{"id":38017,"date":"2025-05-06T13:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=38017"},"modified":"2025-05-06T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:49:50","slug":"michael-jordan-never-had-a-defensive-moment-as-iconic-as-blocked-by-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=38017","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan never had a defensive moment as iconic as \u201cBlocked by James&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d79db4796efc26332eabfc3f5dafbc76\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inarticle\">\r\n    <div class=\"hb-ad-inner\"> \r\n    <div class=\"hbagency_cls\"  id=\"hbagency_space_111930\"><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Michael Jordan never had a defensive moment as iconic as \u201cBlocked by James&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re right in pointing out that LeBron James&#8217; &#8220;Blocked by James!&#8221; moment in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals is one of the most iconic defensive plays in NBA history. It was high stakes, dramatic, and crucial to the outcome of the championship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/images-2025-05-06T144723.522-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/images-2025-05-06T144723.522-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/images-2025-05-06T144723.522.jpeg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Jordan, while known more for his scoring, was an elite defender\u20149-time All-Defensive First Team and 1988 Defensive Player of the Year\u2014but his defensive brilliance was more consistent than flashy. His most notable defensive plays\u2014like stripping Karl Malone in the 1998 Finals to set up The Last Shot\u2014were impactful but not as visually iconic or widely replayed as LeBron\u2019s chase-down block.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So while Jordan was defensively elite, LeBron owns the singular defensive moment that has become legendary.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jordan never had a defensive moment as iconic as \u201cBlocked by James&#8230; &nbsp; You&#8217;re right in pointing out that LeBron James&#8217; &#8220;Blocked by James!&#8221; moment in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals is one of the most iconic defensive plays in NBA history. It was high stakes, dramatic, and crucial to the outcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":38018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[654],"class_list":["post-38017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-goat-nba-talk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michael Jordan never had a defensive moment as iconic as..<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michael Jordan never had a defensive moment as iconic as \u201cBlocked by James.....................................\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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