OTL on Jordan. Must Read!!

[ljc_267]

Quite a long article but very well written.

espn.go.com/espn/story/_/page/Michael-Jordan/michael-jordan-not-left-building

 

[nbafan88]

Amazing. Actually brought a tear to my eyes a couple times.

Thank you.

 

[Marlo]

Awesome. Love how he still has the edge

 

[nbafan88]

The announcers gush about LeBron, mentioning him in the same sentence with Jordan, who hears every word. Those words have an effect on him. He stares at the TV and points out a flaw in LeBron's game.
"I study him," he says.
When LeBron goes right, he usually drives; when he goes left, he usually shoots a jumper. It has to do with his mechanics and how he loads the ball for release. "So if I have to guard him," Jordan says, "I'm gonna push him left so nine times out of 10, he's gonna shoot a jump shot. If he goes right, he's going to the hole and I can't stop him. So I ain't letting him go right."
For the rest of the game, when LeBron gets the ball and starts his move, Jordan will call out some variation of "drive" or "shoot." It's not just LeBron. He sees fouls the officials miss, and the replays prove him right. When someone shoots, he knows immediately whether it's going in. He calls out what guys are going to do before they do it, more plugged into the flow of the game than some of the players on the court. He's answering texts, buried in his phone, when the play-by-play guy announces a LeBron jump shot. Without looking up, Jordan says, "Left?"

 

[JumpOnBoard]

He's such a prick lol

 

[P-Unit]

Fantastic read

 

[ljc_267]

Watching his greatest plays on ESPN and I can't see how anyone could say he's not the greatest ever.

 

[ljc_267]

He's such a prick lol

It's what made him the best ever.

 

[ArizonaKid]

How is it that the games greatest player was also it's worst front office executive ?

 

[ljc_267]

How is it that the games greatest player was also it's worst front office executive ?

two totally different skills.

 

[RetroVK]

Sometimes I dream, That he is me ...

 

[Toronto_Mike]

How is it that the games greatest player was also it's worst front office executive ?

plenty of executives or upper management who either had a short pro career or no experience whatsoever.

 

[scdoggy]

Thanks for posting LJ. Never been a big hoops fan but stumbled across your post this am. One of the best sports articles I've read in a long time.

 

[ljc_267]

Thanks for posting LJ. Never been a big hoops fan but stumbled across your post this am. One of the best sports articles I've read in a long time.

I agree.

 

[crawdads]

I lived 3 blocks from his place in Charlotte. Cam lives in there also.

 

[Sharpshooter]

Great read, loved him on the court, off to court he always seemed like a jerk, having read this, no doubt he still is.

 

[MoneyStacks]

looks like ESPN pulled the article online. anyone have it that they can put on Google Drive or copy and paste? i know its long, but i missed it

 

[ljc_267]

looks like ESPN pulled the article online. anyone have it that they can put on Google Drive or copy and paste? i know its long, but i missed it

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/page/Michael-Jordan/michael-jordan-not-left-building

 

[MoneyStacks]

is that it? is there a link to click once i get on the website? just looks like 3 separate posts. i thought it was longer? I didnt think i was this dumb...

 

[Pyppurs]

op link still works for me

 

[ljc_267]

I believe the link is back up.

 

[MoneyStacks]

Good call. Thanks

 

[nbafan88]

[h=1]TrueHoop TV: MJ's trainer on MJ[/h] April, 17, 2013 Apr 17
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<cite class="source" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> By Henry Abbott
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Michael Jordan was one of the first NBA players ever to have his own trainer, and Tim Grover was his guy.

Grover's access to Jordan has long been as good as anybody's, and now the trainer to Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade and others has just released a book called "Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable" about building NBA greatness.

Grover sat down with us on Tuesday for a series of interviews. This first one is about Michael Jordan, and includes a shocking bit of Jordan insight from Grover.

You know Jordan's famous "Flu Game," when Jordan famously fought illness to succeed in Game 5 of the 1997 Finals in Utah.

Grover says Jordan didn't have the flu at all. Bill Simmons and Jalen Rose have recently debated whether or not Jordan was in fact hung over for that game, a suggestion that Grover scoffs at.

The real truth, Grover says, is that Jordan was poisoned.

"100 percent," Grover says on TrueHoop TV. "He was poisoned for the 'flu game.' Everyone called it a flu game, but we sat there. We were in the room." Grover explains:

We were in Park City, Utah, up in a hotel. Room service stopped at like nine o'clock. He got hungry and we really couldn't find any other place to eat. So we said eh, the only thing I can find is a pizza place. So we says all right, order pizza.

We had been there for a while. Everybody knew what hotel. Park City was not many hotels back then. So everyone kind of knew where we were staying.

So we order pizza.

Five guys came to deliver this pizza.

I take the pizza and I tell them: "I've got a bad feeling about this. ... I've just got a bad feeling about this."

Out of everybody in the room, [MJ] was the only one who ate. Nobody else had it.

And then 2 o'clock in the morning I get a call to my room. Come to the room. He's curled up in the fetal position. We're looking at him, finding the team physician at that time.

Immediately I told him it's food poisoning.

Not the flu.
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