re: Alonzo mourning says Jordan would average 50 today.

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Joe Dumars ran a front office for 15 years, and Phil Jackson won 10 titles, from the early 90s through the late 2000s. Those 2 aren't just guys reliving the glory days, they have coached/ran offices in the league today.

Hell even Kobe said the game today is soft. He Duncan and Garnett are really 3 of the guys I would believe when it comes to how the game has changed since they have been great in both eras (if we are talking the 90s as opposed to the 80s of course)

If you want to say Zones have slowed scorers down fine, but there are no centers in the NBA even in the same league as those in the 90s

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Joe Dumars (player during that time) and Phil (MJs coach) have major incentive to be biased. Regardless, the rules changes that would have helped MJ (handcheck) would have been offset by rule changes that would have hurt him (zone and help defenses).

In all actuality, MJ would probably have done just as well as be did during his time. As a reference, if you take MJs highest scoring season (37.1), and throw out his 10 lowest scoring games (nearly an eighth of the season) of that season, he would have averaged 39.3 points.