Equation explains Jordan's hangtime
Could "His Airness" really fly? Turns out, not much more than his contemporaries.
Two math educators, Andy Peterson and Zack Patterson have derived an equation for "hangtime" that shows exactly how many seconds, or lack of seconds, NBA players actually spend in the air.
They claim that even during Jordan's jaw-dropping, free-throw line jam during the 1988 dunk contest, he was only airborne for about .92 seconds.
The math teachers then take it a step further and explain that if MJ played a game on the moon, the gravity is such that he’d be able to throw one down from halfcourt.
While Jordan's hangtime doesn't necessarily trump his fellow NBA stars, his game was certainly otherworldly.
Math nerds can go inside the numbers here:
