I like how they glossed over that asskicking Shaq and the Magic put on the Bulls.

It's obvious and there's no argument Jordan is the greatest. Like his teammates say, yeah he was a jerk and an a-hole, but he wanted to win and if you wanted to win you were welcome to put in the work and win with him.

Almost done watching this over the past week and it's been fun to go back to the 90s. The world was so much better back then. If nothing else, the politics. Jordan explains it so well about just focusing on his craft, frick getting involved in a Senate race in his home state or anything else.

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Posted by bamameister

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Posted on 3/8/21 at 10:15 am to Comic_Tiger

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It's obvious and there's no argument Jordan is the greatest. Like his teammates say, yeah he was a jerk and an a-hole, but he wanted to win and if you wanted to win you were welcome to put in the work and win with him

He was putting in the work for a lot of years and before Phil Jackson showed up for business he hasn't proven anything beyond he was a volume scorer. The Celtics and Pistons would make them quit.

But you said it best, for all of MJ's scoring prowess, he wasn't much of a teammate or human being. That documentary further alienated his teammates even more. MJ slapping threatening to slap Grant on that plane was science fiction. That was never Jordan, all 6'6" and 200 lbs of him. He constantly cheated on his family, was a habitual gambler that nearly cost him his NBA career. He won't speak to Barkly to this day because he criticized the job he was doing in Charlotte.

People can take their heroes where they find them, but the only thing I could ever do with MJ is to enjoy his basketball skill, the rest of him was all ego.

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Posted by Ron Cheramie

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Posted on 3/8/21 at 7:22 pm to Comic_Tiger