If only the gamblers/thugs he owed money too had not killed his father and he had not had the suspension for gambling/retirement baseball tryout or whichever conspiricy you want to believe out there this week....who knows what more he could have done point wise and probably would have passed Kareem.
Everyone has their bad sides, Magic slept with a lot of women while married. My point is this, I don't think Jordan's bad side is what you don't like about him because everyone has bad sides.
Yikes! I thought I had crazy/unpopular/maybe dumb/wrong thoughts about the NBA, at least I don't go as far as NBA conspiricies.
Players will play longer if they want to. Bodies are so much stronger. But his athleticism will no doubt diminish and tracy relies on that. Kareem never had too rely on athletic ability. He had a shot. So I think that is a big difference.