Avery Johnson on GOAT Debate: ‘Everyone Else Is a Big Second to Michael Jordan’

Avery Johnson: “You know, we can really peel back the numbers. You can even do the eye test, but everybody else is a distant second to Michael Jordan. Just a distant second. And that’s not disrespectful, so please don’t send me hate mail. It’s my opinion, right? Michael, just for all those different reasons. But when you win six championships, you’re the MVP of all six, you never get to Game 7, and all the defense — first team All-Defense, first team All-NBA, MVPs, regular season MVPs — I think there was another statistic that you know, he didn’t have that many, it was a revolving door of free agents that he played with, and he did it with one team. And he had to go through the Detroit Pistons, the Boston Celtics, the Lakers, the Phoenix Suns, and Clyde Drexler with that Portland team that could have easily won championships, and Karl Malone and Stockton with Utah. The rules were different, there was a lot more restriction of movement and physicality. So yeah, it’s Michael. The clutch shots, two-way player, it’s just Michael. What they did with the Dream Team, yeah, it’s just Michael.”
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