It Took Michael Jordan 8 Years To Pull This Off

little Michael Jordan again on the money play they go found the waste remember now Michael Beach on the drive you can grab he pulls up for the jumper Charlotte along rebound Chicago does not have a foul 17 seconds hell the pull-up jumper by parish the rebound by Choo [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] it's November 6th 1990 a ring was 27 year old Michael Jordan and his bulls have gotten season off to a slow start back-to-back losses and now with time winding down against the Celtics they are looking at their third loss in a row not the most ideal way to kick off the season but little did he know this stretch of losses would go down as one of the most significant events in his entire career because for the next 2777 days Michael Jordan would never lose three games in a row again [Music] you [Music] what's up everybody its Jimmy brothers we need to talk for years trap sacks has provided us with the most beautiful inspiring background music we could ever ask for it really hit home with its fat bass and smooth jazz riffs but unfortunately this studio that owns the original sample from decades ago won't let us use it anymore I know I know I might as well just delete my channel now but as much as it hurts we must rise and stand tall for our fallen brethren so let's take a moment of silence for the incredible the incomparable traps axe but if there's anything that can share a basketball fan up it is a ridiculous awesome Michael Jordan story and boy do I have just that of all the accomplishments MJ had amassed in his 15 year career possibly the most impressive and untouchable feat is one that you have probably never even heard of a couple years ago someone pointed out that from November 7 1990 up until the day Jordan won his sixth ring and hung up his Bulls Jersey for good he did not lose three consecutive games that's two thousand seven hundred and seventy seven days without losing three games in a row five hundred regular-season games 126 playoff games coming to a grand total of 626 matchups without a single three-game losing streak now when I first heard this I was skeptical I mean a streak of this caliber sounds virtually impossible in fact mathematically it is virtually impossible but after further investigation I'll be damned this man really nine years almost an entire decade without taking three L's in a row I'm searching digging desperately to find out the truth surrounding this claim and it is 100% fact as if Mike didn't already have enough accomplishments as if the man wasn't cheating on the competition bad enough two decades after he laced up for the last time with the Bulls and we are still uncovering pieces of his dominance to put the magnitude of this streak into perspective in 2010 Ben blood of the Harvard sports analysis collective crunched the numbers on such an absurd streak and his calculations revealed some absolutely absurd numbers the probability of an average NBA team accomplishing such a streak is you ready for this about 1 & 1 quadrillion or point zero zero zero zero zero zero two hours late s zero zero zero one six six which is a numbers so vast and so unlikely that there really isn't anything to compare it to for example the odds of a high school basketball player making it to the NBA is about one and thirty two hundred odds of one day becoming an NBA champion are about one in twenty two thousand five hundred odds of winning an Olympic gold medal are one in six hundred and sixty two thousand and ads of winning the Powerball one in three hundred million so yeah MJ pulling this off is mathematically by far his greatest accomplishment now you may be thinking this was a team effort rather than an individual one so the Bulls should be getting credit as well and although this is a valid point when you look into the numbers you'll see that this isn't quite true due to Mike's first retirements and players coming and going even MJ's own teammates have a streak like his although Dennis Rodman racked up one hell of a streak himself check out the current streaks of NBA teams in regards of games since their last three consecutive losses including the playoffs no team has managed to go even 90 games without losing three in a row in fact only six teams have strung together more than 20 games without losing three consecutively look at how many teams have zero games since their last three game losing streak zero if you add up all the streaks from every NBA team they still don't come close to Mike 626 absolutely insane if we take a look at some of the more dominant teams in modern NBA history you will continue to realize how difficult a streak like this truly is Michael's free expand eight years and seven active seasons and only came to an end because he retired the reigning NBA champions the Toronto Raptors lost three in a row just this past season in November the three-peat Lakers lost three games in a row in February of 2002 nearly three years after their streak began throughout the last five years the Warriors have been the winningest team over any five-year stretch in NBA history and even they lost three games in a row on four different occasions throughout this five year stretch including the infamous now don't get it twisted there were a few occasions where Jordan streak nearly came to an end like on April 9th 1991 when the Bulls beat the Knicks by just 2 points after losing their previous two games or on February 1st 1993 when they escaped in a four-point victory over the Jazz here's a game from 1996 when the Bulls edged out the Warriors by just four points Jordan dropped 40 and by the way he was playing he was not gonna lose and then finally on June 11th 1997 when the Jazz nearly beat the Bulls three times in a row in the NBA Finals of course Jordan wasn't gonna let this happen so he dropped 38 and Chicago won by two and when you look at the numbers in these potential streak ending games it's almost like Jordan knew he had the streak going and was ready to go to any lengths to not see it come to an end that or the more likely fact that MJ was the ultimate competitor and any time he lost back-to-back games he came out locked and loaded ready - absolutely Barry anyone who stood in front of him so knowing the player MJ was this isn't too surprising but when you take a closer look at the numbers assess the astronomical odds of this feat it's hard not to be amazed and I find myself saying this after every single Michael Jordan video but what else should we expect I'll leave y'all with this here is a chart showing streaks of games without three consecutive losses by all-time NBA greats and current stars these are streaks held by some of the best players of all time on historical teams towards the bottom you'll see Yanis harden Durant has had a decent streak of his own at 181 games if you go up the list you'll see Shaq Kobe and Steph floating around 300 and way up there at the top all alone is Michael Jordan in a league of his own now before I let y'all go a good friend of mine recently started a YouTube channel similar to mine but with football it's called defying and he breaks down crazy stories interesting events and gets into some of the finer details you never knew before if you enjoy my channel and you are a fan of the NFL college football and even high school football check out his channel we have some projects we'll be working on together in the future dude really knows his stuff check out his channel show him some love man's has some good stuff but that's gonna be it for this video stay tuned big stuff going on over the next couple weeks love y'all and it's so nice

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Keywords: Michael Jordan, unbelievable sports stories, Jimmy Highroller, LeBron James, LeBron James Jr, Bronny, NBA trades, NBA off season, NBA summer league, Lamelo Ball, LA Lakers, Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard, Best Basketball player ever, House of Highlights, Kristopher London, Jesser, 1 V 1 basketball, NBA Highlights, Hest Check

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Length: 10min 24sec (624 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 21 2019