Perhaps the truest mark of any all-time great is the teams he left in his wake. Bill Russell and the Celtics buried Jerry West and the Lakers throughout the 1960s, and LeBron James has no shortage of Eastern Conference foes decimated throughout the 2010s. But no superstar in history has dispatched a generation of elite players and teams quite like Michael Jordan.
Jordan’s hit count in the 1990s is iconic. He ended the Bad Boy Pistons, shut down Clyde Drexler’s Blazers and out-dueled Charles Barkley en route to a trio of Finals, and that was before his first retirement.