'They couldn't beat us': Maxwell says MJ's Bulls were no match for Rockets
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Michael Jordan announced "I'm back" 20 years ago this week, reminding us all of the baseball sabbatical he took between NBA three-peats in the 1990s. What many forget, though, is what happened while he was gone.
The Houston Rockets won two consecutive championships in 1994 and 1995. At a recent reunion event for those Rockets squads, microwave scoring machine Vernon Maxwell was asked about the matchup that never was, between Jordan's Bulls and those Rockets, led by Hakeem Olajuwon.
"Google it," Maxwell said, when asked about the Finals we never got to see. "That's what I tell everybody . . . they couldn't beat us."
He reminds reporters that Houston went 5-1 against the Bulls during the years of their first three-peat. "The numbers don't lie," Maxwell went on.
See the rest of Maxwell's confident contemplation of beating Michael, here:
