{"id":567311,"date":"2020-04-30T17:55:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=567311"},"modified":"2020-04-30T17:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:59:31","slug":"agent-michael-jordan-would-average-between-50-and-60-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/agent-michael-jordan-would-average-between-50-and-60-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent: Michael Jordan Would Average &#8216;Between 50 and 60&#8217; Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An in-his-prime <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/tag\/michael-jordan\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jordan<\/a> would torch today&#8217;s NBA competition for something &#8220;between 50 and 60&#8221; points a night, according to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/tag\/david-falk\" target=\"_blank\">David Falk<\/a>, who represented His Airness throughout his legendary playing career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MJ has the highest regular season (30.1 PPG) and playoff (33.4 PPG) scoring averages of all time, and no current player is &#8220;remotely&#8221; in his league, says Falk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">David Falk dishes on what you didn&#39;t see in The Last Dance, sharing his candid thoughts on Isiah Thomas, the handshake scandal, and how unstoppable Michael Jordan would be in today&#39;s NBA.<br><br>&quot;I think he&#39;d average between 50 and 60 a game.&quot;<br><br>\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fB0IoRrtYX\">https:\/\/t.co\/fB0IoRrtYX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 106.7 The Fan (@1067theFan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1067theFan\/status\/1255538031626510338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The renowned agent adds that he believes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/tag\/scottie-pippen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scottie Pippen<\/a> &#8220;has a certain level of jealousy&#8221; towards his former Chicago Bulls teammate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">David Falk, Michael Jordan&#39;s agent, says MJ would average 50-60 points in today&#39;s game and that Scottie Pippen is jealous of Jordan in amazing interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JunksRadio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JunksRadio<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSWashington?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBCSWashington<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7uR36Dml85\">https:\/\/t.co\/7uR36Dml85<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Chase Hughes (@chasedcsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chasedcsports\/status\/1255703621234298880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Per <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/washington\/wizards\/michael-jordans-agent-says-hed-average-50-60-points-today-and-scottie-pippen-jealous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC Sports Washington<\/a><\/em>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;With virtually zero defense, no hand-checking, I think if Jordan played today; if he was in his prime in today&#8217;s rules, I think he&#8217;d average between 50 and 60 a game. I think he&#8217;d shoot 75% from the floor. If you couldn&#8217;t hand-check him, he would be completely unstoppable,&#8221; Falk said. &#8220;Now that I watch [the documentary], I realize that, unless you&#8217;re legally blind, you can&#8217;t possibly think that there&#8217;s another player who ever played the game that&#8217;s remotely in the league that he&#8217;s in. Nobody.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><p><em>Falk continued.<\/em><\/p><p><em>&#8220;I hope personally, and I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t, that the doc ends all talk about like is Jordan competitive with LeBron [James]? He&#8217;s in a different league. If you don&#8217;t see that with your eyes, maybe the doctor&#8217;s office can help because you should have an eye test,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><p><em>Falk has apparently seen the remaining episodes of &#8220;The Last Dance&#8221; and says some things he and others have known for a long time will come to light.<\/em><\/p><p><em>&#8220;Pippen has a certain level of jealousy towards Michael. He has said recently many times he thinks LeBron&#8217;s a better player. Now, if you&#8217;re Scottie Pippen, and Michael Jordan made your career, completely made your career; even if you think that, keep it to yourself,&#8221; Falk said. &#8220;Scottie&#8217;s problem, as the documentary points out in so many different places after the episodes you&#8217;ve seen, is that he wasn&#8217;t a great competitor. There were times for silly reasons. The migraine; you think that Michael Jordan [would do that] unless he had his leg amputated?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/jeff-van-gundy-michael-jordan-would-average-north-of-40-points-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jeff Van Gundy: Michael Jordan \u2018Would Average North of 40 Points\u2019 Today<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An in-his-prime Michael Jordan would torch today&#8217;s NBA competition for something &#8220;between 50 and 60&#8221; points a night, according to David Falk, who represented His Airness throughout his legendary playing career. MJ has the highest regular season (30.1 PPG) and playoff (33.4 PPG) scoring averages of all time, and no current player is &#8220;remotely&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":567312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,62493],"tags":[13005,912,13004,149,62523,783,1267,49753],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-567311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-newswire","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-david-falk","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-mantle","tag-michael-jordan","tag-scottie-pippen","tag-the-last-dance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567319,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567311\/revisions\/567319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567311"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=567311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}