Just recently I watched the highlights from the game MJ dropped 43 pts with the Wizards when they played the Nets - who would eventually go to the Finals that year. He not only dropped 43 but literally carried at 40+ years old that team to a victory. This is a 40 year old guarded by a young and in his prime Richard Jefferson, just driving by and rising over him scoring at will. Nets are up a point with about a minute left when MJ goes down backs down the defender and hits a fade away to go ahead by 1. The Nets bring the ball down court and MJ is on the ball...contests the game winner and wouldnt you know it, gets the rebound to close out the game. Got the chills after watching the highlights of a man who is supposed to be 8 years past his prime, dominate like that.
Also with the whole MJ betting scandal that forced his retirement...not sure if the NBA had anything to do with it or what not. But it definitely holds some whatever and leaves alot of spectulation when his father is randomly murdered alongside a NC highway. A lot of things could of led to him playing baseball for that year and a half...but it wasnt because he simply lost the will to play basketball.
