10 facts that put MJ's GOAT status beyond reasonable doubt

#2 6 Finals MVPs - 3 more than any other player ever

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Everyone knows that the NBA Finals were the scenes of MJ's greatest triumphs. An unbeaten 6-0 record (only beaten by John Havlicek's 8-0 record among first options who played in as many Finals) is further augmented by the fact that he was pretty handily the best player on the floor at all times at that stage.

The likes of LeBron and Kareem are the only players who can claim to have dominated the league for an entire decade or more in similar fashion to MJ, but their teams were never good enough to walk into every single Finals series as overwhelming favourites (after 1991), or consistent enough to make it to that stage as the Bulls did during their threepeats.