So I'm not a basketball historian, and I'm still a young pup. I barely remember the Bulls glory years - I was in elementary school when they won titles 4-6 (yikes, aging the crap outta myself), but I do vividly remember the Byron Russell push-off and I cherished my Michael Jordan cards. I still have a bunch of em! This one is still in a nice case and one of my favorites... Anyway, when I saw Jimmy Butler go off for 52/12/6/3/1 last night, I was about to make all sorts of tongue-and-cheek MJ parallels...
Got the same reverse layup and everything! But then it dawned on me... Butler is more like Scottie Pippen if there was no Jordan. Pippen's best season was 93-94, unsurprisingly the year without MJ, and went 22.0/8.7/5.6/2.9/0.8 on 49% shooting with 0.9 treys. So far this year, J Buckets is 25.3/6.8/4.4/1.7/0.3 on 46% shooting with 1.1 treys. While Pippen was obviously one of the best defensive players of his generation, Butler is a much better FT shooter and gets to the line more. But the rest is really close, and I thought kinda interesting food for thought. So the answer for the Bulls is simple - find a Michael Jordan for Buckets to play next to! I'm a problem-solver - if only every team's issue in the NBA was this easy! Hah! Here's what else went down last night in fantasy basketball action:
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