There are only three consecutive Finals MVPs in NBA history, with Jordan accounting twice and the Sharks once.
The Sharks averaged 40 minutes per game in 79 games, 40 minutes per game in 74 games, and 36 minutes per game in 67 games — and the more they went on, the more they played.
So it was also three years of Kobe's rise, and he even dared to grab a hand with sharks: after all, sharks can't make it every year like they did in 2000.
I always felt that sharks (toes) were the earliest example of load management.
Jordan won three consecutive championships in 1991-93, averaging 38 minutes per game in the regular season and missing six regular season games. In the summer of 1992, I went to win the Olympic championship.
The 1996-98 trifecta, averaging 38 minutes per game in the regular season, was 82 full-time games in three years.
In those six playoffs, Jordan averaged 41 minutes per game.
Six championship seasons, two in a row of three titles each.
He won four regular season MVPs, six Finals MVPs, and six scoring titles.
Jordan missed a total of 6 games during this period.
And his style of play does not touch fish. According to Rivers, "every round was like he was playing the last game of his life."
Most people are more tired the more they play.
Jordan is not.
In the 1991 playoffs, he averaged 31 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists, 2.4 steals and 1.4 blocks - the latter set of statistics means how wild the defensive output is.
In the penultimate game of the 1992 Finals, everyone played more than 100 games in the regular season with the playoffs, and the battle of Tianwang Mountain: Jordan 46 points.
In the 1993 Finals, Jordan had won two consecutive championships plus no rest in the summer of 1992, and to the Finals against Phoenix: 31 points, 42 points, 44 points, 55 points, 41 points, 33 points - 41 points per game in the Finals.
The last series of three consecutive championships, he fought tirelessly for three years, averaging 41 points per game.
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In the last two games of the 1997 Finals, he was known to have scored 38 points with illness, and in the sixth game he scored 39 points and 11 rebounds: he took an 8-minute break in these two games. 34 years old.
In the final game of the 1998 Finals, he scored 45 points and finished with a complete victory.
35 years old.
Finally, look at Jordan's worst physical fitness.
After playing baseball for two years in 1995, he returned to basketball, making his first game against the Indiana Pacers.
32-year-old man.
Opposite is Reggie Miller, who runs undead.
Miller's coach at the time was Grandpa Larry Brown, who was the best at staying up — and staying up with his opponents and himself. Later, he led AI in Philadelphia, and what virtue it was to lead the Five Tigers in the Pistons, we all know. That day he put a sentence: "Jordan is Superman, but Miller can make many people look like Clark Kent (i.e., Superman's everyday normal human state)." ”
That Jordan played 44 minutes.
Armstrong said, "Jordan was never tired, he might have scored 40 points in the fourth quarter and breathed as usual," but that night, after all, he was 32 years old and hadn't played basketball in two years, "and at the end of the first quarter, he started leaning over and tugging at his pants." ”
That's how tired he is.
But Jordan, who is in such a poor physical state, can knock on the floor after the Atlanta kill in six days; In three days, he could face the Knicks' meat grinder defense at Madison Gardens and score 55 points.
Just said that Jordan just came back and hit Miller. Miller's physical fitness is well known, to say a paragraph:
In 2005, Al Harrington was 24 years old and told the media about three years earlier. It was the summer of 2002, when Miller was 37 and Harrington was 21, just after becoming teammates.
Harrington heard that Miller was going to Malibu Beach for a run on a whim:
"I'll go too!"
So he went, and the 21-year-old ran with the 37-year-old Miller who could be his dad. And then:
"I ran with Reggie... Damn, he could actually run that long! The second day after running, my legs were so soft that I couldn't move for three days!! ”
And Miller still came to Harrington, "Go run?" ”
Miller was 37 years old.
Well, a physical monster like Miller collapsed in the summer of 1995 when he practiced with Jordan, who had just returned.
Jordan was filming "Slam Dunk in the Sky" at the time. He filmed during the day and played basketball for three hours at night. At that time, he asked the producer to build a training gym next to the set, and the producer complied.
Miller said:
"I don't know how he has so much physical strength, making a movie for one day and playing for three hours after that."
"We played until nine, ten, and then he didn't rest – he went to the strength room!"
"He'll get up at six the next day!"
Miller finally had nothing to say but to say:
"This is a vampire."
This physical monster who makes Miller stunned by undead maniacs is still Jordan, who is 32 years old, has not played basketball for two years, is at the lowest point of physical fitness, and is training again. This is when his physical fitness is at its worst.
After this summer, his fitness has recovered, and he will play 82 games in three consecutive years and 304 games in three consecutive playoffs years from the age of 33 to 35, winning three championships.