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The 1993–94 NBA season was the Bulls' 28th season in the National Basketball Association. [1] The Bulls entered the season as the three time defending NBA champions, having defeated the Phoenix Suns in the 1993 NBA Finals in six games, winning their third NBA championship, their first of two threepeats in the 1990s.
Michael Jordan won 6 championships with the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls' luck turned for the better after selecting Michael Jordan with the third overall pick in the 1984 NBA draft . [ 6 ] Considered the greatest basketball player of all time by NBA.com, [ 10 ] Jordan averaged 28.2 points per game during his first season and received the 1985 NBA ...
The 1993 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 1992–93 season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.It featured the two-time defending NBA champion and Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls, led by Michael Jordan, and the Western Conference playoff champion Phoenix Suns, winners of 62 games and led by regular season MVP Charles Barkley.
In 1993, the Bulls won their third consecutive championship by defeating the Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks in the first three rounds of the playoffs and then defeating regular season MVP Charles Barkley and the Phoenix Suns in the Finals, with Paxson's three-pointer with 3.9 seconds left giving them a 99–98 victory in ...
The Bulls entered the season as the back-to-back defending NBA champions, having defeated the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1992 NBA Finals in six games, winning their second NBA championship. In the off-season, the team acquired Rodney McCray from the Dallas Mavericks , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and signed free agent Trent Tucker .
Game 3 of the Bulls-Cavaliers series was the last game played at the Richfield Coliseum. Game 6 of the Bulls-Knicks series was the last game played at Chicago Stadium. Game 5 of the Nuggets-Sonics series was the last to be played at Seattle Center Coliseum before its first renovation and eventual rechristening as KeyArena in 1995.
The Bulls would eventually sign Williams and he would earn three NBA Finals rings (in his first three years in the league) when the Bulls capped the first of their two NBA Finals three-peat wins, from 1991 to 1993. Williams goes on to state "I always say I am the luckiest undrafted player in the history of the NBA, if there is such a thing".
That year, he earned All-Star Game MVP honors and led the Bulls in scoring, assists, and blocks, and was second in the NBA in steals per game, averaging 22.0 points, 8.7 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 2.9 steals, and 0.8 blocks per game, while shooting 49.1% from the field and a career-best 32% from the 3-point line.