Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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We tracked 129 Michael Jordan playoff games to help compare him to some of the all-time greats that have played since. How good were the Bulls when Jordan was on the court? How good were they when he went to the bench? What happened to his supporting cast during the Phil Jackson years? And how does MJ compare to to LeBron, Shaq, Curry and others in plus-minus stats that we've had since 1997?

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Ben Taylor is the author of Thinking Basketball, a Nylon Calculus contributor, creator of the Backpicks Top 40 series & host of the Thinking Basketball podcast.

Stats courtesy:
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basketball-reference.com
stats.nba.com
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