474: 177: Michael Jordan Is No Longer Important (Requesting Monthly Votes!)_3 474: 177: Michael Jordan Is No Longer Important (Requesting Monthly Votes!)_3 Roger scored 20 points in the quarter, and the Magic led by 5!
Wilkins’s skin crawled with goosebumps; he had thought that Roger was just talking big before.
In that ga in Atlanta, Roger told Wilkins: “That thing from 1988 won’t happen again because this ti, the asshole who can score 20 points in a quarter is by your side.”
Wilkins couldn’t believe that Roger had turned it into a reality!
Jordan and Ewing gritted their teeth as they watched Roger at the free-throw line, powerless to stop him.
This wasn’t the first ti that top athletes were seen embarrassed at their low point, Marv Albert used a boxing analogy:
“This foul is like Mike Tyson, cornered, resorting to biting Evander Holyfield’s ear in a fight to deal with the beating!
Yes, they’re both desperate, so they make such a helpless choice!”
Once the Tyson who was proficient at destroying opponents in seconds, now forced to rely on so tasteless bullshit to prove he’s still tough.
What about Jordan?
His situation was even worse than Tyson’s.
Tyson at least could still fight.
But Jordan’s professional career was about to be terminated.
No one expected the fourth quarter of the ga to be so ruthless.
People thought it would be a scoring battle between Jordan and Roger, a fierce fight.
Instead, it turned into a rciless slaughter.
Knicks fans felt as if they’d plunged into an ice cave, the cold piercing to the bone.
Madison Square Garden, the fourth quarter, a do-or-die…
It seed as if everything had been predetermined.
Because Roger, in this situation, had never missed before!
As the ga ti ticked away, Michael Jordan continued to be dominated by Roger on the court.
The Knicks, who had led by 7 points, were now falling further behind.
With 1 minute and 3 seconds left in the ga, Roger scored his 25th point of the quarter with a pick-and-roll jumper, for a total of 48 points!
After the third quarter ended, Roger trailed Jordan by 14 points in individual scoring; now, he had completely overtaken him!
Michael Jordan had only managed 9 points this quarter, totaling 45 points so far.
And the Knicks were now trailing by 9 points.
Jordan panted heavily; was his professional career going to end like this?
He continued to attack, looking for opportunities through off-ball movents.
This ti, Roger got caught on Ewing’s off-ball screen and lost Jordan.
Seeing this, Wilkins imdiately stepped in to defend, confronting Jordan directly.
The keenly sensing Jordan knew well that his chance had co!
Jordan made a move to drive, fooling Wilkins into a lateral movent, only to change direction imdiately.
But, incredibly, Wilkins managed to move in ti, blocking in front of Jordan and colliding hard, bringing Jordan to a halt!
Surprise filled Jordan’s brown eyes; he looked at Wilkins in disbelief, not understanding.
How could this be?
Even if that guy had been gasping just now, he couldn’t suddenly be bounding with energy.
Normally, that would be impossible, unless, your spirit lets your body break through the bottleneck.
Now, Wilkins understood that Roger was the superstar destined to destroy the Knicks.
The very thing he feared most, this ti, stood with him.
So, he feared nothing.
To hell with exhaustion, to hell with fear.
Even if I plunge into hell, even if I run my legs to break, I will hang on till the end of the ga, to get that ring!
Co on, Michael Jordan, bring it on!
Kill , or be killed!
Victory, is the only truth.
Win the victory, win everything!
After being blocked, Jordan didn’t have much ti to adjust, because Roger was already lunging at him.
Pass the ball to Larry Johnson?
No, Grandmama had long since lost his touch.
Although passing the ball could take so of the bla off Jordan, he wouldn’t do that.
Jordan adjusted himself, pushing away Wilkins with one hand, preparing to step back for a jump shot.
But the mont the ball was in both hands, Jordan’s ball was poked away by Wilkins!
Dominique Wilkins, always fond of gambling for steals, won the most important gamble of his life!
“Ah!!!”
Wilkins roared, using those legs that had once soared through the air, squeezing out the last bit of strength to rush towards the ball, diving to the ground, lunging for the basketball.
It’s hard to imagine, just last fall at the Magic Team’s preseason training camp, the haughty Dominique Wilkins was caught by Roger for not bothering to chase after a loose ball and was berated while being grabbed by the collar.
That incident had sparked a feud between them.
But now, he threw himself into the ga without any regard for his safety.
Yes, not everyone is like Shaq, never changing.
Wilkins dived for the basketball, then pushed it single-handedly towards Roger.
Go.
Turn the lead into double digits!
Fulfill your promise!
Put an end to all this!
Let wear that damn ring!
Roger stooped, picking up the ball.
Jordan quickly went to defend, but he found that the distance between him and Roger was getting wider; he couldn’t catch up.
Roger?
At that mont, he rembered the season he was traded.
Roger, the world’s number one aweso king.
Without Michael Jordan, the Bulls were nothing.
Just one year would prove that Roger would never be as good as Michael, because Michael could lead the sa Bulls to championship victory, but Roger couldn’t.
Ha.
Now, Roger was going to make Jordan nothing!
Substitute for Jordan, and the Bulls wouldn’t make it to a single Finals, Jordan wouldn’t make it to a single Finals, I kept my word!
Roger burst into the paint, his entire body tensed in the air like an axe cleaving into Jordan’s head, and he slamd the ball down fiercely!
The next mont of that shot, if frozen at that instant, was Wilkins leaping in mid-air, Harper with his arms raised high, Brian Hill shouting loudly, the substitutes standing and waving towels, and a complex-looking Shaq.
Everyone was losing their composure, ecstatic, sharing the joy of that mont.
Years later, many people would still reminisce about this day, the day when Roger’s na was etched into history.
He had slayed God for the third ti.
He had beco part of a dynasty!
The sprint, the slam, the landing, the roar.
27 points in a single quarter, 49 points for the entire ga.
Roger chopped Michael Jordan to a bloody sprawl in the fourth quarter.
Then, with bloodied hands, he erged as the final victor, having claid a savage and bloody victory.
Michael Jordan stood not far behind Roger, hands on his hips.
It was over, all over.
He had witnessed the most brilliant peaks, and now, he had plunged into the most desperate of valleys.
At that mont, Roger ran back on defense, passing by Jordan.
Jordan thought that Roger would trash talk him, as Roger’s vicious trash talk hadn’t stopped all quarter.
But Roger said nothing, he didn’t even glance at Jordan.
Roger’s reaction plunged Jordan further into despair.
It ant that he, like the other opponents lying in pools of blood, was no longer significant.
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