Jordan to the Knicks?....12 years ago

[Oroko Saki]

MJ's trolling set the blueprint for the Grant Hills of the nba

 

[god shamgod]

Actually, Jordan's people were in heavy discussions with the Knicks organization. Obviously he did not go to the Knicks, but by most credible sources, Jordan was seriously considering it.

I remember vividly reading how Jordan was very upset with Krause and Reinsdorf over their non-commital attitude towards Pippen and particularly Phil Jackson.

Every season during the last Three-peat, Jordan publicly held a gun to managements head and said "If Phil or Scottie don't come back, I'm gone". Which is why during the last Three-Peat the Bulls signed Jordan to 1-year deals his last three years. Could you imagine, Jordan winning your team ships, yet he can only get a 1 year deal?

Many insiders believed that ownership was hoping the Bulls would lose so that they could rebuild. Why, you ask? Cause Jordan constantly minimized ownerships hand in building a championship team, Jordan felt "Players win championships, owners just write the check". I've read that Krause wanted to prove MJ wrong by building another winner.

And for any of you who might not be familiar with the Bulls organization, know this - they told Jordan to go fukk himself at least three times a year since his rookie season. The "Go fukk yourself" was usually in reference to Jordan trying to do management's job and his failed veto attempts to not sign Pippen, not trade Oakley, etc, etc.

Reinsdorf never listened to him at a time when nearly every team in the league would have handed over the reigns to Jordan. That was always Reinsdorf's M.O. as an owner, he is not to be dictated to.

Case in point, throughout the entire tenure of Reinsdorf's ownership, the Bulls have only renegotiated a player's contract 1 time that was the 1988 season, where they agreed to amend Jordan's contract to an 8 year-25 million dollar deal. And they only did that cause Jordan just came off a year where he had just scored 3,000 points in a single season (37 ppg), to this day only Wilt Chamberlain has ever done that.

In conclusion, you want the Bulls to renegotiate your contract? Do something that only Wilt Chamberlain has ever done, first.

I remember specifically David Falk used the knicks for leverage and was saying jordan was considering going to new york.The bulls had jordans bird rights and back then you could pay a player whatever you wanted there was no cap on salaries when it came to bird rights.That's why mike got the 33 and 30 million one year deals which are the highest single year salaries ever to this day.He wasn't gonna really leave the bulls to play in new york

It was summer 97 when the bulls and mike had the contentious negotiations cuz the bulls were gonna trade pippen for the celtics 3rd and 6th picks in the 97 draft and mike called krause and told him make that trade and he's retiring.Bulls almost traded pippen 3-4 times from 95-97 and then krause and phil jacksons ego's started colliding etc.

 

[Lefty Gunz]

I remember specifically David Falk used the knicks for leverage and was saying jordan was considering going to new york.The bulls had jordans bird rights and back then you could pay a player whatever you wanted there was no cap on salaries when it came to bird rights.That's why mike got the 33 and 30 million one year deals which are the highest single year salaries ever to this day.He wasn't gonna really leave the bulls to play in new york

It was summer 97 when the bulls and mike had the contentious negotiations cuz the bulls were gonna trade pippen for the celtics 3rd and 6th picks in the 97 draft and mike called krause and told him make that trade and he's retiring.Bulls almost traded pippen 3-4 times from 95-97 and then krause and phil jacksons ego's started colliding etc.

I remember when they were talking about trading him for Tom Gugliotta and some picks

 

[god shamgod]

I remember when they were talking about trading him for Tom Gugliotta and some picks

Or for juwan howard and don maclean or for shawn kemp and ricky pierce

 

[the cac mamba]

it wasnt a done deal, sources say if it was a done deal it would have been completed

not this alias again

 

[ryderldb]

Reading through that projected lineup. Jordan on the Knicks would have barely gotten them 1 championship. Those role players are fukking trash compared to what the 96-99 bulls had.

 

[Taadow]

According to Jay-Z its true.

I read Jay's book and he talked about having dinner with Jordan. And how MJ admitted that he was headed to NY to sign with the Knicks. But Chicago called him at the last minute and made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Take it for what its worth

W-w-wait...why would Mike be having dinner with Jigger Carter-Knowles in '96? He wasn't a major factor like that then..

 

[King P]

W-w-wait...why would Mike be having dinner with Jigger Carter-Knowles in '96? He wasn't a major factor like that then..

This wasnt in 96. This was much later on. He was telling him about how he almost signed with NY

 

[Optimus Prime]

David Falk was the dude behind all of this. He manage MJ, Ewing, Zo, Reggie, etc, and pretty much caused th '95 lockout. He almost decertified the union back then. Dude was just as powerful as Stern...

 

[Rice N Beans]

No.

 

[PortCityProphet]

W-w-wait...why would Mike be having dinner with Jigger Carter-Knowles in '96? He wasn't a major factor like that then..

the better question is why would he be having dinner with a nikka