Lebron's opponents in the Finals >>>>>> Jordan's opponents in the Finals

[UpAndComing]

Not even the biggest Lebron fan, but the facts are there


Bulls opponents in the Finals

1991 - Lackluster, aging Lakers team. Magic Johnson on his last legs, Kareem retired already, James Worthy and Byron Scott injured for most of the series

1992 - Trailblazers were a good team

1993 - Basically Charles Barkley, Kevin Johnson, and nobodies

1996 - Sonics were a good team

1997 - Jazz were above average at best, and predictable offense

1998 - Jazz again



Cavaliers opponents in the Finals

2007 - Spurs, all time team

2011 - Mavericks were a good team, Lebron chocked, no excuse there

2012 - Thunder, great young team

2013 - Spurs, all time team

2014 - Spurs again

2015 - Warriors, all time team

2016 - 73-9, all time team, came back from 3-1 to win



You can even say that Magic, Bird, and Isiah Thomas' teams they faced in the Finals were better too. You can talk about Jordan's 6-0 Finals record, but look who he was facing though

 

[Randoug]

In

 

[KRiLL (+)]

they aint gon like this breh...

 

[JordanwiththeWiz]

I'm here for this

 

[#StarkSet]

Did he play one good team in the east?

 

[NYC Rebel]

No one wants to hear it.

The fact they faced a Jazz team that couldn't make it to the finals in the 80s but needed the league to become watered down to make it twice in the 90s shows just how overrated those 90s Finals teams were.

Is it surprising that duos (Stockton:Malone/Pippen:Jordan) that played together the longest, relying on each other and avoiding being dismantled like other NBA teams did during that era, are the only teams that made it to the Finals more than once outside of the Rockets?

 

[Jerz-2]

1993 - Basically Charles Barkley, Kevin Johnson, and nobodies

I think that, in order to make this argument, you should refrain from interjecting personal opinion into the mix, cause it only works to undermine your position.

That team was hardly "a bunch of nobodies".....they won 62 games, Dan Majerle was an All-Star that year, Kevin Johnson missed 49 GAMES that season and they still took the Bulls to 6 games.

Richard Dumas, Cedric Ceballos, Danny Ainge, Tom Chambers.....that's not a world-beater roster, but in 1993 that was a FORMIDABLE roster. The fact that KJ didn't play and Majerle was REALLY the second star is a testament that you probably don't know much about that team other than what you've read in press clippings.

No offense, OP....I just don't like these attempts at narrative shifts.

 

[CHICAGO]

THE MAVS WERE WORSE THAN ANY TEAM JORDAN FACED
AND BRON LOST.

THE THUNDER WERE BABIES.

THE OLD VERSION OF THE SPURS HE FACED WERENT ALL TIME GREAT ANYTHING.



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[Jerz-2]

THE MAVS WERE WORSE THAN ANY TEAM JORDAN FACED
AND BRON LOST.

THE THUNDER WERE BABIES.

THE OLD VERSION OF THE SPURS HE FACED WERENT ALL TIME GREAT ANYTHING.



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Agreed.

Again.....personal opinion is NOT factual information.

 

[SpacelySprockets]

 

[William F. Russell]

Did he play one good team in the east?

The Celtics (2010-2012)

 

[onelastdeath]

Obviouslyz

 

[NYC Rebel]

THE MAVS WERE WORSE THAN ANY TEAM JORDAN FACED
AND BRON LOST.

THE THUNDER WERE BABIES.

THE OLD VERSION OF THE SPURS HE FACED WERENT ALL TIME GREAT ANYTHING.



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The Suns at the time were the worst defensive team in NBA history.

Don't let the stars that Barkley and KJ were foo you into thinking they were as good as the Mavs who were more well rounded.

 

[CHICAGO]

The Suns at the time were the worst defensive team in NBA history.

Don't let the stars that Barkley and KJ were foo you into thinking they were as good as the Mavs who were more well rounded.

LMAO

IT WAS JUST DIRK AND A BUNCH OF OLD ASS DEFENSIVE PLAYERS.

THE BULLS WOULD HAVE RAN THEM OUT THE GYM.

BRON WILL NEVER SHAKE THAT L.



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[duckbutta]

THE MAVS WERE WORSE THAN ANY TEAM JORDAN FACED
AND BRON LOST.

THE THUNDER WERE BABIES.

THE OLD VERSION OF THE SPURS HE FACED WERENT ALL TIME GREAT ANYTHING.



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The Spurs team that beat them has one of if not the highest sustained points per 100 possession of any team in the history of basketball from game 7 of the mavs all the way until they beat the heat...