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1989–90 Chicago Bulls season

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The 1989–90 NBA season was the 24th season for the Chicago Bulls in the National Basketball Association.[1] The Bulls received the sixth overall pick in the 1989 NBA draft from the New Jersey Nets via trade, and selected power forward Stacey King from the University of Oklahoma, and also selected point guard B.J. Armstrong from the University of Iowa with the 18th overall pick.[2][3][4][5] Despite their solid playoff run last year, the team fired head coach Doug Collins, and replaced him with assistant Phil Jackson.[6][7][8][9]

Under Jackson, the Bulls held a 28–19 record at the All-Star break,[10] and finished the regular season in second place in the Central Division with a 55–27 record, averaging 109.5 points per game, and earning the third seed in the Eastern Conference.[11]

Michael Jordan averaged 33.6 points, 6.9 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 2.8 steals per game, and was named to the All-NBA First Team, to the NBA All-Defensive First Team, and finished in third place in Most Valuable Player voting,[12][13][14][15] while Scottie Pippen continued to show improvement averaging 16.5 points, 6.7 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 2.6 steals per game. In addition, Horace Grant provided the team with 13.4 points and 7.9 rebounds per game, while Bill Cartwright contributed 11.4 points and 6.5 rebounds per game, and John Paxson contributed 10.0 points per game. Off the bench, King averaged 8.9 points and 4.7 rebounds per game, and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team, while three-point specialist Craig Hodges contributed 6.5 points per game, and Armstrong provided with 5.6 points and 2.5 assists per game.[16]

During the NBA All-Star weekend in Miami, Florida, Jordan and Pippen were both selected for the 1990 NBA All-Star Game, which was Pippen's first ever All-Star appearance,[17][18][19][20] and Hodges won the NBA Three-Point Shootout.[19][21]

In the 1990 NBA playoffs, the Bulls defeated the Milwaukee Bucks, three games to one in the Eastern Conference First Round,[22][23][24][25] then defeated the Philadelphia 76ers, four games to one in the Eastern Conference Semi-finals.[26][27][28][29] The team advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals before losing a seven-game series to the eventual back-to-back champion Detroit Pistons, who they faced and lost against in last season's Eastern Conference Finals.[30][31][32][33] The Pistons would go on to defeat the Portland Trail Blazers in five games in the 1990 NBA Finals, winning their second consecutive NBA championship.[34][35][36][37][38]

On March 28, 1990, Jordan scored a career-high of 69 points in a 117–113 overtime road win over the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Coliseum at Richfield,[39][40][41][42][43] the highest scoring output by an NBA player since David Thompson's 73 points on April 9, 1978, against the Detroit Pistons. Jordan also finished third in Most Valuable Player voting behind Charles Barkley and Magic Johnson.[44][45] In the summer of 1997, Jordan admitted in an interview that he went off for 69 points after the Cavaliers' fans cheered when he was fouled hard by Cavaliers forward Hot Rod Williams, with Jordan lying on the ground in pain; Jordan said that the Cavaliers' fans were more in tune to winning than someone else's health, stating "that right there pissed me off, that's when I went crazy".[46]

On February 14, 1990, before a game against the expansion Orlando Magic, Jordan's number 23 jersey was stolen from the Bulls' locker room at the Orlando Arena; Jordan had to wear a number 12 jersey, and scored 49 points as the Bulls lost to the Magic in overtime, 135–129.[47][48][49][50]

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 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game

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