With Gilbert Arenas on the show, DJ Vlad had to get his take on the ‘Done with the 90s’ trend. Because he once trashed that decade of basketball before the trend picked up, albeit for different reasons. His opinion about the trend and Michael Jordan is pretty much the same as other veterans. That is, a selective compilation of only a few bad parts doesn’t prove anything. He, however, implies that discussing the 90s or past basketball stars is a waste of time for some obvious reasons.

“I’m on both sides of it,” Arenas says about the Done with 90s trend. He does not buy into the propaganda defending the ’90s stars from this trend. He slammed the ’90s media for propagating claims like, “If Larry Bird had Michael Jordan’s jumping ability he’d be the best ever.” He proceeds to explain the big flaw in that plan. “How the f**k can you prove that?”

Don’t expect Arenas to fall into the trap of “fake” narratives. He’s not going to waste his “brain cells,” as he so explicitly states, imagining Jordan playing in the current NBA, Shaquille O’Neal playing longer, or today’s players playing in the ’90s. Because all of this is “fantasy talk” and we won’t ever truly know if things were different. So he’s not putting blind faith in metrics, wins, and records. Because the NBA he watched differed from the NBA he played in and the NBA now.

The rules are different for Gilbert Arenas

In a 2023 episode of Gil’s Arena, Agent Zero called ’90s NBA subpar for two reasons different from the current TikTok bandwagon. “Nobody could score, everybody fouling.” He highlighted that the league changed the rules to fix the prevalent issue of low-scoring games. More than six months, in his opinion, hasn’t changed, but he’s going a lot deeper into it.

He began his career in 2001 with the Warriors and was briefly Jordan’s teammate in Washington before His Airness retired. Similarly, he’s played with and against several ’90s stars. So he knows these players played a lot differently than what he watched over the past decade.

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Isiah Thomas recently claimed that the real ‘Jordan Rules’ took advantage of MJ allegedly having no left. Kenny “The Jet” Smith, who was his college teammate, also confirmed it. But Arenas says that Smith played alongside Jordan in the early ’80s when he was a long way off from the championship-winning Jordan. Thomas retired from the NBA before Jordan won his first championship in 1991 too. “The Jordan that they’re highlighting, that’s not the same.” He proceeded to say that Jordan practiced and developed a left when he was considered great.

But will we know if he’d adapt to today’s NBA any differently? No one can guess accurately. Arenas’ plan to not think about it sounds better.