Clyde Drexler On ’95 Bulls Had MJ Not Retired: "We would’ve beat them like they stole something"

Clyde Drexler and Michael Jordan . Photo Credit: ESPN Photos

Last month, TNT Inside The NBA analyst and former NBA player Kenny Smith told Scoop B Radio that his 1994 Houston Rockets would have beaten the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls in the NBA Finals even if Michael Jordan hadn’t retired.

“Oh we would’ve beat them,” Smith said. “And actually everyone forgets he was playing the second year, he was wearing No. 45 and the team they lost to, the Orlando Magic, we swept them,” Smith said. “We were that much better than them that year, [and] they lost to them.”

Well, Smith isn’t the only person that feels that way.

Insert Smith’s former Rockets teammate Clyde Drexler. After a successful career that included one NBA Finals appearance with the Portland Trail Blazers, Drexler went on to team with Hakeem Olajuwon, Robert Horry, Sam Cassell and Rudy Tomjanovich and won a championship with the Houston Rockets in 1995.

“We would’ve beat them like they stole something,” Clyde Drexler told me on Scoop B Radio.

“The thing is, think about it, the team that beat them with Michael, was the Orlando Magic, and we swept the Magic. But I love Michael, tell him I love him, tell him I said hello.”

After Houston’s two-peat in the 90s, Chicago would win three straight titles from 1996 to 1998.

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Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson is a managing editor and columnist at RESPECT Magazine. Follow him on Twitter: @ScoopB and Instagram: @Scoop_B. As a 12 year old, he was a Nets reporter from 1997-1999, co-hosting a show called Nets Slammin' Planet with former New Jersey Net Albert King and Nets play-by-play man Chris Carrino. He's also been a writer and radio host at CBS and a staff writer at The Source Magazine. He's a graduate of both Eastern University and Hofstra University. You can catch him daily on the Scoop B Radio Podcast. Visit ScoopBRadio.com to listen. For inquiries and to contact Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson visit ScoopB.com