Letting the "Air" out of the NBA

You've undoubtedly been inundated over the last few days with Jordan's numerous accomplishments. If you haven't been, you're about to:

• Six NBA Championships
• NBA Finals MVP six times — Magic Johnson is second with three
• 10 Scoring Titles — more than anyone else in history
• 3 Steals Titles — tied for the most in NBA history
• 5 MVP Awards — Second only to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• 10 All-Star Game appearances — two-time MVP
• 1985 Rookie of the Year
• 1988 Defensive Player of the Year
• 29,227 career points — third on all-time list
• 31.5 points per game career scoring average — best ever

• In 930 regular season games, he failed to score at least 10 points just once — and that came in 1986, when he scored eight points in just 16 minutes of action while recovering from a broken foot.

• Jordan scored at least 50 points in a game 26 times and scored 60 or more four times. On March 28, 1990, he torched the Cleveland Cavaliers for 69 points. Only four players have scored more points in a single game.

• The Chicago Bulls won six of the last eight NBA Championships. The two they didn't win came in 1994 and 1995, while Jordan took a hiatus to play baseball.

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