Jay Sawyer of Glenview, IL strongly believes that everyone has a desire to determine the name that has achieved the greatest success in their field. Jay Sawyer, however, believes that the one player who defined greatness was Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Jay feels that Jordan is the greatest scorer the league has ever seen. He won a record 10 scoring titles, and boasted a career average of 30.1 points per game, the most in NBA history. It is widely believed that Karl Malone unjustly won the 1998 MVP over Jordan because writers believed Jordan had won enough. Jordan was also named the NBA’s defensive player of the year in 1988.