The Chicago Bulls’ second of two threepeats started with the 1996 NBA Finals – it was Michael Jordan’s first full season after retirement, and he stamped himself as the most effective ever.
Jordan, successful his fourth NBA title, was named the Finals MVP as soon as once more, after averaging 27.3 factors per recreation.
The title capped off what was then an NBA-record 72 wins, and it’s nonetheless broadly considered the best NBA crew ever.
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Shawn Kemp of the SuperSonics and Dennis Rodman of the Chicago Bulls within the NBA Finals at Key Area on June 9, 1996, in Seattle. (Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE by way of Getty Photos)
However, one member of that Seattle SuperSonics squad says it wasn’t Jordan who was the largest consider that sequence.
As an alternative, it was Dennis Rodman, says Shawn Kemp.
“Michael wasn’t the explanation, he didn’t beat us,” Kemp advised the “All The Smoke” podcast. “We was on his a–. Dennis Rodman was the one who beat us. We had no reply for his a–.
Chicago Bulls’ Dennis Rodman factors to Shawn Kemp of the SuperSonics after he took a cost through the NBA Finals on June 9, 1996, at KeyArena in Seattle. (Brian Bahr/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
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“Each time that they wanted a second shot or one thing particular or an additional rebound, this motherf—– was flying.”
Rodman dominated the glass within the six-game sequence, averaging 14.7 rebounds a recreation – he had double-digit rebounds in every contest, recording 20 in Recreation 2 and 19 in Recreation 6.
But it surely wasn’t simply his presence on the rack that the Sonics could not cease – Rodman was intimidating Seattle in a slightly peculiar means, says Kemp, including he would “do s— simply to f— with you.”
“He wore coloured contacts through the championship with some lip s—. He making an attempt to kiss Frank [Brickowski]’s arm,” Kemp mentioned. “Frank couldn’t take it. The person in him simply couldn’t enable it. Dennis knew what buttons to push. We would have liked Frank to rebound.”
Shawn Kemp of the Seattle SuperSonics in opposition to Dennis Rodman of the Bulls on Jan. 10, 1996, on the United Middle in Chicago. (Barry Gossage/NBAE by way of Getty Photos)
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After all, that every one sounds fairly on par for Rodman – however he did not make the Corridor of Fame accidentally.
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