God, I hate the fucking fade route, and for whatever reason, Ben McAdoo is in love with it. Bear in mind, this is not with freakishly tall receivers who can also jump into the loge like Megatron, AJ Green, or Julio Jones. ODB is 5'11". Cruz is 6'0". Randle is the tallest guy at 6'2" and he sucks.

If that's really a third-person poop story, then there is a disturbing level of detail.

He'd still be a perennial All-Star for sure, but there are now guys with Jordan's athleticism and skill-set who are just as big/bigger than he was and could probably keep him in relative check on the wing (LeBron, Durant, Kobe, Carmelo if he actually worked at defense). I don't think it's a given that Jordan would…

Because they still ran the risk of being called for basket interference

If you take Wooden at his word (and that's a hard guy to accuse of lying) he said that Kareem's dominance came up in the discussions, but that the Houston team had more influence because they were destroying rims in pre-game warmups