Yeah cause that next year after he knocked the rust off, he really sucked. They limped to the playoffs and lucked out once they got there. GTFOOH. The bulls easily win the first year he's out, hell they almost did without him if it wasn't for Hue Hollins being awful. He doesn't retire you are looking at 8 in a row. The rust was off in the playoffs. I just showed you that Jordan did as well in those playoffs as the years before and after. His being gone was not the reason you lost the second year. He was back for the playoffs the second year and was every bit as dominant. You got beat early in the playoffs because everyone not named Pippen and Jordan didn't do well. I wonder if MJ had never left if we would had let Horace Grant walk??? Nope probably not. horace had made the decision to walk before jordan decided to retire. one of the reasons he had decided to leave was jordan himself. mj ran him off, he hated him with a passion. True, but you have to think we would have replaced him if MJ was still playing.