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Written by Godfrey Logan, Friday June 12 2009

It's impossible to count the number of Hall Of Famers on both hands or feet how many Hall of Famers are in the HOF or wil be from the so called "Jordan Era."

The Bulls began their great dynasty by defeating the best team in basketball the Los Angeles Lakers which had Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabar and James Worthy in 1991. In subsequent years every team the Bulls faced in the NBA Finals had one or more future Hall of Famers on the team. Clyde Drexler of the Blazers. Gary Payton of the Seattle Supersonics. Charles Barkley and "Thunder Dan Majerle of the Phoenix Suns. Karl Malone and John Stockton of the Utah Jazz. I cannot forget the stars they faced along the way to get to the FInals. Reggie Miller of the Pacers. Alonzo Mourning of the Charlotte Hornets and Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicks. Not to mention how many of those players were never won championships because of the Jordan led Bulls.

Those were days when if your team had been eliminated you would still watch the rest of the playoffs. The level of excitement never waned. Now when the Bulls are eliminated once again early in the playoffs I stop watching. That's when baseball season begins for me. I could care less that the Kobe Bryant is on the verge of winning a championship for the first time without Shaq something neither Michael Jordan nor Scottie Pippen could do without one another. How many players from this current era will become Hall of Famers? In an era when there are singular dominant players on teams while the teams in Jordans era had multiple stars on their teams. An era which produced the best team in NBA history.

This era will be remembered more for selfish players than for who were the champions. Phil Jackson will be remembered as possibly the best coach in NBA history but more coaches will be remembered for being fired because the management took the side of their overpaid players.