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  Ranking Michael Jordan's Top 50 Games of All Time: Part 1

  50. The Debut2 of 41

  Date: Oct. 26, 1984

  Stat line: 16 PTS, 5-16 FG, 6-7 FT, 7 AST, 6 REB, 2 STL, 4 BLK

  Final score: Washington Bullets 93, Chicago Bulls 109

  Jordan didn't look like the best player in NBA history during his first regular-season game. He looked like an outstanding athlete who played hard on defense. The treat in watching his debut, however, is Jordan's whole game was on display. On his first NBA basket, he spun past two defenders and buried a bank shot, appearing to pause in the air before releasing the ball. 

  His jump shot needed work, which isn't surprising. Former CBS broadcaster Billy Packer said in ESPN's Basketball: A Love Story that Jordan's Olympic coach, Indiana's Bobby Knight, was critical of his jump shot, but during that first NBA game, there was a fadeaway jumper in the left corner that looked quite similar to the weaponized form of it that flummoxed defenses throughout the championship years. 

  Jordan showed a knack for creating turnovers and his toughness when he got put facedown on the court after his first attempt at posterizing a 7-footer. He even showed his chops as a playmaker with some beautiful assists by drawing in the d

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