for the MVP. No one really knows. What would you say they are? Uh how valuable you are to your team and to the league itself and what you do to contribute to both of them. Could a case be made for Michael Jordan then being the MVP? Could be a case for both actually. Let’s define exactly what you did. I mean 37 points per game. You took 28 shots a game. You were your team’s offense, weren’t you? I was in in the sense that we had to expand a lot of the other players roles offensively and it took some time for them to do that. You know, I don’t like to lead the league in scoring. I think that stereotype you as a offensive player, but I think that other parts of my game was not acknowledged as well as it should have been to have over 100 blocks and over 100 steals. Also I think you have to be contributing in other areas as well as scoring.
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Magic had a better year
I see where Ant gets it 💯🤣
Man I miss watching this man play live!❤
And that right there also makes him the greatest of all time. Not LeFlop James 😂
HE AVERAGED 37!! With the blocks and steals to match 😭😭😭 HE WAS ROBBED!!!
Jordans vocabulary is on point, lebron would be like "Ummm Uhh Ummm Uhh"
Mike won it in '88. It was his best individual year ever.
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Magic deserved it that year tho. But MJ was on his ass like booty hair
GOAT 🐐 period
Leading the league in scoring while not wanting to lead the league in the scoring and not only doing it 10 times he's also the CAREER SCORING LEADER!!! Imagine if he wanted to lead the league in scoring! 😂
🐐 Jordan the greatest to ever touch the nba
Young ,polite and well educated man with the point , back in time…MJ is world heritage…Far above GOAT
MJ was not robbed of the MVP IN ‘87. Stop with that nonsense. Magic deserved it as he did in ‘89 and ‘90. Stop hating.
Man Jordans on intelligent man that's the most impressive to me somebody tell Joker in order to be considered the best are top 10 centers you actually have to play defense too
It took Jordan six years to get the Bulls above .500.
The media was always harsh. You look at articles and interviews from back then, and realize the difference is the abundance. Believe it or not, they would have Killed MJ in the 2010s – for absolutely no reason. That's the negativity we live in. Amazing answers by him, but now it's not a one time interview. It's 4 times a week. But it makes you wonder: why is there such a huge emphasis on media coverage now? Most if us just want to watch the game.
Damn, 37ppg at that young age is just wild. MJ was a different breed 🐐
A very young Michael gave a very profound answer to Bryant Gumbel's question.
He pointed out the one-hundred block shots, over one-hundred steals in addition to his scoring ability.
He is like no other.
He's talking about how Nikola Jokic is about to be snubbed in 2025.
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Jordan was just a different player always super hungry which is rare now a days
Humble, yet fuming inside.
Man Jordan was the MVP….hands down… politics as usual
Bird should have been the MVP. That year, McHale, Parish, Ainge, and Walton were all hurt throughout the regular season and playoffs and Bird still pulled the Celtics into the NBA Finals. Bird was also hurt but played through it. Jordan did not deserve it because the Bulls had a losing record.
The 🐐
Bryant gumble with an actual interview too. Not just idiots talking. Great job by both.
Always loved the highlight at 0:31 seconds.
goat
That mindset. Goatee man
37 ppg with 28 attempts in that era with big men in the paint and not many threes. Amazing statistic
If he wanted to make a mark in life Easter did it for all of us
It was the 1986/87 season. Jordan was the first player since Wilt to score 3,000 points in a a season. No one has done it since. He also had 200 plus steals and 100 plus blocks in that season, more than Michael Cooper who won Defensive Player of the Year.
Jordan was robbed that year. The only thing I can think of is, Magic taking his team to the finals after losing a few role players. They were making up for previous years, when Bird got it 3 years in a row and Magic did deserve it, atleast one of those years.
He's right on point again and again and cool with it.
Magic Johnson was clearly the MVP that year. It's not always about the stats.
Jordan should have at least 1 more MVP during the 1980s. He was robbed of an MVP.
That is his work ethics as a player. It is so exemplary and just god dang cool
Lebitch would be crying about how hes the goat and everyone please like me. Meanwhile Michaels main concern was that you didnt just talk about his scoring but his defense and overall contribution
Opposing teams would target magic as the weakest link in the laker defense. Similar to Bird, not a terrible defender but not great and conserved energy for offense.
100/100 blocks and steals wtf
and he did this in back to back years!!!
while leading league in pts 2x
Same thing is happening to the joker right now..
That dunk at 17 seconds .. What !?!?! 😍🔥
It's 100 plus blocks and 200 plus steals scoring 37 PPG is truly insane he played a complete game. the next year he averaged 35 PPG on 54 percent shooting once again averaging over 100 blocks and 200 steals. The true ubermensch of the NBA
I can't imagine how much more of an impact he would've made if the internet was available like it I s now.
MJ is hella articulate. Goat James in comparison at 40 still sounds like he's in elementary