By Divij Kulkarni View the original article to see embedded media. When Michael Jordan was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 1984, the franchise wasn’t exactly in great shape. They had made the playoffs just once in 7 years before Jordan got there and the culture of the team was quite poor as well. That’s how they got a pick high enough to draft the GOAT and it eventually led them to unprecedented success, but in Jordan’s early years, his brilliance wasn’t enough to win them much in the playoffs. As such, the initial Jordan years were looked at with a fair amount of skepticism, with people sugge…