Horace Grant goes off on MJ: calls him a snitch wants to see Mike one on one

[old pig]

WHORE-ace

now that’s just disrespectful

 

[jwinfield]

you gone put ya rookie squad out dere like yea man most of dem was doin coke

How he put them out there when he was asked a question about the team called the traveling cocaine circus?

How he put them out there when four of the players on that team were suspended for cocaine?

 

[Big Boss]

It's interesting how some complain that the documentary paints MJ too positively when IMO if anything it shows how deeply flawed he is and how those flaws were harnessed to power his all time greatness. It's like he legit listened to his dad and turned his own negative traits into competitive positives.

My respect for the man went up a lot from watching, but the documentary pulls no punches when showing his negative traits either. He is a fierce competitor, a hard worker, and giving of his time but also an a$$hole, a bully, petty, inconsiderate at times...

And that's coming from someone who is a legit MJ fan after watching the documentary.

Horace Grant has bytch nikka traits IMO.

 

[MikelArteta]

This.

Jordan is the greatest basketball player ever, and has the biggest gap between #1 ands #2 in any sport in terms of greatness. But that also made him sports most mythological person due to him falling into the greatest era ever when it came to the media. The mythology will only grow with the years...

 

[aceboon]

Lol, so Horace had a history of this
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Relaxing in his $10 million dream home in Winter Park on Thursday morning -- The House That The Magic's Money Built -- Horace Grant couldn't believe his once-blissful relationship with the club had ended in a nightmare:

A screaming confrontation between himself and Coach Doc Rivers that became so heated, it required players to separate them -- at 30,000 feet.

The Magic were on the team plane bound to Orlando on Tuesday night after a listless loss to the Chicago Bulls. Rivers had been summoned to another part of the aircraft to quell a brewing argument between Grant and superstar Tracy McGrady.

McGrady was upset by quotes in an ESPN.com story about his defensive shortcomings that were attributed to Grant (and attributed to "a Magic player" whom T-Mac figured was also Horace).

 

[jwinfield]

Article from 1986

COCAINE--SCOURGE OF NBA

The NBA`s management and players have joined forces in an unprecedented alliance to defuse the explosive threat of drugs, cocaine in particular.

Even so, the Bulls` Quintin Dailey and New Jersey`s Micheal Ray Richardson have had recent relapses after league-sanctioned treatment. The NBA was shocked by the revelation that Phoenix Suns` star Walter Davis, that franchise`s equivalent to Michael Jordan, had a drug problem. As a result, the league has been forced to take a harder look at its program.

''I don`t think the players are in the clinic long enough,'' Bulls` owner Reinsdorf said. ''Because of the number of relapses, I believe there is a tendency to rush to get them out. Maybe we get conned a little by the patient. ''In Quintin`s case, we didn`t want him back until he was ready. I don`t know if 31 days was long enough or not, but it wasn`t our decision. That was the doctors and drug counselors.''

Dailey had his relapse after two months back with the team.

Article from 1988

Woolridge Admits to Cocaine Problem

One day after Orlando Woolridge told the National Basketball Association that he had a cocaine dependency problem, the league announced yesterday that the Nets' high-scoring forward had been placed in the hands of drug counselors, in accordance with the 1984 agreement between the league and the players union.

Woldridge was MJ's teammate his first two years in the league.

The 50 worst moments in the first 50 years of the Chicago Bulls

The "Looney Tunes" squad
1984-85 SEASON

Michael Jordan had a nickname for the Bulls of his 1984-'85 rookie season: the Looney Tunes. While physically talented, the team consisted of "an array of cynical castoffs and casualties, some of them deeply troubled by alcohol and cocaine abuse," Lazenby wrote in the thorough 2014 biography Michael Jordan: The Life. Beset by drug issues in the late 70s and early 80s, the NBA finally instituted a drug policy in 1984. By the time Jordan arrived on the Bulls, talented guard Quintin Dailey had already left the team once to go to a drug rehabilitation facility. He'd return to rehab before the start of the 1985-'86 season. The promising but drug-dependent forward Orlando Woolridge left the Bulls to sign with the New Jersey Nets in 1986—but during his second season with that team, he was suspended for substance abuse. " In Chicago," Lazenby told me recently speaking of the '84-'85 Bulls squad, "there was a strong feeling that things went better with coke."

Troubled Bull Quintin Dailey dead at 49

“It’s very sad,” said Rod Thorn, now Philadelphia 76ers president who then was the Bulls general manager who drafted Dailey. “He was a very talented kid who had so many problems with drugs off the court. When he was straight, he was a terrific scorer, a friendly type guy. But he never could overcome those problems with us. Once he went to Vegas, he got his life together and seemed to have everything going in the right direction. It’s unfortunate, such a young guy.”

But 1982 and Dailey was the nadir for a team that unbeknownst to Bulls management was being destroyed with misbehavior and rampant drug use that eventually saw a third of the Bulls’ roster go into drug rehab.

Dailey used to pay the ball boys to bring him food during the games because of the hunger that can develop from drug use. We’d all suspected it back then with the likes of Orlando Woolridge, Mitchell Wiggins and Ennis Whatley later to have issues. But it was like the early years of the baseball steroids scandal. No one really had proof.

 

[BonafideDefacto]

As a hockey fan I can see your point. But it's not the same. Many pundits still give the nod to Gordie Howe as Hockey's GOAT vs the NBA debate

 

[Smitty Belafonte]

They don’t call him Ho Grant for nothin. ​