A recently retired Michael Jordan stops by the Bulls practice and Corey Benjamin says to him “I’m sorry you retired, cause I wanted to take you 1 on 1”. Jordan (of course) took that personally and immediately challenged him to 1v1 (1999)
A recently retired Michael Jordan stops by the Bulls practice and Corey Benjamin says to him “I’m sorry you retired, cause I wanted to take you 1 on 1”. Jordan (of course) took that personally and immediately challenged him to 1v1 (1999)
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There is a realistic chance that Corey Benjamin learned some Chinese, as he spent multiple years in the CBA in the early 2000’s.
I also wonder if Ron Harper was there to beg MJ to get him off the team somehow. He spent a sad lockout season with the Bulls in ’99 before going to win a few more rings with the Lakers.
Corey would go on to play 153 nba games over 4 years averaging 5.5 points…
Bulls was on a good restart here, rookie Elton Brand and Ron Artest
Crazy to challenge the reigning mvp and fmvp
Blood in the water.
Jordan just had that mentality
They was a good Bulls team with Artest and Brand
nobody can even approach the aura of this man
Maybe he just baited MJ, and got a free opportunity to play with MJ 🤷
“You reach, I teach,” is such a cold line.
I still love that story with former Bulls teammate Scott Burrell. He challenged Jordan to 1-on-1, Jordan whooped his ass, and he requested a re-match.
Jordan was like “Why should I? So you can tell your grandchildren you that you beat Jordan 1-on-1? What am I supposed to tell my grandchildren? That I beat Scott Burrell twice?”
“You reach I teach”
“Look around you”
He really walk the talk albeit he just retired
He still had it in 98 and would have been just as good in 99
I will never understand why Krause didn’t just retool around the best player in the world and run it back…keep going until your dethroned dammit!
Ego fueds always ruin great things prematurely in sports. Nobody cares that he didn’t get along with Phil Jackson.
If the GOAT says he will keep going if his coach is back, you suck it up and do it! RIP tho…
Jordan be like: my whole life revolves around beating people who lite heartedly talked some shit to me.
Even Ron Artest wasn’t crazy enough to mess with Jordan if that tells you anything
If they ran it back they probably would win in that short ahh 1999 season too
“Sit down” after a ass-whoopin’ never gets old
Kukoç in the corner on the bike like hey, it ain’t me for once.
And I took it personally
Man said I’m retired not Dead then proceeded to put young man in a body bag
MJ showed up wanting someone to challenge him. That’s the MJ way
Gangsta shit, MJ was iconic.
Jerry Krause really f*cked up that team! You can clearly see Jordan was still super competitive. The Bulls would definitely have made the finals in 1999 if they stayed together.
I’m rewatching the Last Dance right now. The number of things Michael Jordan took personally is simply staggering. Like everything. Ev. er. y. thing.
Every time I watch Mike it’s always crazy to me how damn *quickly* he gets his moves off. He had a total hair trigger and would just explode out of a neutral dribble into these perfectly choreographed executions in the smallest window of time. It was like he had the element of surprise on his side every single time even though everyone on the planet knew exactly what was coming.
Damn Jordan is so cool, thats why hes the goat idk. Just oozes cool.
I have a few simple rules in life.
1. Never try to catch a falling knife.
2. Never walk behind a horse.
3. Never walk in front of an airplane.
4. Never challenge/talk shit to Michael Jordan.