NBA 29 years have passed since his shooting with his eyes closed
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Ta day like today 29 years ago Michael Jordan starred in one of the most peculiar and sympathetic anecdotes of his career. It happened in a match between his team, the Chicago Bulls, and the Denver Nuggets. ‘Air’ received a personal foul when he tried to shoot a basket and prepared to take the corresponding free throws.
So far nothing that he had done thousands of times in his career, in which he scored 7,327 of 8,772 what am i trying to do83,5%). He was not the most reliable in history in that statistical section, but in the important moments his pulse rarely trembled. If you played the game and you missed it, you could give it up for lost.
In this particular match the result was not at stake, but his extreme competitiveness came to light. After scoring the first free throw, which came in clean, Dikembe Mutombo, pvot of the Nuggets and one of the best blockers in the history of the NBA I blurted something to ‘Air’ trying to make him nervous.
Jordan I looked at his face, outlined a smile and said: “Hey Mutombo, this is for you baby”, as can be clearly seen in the images of NBATV. Then, without thinking twice, he closed his eyes, lifted the ball, threw … and the ball entered the ring clean. That season 91-92 Jordan credit a 85,2% in free throws (491/590) and that in particular was one of the 491 that he scored and the most singular without a doubt by doing it blind. That’s how genius wasted when someone tried to tickle him.
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