He had this one goal, a single point focus to win a ring at the end of the season. He played the regular season in a way that let the other players know that he was so much better than the rest of them and that when the playoffs came he was no match for them. He dominated in the playoffs, went in the NBA finals, and never had to see a 7th game winning 6 championships with the Chicago Bulls in a stretch of 8 seasons.
Michael Jordan has won 6 rings in all with the Chicago Bulls. In doing so he 3 peated twice , He went to 6 NBA Finals and won all 6 of them in a dominant fashion never having to go to a game 7. Michael Jordan won all his 6 championships with the Chicago Bulls. He completed his first 3 peat between the seasons but then retired from the game after the untimely death of his father.
He played baseball for one and a half years before returning to basketball. It was then that he completed his second 3-peat with the Chicago Bulls between the seasons of Had he not retried in the middle many argue that MJ could have won 8 straight championships.
Seven of Russell's teammates in Boston have seven or more championships. Bob Cousy won six championships with Boston. There are only four players in NBA history who didn't play for Boston who have at least six championships.
Robert Horry won seven championships through his time with the Rockets, Lakers and Spurs. Jordan and James both have lengthy statistical resumes , but that six-championship trump card gets played the most in the debate.
James turns 36 in December. Jordan retired from basketball for good when he was 40 years old after two seasons with the Washington Wizards.
Chicago Bulls. Big center Bill Cartwright was acquired a year later in a trade , giving the Bulls the starting line-up required to win in the NBA. They had two of their starters for the future in Jordan and Paxson before Jerry Krause joined, and he drafted and dealt well to produce a squad worthy of winning multiple titles.
In those finals, they met an ageing Lakers squad and dominated the series despite losing the first game. Unlike that Warriors team, they beat Cleveland on their way to beating the Trail Blazers in the finals in six games.
The Knicks won 60 games, 3 more than the Bulls. The two teams ended up meeting in the Eastern Conference finals, with the Bulls running away with the series in six games. Jordan and Pippen had both played in the dream team in the Olympics. The pair played phenomenally throughout the finals, with Jordan averaging an insane 41 points per game, the finals record still held today. He couldn't rescue the Bulls from a team-record losing streak, however, as they went winless in 13 games.
That rough patch was forgotten by season's end, though, as the team won 20 of its final 24 contests, with Gilmore, rookie Scott May, and veteran Norm Van Lier leading the charge. The remarkable turnaround vaulted the Bulls into the playoffs, in which they became victims of Bill Walton and the championship-bound Portland Trail Blazers. The squad slipped to and missed the playoffs despite posting a record at the All-Star break. He led the club in scoring The following season the Bulls slid to a record under two different coaches, Larry Costello and Scotty Robertson.
Costello took the reins from Badger to open the season, only to be replaced after a start. Robertson didn't fare much better, compiling an mark the rest of the way. For the second straight season Gilmore led the team in scoring The Bulls team fell to under new coach Jerry Sloan, who had served as a scout and assistant coach for the Bulls after his retirement in Sloan's coaching debut was soured by a leg injury that sidelined Gilmore for 34 games, snapping his string of consecutive games played.
Chicago moved to the Central Division in to make room in the Midwest for the expansion Dallas Mavericks. The new surroundings suited the Bulls well, as they bounced back to a record and a second-place finish behind Milwaukee Chicago hovered around.
In the playoffs for the first time since , the Bulls eliminated the New York Knicks in a best-of-three first-round series, then were swept in the Eastern Conference Semifinals by the Boston Celtics, the eventual NBA champions.
Thorn guided the Bulls to a finish and a overall record. Gilmore led the team in scoring After failing to make the playoffs the team revamped its roster. The Bulls' top selection in the draft was Quintin Dailey, a talented but troubled guard from the University of San Francisco. In Chicago reeled to a record under new coach Paul Westhead, who had guided the Los Angeles Lakers to a championship in The Bulls struggled early and often, losing all seven games of their first extended road trip of the season.
When a knee injury sidelined Woolridge for the final 25 contests of the year, the squad hit another seven-game slide. Reggie Theus However, Westhead's stay in Chicago was brief; he was released from his contract at season's end. With Kevin Loughery as the team's new coach for , the Bulls finished , the second-worst record in franchise history.
In the middle of the year Chicago traded Theus to Kansas City for Steve Johnson and draft choices, creating the need for a shooting guard. The reward for the lean season was the third pick in the NBA Draft. The Houston Rockets, picking first, selected Hakeem Olajuwon, who would become one of the NBA's most dominant centers for more than a decade. The Portland Trail Blazers used the second selection for another center, Sam Bowie, whose career would be hampered by a series of injuries.
Chicago improved to in as Jordan stepped directly into the starting lineup and began rewriting the Bulls' record book. Many compared him to Julius Erving because of his high-flying style of play.
Jordan finished the season averaging Jordan also led Chicago in rebounding 6. Jordan helped the Bulls back to the playoffs for the first time since , but it was a short visit. Chicago fell to Milwaukee, three games to one, in a first-round series. Coach Loughery was fired after the season.
Stan Albeck was named the new head coach for , but the season took a disastrous turn when Jordan sustained a broken foot in the Bulls' third game. Many thought he would miss the rest of the season, but Jordan returned triumphantly on March 15 after missing 64 games and helped Chicago to a playoff berth despite the club's record. The Bulls faced Boston in the first round and lost in three straight, but the series was made memorable by Jordan's remarkable point performance in Game 2 at Boston Garden.
The outburst established a single-game playoff scoring record, but it wasn't enough to prevent the Celtics from winning, , in double overtime. Rugged rookie Charles Oakley joined the Bulls in and immediately established himself as a force on the boards, leading the team with 8. He grabbed a club-record 18 offensive rebounds against Milwaukee on March Chicago was still searching for the right coaching formula, and the Bulls fired Albeck after the season. With yet another new head coach, Doug Collins, in for , the Bulls improved to Chicago qualified for the playoffs for the third straight season but was again eliminated by Boston in the first round.
The team's record was a secondary concern for most fans, who had their eyes riveted on team superstar Jordan. In late November and early December he went on a rampage, scoring 40 or more points in nine consecutive games. On February 26 he poured in 58 points against the New Jersey Nets, including a record 26 of 27 free throws.
On March 4 he hit for 61 points against Detroit. Just a month later, on April 16, he matched that performance with 61 against Atlanta. That season Jordan became the first NBA player to reach 3, points in a season since Wilt Chamberlain did it in Jordan led the league in scoring at He set Bulls single-season records for points 3, , field goals 1, , free throws , and steals Jordan was indisputably great, and Oakley, who led the league in total rebounds 1, , was outstanding.
Still, the Bulls lacked a quality supporting cast. They took a major step toward alleviating that problem at the NBA Draft, when Vice President of Basketball Operations Jerry Krause acquired two players who would be vital cogs in Chicago's future championship machine. With two picks in the top 10, Krause selected Olden Polynice at No.
He then traded Polynice and draft considerations to the Seattle SuperSonics for Scottie Pippen, whom the Sonics had grabbed with the fifth pick. With Grant and Pippen on board the Bulls began to show their stuff in , forging a record, their best mark since Chicago finished in a second-place tie with Atlanta in a competitive Central Division won by the surging Detroit Pistons.
The Bulls made some noise in the playoffs, defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in a five-game first-round series, but then fell to Detroit in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Oakley and the Los Angeles Clippers' Michael Cage engaged in a nip-and-tuck battle for the league's rebounding title, which came down to the last day of the regular season. On April 22 against Cleveland, Oakley put the pressure on Cage by pulling down 35 rebounds, the second-highest total in Bulls history behind Tom Boerwinkle's 37 in Two days later, however, Cage grabbed 30 boards in a game against Seattle, just enough to edge Oakley by the slimmest of margins, Cage played in 10 fewer games than Oakley, however, so Oakley led the NBA in total rebounds for the second consecutive year, with 1, Jordan led the league in scoring Even with the success of the previous season, the team did not stand pat.
The Bulls began the campaign with seven new faces on the roster. He also acquired three-point specialist Craig Hodges from Phoenix. While the players adjusted to one another the team's record slipped to , but the regular season was just a tune-up for the playoffs. For only the third time in franchise history the Bulls advanced to the conference finals, upending Cleveland in five games and New York in six along the way.
Chicago took a two-games-to-one lead over Detroit in the Eastern Conference Finals, but the Pistons roared back to win the next three and take the series. Jordan had led the league in scoring for a third straight year with Phil Jackson replaced Doug Collins as head coach for He had been named the Continental Basketball Association's Coach of the Year in , the season after his Albany Patroons won the league championship; he then hooked on with the Bulls as an assistant coach.
With Jackson at the helm Chicago began to mesh, cruising to a record and a return to the Eastern Conference Finals. Beginning in November, the Bulls won a team-record 15 consecutive home games. The team also assembled an eight-game road winning streak, the longest in franchise history.
The Bulls sizzled after the break, closing out the season with a flourish that included two nine-game winning streaks. On March 28 at Cleveland, Jordan rained in 69 points, his all-time high. For the season, he captured his fourth consecutive NBA scoring title Pippen, a versatile , pound forward, proved to be a vital complement to Jordan. Not as flashy as "Air Jordan," he nevertheless had many of the same all-around skills: good ballhandling, solid scoring, and terrific defense.
For all of their success, the Bulls couldn't keep up with the Detroit Pistons, who finished four games ahead of them in the Central Division. Chicago strolled through the first two rounds of the playoffs, eliminating Milwaukee and Philadelphia, but for the second straight year they couldn't bump Detroit from the Eastern Conference Finals. The Pistons won a low-scoring seven-game series en route to their second consecutive NBA championship. In some of the less obvious aspects of Phil Jackson's coaching philosophy began to draw attention-and began to produce unprecedented results.
Although the Bulls had the most creative offensive force in the history of the game in Jordan, they also stressed defense and teamwork. Chicago lost the first three games of the year, then never dropped more than two in a row the rest of the way. On December 4 the Bulls set a regulation-game team record by scoring points against Phoenix, a total topped only by a point, four-overtime game in They had two seven-game winning streaks, in December and January, while building a record.
Then the team went on a tear in February, winning 11 straight, losing a single game, then winning nine more, to stand at on March Finishing with a record, the Bulls won their second division title and became just the ninth team in NBA history to win 60 or more regular-season games.
The NBA Finals matchup between the Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers was billed as a confrontation between two of the game's most charismatic figures, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson; however, the drama never unfolded.
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