We won 2 championships. How many teams in the league would kill to say that? There is no guarantee Jordan would have done crap here, he might have even Lebron'd us. Dream every time.
No one gives MJ's teammates enough credit. But Pippen and Grant and later Rodman were big time contributors. When MJ left for baseball they were still a lottery team. If you added Hakeem to that team they would have won championships too and they wouldn't have missed a beat they way Jordan his first time back. They would have beat Orlando. Hakeem never had the talent MJ had.
Exactly, I hate hindsight arguments. In super hindsight Hakeem would have started playing basketball way before the age of 15.