Rockets Tout Success Against Michael Jordan, Bulls in Twitter Video

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Rockets Tout Success Against Michael Jordan, Bulls in Twitter Video

Michael Shapiro
a day ago



Michael Jordan and the Bulls captivated NBA fans once again on Sunday night with the premiere of ESPN's 10-part documentary 'The Last Dance'. The film details the Jordan's 13-year run with the Bulls, a dominant stretch that was briefly interrupted by a two-year hiatus in which Jordan played minor league baseball. The Rockets thrived in Jordan's absence.

Houston won back-to-back championships in 1994 and 1995, and the franchise's two championships are sandwiched between Jordan's pair of three-peats in Chicago. Jordan's Bulls and Hakeem Olajuwon's Rockets were the two best teams of the 1990s, though they never met in an NBA Finals. How would a potential Finals matchup between Jordan and Olajuwon shake out? The Rockets appear confident.

Houston released a video on its social media channels on Sunday with the caption, "the record speaks for itself." The video features a highlight montage of the Rockets against Jordan and the Bulls from 1991-93, a period in which Houston won five of six regular-season meetings. And the Rockets didn't hold back in their narration of Sunday's video.

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https://www.si.com/nba/rockets/news/rockets-celebrate-success-michael-jordan-rockets

[Cyber Liberty]

I made 25 consecutive virtual free-throws last night.

[goatprairie]

Jordan was on record as saying Houston was the team that scared him the most....they had no answer for Olajuwon. This was still the era when the three ball wasn't nearly as important as it is now.
An unstoppable center like Olajuwon and a pickup like Drexler could have given the Bulls a lot of problems.
Overall Jordan was fortunate to be in his prime during the 90s when the great teams of the 80s were no more, and the competition wasn't as good.
The year after Jordan first retired, '93'94, the Bulls won only two less games than they did the previous regular season and almost beat the Knicks in the EC semis. The Knicks went on to the finals to lose to Houston in seven games.