NBA Insider Perspective: Bad Boy Piston Players Talk about Michael Jordan

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Get an insider perspective on what the Bad Boy Piston players really thought and think about Michael Jordan. This compilation of interviews reveals their true feelings about the basketball legend. Those feelings and perspectives vary greatly. Subscribe, like, and share to show your support!

Michael Jordan um may be a very good outstanding basketball player but in no way does that make him a better person than anybody um who is he I mean it is all he does is play basketball in the in the world he’s this big this video will

Show you exactly what some of the bad boy piston players thought and think about Michael Jordan I’ve collected a compilation of as many of those players as I could find it took a while and I did the best I could so please just show some appreciation subscribe like and

Share with friends it helps me a lot without further Ado Here We Go Go Army you know that he and I matched up against each other for 14 straight years um in those 14 years never once did he try to trash talk me and never once did

I try to trash talk him it was Toe to Toe nose to nose for 14 straight years and we never said a negative word to each other on the court I respected him those years that we beat them Dan he’d walk over every single time shake my

Hand and go good luck in the finals man and you know I could see he was devastated with the loss we beat them or they beat us and I stopped as we’re walking off to court and shook his hand and said good luck in the final so I think it was just

Mutual respect listen let I’ll say this to you Dan there were kns that on the court that he would he would do something so incredible and my thing was to never show any emotion one way or the other whether he did something great or

Not but I can tell you many of nights I ran back down the court after he’s done something incredible and internally I’m saying are you effing kidding me I’m like I in my mind I’m I’m like running like stoic nothing on my face but in my

Mind I’m saying there’s no damn way that guy just did that man so uh no no incredible and I always gave him that respect I always always showed him tremendous respect he showed me respect and so it was it was Mutual on both sides I’m very vocal I think LeBron is

The best player that’s ever played the game um he’s 6’8 285 PBS runs like the wind and jumps out of the gym and but more importantly when he came into League from day one he knew how to involve his teammates to win uh and that’s something that Jordan had to

Learn for a long time now if you go by championships obviously Michael Jordan has more championships but I think LeBron in any generation would be doing what he’s doing right now uh all these years and I think he at the end of the day I firmly believe that he’s the best

Basketball player in the history of the game at the end of the playoffs last year you guys walked by the Bulls and didn’t shake their hand is was that intentional it was intentional on my part um I felt that Michael Jordan um may be a very good outstanding

Basketball player but in no way does that make him a better person than anybody and for him to say and to make value judgments on us as individuals where he does not know us as individuals all he knows is our style of play but to make value judgments on us as

Individuals and to put them into the public medium on the newspapers or on television um who is he I mean it it is all he does has played basketball in the in the world he’s this big I mean he may be up there because he has Publicis and

Media and pumping him up but as a individual downto Earth heart person he he has who is he who cares about him mik is the greatest player ever you know Mich has been Andrew one time he never has to sit out he never ask for anything

But only he asked for respect and money and people don’t realize Jordan’s playing I think the first 8 nine years he barely making $3 million compar these guys making 40 million no one even knew that and then when he asked for like you know uh $30 million

For Chicago for the first championship I mean the fourth championship he got that 35 I guess another 35 I think he wanted 50 in the in the next year we going to go for four but uh a lot of things went on but as far as LeBron and and

Michael if Michael played in this era they average 50 they average 50 points got I I enjoy the fact that I played in an incredible ERA with incredible basketball players at an incredible time that’s like embeded in every one of us and to me for Isaiah and for Jordan it’s good

Theater but what I’m saying is is that um we’ve all done things and made mistakes and things like that and to you as a warrior with me Jordan you know Elijah Juan Patrick y all it doesn’t matter is that I competed with you at a high level but

You know my love was for the game and you know I don’t hate you but we did some ugly things to each other some real ugly things so um you know I think at this age personally um it was a mistake you know

I mean I I I mean I don’t now did you shake hands Mark I know some of the P shook hands well no I didn’t shake hands going out the door I shook hands as I knew we were getting ready to lose okay you know I I was one of the

Last guys out there you know you kind of know what’s getting ready to go on and I just I didn’t take hand with all of them I looked across the uh the preto line and say hey good luck in the next series that’s what I said okay so I hope they

All heard it that was for everybody you you weren’t one walking by their bench that’s the bottom line yeah I don’t know if I did or not I don’t know man I didn’t I mean I I think I could care less about that shake hands

No shake hands you know you know me you know my heart you know what I iaal I don’t wish you no bad luck you know so to show the audience I got to shake your hands you know you know I don’t wish bad luck on you you know you know me as a

Person yeah you know me as a person so you know let’s not take this moment and overblow it let’s take everything out of it and then we can answer this question Isaiah and Jordan with no problem never a problem who’s on that team oh Isaiah’s on that team okay well

That’s the you know what I’m saying I mean it’s like uh you know I understood that you know and I understand that the entire NBA NBA has this political side and sometimes it’s you know for good reasons and you know you have to do what

You got to do but uh we we tend to want to hide the political process of the NBA but you know it is what it is you have to accept it sometimes you know that politically that’s what went on and you have to deal with it well this is the

Deal it’s funny the Celtics walked off the court when Adrien Dantley was on the line as they were handing us the torch as easn confence Championship no one said anything to Larry Bird Danny a Robert Paris you know and even when Mel walked away he only gave Isaiah a p and

No one said anything they walked out so Bill L said let’s hand him the torch the same way the Celtics handed it to us I understand that you know Michael’s my frat brother my guy Harris and Scotty and I trade tickets I was like nah Chuck

You need to put me back in the game because I don’t think I want to be a part of what’s happening and in hindsight it would have changed everything I didn’t want to walk up Chuck da thought yeah s you can’t get any more points come on let the guys

Play and you know I understood I understood bill I still do understand what bill was coming from um he keeps that and he always says it’s all it’s just business everybody else looked at it took it personal and they decided to come out and say things about us but you

Know we were essential to Michael Jordan becoming Michael Jordan that’s the way we need to look at it right we toughened him up he got stronger because of us once you get through us you can get through anything no question and that’s how we handled it All We we played

Basketball the way basketball is played they came in and changed the way and we Chang think about this so many rules are in place because of Detroit and we played him exactly to the law it’s just what it was it was body it was man’s

Game now it’s you know you got guys who are worth more than some Fortune 500 company of course they don’t want to see them hit the ground right but we weren’t going up and cutting their legs from under them so we didn’t have any hate we

Just wanted to win and that was our mentality us against the world people really buy into what the media puts up right when it was time to get me to come on they ask MJ was like yes okay so Michael doesn’t hate anybody he knew

What we were great at you know he made we read an article as Pistons we talk and it said I hated the Piston then and it travels to this day it’s because it was such a traumatic time of his life but he doesn’t really hate us as

Individuals he hated the fact that we were a team that wasn’t going to be moved easily and we were in a team that was so enamored we knew he was great I I mean I’ve been going off for years saying yeah he was the best in the 90s I

Got to admit he’s the greatest ever but couldn’t say that I’m a Detroit Piston you know I’m still wearing bad boy stuff you know what I’m saying so it was it was that mentality but in the locker room you know you’re in a lock was funny

I was talking to James Worthy not the name drop on you Scott but uh I was talking to name James Worthy and he was like can you believe skinny little Michael is Michael Jordan and I was like yeah because i’ been around since 1982 and to see him become what

Everybody models thems after and I G years of saying oh he was the best in the 90s Dr J Oscar Robinson I I just had to admit it you know I’m not I’m not going to get to be this get to do this again he was the greatest basketball

Player in the NBA history and I don’t know if anybody is going to even come close Kobe very close LeBron very close uh Magic Johnson light bird still my two guys that I have nightmares about but there’s nothing like MJ nothing I was thinking about 2020 and you know the

Last day how everyone’s eyes were glued to the TV every Sunday with the world shut down Co shut down and all that what was that experience like for you you know he spent a good deal talking about the Pistons and getting over that hump and just what was your reaction overall

To to the to what he said about the Pistons and Isaiah just the whole thing man I ain’t watch that [ __ ] 10 hours of my I know you saw segments I swear I here’s my right hand of God I didn’t watch that [ __ ] and I didn’t oh man

During the Pand what were you what you what were you doing Sunday night chilling watching watching I got I got kids and [ __ ] I got I have you know I’m sitting there watching movies and [ __ ] that I ain’t seen in a long time I ain’t travel but I wasn’t watching no Last

Dance I’m sorry cuz the last time I remember when I was in the Pistons uniform I whooped that ass the guy you feel the most at the end of the game even in the game is Michael Jordan uh he he’s among us as the best player who’s ever played the game when

You’re playing at at that level you come down to the last 30 seconds of the last minute of the game if that guy can’t make foul shots then he’s the weak link he’s the guy that you’re fouling he’s the guy that you want to put on the line

The guy you fear the most at the end of the game even in the game is Michael Jordan anywhere anytime publicly don’t don’t call me behind the scenes a apologizing or asking your friends to apologize right you got on national television and you call me a

[ __ ] and then you said you hated you said that on national television now if you didn’t mean it get on National Television you say that and apologize for it now if you meant it let it ride as it is I talk to you I talk to

You it ain’t a person in this United States of America that I’m not willing to sit down and have a conversation with and break bread with but if you lying and throwing stones from behind the scenes okay that’s you mhm but if you honest and you upright on your Square

I’m willing to deal with you yeah that makes sense you know so that’s all I know mhm now where do we go from here I you told me something mean you had family that had stayed with him at one point absolutely hey when when Jordan first came to

Chicago first of all we we were fans of his and to some extent steel fans appears my family his family not only did they social I hang out but as I said you know I I had a little nephew that lived with him and and everybody’s still cool right

Ain’t no ain’t no hate for Jord MH we just want some realness right just you know like I say you got on national television and ain’t nobody ain’t nobody nowhere has ever got on National Television and called me an [ __ ] and then publicly said you hate

Me I ain’t heard that from you I ain’t heard that from you I a heard that from no NBA player and so I’m and by the way all them years that you supposedly hated me you voted for me to be the president of your union now maybe you felt like

That privately and I didn’t know but now that I do know and by the way if you didn’t mean it that way then publicly say it don’t privately say it you know magic we we don’t need a private conversation MH th this man did this on National Television

Internationally I have to answer this question right in every interview that I sit down and do you asking me this question right so now now I’m the one who’s looking like oh why you talking about Jordan why you say when you to put that out there and now you at home or on

Your golf course or doing whatever you do and now I got to answer this BS question so if you mad enough and you and you and you if you meant it leave it as it is but if you didn’t mean it then come out and clean it

Up now now here here’s why I’m I was upset of watching a documentary of a guy being an [ __ ] to everybody but then called me a [ __ ] and I ain’t been nothing but nice to this dude now this real talk go back and document it you can go back on the west

Side of Chicago I ain’t talking about Michigan Avenue where they used to kick me off for shining shoes I couldn’t shine shoes on Michican Avenue I couldn’t shine shoes on Rust Street they kicked me out of there on the west side of Chicago that’s where I’m from okay now on the

West side of Chicago when Michael Jordan got to Chicago I made it real easy for him to walk those streets on the west side of Chicago my family took care of him my sister and his brother hung out as friends my little nephew lived with Michael George say

This again my little nephew lived with Michael Jordan now I’m being extremely good to this dude I’m calling his house during this period of time so all this you know as there was ask no no no no dude I I was looking out for you now when we played right you

Ain’t seen me hit Michael Jordan as a matter of fact you ain’t seen me hit nobody lambir and Mahorn would hit somebody and what they would do they would come hit me or say Isaiah hit I said no no no no fight that’s the dude who hit

You fight fight him right oh well you told him to hit me so then they want to fight me okay well I know how to fight so I ain’t backing down we can do that