re: The guy who delivered the pizza says Jordan's story is "crap"

The only question for me is how did they know it was being ordered for Michael Jordan?

MJ didn't call himself to order it (at least according to the film). I can't imagine his groupees would have told the pizza place they were ordering for Jordan or even used his credit card to pay (if they even pre-paid with a card, which wasn't that common in 1997). The only way I could see the place knowing it was for MJ is if the hotel made the call rather than one of the groupees.

That aside, it's hard to imagine MJ would lie in THAT situation to cover up nefarious activity. The guy had played in a ton of playoff and finals game before that one and seemingly had no history of doing something the night before to significantly impair his physical ability to play in a game. Sure, I guess he could have gone out drinking, doing drugs, or both. But that doesn't seem likely. First, if he did do such it undoubtedly wouldn't have been the first time he did so before a finals game. Yet, he never impaired himself to that extent before a game NOR does he seems like the kind of guy to take such a risk in light of his competitiveness. Athletes aren't like us. They'll go out drinking, doing drugs, women etc until the wee hours of the morning before a game. But they'll generally know when to stop to prevent it from affecting their play.

Second, Jordan never seems to have truly gotten over the fact Pippen sat out much of Game 7 of the 1990 Eastern conf. finals with a headache. I doubt he would willing do anything to put himself in a position where he couldn't play in a Finals game.

Third, Salt Lake City might be the most BORING city in the NBA. Even if he wanted to go out on the town and tear it up, where in the hell would he go?

His trainers didn’t seem like the type to condone devouring a pizza the night before a game but yea, MJ is MJ, you can’t tell him what to do

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They covered this. They called all over the place looking for delivery food and this was the only place they could get to bring him something

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Yea that’s what im saying, it sounds like either they didn’t try hard enough, didn’t feel like physically looking for something or sending an errand boy out for something or Theres just more to the story

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Well, they admitted it was 2 guys. So that would be weird on its own. They must've known somehow. Probably a locked down floor as well, so that might've tipped them off.

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So the pizza place says 2, MJ’s team says 5. And you would think there’d be security who would’ve prevented an unusually staffed pizza delivery. Who knows

You guys are the biggest Lebron fans ever. I haven't seen an MJ thread that didn't mention Lebron.

Something I didn’t understand about the story, how would they even know it was Jordan whom it was being delivered to.

I seriously doubt Jordan was calling restaurants usiing his real name “Michael Jordan”

I agree, as much as all the speculators and conspiracy theorists want there to be a conspiracy with all this shite, it’s probably and most likely the most perfect storm of a coincidence in history, doesn’t help that Jordan likes to party some the night before games too

I didn’t realize that food poisoning means someone poisoned the food

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Just because it wasn't deliberately "poisoned" doesn't mean it didn't make MJ sick.

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If this needed to be stated for one of you to understand the situation completely, then my God. Lol

No way it was a hangover.

It was Harold - the disgruntled employee! Passed over for a promotion Harold swore vengeance on his boss a diehard Bulls fan. So, he devoted himself to the Jazz. Then one night he overheard info about were the Bulls were staying and went all in on putting expired pepperoni on the pizza order that night. Unfortunately it never went according to plan.