"What Jordan Did to Ehlo Was Dead Wrong"

Earlier this morning, LeBron James visited Dan Patrick's radio show. Patrick asked James, who grew up, oddly, idolizing Michael Jordan and rooting for the Cavaliers, what he thought of Jordan's iconic jumper over an outstretched Craig Ehlo in the 1989 NBA playoffs, the first of Jordan's many, many, many signature shots. It seems the shot still raises LeBron's hackles: 

What Jordan did to Ehlo was dead wrong. For him to go up and act like he was going to take the jumper and wait for Ehlo to land on the ground. And then shoot it. He should have not done that to Craig Ehlo.

I doubt very much that LeBron actually remembers this shot. He was 4 at the time. Still, the iconic shot was on heavy rotation throughout the early 90s, and made a minor comeback a few years ago, in one of the best series of Gatorade advertisements ever conceived. There was, simply, no escaping the clip, or Jordan's greatness. Cavs fan or not. 

Jordan 3000

On April 16, 1987, the Chicago Bulls lost their penultimate regular season game 117-114 to the first place Atlanta Hawks. But don’t blame Michael Jordan. His Airness, the 1986 Slam Dunk Champion, finished with a cool 61 points, 10 boards, 4 steals, a block and an assist in 41 minutes. Jordan’s 61-point outburst was his third straight game with 50 or more points and, during the third quarter, he put up an incredible 23 straight points, a National Basketball Association record. Two of those 23 points, a lay-up, put Jordan past the 3,000-point mark for the season, making him only the second player-- the first since Wilt Chamberlain-- to scale such lofty heights.

The following night, against the Boston Celtics, Jordan scored a comparably pedestrian 17 points, which brought his season total to a ridiculous 3,041 points, or 240 less than his total minutes played for the entire season. Amazingly, Jordan averaged an unconscious 37 points per 40 minutes that year.