Michael Jordan has been the target of praise and scrutiny for close to 4 decades now. Arguably the greatest basketball player of all time, Jordan didn’t reach the heights that he did without accumulating more than just a couple naysayers along the way.
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For every compliment he received, there was also someone who was ready to refute the aforementioned statement. If you said he was a great scorer, someone said he couldn’t make his teammates better like Magic. If you said he was a great leader, somebody would offer up his ‘tyrannical’ style of leadership as ‘proof’ that he wasn’t.
Sam Smith was someone who seemed to be obsessed with uncovering the truth behind how Michael Jordan operates behind closed doors. He published a book called ‘The Jordan Rules’ that focused on his leadership skills around the time of the 1991 Bulls championship.
Michael Jordan on Sam Smith writing a particularly strange passage in his book
Michael Jordan vehemently refused to accept a slew of stories that were written about him in Sam Smith’s ‘tell-all’. One such story that he did not like that got out was when him along with Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant were talk about the size of their sons’ p*nises.
They were doing so in jest and were ‘joshing around’ as some would say. However, the way Smith pointed it out in the book painted the three in quite the perverted light. During a 1992 interview with Playboy, Jordan revealed that he did not appreciate this being published.
“He really exploits certain things,” said MJ. “I’ve heard there was a story about how Pippen, Grant and I were talking about our sons’ p*nises. He said we spent 30 minutes debating whose son had the biggest p*nis. What’s the purpose of that being in the book? You know it’s kidding, so what?” continued the 6x champion.
Michael Jordan felt a sort of way about Phil Jackson’s offense
In this same interview, Michael Jordan goes on to reveal that the triangle offense did in fact limit his own scoring capabilities. Phil Jackson, unlike Doug Collins, designed an offense with Tex Winter that brought the ball out of MJ’s hands and had everybody touch it on a possession.
Jordan even claimed that it isn’t his fault if his center, like Bill Cartwright, can’t score 20 points in a game. He would also state that he never ‘b*tched’ about not getting 50 points.
