this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
1 points (100.0% liked)
NBA - Main
14 readers
1 users here now
Game analysis, highlights and everything else that is happening in the NBA.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
For real OP it can not be overstated how loved and popular mike was on a global level. There is a reason he was the guy for Space Jam. For some anecdotal evidence. Both my wife and I had actual MJ shrines in our bedrooms as teens. We are from Vancouver Island in canada. MJ and Steve Nash and then Vince Carter made the popularity of the game explode up here.
Let me put it this way for context. As a 5 year old in a 3rd world country, I knew who Michael Jordan was in the 90s. I didn’t know a single other basketball player as an immigrant in the USA for the next 7 years until I started playing basketball and actively following the NBA.
More like since JFK.