their both legends but the passing from magic johnson didn't equal the scoring from kareem abdul-jabbar so the 1980 1982 and 1987 finals mvp's should've been awarded to kareem abdul-jabbar

Not to mention Sam Perkins also on that team. Heard his name called a few times

Ewing almost went to UNC before deciding on Georgetown.

No way! Some of my friends say they don't watch college sports and I say "how in the hell do you know where they come from or how good they are or were", Perkins ,Worthy, Jordan, Black and Matt Dorothy. And I'm not from NC.

LoL you a Stan not a fan every Laker fan knew this foh dude 🤕

He had help.

You mean second half, college played 2 - 20 minute halves not quarters

@@grosskopf2779 still do since 1954

Don't understand why people keep bringing up MJ when James Worthy was the one who shined this game . And unfortunately Freddie Brown choke up. Smh

Spot on. This team was led by him Black, Doherty. James Final Four was sterling. Just like his play in all the NBA Champ Series he played in. He was Big Game James.

@@viviandarkbloom100 Here is a funny story, up until these NCAA tournament games, I hadn't even heard of Worthy, I can remember my boy on the block saying , "yo E check out this dude on Carolina, with a full beard, dude is the real deal, James Worthy", bro after this game here I was like damn, dude could just will his way to his shot, Worthy was a beast. Unstoppable at that level.

You realize Jordan was a freshman, starting on a North Carolina team, I wonder how often that happens

@@gnnacharles1 No, freshmen didnt start very often under Dean, obviously Jordan was an exception to many rules. Was Jimmy Black on that UNC team, ? I think he may have been.

@@ericday4505 Yes Eric he was a senior in '81-'82 and Carolina's starting point guard

So Right. Worthy was the MAN in that Championship game!!

I knew that because I'm a native of NC. I was born in Gastonia and grew up in Wilmington. Sleepy Floyd singed my NC Sports Hall of Fame program.

Everybody knows

I was thinking the same thing

Nope, didn't know that, now I do, thanks. 😀

Sleepy was an incredible ball player and he won that G-town match up just a few years earlier at State Championship

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He killed me when he did that! 😑

You must be a Georgetown fan

I'm a UNC guy, but it's always been interesting to me how people overlook that. If Brown catches himself and doesn't throw that ball, but instead swings it left to Ewing (then guarded by Jimmy Black), Worthy is at the top of the key completely out of position with Ewing in the paint. Doherty is there, but no match for Ewing, who begins to drive to the basket. Perkins would have to leave his man to help, leaving another Georgetown player potentially wide open under the basket. That said, I'm glad it didn't happen that way!

When Jordan left his player Brown should have taken the shot. Wide open. Or called time out.

Is that a fact, I did not know that?

@@ericday4505 Gastonia NC. They played against each other in high school.

@@darrylnelson05 Oh ok, did James Worthy have that beard in grade school? I heard he did. LoL.

Sleepy Floyd is one of the greats of basketball

That game is Classic and UNC got the first title for Coach Smith ,but people need to know Dean& John were really close friends and they were happy for each other in this game coach Thompson told Ewing to block everything send it back.back so tha is why so many goal tending calls.

HIs coach told him to send EVERYTHING back to get inside the UNC players' heads. He told him goaltending or not, send everything back.

@@skins2181 If that is true its really stupid, but John Thompson would do anything to win, true story, in the championship game when Villanova played about a perfect game to beat the Hoyas, in that game in the closing seconds, John had one of his players pull the Villanova backup center on top of himself to create the illusion of a charging foul, it is a bush play, that can get a player hurt, but the officials saw right thru it, after that play I lost lots of respect for big John, .

@@ericday4505 I was there...It was a gamesmanship play. Coach believed kids remember getting there shot blocked, not goaltending. Ewing only did it in the beginning of the game. Force the ref to call it. He blocked a few as well.

@@namron3165 The thing is maybe s couple of those shots rattles in and out, and Ewing could have been in better position to get a rebound, I simply would not have used such a strategy, different strokes for different folks.

@@ericday4505It is true, its called strategy because you noticed he did it at the beginning of the game, it's getting in a players head. If a player thinks while shooting they're more likely to miss. You lost respect for John for that?? Hah, the Hoyas did worst things than that and if that is the case you must have really hated John Chaney from Temple

I wouldn't define it as a choke since the odds of them losing was so small regardless. Missing the second one was actually a good thing, and probably the right thing to do. And sometime you just miss. Now passing it to the wrong team is the definition of choke.

@@ckobo84 The second one was a MAJOR choke miss. Up only by one anything can happen with even just a couple of seconds left and they would have lost with a basket for GT. He missed two big free throws - no spinning it. Yes they won but just put ONE in to at least cement a tie in the unlikely event they make a basket.

年少輕狂，老想封掉對手的投籃，結果變成送分。

Nobody is questioning him, why you bring that up. He and Perkins had a tremendous career at the Lakers

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You’re unintelligent and don’t understand mental tactics of sport. It was done on purpose to intimidate them from going into the paint. To turn them into shooters which they weren’t very good at. Especially Jordan which is why he was left open so much.

@@atlnla4112 LOL bro. Giving the other team points is somehow smart to you? Do you even understand basketball? Ewing didn't need to goal tend to intimidate. Did Worthy look intimidated?

@@arizjones It was intimidation. Worthy was only one player what about everyone else? And Worthy wasn't shooting straight up on Ewing either because that would have been dumb basketball. And I understand basketball fully

@@grosskopf2779 Dude, you alter shots, and get blocks and that intimidates or you give very hard fouls. Goal tending scores points for the other team, and does nothing to intimidate them. It is REAL STUPID. Those points given up were the difference in this game. I played with a center that won more NBA championships that Ewing, and he did it with way less athletic ability, but he knew how to intimidate, and it was not by goal tending and scoring points for the wrong team.

@@arizjones Yeah ? What is the name of your Center ? Uhuh John Thompson was real stupid . Yeah a legendary coach was stupid. If Freddie didn’t choke up and they scored there’s no conversation.

Sounds like you need to watch some of Curry's NCAA highlights.

If Steph Curry send by the time machine in these era, I think Curry better than Patrick Ewing, same level with MJ, but He's inferior than "MVP's" James Worthy

unlike lbj

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Jordan needed 1. LBJ needed Wade and Bosh

@@landoktaha5877 Oh please! My God! If it wasn't for acquisitions to form superteams LeBron wouldn't have four rings! Michael Jordan kept the same core group of guys around him during both three peats and they didn't have to get any major guy off the free agent market! Without Wade and Bosh, even Ray Allen for one of the runs, LeBron doesn't have those two titles! Despite the fact I don't like Kyrie anymore, LeBron doesn't win in Cleveland without him and in LA, if they don't acquire Anthony Davis, he's without that championship! In fact Davis should have been the MVP of that 2020 playoff run! They don't even make the Finals without him

@@coolnakaalaman5402 Jordan didn't need even 1 my man! Yes he had Scottie Pippen but Pippen grew into the player he did playing alongside MJ! They helped each other but the Bulls drafted Pippen directly, not having to acquire him off the market! The market has been directly responsible for Lebron's 4 titles

About 3 maybe 4 out of the 5 were on purpose, John Thompson told him to do that for intimidation.

@@grosskopf2779 Wow. Maybe it worked on MJ but not on Lebron Worthy ☺️☺️☺️

@@larpsim Lebron Worthy?? Huh? Have to look at thee game to determine that because from looking at this Worthy got his points of put backs, steals and transition. 6 from the goaltending which we don't know if they were going in. Besides possibly wouldn't even be talking about this if Freddie didn't choke up and gave the ball to Sleepy

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@@larpsim ??????

It wasn't Ewing beating Jordan it was the Knicks beating the Bulls. In this case Hoyas lost to Carolina but Worthy was the shine here not MJ

@@grosskopf2779 Still lost to Jordan

@@finstonhoward9223 And James Worthy, Sam Perkins and Jimmy Black , the rest of the starting 5 Dean Smith , his assistant coaches and the bench players. So?

He was not a 20 yr old freshman.. Gtfo

@@kendallbledsoe6548 in comparison this was Lebrons rookie year tho so u gtfo

He was 19 at that time

@@Arthur-ew5en you don't know shit about basketball

Things LeBron James never did: Win a National Championship in college. Win the Naismith award for best college basketball player of the year. Win six NBA championships....

Nope. He didn't have the guards skills to facilitate

@@PowerGearPerformance I didn't know you were him to say that, u better go look at them highlights, look at giannis on the bucks, James use to come down the court like that, u just lied about all this, sound good, facilitate what, he drew double team at times too,but see what u fail to realize is jordan had the ball in his hand more then anyone(isolation) ..the Lakers actually ran the triangle offense more then the bulls, and don't say they didn't, if you do, you have no idea what the triangle is, they ran it alot but not like the Lakers, they jus were the first team to run it considering phil only coached 2 teams, soon as Jordan touched it, he going for his fade away most likely you won't see it again..

@@neekholiday3068 he did indeed. But Dean Smith said shouldn't play PG in The NBA. He never said that about Worthy. You can't compare Gnannis as a facilitator to a LeBron, PG13 or even Kawhi. Worthy wasn't gonna facilitate in a half court set young dog

@@PowerGearPerformance I believed if they used him or needed him for that then he could've did it, worthy could handle the ball, and pass, mid range shot, drive to the basket and had Defensive