Another view of the dunk at 5:58 from a very rare angle. image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/51/1/1513578193-mj1985-4-01.png Photo courtesy of youtube user +Michael Lee

it's not just how high he jumped but in what beautiful style!

The one thing that is never talked about, is just how fast Jordan was.. the steal and breakaway.. wholly unstoppable.

dont understand how can people even compare todays players with jordan. the man was a beast!!

If Jordan perform his dunk on the Moon, he might escaped moon's gravity and ended up floating into the space forever.

thats natural gift. imagine if he had access with todays training regimen.

If Michael Jordan was the same as he was in his era and was somehow transported to todays basketball, the whole internet would explode because of too much MJ, people don't realize that MJs NBA legacy started almost 40 years ago, back when video cameras was seriously limited and you were considered somewhat wealthy if you owned electronics like a polaroid camera... Today everyone would have footage of MJ on their social media, in their phones, saved on their laptops, and every where else possible

I remember when he performed the dunk at 6:50 - it was so casual at the time. Seeing the replay years later, it's pretty insane.

This man's play grabbed the attention of the entire world. Even non sports fans flocked to see him.

The man who put this video together thank you....

to me, he is the greatest athlete that ever lived!

7:05 its just insane!

you are spot on, that lean dunk is the most gorgeous dunk ever, super slick with a killer style. that was MJ. GOAT.

MJ had this weightlessness that would occur near the pinnacle of his jump. When other guys naturally begin to drop from gravity, he somehow continued to rise.

Seriously he is floating it is freakky how high he jumped

lmao this dude head be hittin the backboard while some people even struggle to touch it

Mj is like a cat catching birds in the mid air.. WTF!

It’s amazing he was the nba’s highest jumper and the GOAT

MJ has a perfect landing everytime he jumps. notice how he runs after landed

the thing is, alot of mj's jumps you can tell he wasnt putting 100% into it, just enough to reach for a block or dunk over a guy.. thats why he never had those torn acl stuff,

6:57 Jordan does a 180 double pump honey dip. You heard it hear first. Jordan is the first to do the honey dip dunk.

Jordan had a 50" vertical. He was an incredible athlete one of the greatest of the 20th century.The fact he leaned in mid air was something no one ever done before or after Jordan left the game.

please watch and stop the video in the minute 3:47, I think it is amazing the ability he had to jump so high.

6:55 Elbow in the rim

The greatest basketball player of all time. A true highlight machine. Glad I got to see him play in person. His legend will never die.

6:51 - 7:05 best dunk, ahead of his era

The Kiss the Rim dunk, is indeed the most beautiful, most artistic dunk I think I'ver seen. Even as a guy that dunked, and played ball with pro dudes, NOBODY ever tried to attempt that dunk. it was soooo HARD to do! Didnt even know where to start. Only The GOAT.

Normal People: Trying to touch the backboard Jordan: *Trying not to hit his head on the rim*

The Greatest there ever will be. No doubt MJ combined vertical with horizontal energy to create the optimum arc for a dunk or layup. MJ's hand size also used the ball as leverage in jumps so he could even create more kinetic energy into the jump - no one has this unique ability, you can even see MJ do this with two hands with the absurd hanging jumpshot at 5:22 - look how he throws the ball up and pulls on it to get even more hang time. No one has ever had this ability to naturally coordinate physics with his body and MJ could do this with one hand as well as you can see in the very next move at 5:28. His giant hand allows him to use physics with the ball to pull on it and create a split second more hang time.This is why MJ is the most amazing singular athlete ever- he has maximum extraordinary natural gifts in skill and physics and the body to pull it off. If MJ did a max effort up and down it would be bananas, I say 50 inches easy. Just one of the unknowns of his limitless abilities.

notice during the nba dunk events, he is dribbling the ball all the way. I don’t know if that was a rule, but I remember a lot of other players just running fast without dribbling and just concentrating on the dunking. dribbling must also take away a little as he is also trying to time the jump properly while dribbling

6:56 first elbow dunk... Just a small detail on MJs kiss the rim dunk package. :O

Imagine what MJ's leaping ability would be like with today's strength, conditioning, and training methods.

He is the best.

How do you jump the same off 2 feet and off 1?? Le35on is a one foot Dominique and Vince and D rose were 2 foot but I've never seen somebody do both equally...the best player/athlete to ever lace them up

Man, imagine watching this in HD, let alone 4k... Multiple ballgasms

Im an Australian and imo Michael Jordan is best athlete I've seen in my 42yrs and I like or appreciate all sports. Best build and look as a male specimen and proportions his coordination his look as he moves even is different. His durability his reaction speed cat quick his strength and his killer it's him or me attitude of wateva it takes to win is why I believe 1000 yrs ago people like thst were the fierced warrior's or the leaders of armies the best of the best. 500 years from now there will only be one name remembered in regards to the NBA greatest player of all time Michael Jordan. No one else will be remembered. Kids will talk like he's a myth was he real?.

I remember thinking whose greater at what they do? Michael Jackson or Michael Jordan. I got to witness both as a child. Now the more I think about it, we were blessed in the 80s.

OMG if Jordan had todays training and supplements, he would jump 50"

When he dunked from the free throw line, it was off the dribble, head above the rim, and had more real estate to go.

I don't care what people say. That last dunk is a reverse honey dip and we will never see it again

This video completely destroys the Jordan didn't have a 48 inch vertical leap debate.

Stop this video at 7:44 - That's the scariest site you'll ever see in the game of basketball.

The vertical dunk, the 50 vertical, the Hangtime, the leaping of either foot or both, the use of it on defense aswel ie. Blocks. The style, the swag, one of tje 1sts to do it that way all the while getting beat up and pulled down and still pulling something out of the magic hat. So yes best dunker of all time. Iver and over again. So much to add

Anytime you see an MJ dunk where the TOP of his head is at the rim is a 44 inch vert because the rim is 10ft, minus his height. There are many where he's neck gets bent like the one at North Carolina. This shows proof it's not just the top of his head, it's higher which shows he has a 48-50in vert

All these years later nobody has been emulate the freaky athleticism in such a graceful way during games the layup package as well was so ahead of time and still is and dude probably top 5 with the middy then on the other end of the floor was an absolute jail cell 🔒⬇️

The classical music (Fly by Ludovico Einaudi) chosen to accompany the footage really added to the emotion. Nice

I think the highest jump I've seen is the famous fist pump jump after hitting the buzzer beater against the cavaliers. I'm surprised noone has analyzed that one. I've watched MJ his entire career and that one always stood out. It's hard to understand how high he was due to the camera following him in the air. MJ never jumped as high as he could, he only jumped high enough to complete his play or dunk smoothly and to conserve energy as we know. But this time the adrenaline from the shot gave him the moment to release all the energy he had at that moment, and he also didn't have the ball. I used to work in film in Hollywood and I've analyzed that jump many times and I've come to the conclusion that he's at least chin height to the rim. I would like more experts to analyze that jump.

Every sport needs a Michael Jordan. He made the game what it is today.. people still chasing him

The music (piano) goes PERFECTLY with MJ’s dunks. Watching MJ was really like art.

0:37 how do you jump so high blocking a shot..you hit your head on the back board!😲🤤🤢

Jordan was a Artist playing, every move Impeccable I enjoy watching this videos.

Awesome footage. Keep the MJ vids coming!

30 years later still awesome, spectacular

5:22 ...athletic as f#%k...

3:30 blew my mind thats just incredible how he came out of no where literally

Thank you for posting this vid!

How soon we forget!! GOAT.!!!

Excellent, excellent, compilation. Particularly the astute observation that Mike never jumped his highest unless it was necessary - to conserve energy. Compare that to the great Vince Carter, who was a dunker first, a basketball player second.

Mj jumped 4 feet 48 inches of the floor. Highest recorded for nba. Goat

TO ME, at 0:25 is his HIGHEST jump on this video. Damn Jordan.

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Looks even better in slow motion!

My favorite dunk is from the slam dunk contest where he takes off from the free throw line. His left arm goes back like an airplane wing his left hand is like the flap. His Airness soars! Art in motion. Slow mo of the take off starts at 6:26. The still photo captures the height of his arc. The rim is eye level. 6:32 One of his Nike commercial called his flights “Low altitude earth orbit.” It stayed with me all these years. His Airness is 🐐

Just the amount of effort and research put it to this video, what a great video!

His maximum vertical was 48" (4 feet, still to this day the NBA record), he is 6'6", that means if he were to jump and hit his max vertical, his head would be 6 inches above the rim.

The kiss the rim version he did at Magic's charity game in the blue jersey might be even more beautiful :)

Honorable mention: dunk on Patrick Ewing in the '91 ECSF. Elbow was at the rim.

@6:41 that’s pretty accurate .. he rarely felt the need to jump as high as possible, he had to jump thru the defenses, making contact and absorbing it, making mid air adjustments to score… safer too knowing how the game was played in those days, jump really high and another player cuts underneath you is risky. And yes to conserve energy for a more physical era of basketball

1:03 that vertical leap is ridiculous, he got of the ground so high, crazy the things he was doing in the league at the height of 6’6”

7:02 I want this on my wall!

MJ in his rookie year his 6'5 in 1984 against the Bucks he caught the alleyhoop standing flat footed without a running start and STILL managed to dunk with two hands (yes, you get up higher with one hand than two) and his TEETH were at the rim .. damn!!

Great compilation! Thanks!

Combination of hops and INSANE SPEED. That’s what nobody can replicate. Many players can jump. Many are quick. But nobody could combine both to that degree.

I totally agree on that last dunk. I’m a huge Jordan fan and for me that’s his best dunk. Also it was one of the best looking dunks I have ever seen. 👍🏼

I loved dunking off 2 feet using more of a vertical like the old leaning dunk But for him to get his head at the Rim off one leg was Remarkable

Wow! Wow! Wow! The footage you do have is iconic!

He's the goat no doubt. There's great players today but it's just immediately obvious how much more naturally talented Jordan was.

The cover of "Come Fly with Me." I've never been able to find THAT video.

I love how in transition he never takes the easydunk and he almost always jumps from outside the paint

Great video...The rare video clips were the cherry's on top.

1:03 Even the "fails" looked fly af. lol Great video. Every time one of these MJ videos pops up in my feed it just signals another nail in the coffin for anybody trying to make comparisons. All these years later people are STILL digging up amazing plays that many have never seen or have forgotten about.

The fact that people even try to put Bron in this debate is borderline offensive. The avg person, better yet even the people who know MJ is the Goat, still don't quite realize how damn incredible this man was.

It gotta be the shoe

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Hey man....im a life long MJ fan just thanks for putting that together....nice homage to the GOAT!!!

3:43 probably highest

Just imagine what the other 60% has in highlights. Damn

I think that the most overlooked thing about his athleticism is the way he lands, like a cat moving instantly in the opposite direction of the landing direction..I've never seen anything like it

MJ has been the fastest player we have ever seen. Moves like a powerful panther, jumps higher than anyone with his head above the rim, has the best jump shot of anyone, perfect execution, has a will power on the court that no one has ever had. There is no doubt that he is the best ever and history shows it. No one in actual NBA can even shine his shows. That's all. There are great players today but they are inferior to MJ in every aspect

I remember a block in 1998 vs Nets, on Gatling, where his head is so high (at 35 y/o) and then a Jumpshot vs the Bucks in 1996 where he jumps crazy high. A pitty that I haven't seen a picture of that particular shot. Unblockable !

did you notice something ? all of the footage is before 1991 where he won his first ring ..shame that people dont give a chance to watch his early highlights just because the quality is not that good..prime mj was in the late 80s in my opinion

Your right that last dunk," my personal favorite" is a masterpiece!

thank you so much for this video

Good stuff but there is a game in which MJ jumped so high to dunk, he had the ball palmed and it was higher than the top of square on the backboard. The video was from an angle I had never seen before and I had only seen players get that high in dunking contests.......MJ did it during a game.

Jordan fan: 'Jordan has a 5 mile vertical! GOAT!' LeBron fan: 'LeBron is bigger and stronger than Mike. GoaT!' Non biased fan: 'Jordan is a much better player than LeBron.' Impartial person on the streets that doesn't follow basketball: 'Jordan is better.' 99% of players, past and present: 'Jordan is better.' Almost every coach and analyst ever: 'Jordan is better.' TV ratings: Jordan is better. Crowd attendence: Jordan is better. Merchandising and shoe sales: Jordan is better. Global recognition: Jordan is better. See where I'm going with this...

That was fantastically well done. Nice job!!

Great editing!

Tell this day I'm still amazed.

1:10 Damn freaking bat hanging in the air. Lol... thats too high jump ever.

The greatest athlete of all time. I'm a born/raised Chicagoan. I saw Michael at their home stadium four times. No matter how fast and how athletic he looked on TV, in person he was far more spectacular. What showed up in person far more than on TV was the GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MICHAEL JORDAN AND EVERYONE ELSE ON THE COURT in - !!!everything!!! Speed, cutting, leaping, passing, faking, juking, flexibility, strength, decision-making, rebounding, blocking, dribbling, shooting. His better-than-Globetrotters touch with the basketball was unbelievable. In addition, Michael Jordan was the most-graceful, balanced, poetic being in motion in history. And yet, I believe his greatest strength was his competitiveness. I believe he burned more calories per game and overall than any other player in the history of the game. That level of will power combined with athleticism was jaw-dropping every single game he played. We who watched him explode on the scene and dominate from Day 1 to his last day in the NBA are fortunate. There will never be another. I mean absolutely no disrespect to any other NBA player or other athlete. It's hard to imagine that there ever was or could ever be another athlete like Michael Jordan.