Twenty years ago today: Jordan drops 3s on Portland

All sportswriters have their treasure chest of favorite games and events they covered.

This one is on my list: On June 3, 1992, I was at the Chicago Stadium to cover game 1 of Chicago-Portland in the NBA Finals.

Michael Jordan’s six 3-pointers in the first half simply was unbelievable. I attended hundreds of games in the old barn, and it’s hard to remember it getting any louder than when he hit that last three.

Actually, the long-distance performance was out of character for Jordan. Marv Albert, calling the game for NBC, said, “It’s unusual to see Michael Jordan bombing away.”

He kept bombing, climaxing with the legendary shrug to Magic Johnson, who was working as an analyst. All Johnson could say was, “My-oh-oh-my.”

Enjoy.