He alone had managed to knock down the whole de luxe starting lineup of Boston Celtics: Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, besides Bill Walton, a historic center elected best sixth man of the year in 1986.
        

It had never seen at NBA cathedral such a display of brutal speed, impressive pace changes, wild decelerations, physical endurance, perseverance, colossal jumping ability unknown to then, resolution, leaping shots in incredible foreshortenings, stratospheric slam dunks defying gravity laws, etc.
         

That night nobody could stop Jordan, well assisted by Orlando Woolridge and John Paxon.

Ha was named eleven times for the All Star Game, winning thrice the MVP trophy of this annual ,atch between the NBA stars in 1988, 1996 and 1998 and he has undoubtedly been the most lethal and unstoppable scorer in history, being a lot of times the NBA Top Scorer, usually with averages far ahead of 30 points per game and very frequently exceeding 40 and 50 points per game, mainly in playoffs and Final Series!.
         

But it was in the 1988 East-West game when Michael Jordan became the world astonished with an amazing performance at the Chicago Stadium, with a final card of 40 points, 8 rebounds, three assists, 4 stealths and 4 block-shots, without forgetting his spectacular victory in the Slam Dunk Trophy, where he displayed his marvellous athletic gifts with several slam dunks in which sometimes he had to bend his head in order not to hit the hoop with it! That day, Jordan literally flew and the apotheosis came when Michael took his stand on the other extreme of the arena and stared at the hoop in the distance. Everybody knew something great was gonna happen and it was that way. He ran all the court at full speed and with a brutal jump still unexplainable for science, leaping from behind the free shots line!!!, after a long and rather high flight he strongly smashed the hoop. The tenets by Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein weren´t in effect any longer. At last, man could fly.

Meanwhile, in the bleachers, Julius Erving, Dr J, Basketball Honoris causa Doctor, was really dazzled and aroused enough burst into applause. His successor had arrived.
         

But until winning his first NBA ring, the road for Jordan was hard, very hard.
First of all, he was forced to wait for the 87-88 season to receive the reinforcement of two top-notch rookies: Scottie Pippen (an extraordinary and very protean forward, sensational attacker and very good defender) and Horace Grant (a very tough rebounder and block-shot specialist).
         

In the initial stage in Chicago Bulls, under the head coach Stan Albeck, Jordan had been compelled to play almost by himself trying to resolve the matches alone, because of the lack of strength both in the starting lineup and bench depth. Now, the things were changing and the new coach Phil Jackson (joined in 1988 and 1973 NBA Champion with New York Knicks and an impressive Bill Bradley) was conveying the team a group mentality, always with Michael Jordan as the axis, but increasingly with more participation of the rest of the franchise players: B.J.Armstrong , the quoted Pippen and Grant, Stacy King, Cliff Levingston, Scott Williams, John Paxon, Wilt Perdue, Bill Cartwright, etc.

At the end of eighties decade, the biggest hindrance for Chicago Bulls were the Detroit Pistons, that wiped them out in the Eastern Conference Semifinals during 1988-89 and 1989-90 seasons, in some games to the death, in which the greater bench depth of the ´ Bad Boys ´ was finally decisive (being able to put on stage almost two dreaming lineups with players as Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Adrian Dantley, Mark Aguirre, ´ Microwave´ Vinnie Johnson, Dennis Rodman, Bill Laimbeer, John Salley, Ricky Mahorn and James Edwards) and above all its extraordinary to the limit defense, literally to exhaustion, drawn by its head coach Chuck Daly, with Dennis Rodman (the best defender in the world), Joe Dumars and Bill Laimbeer as its epicentre.
         

It was in 1990-91 season when Chicago Bulls got its first NBA ring against Los Angeles Lakers, with prodigious performances, specially by Jordan, Pippen and Grant, but with a great collective play and above all with a superb defensive attitude in which the belly-to-belly defense of Scottie Pippen on Magic Johnson highlighted.

Later on, in 1992, the second NBA trophy would come against Portland Trail Blazers. Clyde Drexler, Jerome Kersey, Kevin Duckworth, Buck Williams, Terry Porter, etc, could do nothing facing the Chicago cyclone.

The three-in-a-row NBA Championship for Chicago would arrive in 1993 vs Phoenix Suns, featuring Charles Barkley, Kevin Johnson, Tom Chambers and Dan Majerle as main stars.
         

Now, it wasn´t Michael Jordan against the world as in the middle and end eighties, very strong and speedy onslaughts toward the basket and dunking ´ in your face ´ against the top centers of NBA (Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Akeem Olajuwon, Pat Ewing, Bill Laimbeer, Artis Gilmore, etc) or making devastating block-shots on them. Jordan had also become into an extraordinary middle and long distance jumping shooter, besides a gorgeous passer and his anticipating defense was gaining momentum.
         

The last match was held at Phoenix West Arena, with a final three pointer by John Paxon with 3.9 seconds remaining, giving the NBA Championship to Chicago.