The Chicago Bulls would have won zero championships without Michael Jordan

The Chicago Bulls were founded on January 16, 1966, it wouldn’t be until 25 years later that the team would win their first Championship. In 1984 the Bulls would draft Michael Jordan with the third overall selection. this was a franchise altering move that would forever change the landscape of the Bulls organization. Jordan would have an immediate impact on the team by leading the league in scoring his rookie season and leading the Bulls entire team in scoring, assists, and rebounds. Jordan would also take the third worst team in the league the prior year to the playoffs with a record of 38-44 and even beat the best team in the NBA, the Milwaukee Bucs once in the series but unfortunately they would be eliminated. For the next decade Jordan would completely dominate the NBA winning many awards and Championships.

In my first article, “Michael Jordan Career Stats” I found out just how incredible Jordan truly was. During Jordans fifteen year career he would average 30 points a game, 6 rebounds a game, and 5 assists a game. Jordan currently hold the all time points a game average during the regular season and during the playoffs. If you take away the highest scorer from the Chicago Bulls they very quickly would go from best to worst, even if they tried to replace Jordan it is not possible, a reason for this is because “n 1,072 regular-season games. He was selected to play in 14 All-Star games. He won the Rookie of the Year award, 1 Defensive Player of the Year award, 5 MVP awards, 6 Finals MVP awards and 6 NBA championships”. Michael Jordan was one of one, these statistical feats he achieved would show the insane dominance he played with. You take this away from the Bulls and they would never win a championship.

In my second article, “Life without Michael Jordan: The Story of the 1993-94 Chicago Bulls” Micahel Jordan has just retired for the first time after the unexpected loss of his father. This article explains how the Bulls performed without Jordan. This team was coming off two championship wins in a row and even with the loss of Michal Jordan they had pretty much the exact same team. And this would prove true with Pippen having a breakout season and coming in third in mvp voting. The Bulls would finish the season at 55-27 and would now advance to the playoffs. This is when the loss of Jordan would really show, by loosing the greatest playoff scorer of all time really hurt them when they played other great teams, and they would fall in the second round to the Knicks.

In my third and final article, “The Chicago Bulls’ Title Drought Without Michael Jordan ” this goes into the struggle’s the team faced after Jordan left. In 1998 the Bulls would finish 17th in the east after just winning the championship, with almost an identical team, the loss of Jordan would destroy them. The following season after Jordan retired the Bulls traded Dennis Rodman, and Pippen. The loss of Jordan gave the superstars no incentive to play for them and the Bulls would quickly go into a very long rebuilding stage which is still in effect 25 years later. This rebuild was so bad that the broadcasting networks would refuse to show their games as it was a complete disgrace to Basketball. After Jordan left the Bulls record in the playoffs is 4-6. The Bulls who were this great franchise in the 90’s was left to nothing with the loss of Jordan besides the 6 great trophies they won.

To conclude, the Bulls record without Jordan is 207-389 in the regular season and they are 4-6 in the playoffs without him. Jordan won 6 championships for the Bulls and without him they would have never won a single one, as we saw in the 1993-1994 season the Bulls were at their best and Jordan retired and the team that was claimed as the best in history couldn’t get past the second round without Jordan. Jordan was the best scorrer of all time and the most clutch and the loss of him is still felt within this franchise to this day.

References:

The Chicago Bulls’ Title Drought Without Michael Jordan | BashaBearsBasketball.com. (2023, November 20). https://bashabearsbasketball.com/the-chicago-bulls-title-drought-without-michael-jordan/

Michael Jordan Career Stats. (n.d.). StatMuse. https://www.statmuse.com/nba/player/michael-jordan-1932

B, M. (n.d.). Life without Michael Jordan: The Story of the 1993-94 Chicago Bulls. Bleacher Report. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/370455-life-without-michael-jordan-the-story-of-the-1993-94-chicago-bulls