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“Shut up you little b****es”: When Michael Jordan put Grizzlies’ Darrick Martin in his place with some legendary trashtalk during Bulls’ record 72-10 season

Amulya Shekhar
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"Shut up you little b****es": When Michael Jordan put Grizzlies’ Darrick Martin in his place with some legendary trashtalk during Bulls' record 72-10 season

Darrick Martin recounts the story of how trash talking Michael Jordan went woefully wrong for him and his Grizzlies team in 1995-96.

The 1995-96 season remains the most dominant year by a basketball team in NBA history. After going 72-10 through the regular season, the Bulls went through the Eastern Conference dropping only 1 game. They finished the postseason with a 15-3 record – 2 of the losses came to the Sonics.

Such was MJ’s dominance in his first full year back that he was a landslide MVP for the 4th time in his career. Jordan and the Bulls were on a whole other level defensively. By adding Toni Kukoc to the mix, they’d already obtained a really potent offensive repertoire as well.

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Michael Jordan scored 19 points in 6 minutes against the Vancouver Grizzlies

One thing that will perennially remain true for all times to come is this: you simply do not challenge Michael Jordan. Darrick Martin of the Vancouver Grizzlies found this out the hard way after a game against the dominant Bulls. Antonio Harvey recounted the incident:

“Mike was 4 for 16 from the field, he was having a really rough night. There’s about 10 minutes to go in the game and we’re winning. Then Darrick decides to say to Michael Jordan on his off night ‘Hey Mike, your f***ing shot is not falling tonight!’; ‘You’re having an off night, Mike!'”

“24 points in the last 10 minutes. His last jumpshot – he catches the ball in the post, he does a typical Jordan fadeaway. He’s fading away towards our bench. He knocks down the shot, turns to the bench and says ‘Shut up you little b****es’. True story.”

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Still an expansion team at the time, the Grizzlies did not make the playoffs for a long time until the advent of Pau Gasol. Jordan and his Bulls, meanwhile, won their trophies 4,5 and 6 of the 90s. It became a ritual watching them beat down on teams every year in the playoffs.

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Amulya Shekhar

Amulya Shekhar

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Amulya Shekhar is a sports junkie who thrives on the thrills and frills of live sports action across basketball, football (the American variant works too), parkour, adventure sports. He believes sports connect us to our best selves, and he hopes to help people experience sports more holistically.

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