The eeriness of MJ's last championship

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While researching for the blogpost about the Warriors win meaning the Mavs will win the championship, I came across another couple eerie finds about Michael Jordan's last championship against the Utah Jazz. You know, the one where he drove on Bryon Russell.

Now, we all know about his 45 points, with 23 of them coming in the first half (for those of you have been living in Antarctica, he wore #45 when he came back from retirement and then went back to his #23 shortly thereafter).

But here's another couple that are weird, that I just discovered today:

• The all-time scoring leader in terms of points per game shot exactly 15-for-35 from the field in both Game Six finales in 1997 (boxscore here) and 1998 (boxscore here).
  
  
• John Stockton only had exactly 5 assists in each of those games. We're talking the all-time assists leader, who averaged 10.5 assists per game his entire career.

Wow, two all-time NBA leaders in their respective categories in one game happening twice in a row, and one clearly outshining the other on both occasions.

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