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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 3184641, member: 767"]
I was thinking about this recently actually.  In 87 he averaged 37.1 (that was a few years before I followed sports and it just blew my mind someone could score 37 a game when I read about it growing up).
Something I didn't know until I just looked it up; the 87 Bulls played at the slowest pace in the league, about 93 possessions per game.  Last year the Rockets were also near the bottom of the league, around 98 possessions per game.

So I think if you brought Jordan forward to today, he would be picking up a few possessions a game, not exactly worth a lot, but not nothing.  But the biggest thing you would be the way the game is officiated, I have to assume that like Harden, Jordan would be absolutely living at the line.  It also blows my mind that Jordan scored 37 points per game that year and made 12 three pointers all season.  (The bulls made 78 all season as a team.  They took 299 as a team.  Harden took 3.4x as many himself last year.

I know you were half joking, but like I said, I was wondering it myself.  Something working against Jordan would be I think defenses now are overall better.  God, the rest of that Bulls team was such garbage.  Realistically though, Harden is about maxing out usage and efficiency, I am not sure how much more anyone could really score than him.
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