why would they want his respect?
Wes Unseld: Every single Wizards teammate of Michael Jordan refused to buy him a retirement gift...
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And they would have respected it more if it was Jordan in his prime talking all of that shyt and not some 40 year old man overcompensating for the player he used to be.
Say what you want, he’d definitely lost a step but Jordan grinded his ASS off on those Wizards teams. Dude’s work ethic was formidable
Why would they give him a present when he had more money than entire Wizards roster combined? 
He was going to reject the present and say something slick again, they saved themselves from a further embarrassment.
Wizards weren't going to win a championship even if entire roster tried harder, I don't know why Mike went to Washington, it was bunch of washed up bums like Christian Laettner and a few young players with no future outside of Rip Hamilton, or I guess you could also say Larry Hughes was alright for a season or two when Gilbert joined the Wizards later.
Since someone mentioned Tyrone Nesby, he was only good in small European leagues, even there I heard Euros questioned his work ethic
shyt, I am looking at some of these names from Mike's 2nd season in capital city, Jahidi White or the ultimate career bum Jared Jeffries
when Tyronn Lue is given nearly 30 mpg on your team, you ain't finna make it to playoffs.
He was going to reject the present and say something slick again, they saved themselves from a further embarrassment. Wizards weren't going to win a championship even if entire roster tried harder, I don't know why Mike went to Washington, it was bunch of washed up bums like Christian Laettner and a few young players with no future outside of Rip Hamilton, or I guess you could also say Larry Hughes was alright for a season or two when Gilbert joined the Wizards later.
Since someone mentioned Tyrone Nesby, he was only good in small European leagues, even there I heard Euros questioned his work ethic
shyt, I am looking at some of these names from Mike's 2nd season in capital city, Jahidi White or the ultimate career bum Jared Jeffries
when Tyronn Lue is given nearly 30 mpg on your team, you ain't finna make it to playoffs.
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Sure is a lot of "off the record" shyt coming out lately. Is there a statute of limitations on something being off the record?
Jordan was pushing them to be their best, but it wasn't going to work because that squad was full of young untested players (Hughes, Haywood, Kwame) mixed with some washed up vets (Laettner, Oakley, Russell)
The Stack/Hamilton trade was a huge misfire although I guess it makes more sense now if Rip supposedly wanted out
It would be nice to hear Jordan and Doug Collins talk more about this period and hear from them what really went wrong behind the scenes
The Stack/Hamilton trade was a huge misfire although I guess it makes more sense now if Rip supposedly wanted out
It would be nice to hear Jordan and Doug Collins talk more about this period and hear from them what really went wrong behind the scenes
Yeah I followed the wizards during that time (as a Chicagoan who grew up watching MJ during the bulls championship runs). Anyway it was well known and talked about in sports rumor circles that MJ treated all the players like shyt. People forget that jordan originally said he was coming back out of retirement to mentor the players, help them improve their skills, develop and teach them how to win.
But a lot of that time he was down right nasty to those young dudes. I remember how during the second wizards season. MJ and Doug Collins decided that it would be best for MJ to come off the bench as a super sixth man to help the young guys develop. The team had a poor start and then MJ and Doug decided MJ should be in the starting lineup again.
When MJ was placed back into the starting lineup there was a lot of rumors going on in DC sports media. Sports media kats were saying the young players were pissed that MJ had inserted himself back into the lineup. Even though the goal for him being on the bench was to let the young players develop. Then you had DC guys like Mike Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser saying MJ wanted to return to the starting lineup to preserve his 30ppg scoring avg.
Anyway the stuff was bad blood all the way to MJ telling the owner to keep the 20 mill and road off in his sports car after the season ended (this was referenced in the DC paper and how he still had Illinois plates on his car as he left the stadium after telling the owner to keep the 20 mill).
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I believe one of the biggest things was the media in DC. MJ was golden in chicago cause he was the best player in the world and the team won. So the media would side over MJ before managment or anyone else. They didn't question MJ and outside of hoe ass marriotti or sam smith passive aggressive ass no one fukked with MJ.
In DC it was different. He wasn't the best player in the league, his team sucked and he wasn't home grown like in chicago. So the media had no problem calling him or doug out after the 1st honey moon season. As I mentioned in my other post the local DC media really didn't defende MJ that second season and at the end of the season. The DC media was pretty much like Abe Polin. As in thanks MJ for the sell outs, prime time games and league exposure. But its time to end this relationship.
Nah. The nikka lacked work ethic and drive. Jordan didn't do that to him. It was his nature.
En Sabah Nur
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Yeah the statute is limited to the source still being alive
Crazy cuz had he not reneged they would have had kobe 100%
dabestkeptsecret
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I wonder how much shyt he talked to jerry stackhouse
