Michael Jordan Career High Highlights vs Cavaliers (1990.03.28) - 69pts! (HD 720p 60fps)

It's a full house here at Richfield. Of course they're in town to see their Cavaliers battling for the playoff spot, but of course they're here to see the guy in the middle of your screen and with the ball, number 23 Michael Jordan. And Pippen against Delo right away, takes it down a hole against Jordan who's posted Bennett with the turnaround and Michael Jordan says so much for that defense. Cutting into the paint. Doherty trying to muscle again against Cartwright, no help there, held it too long and... Take away his dunks and his layups. Here's a great steal by Michael, look at the great hands he goes and he just tears it away, the strength that he has. Pitches into Cartwright, reversing to Pippen, missing from long range, Jordan with a rebound, the basket and draws the foul from Larry Nance. Penetration. Kicked it out to Doherty who usually hit that 15-footer. Just the quickness and the acceleration of Mark Price to get inside. Pippen open, 12 off the glass from Michael Jordan. All right, and we're going to see this now, you're going to see now the help and it's going to leave Scottie Pippen open, the penetration, here comes the help, the throwback and off the glass. Scottie Pippen on the angle, that's where he's a very good shooter. Four on four, Jordan wanted the three, Bennett backs off another step, he'll take it. He backed off another step and Michael took him to the cleaners on the baseline. 31 points, the Bulls shot 44% from the floor. Michael's shooting 11 for 15, so he's carried them in the first half. Well, Michael Jordan. You know, you lose both ways. They say, I better play him at the three. There's a steal by Michael, he knocks it off Elo's leg, so four Cleveland turnovers. Grant from long range, Davis gets the rebound, from behind Nance, Jordan goes and gets three. Now, eight on the shot clock, Elo would like to take it into the paint instead. Elo struggling early in this ball game. Michael Jordan has a way of making you do that. Jordan sees a slight crack in the Cleveland defense and makes some pace. Mark Price says, I like to just watch Anderson dribble the ball, he's so good. High praise for five on the shot clock. Jordan gets Elo airborne, hits the basket, draws the foul, that's slightly reminiscent of the shot in the playoffs. A little bit, a little bit today about Elo being an outstanding defender. Michael sees that and his eyes light up. You see the pump fake, there he is hanging in the air, Price running at him, the bump, and the three-point opportunity, and starting to get more confidence as the season winds down. Chucky, the rookie out of North Carolina State. Here's the double-team, Jordan, that leaves Cartwright wide open. He hits it from the baseline. Jordan saw the opening, kicks it out to B.J. Armstrong. Misses from the perimeter, Jordan steals the rebound from Doherty. Morton is on Michael Jordan, he was on him for a moment. How about that? And then he slipped off of him. Well, I mean, he's driving to the basket, they go up and they wrap their arms around his waist. I think this is 19th point in this game. And only the third. Jordan. Clears Perdue out of the way, takes it past Nance, draws the foul, will go to the line again. Cartwright, 5, Grant, 4, Pippen, 4, Davis, 5, which comes in 1994. Yeah, right. So turnovers and carelessness starting to cost the Cleveland Cavaliers. Jordan goes up for the jump shot points already. 5.53 to go in the first half. That strategy to say, let's let Michael Jordan beat us if he can. Well, he can't. Going into the playoffs, so he can make a run at maybe making a first-round upset. Jordan with the double-team, kicks it to King, back to Michael. What a beautiful play by Stacey King and Michael Jordan. He's got 25, and an opportunity to get 27. Michael Jordan popping off, and he's going to give it up to Stacey King, and then cut right out of the double-team. This is when he's so effective. When you double him, he gives it up and then cuts right out of the double-team. Beautiful give-and-go, and then a careless inbounds pass. Chicago really hurting Cleveland with their full-court pressure defense right now. They've changed the course of this ballgame. They've got the game in the tempo where they want it now rather than to a half. Michael's going into the post now, realizing in the penalty, he's going to try to drive it, get to the foul line. That's the pick from Purdue from long range. Jordan has 29. Now watch Michael get to the line here. They're going to really get mad. He got into the paint, gets the two, and here come the boos. Michael with 31 points. Larry Nance shooting a lot of jump shots. This will be good. Just a routine dunk. Here's Michael outrunning everybody with the basketball. You see his speed. Twice kicks it to Elo. This is a two-point attempt. Elo continues struggling from the perimeter. It's five for 14 now. Jordan with nine rebounds and 35 points. And by the way, Paxson has donut zero points. Jordan on the pass and the bounce. Jordan was cutting to his left. Cleveland battling for that eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Jordan penetrating. Splits three guys. Gives it to Horace Grant for the jam. Has a path to the hoop. Goes to the left hand. Nice move. Bad shot. Now here's Jordan against Williams. Williams fouls Michael hard, but catches the franchise. Smart move by John Williams. But they're going to call a breakaway foul. And the reason you see him at the line, it's not a technical. They put this rule in because the guy's being pushed in the back. Cleveland right now has got to stop him defensively. And Michael Jordan feels it, and it's going to be awful tough to slow him down right now. Michael Jordan has 41 points. Jordan hit the first of the two technicals. There's the second. Jordan now has 43 points in the game. It's Jordy against Grant, taking it to the hoop. Misses the shot, doesn't get a call. Crowd gets excited again. Jordy is 0 for 5. Armstrong open from the baseline. He nails it. Chicago by 11. Crowd's into this ballgame. Jordan kicks it out to Grant from 18. Michael Jordan's doing it all at the moment. Bulls by 9, 325 to go third quarter. Into Jordan. Over Price. Jordan has 45 points in this game. Michael's going to go for 60 tonight, Bob. Michael will mark it down. He got Mark Price against Michael Jordan. They can take him right in the post. That's what they've done. Price went for the steal. Jordan burned him. See, Michael recognizes Price on him in the post, so he just backs him down. Mark Price drives a circle to get the steal. Scottie Pippen with a nice pass, and Michael with a wide-open shot. Remember shooting the ball the way Michael is? That is like a dunk. Against Hot Rod Williams. Jordan. 49. Oh, man. The ringer. Yeah. Maybe not exactly like a rec league team. And Jordan will go to the free throw line. When we were talking about it at lunch today, that midline was mission impossible. Elo to try to ground Air Jordan. Charles Davis said, Look, Bill, you get more playing time. That's my rebound. Give me one stat. Paxson from the perimeter. It's in. Chicago had led by 15. 4 on the shot clock. Paxson's got trouble. They get it to Jordan. He goes for the 3. He gets the 3. Oh, my. Jordan has 54 points. Now out of the screen to the left. Winston Bennett just all over Jordan. There's Jordan. He got away from him from 17. Jordan has 53. Make that 56. 56 for Jordan. Chicago by 4. It's playoff intensity here in this game. Jordan has 58. Michael Jordan going. Brad Doherty's got to show out here and prevent this pass. He's all the way back here. Winston Bennett doesn't have a chance. Jordan looking for his 59th and 60th points. He's got him. 60 points for Jordan. Time remaining in the game in the lower right of your screen. John Williams draws a triple-team. Jordan with the steal nearly. Elo, bad shot. Jordan with the rebound, and the foul is on... It's on Elo. There's still plenty of time to foul. It's a horrible time. Time remaining in the game, 15 seconds. Price kicks to Elo. He goes for 3, and hits it! Cleveland by 1! I wouldn't have done that. I would, of course, never have called it. Here we go. Time remaining in the lower right. They're going to couple up Michael Jordan here. It's tied. Jordan's going for 3. He does not get it. We're in overtime at Richfield Coliseum. Michael Jordan has been absolutely sensational. The other guys have gotten out of the rhythm of the offense. Michael Jordan in the fourth quarter scored all but six of the points. As a result, the rest of the guys then weren't into the flow. Michael has been sensational. Got to come double-team him right now. Get it out of his hands. Jordan from 13. Jordan has 63, matching his career high. Three minutes to go in the overtime for Richfield. Williams nowhere to go. Jordan stripped it away. Jordan fouled by Nance. A minute and 52 to go. Chicago leading at 5-1. Jordan doesn't get the opportunity to score his 2 from the field. But Jordan, at the free-throw line, just may set his all-time career high scoring record. Williams are at the front line now. Michael Jordan just set his career scoring record of 64 points. Every time Michael puts it on the floor in his foul, he's stepping up and shooting two free-throws. One-point Chicago lead. B.J. Armstrong looking for Jordan. There he is. Winston Bennett guarding him now. Jordan pulls up from 13. He'll go to the line again. Michael Jordan on the foul line. That's 66 points for Jordan. Eighth and final playoff spot of the Eastern Conference. Interesting substitution now. Lant is in the ballgames. Chucky Brown for this rebound if there's a miss. Grant misses. Rebound Jordan. Past Chucky Brown. You heard Doug Collins call it. Unbelievable. He stole the rebound from Chucky Brown. Chucky Brown did not get... Michael Jordan locked him up underneath the basket and pushed him. You could just see it happening. Now Michael Jordan with two free-throws will seal the game. He's going to probably end up one short at the 70 mark. But this will tie him with Pete Maravich. Right there, Pete Maravich had 68 along with Wilt Chamberlain. Cleveland is absolutely shell-shocked right now. They can't believe that Michael Jordan can continue to do this to him. It's been unbelievable. 69 points for Michael Jordan. Throw it into Michael and foul him and then get 70. Pippen's just going to hold on to it. It's been a beauty at Richfield Coliseum. A tough loss for Cleveland. The Bulls get a four-point overtime victory. Michael Jordan with 69 points and you saw him walk past the defender, Craig Elo. Remember what he said. The front page sports story here in Cleveland was Elo, tough defender against Jordan. Jordan said, yes, he's good. I consider it a challenge. We'll be right back to Richfield.