Michael Jordan's GOAT Interview...(1992 Playboy)

[Motife43]

So people actually DID read Playboy for the articles

I would have loved to have seen Mike play football.

i got some old Playboys in my garage I might have to pull em out lol

 

[NormanConnors]

1976 Grand Prix


Didnt know Mike had to sacrifice/let his friend go, something like that can traumatize you for life/make you a certain way to hide those feelings

 

[Jcotton1]

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Classic lines from Mr.

 

[inndaskKy]

People who insist that athletes nowadays are better/more advanced physically nowadays, have to also fess up and admit people back in the days were way more emotionally mature/had more character than nowadays on the whole. And that's despite Mike having clear psycho tendencies. People/players nowadays are spoiled kids in comparison, and that's putting it very mildly.

 

[MVike28]

In the interview he makes it seem like he didn’t really attempt to help his friend tbh

Are you retarded?

 

[MVike28]

Yo WTF?

Survival. His life is on the line. Are you nikkas serious??

 

[10bandz]

Are you retarded?

I never said he was wrong for what he did

 

[10bandz]

Jordan: When we were beating Philly in the play-offs last year and Detroit was going against Boston, everyone was saying, “I hope Boston wins.” I said, No way. If we’re going to go, we have to go the hardest route, or else as a team, we’re going to get criticized for it. First of all, Scottie Pippen would never redeem himself from having those three headaches, or whatever he had, in the final 1990 conference championship game against the Pistons. As a team we would never live it down because we always faltered under Detroit’s pressure. No one really gained respect from Detroit players.

Playboy: It would have reflected badly on you, too.
Jordan: All of that would have been right on my shoulders. Yeah, you won a championship, people would have said, but you didn’t go through Detroit to do it. I didn’t want that crap to happen. I wanted to go the hardest route.

Playboy: There was also the matter of how you compared to Magic and Larry Bird.
Jordan: When it came to comparisons, this is what always knocked me out of the top two players: People would always say, “All these great plays and he’s never taken his team to a championship.” So I wanted to go through one of those two. It worked out perfect.


Don’t make too many with this kind of attitude anymore. Damn shame too. It’s partly what made 2-3 so special.

Yeah certain folks are gonna ignore that part

 

[MoneyTron]

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If 96-98 MJ played today he’s sitting games for rest. I don’t blame any player for sitting 5-10 games a year, especially if your team is head and shoulders above the conference.

 

[pez]

Jordan: When we were beating Philly in the play-offs last year and Detroit was going against Boston, everyone was saying, “I hope Boston wins.” I said, No way. If we’re going to go, we have to go the hardest route, or else as a team, we’re going to get criticized for it. First of all, Scottie Pippen would never redeem himself from having those three headaches, or whatever he had, in the final 1990 conference championship game against the Pistons. As a team we would never live it down because we always faltered under Detroit’s pressure. No one really gained respect from Detroit players.

Playboy: It would have reflected badly on you, too.
Jordan: All of that would have been right on my shoulders. Yeah, you won a championship, people would have said, but you didn’t go through Detroit to do it. I didn’t want that crap to happen. I wanted to go the hardest route.

Goat talk. That's why fans put the older generation on a pedestal.

 

[pez]

this is a great interview - goddamn at this part below, never heard this story before:



Playboy: You had a bad experience with swimming when you were a kid, didn’t you?
Jordan: I went swimming with a close friend one day, and we were out wading and riding the waves coming in. The current was so strong it took him under and he locked up on me. It’s called the death lock, when they know they’re in trouble and about to die. I almost had to break his hand. He was gonna take me with him.

Playboy: Did you save him?
Jordan: No, he died. I don’t go into the water anymore.

 

[CarltonJunior]

That swimming part of the article is crazy

 

[boskey]

I don't want to do too much, but you can see how having to make a life or death decision at such a young age could lead to his "win at all costs" attitude

 

[Big Boss]

Jordan: When we were beating Philly in the play-offs last year and Detroit was going against Boston, everyone was saying, “I hope Boston wins.” I said, No way. If we’re going to go, we have to go the hardest route, or else as a team, we’re going to get criticized for it. First of all, Scottie Pippen would never redeem himself from having those three headaches, or whatever he had, in the final 1990 conference championship game against the Pistons. As a team we would never live it down because we always faltered under Detroit’s pressure. No one really gained respect from Detroit players.

Playboy: It would have reflected badly on you, too.
Jordan: All of that would have been right on my shoulders. Yeah, you won a championship, people would have said, but you didn’t go through Detroit to do it. I didn’t want that crap to happen. I wanted to go the hardest route.

Playboy: There was also the matter of how you compared to Magic and Larry Bird.
Jordan: When it came to comparisons, this is what always knocked me out of the top two players: People would always say, “All these great plays and he’s never taken his team to a championship.” So I wanted to go through one of those two. It worked out perfect.


Don’t make too many with this kind of attitude anymore. Damn shame too. It’s partly what made 2-3 so special.

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[10bandz]

Oh yeah what did @Remote dumbass say in the first response to this thread?