During the 1990s, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dominated the NBA like no other.
Michael Jordan helped the Chicago Bulls win six NBA Championships, and he did so by being a menace on the offensive end of the floor.
This is evident from Jordan’s 10 scoring titles in his career. While Mike was undoubtedly the best scoring shooting guard in the league, what about the others?
Well, former New York Knicks star Allan Houston shed some light on why the 1990s housed some of the most prolific scoring guards of all time.
Photo by G Fiume/Getty ImagesAllan Houston praises Tracy McGrady and Michael Jordan
Even today, NBA legend Tracy McGrady is regarded as one of the most gifted scorers of all time.
Sure, he retired without winning an NBA Championship, but McGrady was still inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame, partly due to his sensational scoring ability.
Houston recently gave McGrady his flowers by putting him in the same league as MJ.
“In our era of the 90s, I think I’m biased, but I don’t know if there’s a better era for the two guard.
“You have your obvious, your Michael, Tracy McGrady was probably the one that kind of stands out besides Michael,” Houston said on COMBO TV.
He then named a few more shooting guards who had a knack for scoring at will.
“You can go down the line from Vince Carter to Stackhouse, Ray Allen. I mean, even when I was younger, Joe Dumars and Doug West, Ricky Pierce,” he added.
Allan Houston says 1990s’ shooting guards were ‘assassins’
The modern NBA era has its fair share of lethal shooting guards, but according to Houston, the players of the 1990s were cut from a different cloth.
“I mean, you go throughout the 90s, and you can just look at every team in the 90s that position, they were assassins, and they knew that,” the ex-Knicks star continued.
The icing on the cake, per Houston, was the fact that the 1990s were a much harder era to score.
“You knew that that’s every night, there was going to be some heat. I think it was harder to score in the 90s,” he concluded.