Michael Jordan is such an extraordinarily terrific man that most of the things he did sound like made-up stories when coming from him or even other witnesses.
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You must have heard of a 50-year-old MJ annihilating Stephen Jackson one-on-one, while the latter was playing for His Airness’ Charlotte Bobcats (now Charlotte Hornets).
However, this story of him torching his own team’s first unit while playing with the second unit when was retired from the sport for more than 7 years, is one of the several otherworldly things he did in his time on the hardwood.
When 47-year-old Michael Jordan ripped through Stephen Jackson and Co
Stephen Jackson recently revealed a story about the time he was playing with the Charlotte Bobcats, the MJ-owned team, while he was literally in the prime of his 14-year NBA career.
Jackson was averaging a career-high that season and was a leader in the Charlotte team, and after a loss, he had talked back to an angry MJ who was giving them a speech in the locker room.
What came next would have never been forgotten by anybody in the practice session. The very next day in practice, the 5x MVP, at 47 years of age, suited up and with the second unit by his side beat the first unit of his own team.
After beating them, he talked a lot of smack, if talking trash throughout the game wasn’t enough, and finished them up with a dunk. Yikes!
Stephen Jackson was good at basketball
Jackson was a hustler who made it to the league through all the hardships and after playing in the G-league for the first three years since his draft, he finally became an NBA player in 2000.
He was an efficient role player during his time with the Spurs, where he helped them win the 2003 championship, averaging close to 12 points off the bench.
Since then, he never averaged less than 16 points per game until his second year in Charlotte (2010-11) and was one of the most underrated 2-way players in the league.
So, beating a team led him was no cakewalk. That 2009-10 Charlotte team had a 44-38 record. Meaning, an old MJ defeated a team that had beaten the world’s top basketball teams 44 times. Unbelievable.
