Michael Jordan's 50th Birthday

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I wonder if his 50th birthday will inspire a new $300.00 shoe?
 
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BobD said:
I wonder if his 50th birthday will inspire a new $300.00 shoe?
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MJ gave me some of the best sports memories I have had in my life.

Unfortunately some girl in China will make that shoe for like 12 cents an hour.
 
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Just what thread is this?
 
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MJ all day on SC.
What's the past week been?
 
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It's also Jim Brown's birthday and more importantly... MINE!!!! No vBucks donation/present is too small. :)
 
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In Lou I Trust said:
It's also Jim Brown's birthday and more importantly... MINE!!!! No vBucks donation/present is too small. :)
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My birthday was yesterday, and I got nothing.

So you sir, get nothing.

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I drew this the other night without evening thinking about his birthday but since they coincide I thought I'd share.

Happy Birthday Mike!!!

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rikkitikki08 said:
One of the greatest of all time but his HOF speech was beyond pathetic
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I didn't love it, but this explanation made sense to me. From the article I posted earlier.

IN THE THREE and a half years since Jordan built his induction remarks around all the slights that pushed him toward greatness, the speech has become Exhibit A for those who believe Jordan is, as one basketball writer put it, "strangely bitter" and "lost, wandering." They're not wrong, not exactly, but something was obscured when the speech became a metaphor for swollen ego and lack of self-awareness.

The speech itself, if you watch it again, is an open window into what Jordan is like in private: funny, caustic, confident, sarcastic, competitive. He sees himself not as a gifted athlete but as someone who refused to lose. So standing at the podium -- after he composed himself, wiping away tears nine times before he even began, sniffling well into the first section -- he said that he had a fire inside and that "people added wood to that fire." Then he listed every doubter, cataloging all their actions, small and large. He started with his brothers and worked through high school to college to the NBA. He took a shot at longtime nemesis Jerry Krause: "I don't know who invited him … I didn't." It was petty but also startlingly honest.

The unspoken thread that runs through the criticism is that Jordan didn't understand what was required of a retired athlete, a mixture of nostalgia and reflection. The five-year wait is supposed to give those emotions time to sprout and grow. People wanted the Jordan on the floor of his closet, not the one who did whatever it took to win. That's the allure of a Hall of Fame speech. It reveals that these icons were sort of like us all along. Jordan didn't give that speech, and the reason is both simple and obvious. He didn't see himself as part of the past, or as someone who'd found perspective. He wasn't nostalgic that night. The anger that drove his career hadn't gone away, and he didn't know what to do with it. So at the end of the speech, he said perhaps the most telling and important thing in it, which has been mostly forgotten.

He described what the game meant to him. He called it his "refuge" and the "place where I've gone when I needed to find comfort and peace." Basketball made him feel complete, and it was gone.
 
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The greatest of all-time. Nothing else needs to be said.
 
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MJ schooling OJ

MJ schooling OJ

I didn't know where to put this and certainly did not want to start another thread. But this is pretty amazing. A 43-year old MJ schooling an 18-year old OJ Mayo, with a bit of trash talking as well. Check the clips out:

Y! SPORTS

What smooth fadeaway and for me (and people from my generation) the best ever to grace a basketball court. And God I hope he doesn't come back to play a game anytime soon!
 
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As great of a player that he was, it's amazing how terrible he's been at running an NBA team. I guess it's two different mind sets, except Bird has proven you can make the transition successfully.
 
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UPMich_NDfan said:
I didn't love it, but this explanation made sense to me. From the article I posted earlier.

IN THE THREE and a half years since Jordan built his induction remarks around all the slights that pushed him toward greatness, the speech has become Exhibit A for those who believe Jordan is, as one basketball writer put it, "strangely bitter" and "lost, wandering." They're not wrong, not exactly, but something was obscured when the speech became a metaphor for swollen ego and lack of self-awareness.

The speech itself, if you watch it again, is an open window into what Jordan is like in private: funny, caustic, confident, sarcastic, competitive. He sees himself not as a gifted athlete but as someone who refused to lose. So standing at the podium -- after he composed himself, wiping away tears nine times before he even began, sniffling well into the first section -- he said that he had a fire inside and that "people added wood to that fire." Then he listed every doubter, cataloging all their actions, small and large. He started with his brothers and worked through high school to college to the NBA. He took a shot at longtime nemesis Jerry Krause: "I don't know who invited him … I didn't." It was petty but also startlingly honest.

The unspoken thread that runs through the criticism is that Jordan didn't understand what was required of a retired athlete, a mixture of nostalgia and reflection. The five-year wait is supposed to give those emotions time to sprout and grow. People wanted the Jordan on the floor of his closet, not the one who did whatever it took to win. That's the allure of a Hall of Fame speech. It reveals that these icons were sort of like us all along. Jordan didn't give that speech, and the reason is both simple and obvious. He didn't see himself as part of the past, or as someone who'd found perspective. He wasn't nostalgic that night. The anger that drove his career hadn't gone away, and he didn't know what to do with it. So at the end of the speech, he said perhaps the most telling and important thing in it, which has been mostly forgotten.

He described what the game meant to him. He called it his "refuge" and the "place where I've gone when I needed to find comfort and peace." Basketball made him feel complete, and it was gone.
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and to some of us... me included.. We go to our job to feel apart.. we go to make us understand who and what we are and then we get paid. maybe he was going to his job... just like his father had done and just like why we do and never seem to get past it...
 
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Irish#1 said:
As great of a player that he was, it's amazing how terrible he's been at running an NBA team. I guess it's two different mind sets, except Bird has proven you can make the transition successfully.
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It was skill that gave him the court! Would ya think popularity actually gave him a business mind? Nike was Nike, the Bulls were Da Bulls, but what is leadership other than people who don't want to talk about it and those who do!!
 
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rikkitikki08 said:
One of the greatest of all time but his HOF speech was beyond pathetic
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Amen....and so has post-playing career.

And honestly, the ONLY people that HONESTLY think that this is unquestionable are the ones who never saw anything but highlights of his games on SC for a decade or more.

Plenty of players before him were every bit as good, and players after him have been forced to "live up to his standard", in an era where we just love to denigrate any player that DARES to approach his records, titles, whatever.

Sorry, but I will never believe he is the BEST EVER, because if that were true, then why the ell are we still playing NBA basketball??

KD and LBJ, not to mention Kobe, have all been able to approach Jordan's levels. Give KD a premier coach and the Thunder would be DANGEROUS.
 
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Irish#1 said:
As great of a player that he was, it's amazing how terrible he's been at running an NBA team. I guess it's two different mind sets, except Bird has proven you can make the transition successfully.
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As has Magic Johnson, in the business world, at least.
 
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