re: Happy 52nd Birthday Michael Jordan

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Don't recall the Jordan-led Bulls ever losing an NBA Finals ever.

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Or going to a game 7 in the Finals...

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the GOAT in any sport...

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I'd put him #2 behind Gretzky, but that's arguable.

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GOAT and it's not even close at this point

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Bill Russell? Wilt? Oscar Robertson?

Jordan would never have had a second three-peat without pippen and rodman (and never a first three-peat without Grant) although I think it's reasonable he would have gotten one or two even without his all-star supporting cast. He was a hell of a basketball player, just not the god that people think he is.

The absence of a decent PF was why the bulls (with Jordan and Pippen) lost in the 1995 playoffs. They added Rodman the next year to replace the void left by Horace Grant and blew away the competition with the best season of all time.

In '92-'93, the bulls go 57-25 with Jordan, Pippen, and Grant (and win the Finals).
In '93-'94, Jordan leaves. Pippen and Grant stay. The bulls go 55-27 (only a two game difference), but without a third star on the team, lose in the second round of the playoffs.
In '94-'95, Grant leaves. Bulls go 34-31 until Jordan returns for the last 17 games of the season (in which they go 13-4). Final record 47-35. Again, without a third star they lose in the second round of the playoffs.
Finally, In '95-'96, they add Rodman, the PF they need and third star on the team. Boom, best season of all time and back to winning championships.

Jordan's teams were loaded. Wilt was probably the most dominant single basketball player ever, he just played against arguably the best collection of talent that the NBA has ever seen: the Bill Russell led Celtics that won almost twice as many NBA titles as Jordan. If championships are the gold standard of greatest basketball players like so many people claim, Bill Russell has Jordan beat by 5 titles. lol.

Is it fair to own 10 million dollars for every year you have lived?

In his case probably so.... I saw him play in the Omni twice in Atlanta and "Jesus Basketball" was a men among really talented boys.