Former Houston Rockets guard and current NBA analyst Kenny Smith believes strongly the 1994-1995 Houston Rockets championship teams would have defeated the Chicago Bulls dynasty in the 1990s
is adamant the back-to-back champion Houston Rockets teams he played for would have stopped the Chicago Bulls dynasty run in the 1990s.The Rockets took over when Michael Jordan retired after the Bulls won the last of their three straight titles in 1993. The Rockets won in 1994 and 95, the first coming with Jordan playing baseball for the Chicago White Sox. That year, the Bulls lost to the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Jordan returned midway through the 1995 season. Rust showed when the Bulls were knocked off by the Orlando Magic in the conference semifinals again. Last year Smith was asked by ESPN's Stephen A. Smith if the Rockets, led by Hakeem Olajuwon, would have defeated the Bulls if Jordan were around in `94.“The reason I thought we would’ve beat them is because they were too small for us," Smith said. "There was no Horace Grant. Dennis Rodman wasn’t there yet. So who’s going to guard Dream? No. Impossible. No way, no how. We would’ve beaten the Michael Jordan Bulls because they were too little.
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