For most of the fans who love the best basketball in the world, Michael Jordan was and has been the greatest player in NBA history. And really, if we review his spectacular performances and his great dynasty with the Chicago Bulls in the ’90s, and the number of individual awards and trophies, there are not many arguments left to dispute such a statement.

But is His Airness an infallible being? He is human, after all, and he had some lackluster performances throughout his career. Although these performances aren’t that bad for average players, Mike set the bar too high.

Michael Jordan has always been a phenom in the Playoffs. In fact, he is the all-time NBA leader in points per game in the playoffs, with 33.4. But on May 11, 1989, in the second game of the NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals, Jordan had his lowest scoring playoff game, with 15 points. Jordan had a field goal percentage of 41.2 that night and the Chicago Bulls lost to the New York Knicks. For an average player, a 15-point, eight-rebound game in the playoffs is great, but for Jordan it was an off day.

Perhaps you are wondering how we could include a 29-point game among the worst games of Michael Jordan’s NBA career, but those numbers don’t tell the story of the game. Jordan could not score a single field goal in the first half of the game, as he went 0-11.

After three quarters, he was 2-22 with just nine points. Certainly, he scored 20 points in the fourth quarter, but it was not enough to avoid the loss. Jordan ended the game with a 25.7 field goal percentage, which reflects how bad this game was.

The fourth game of the NBA Finals of the 1995-96 season, played at the KeyArena at Seattle Center between the Seattle Supersonics and the Chicago Bulls before 17,072 attendees, was the scene of one of the two worst games of Michael Jordan in postseason stages (in which he was practically flawless). Despite scoring 23 points, his overall performance was terrible, he had a 31.6 field goal percentage, only three rebounds, two assists, and committed four turnovers.

Michael Jordan always shined in the Playoffs, but not this time. In the first game of the Eastern Conference semifinals against Shaquille O’Neal’s Orlando Magic, Michael Jordan played arguably the worst game of his NBA career. Five rebounds, three assists, eight turnovers, and 19 points scored, with a 36.4 field goal percentage in 40 minutes. Mike also had an awful -11.3 box plus/minus. As expected, the Chicago Bulls lost that game, 91-94, in what would be the beginning of a painful defeat in that series.