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Next time I see you in shorts I'm comming at you lol
lol... taking shots at a lot of people.
great speech!
Next time I see you in shorts I'm comming at you lol
was Phil Jackson there?
Yeah what's with putting that high school teammate on blast 30 years later? Jeez he was such an obnoxious ass. Even the GOAT should show more humility. Ass. And yes, I'm a Jordan hater. I fully ackknowledge it.
"Michael, there's no 'I' in team."
"But there's an 'I' in win."
was he wrong?
Some quotes.
Air Jordan reaches new heights with place in Hall
By Brian Mahoney
Michael Jordan, maybe the greatest of them all, has taken his place alongside basketball’s other greats.
And he never forgot anyone who motivated him to get there.
Jordan was enshrined in the Hall of Fame on Friday night, a final honor that followed all the championship rings and MVP trophies he collected during his career.
From the high school coach who cut him to the last player to defend him in the NBA finals, Jordan remembered everyone who did something to bring out the compe iveness that carried him to the top of basketball.
“I’d do anything to win,” he said.
He joined David Robinson and John Stockton, a pair of his 1992 Dream Team teammates, and coaches Jerry Sloan and C. Vivian Stringer in a distinguished class. Jordan insisted during a morning press conference that the weekend wasn’t just about him, but he was clearly the star Friday night before a crowd that included former teammates Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman.
“He makes one big shot and everybody thinks he’s kind of cool,” Stockton joked. “I don’t get it.”
Jordan cried before beginning his acceptance speech, then entertained the crowd with memories of any slights that inspired him to get to Springfield:
— The coach who cut him from the varsity as a North Carolina schoolboy.
“I wanted to make sure you understood: You made a mistake, dude.”
— Isiah Thomas, who allegedly orchestrated a “freezeout” of Jordan in his first All-Star game.
“I wanted to prove to you, Magic (Johnson), Larry (Bird), George (Gervin), everybody that I deserved (to be there) just as much as anybody else, and I hope over the period of my career I’ve done that without a doubt.”
— Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy, who accused Jordan of “conning” players by acting friendly toward them, then attacking them in games.
“I just so happen to be a friendly guy. I get along with everybody, but at the same time, when the light comes on, I’m as compe ive as anybody you know.”
— The media who said Jordan, though a great player, would never win like Bird or Johnson.
“I had to listen to all that, and that put so much wood on that fire that it kept me each and every day trying to get better as a basketball player.”
— Lastly, Utah’s Bryon Russell. Jordan recalled meeting Russell while he was retired and playing minor league baseball in 1994—and with Sloan looking on in horror—told of how Russell insisted he could have covered him if Jordan was still playing. Russell later got two cracks at Jordan in the NBA finals, and he was the defender when Jordan hit the clinching shot to win the 1998 le.
“From this day forward, if I ever see him in shorts, I’m coming at him.”
Robinson was enshrined first on Friday before a large San Antonio contingent that included teammates Tim Duncan and Avery Johnson, and coaches Larry Brown and Gregg Popovich. Stockton told the Spurs that his running mate, Karl Malone, was the best power forward, not Duncan.
The enshrinement ceremony took place at Springfield’s Symphony Hall, because Jordan was too big for the Hall of Fame. The move to the other building allowed for a crowd of about 2,600, more than double what the Hall can accommodate.
Most of the attention was on Jordan, the five-time NBA MVP, but the others in the class are some of the most accomplished in the sport. Stockton is the career leader in assists and steals, Robinson won an MVP trophy and two les in San Antonio, Sloan is the only coach to win 1,000 games with one team, and Stringer was the first woman’s coach to lead three different schools to the Final Four.
“Unique, unique compe ors,” Stockton said during the morning press conference.
Fiery ones, too. Sloan, Stockton’s longtime coach, told two different tales of fights he was in as a hard-nosed player for Chicago.
Jordan remembered scoring around 20 points in a row late in a game to pull out a win, which was followed by a conversation with Bulls assistant Tex Winter.
“Tex reminded me that there’s no ‘I’ in team,” Jordan said. “And I looked back at Tex, I said, ‘There’s ‘I’ in win.’ So whichever way you want it.”
Jordan and Robinson were All-American college players who entered the NBA with high expectations. Sloan acknowledged he wasn’t so sure about Stockton at first—and turns out, neither was Stockton.
“I thought they’d figure me out pretty quickly. I thought the Jazz would figure out that they’d made a mistake, so first paycheck I saved every cent,” Stockton said. “I was pretty sure I was a one-year-and-out guy.”
He ended up playing 19 seasons in Utah, while Robinson spent 14 with the Spurs. He is still an enormous presence in San Antonio through his charitable work.
“That’s one of the things I think I loved most about San Antonio. When you get out in the community, you really feel like you’re making a difference. You feel like you’re impacting people there and families there,” Robinson said. “So anybody who has followed my career, it’s been as important as what we did on the court, being involved in the community, making a difference.”
Stringer also talked of making a difference in the lives of others, such as the pride she feels watching women’s basketball grow into a sport in which her former players can now earn a living playing professionally in the United States. Those contributions to the game, along with her 825 wins, had her sharing a stage Friday with Jordan, whose family she developed a friendship with when they did Nike tours together.
“I once paid to come into the Naismith Hall of Fame,” she said, “and now here I am.”
If anyone missed it: NBA TV is re-airing the Red Carpet Show and the Induction Ceremony several times tomorrow.
NBA.com has video up.
http://www.nba.com/video/index.html
Jordan is a self loving ass. What else is new?
He's Jordan, he can say whatever the he wants. He's MICHAEL MOTHER ING JORDAN.
When you were that good, you can say what you want to say.
Heard a bit of it live on the radio. It sounded pretty funny.
Nope. That's not why I posted what he said in his speech.
Being an obnoxious ass doesn't make you wrong.
He's not wrong about him being better than that guy Leroy Smith who got picked over him for the high school varsity team. And, yet, he still put that guy on blast. It's 30 years later. What's the purpose of that? And why would he have to say that "organizations don't win championships. Was it the organization who played with the flu in Utah." I mean really? Really, Michael? Why would he have to make snide remarks about Jerry Krause? Why can't he be gracious? That's what I wonder.
He wasn't wrong in what he said. Here's my thing. If you're going to be such an obnoxious, self-loving ass, then at least entertain us, drop your pants, and suck on your own in front of everybody. Why just do the figuratively? Do it literally.
I am a huge Jordan fan, but I thought it was a horribly inappropriate speech. It sounded like a speech at a roast.
No matter how talented you are (and I think hands down, he's the best ever), I think at some point you have to find some humility.
I thought Stockton's speech was very good (and funny).
And again, yes, I hate Michael Jordan and am 150% biased against him.
And, yes, he's the greatest player in the history of the NBA.
In his own Jordan way, he was thanking those people for making him the GOAT. He wasn't putting them on blast. He was paying tribute to the people who pushed him to be as great as he is (except the Jerry Krause part). In compe ion, he hated them, but now reflecting back, he appreciates what they did to improve him.
And the first thing he did in his entire damn speech was thank Scottie Pippen, his running mate for six les. You think Shaq is gonna go up and, right off the bat, thank Kobe? or vice versa? no.
You know, I didn't like Jordan AT ALL during the early 90's.
But by the end of his accomplishments, no one, including myself could deny him; he was the best I ever saw on many levels. You could just marvel and recognize.
Sure, the refs fell in love with him, but they do that with all the stars. Jordan could have won 10 if he stayed in 94 and 95, and would have pushed the Spurs in 99 and the Lakers in 2000.
also, ROFL at Avery and his ass-kissing little Napoleonic ass was right to Popovich. I'm convinced he'd literally get on his knees and suck Pop's to get that job when Pop decides to retire.
Did not mention any of his other Bulls teammates. The Scottie mention was almost a preemptive qualifier so people can use it as an excuse to paint him as humble and gracious.
And, as for that Leroy Smith high school cat, when the camera panned to him, you could see it in his face. You could actually hear him think, "Wow, you're still an asshole."
Same thing with John Stockton when they panned to him and Jordan said, "you remember that, John" when recalling his Byron Russell story. Stockton put on the pretentious, "oh you're so funny, Mike" smile for the cameras and you could read his expression too: "why the are you such a , especially at an event like this?"
Greatest asshole of all time.
Randy Moss once headed to the locker room with like 2 seconds left in a game and got ing crucified for it. The Pistons had a good 14 seconds on the clock before peacing out. What a bunch of gots.
And then he left the Magic, dead in the ground.
100% agree.
Isiah Thomas was about as big of an asshole as Michael Jordan.
no rape trials eitherNo banners no Hall of Famers.or players who got AIDS from gay sex
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