The MJ PR machine is impressive ngl.
His first 3 postseasons he got bounced first round. Swept twice with a 1-9 total record. Next 3 postseasons all got ended by DET. 6 straight postseasons of belt to ass before his 1st Finals trip and folks will be dead serious when they tell you that’s that’s more impressive than a Finals run in your very 1st postseason.
Like I said it’s reached the point where the PR machine around him is so unapologetically revisionist that it’s actually impressive now.
Whatever. The last person with credibility on this issue is Nick Saban. Holy crap. This is the coach who built Bama into the unchallenged apex predator of the arms race he is now warning Congress about, who collected $11 million a year while Olympic sports got cut at Bama, who recruited every blue-chip prospect into a system that made the "spend to win" dynamic he now decries. Saban created the conditions for the race to the bottom and rode it to seven national championships, then retired the moment the players got a meaningful piece of the revenue. Now he is testifying before Congress as the moral authority on what went wrong. This clown is the arsonist trying to put out the fire.