 Welcome to another episode in the Michael Jordan series collection we are doing 23 Michael Jordan videos in 23 days today we are looking at John Starks and Michael Jordan and the rivalry between these two players and John Starks tells the story of Michael Jordan's trash talk he also talks about what happened in these fights the 54 point revenge game when MJ was down 2-0 in the playoffs and lastly he tells the story of when Michael Jordan came out of retirement to drop 52 points on his own teammate Scotty Pippin and he talked trash to Scotty as well these are the stories and I hope you guys enjoy the video if you've been enjoying the series I'd greatly appreciate if you guys could help me out by hitting that like button let's aim for 5,000 likes for the next episode tomorrow be sure to hit that subscribe button and hit that notification so you're notified when a new episode releases there's also a playlist that has every single MJ story that has been made so far on the top right of your screen and in the description box and also be sure to check out the full content and footage used in this video in their entirety which is in the description and on the screen right now I don't want to keep you guys waiting so I hope you guys enjoy the video you know whenever you get a chance to play against someone like Michael Jordan for me personally the one-on-one matchups was fun to me because the level of competition you know that he brought every single night you had to raise your game up and so in college I used to have my wife movies on the road if I couldn't tape the game I used to have her tapes out of Chicago boys games and so I'll watch them when I come home and so I used to study him all the time and and so when I got the opportunity to play against him I had already played against him in my mind does he talk a lot on court no he don't talk unless you talk to him and you don't want to do that Michael Jordan has ignited the crowd he started that by talking to the young John Starksman he was talking he was talking at the time would he tell you what he said what he told me for the night over you gonna be calling me mr. Jordan you know so I knew being a player that I am you don't want to get him riled up he already coming to play but if you start talking noise to him he's gonna take you to another level he gonna take his game to another level we know over the years he's expressed that he always respected you as somebody that guarded him and I thought you know you guys had that kind of relationship where he did show you respect for the way you played him and how hard you played against him did you ever have that moment with him when you felt like he's about to snap I better back off the bulls had made short work of their first two playoff opponents but they knew that the Eastern Conference Finals would be different because in this long awaited series they would be pitted against their most bitter adversary in last year's playoffs the New York Knicks had physically punished the bulls the anticipation been there all year long and we understand that in order to get into a championship that we have to go through Chicago and we understand some Sunday it's gonna be all I will I played very well that first game against him I love I'm a very competitive person that everybody know Michael Jordan was the ultimate test and John Starks would step up and accept the challenge with Starks containing Jordan the Knicks gained confidence with every play fittingly it was Starks who would close out game to an emphatically stake New York to a two-nothing series lead at the end of the game I went up to him I say you didn't get Mr. Jordan out of me tonight I think in game number three in 93 where we got to a little scuffle in Chicago he thought that I was trying to attack his sword wrist I guess he had a problem with wrist at the time and I slapped at the ball and hit his wrist by accident he was so frustrated what was going on obviously coming off of the big media blitz about him going to Atlantic City the night before game two and of course that much talked about visit to an Atlantic City casino by Michael Jordan on Thursday before the assembled media that has been covering the Knicks bull series Jordan gave his version of the trip it's attacked in my private life and I really didn't like it I don't I don't agree with it but I felt a need to come out and express that and tell the truth so you guys can quit hallucinating and taking it further than what it is and I think they're just kind of bored over into that whole altercation I think he was disgusted with what happened and Michael had to respond Michael could make things up to motivate himself we didn't have to make anything up here this was real and they end up kicking me at the game for whatever reason I'm not sure why but they kicked me at the game and I remember you know the media coming up to me and you know asking me questions about what happened and what have you and so I just went into you know I didn't play against Michael Jordan long enough and I know when he agitated and he pretty much just agitated over what went down you know with the media and them reporting that he went to Atlantic City and what have you and so I can remember Patrick coming to me that single night and Michael called him and told him that tell John I'm sorry for that you know he apologized you know because he appreciated what I said I stayed up to 2 30 in the morning myself you know watching TV you know and some guys you know may like to go out but like I say that's his business and shouldn't be publicized that's all it was he was just frustrated about what was going on and I wish he would have said it in person but you know sending it through big fella you know that was good enough bulls had been ignited and even more ominously Michael Jordan was about to be unleashed held down by the next through the first three games of the series Jordan would be shackled no longer complete he had scorched the mix for 54 points of the bulls 105 points he accounted for 51% of the offense we used to get scouting reports on certain guys and you look at scouting report and they say well you can take you right in a way you knew like to go left with certain people and then with Jordan I think you said it just said good luck that's it that's all it's yeah good luck on him it's just like good luck yeah and obviously he was the ultimate competitor to play against so he was special in that way yeah plus he had a will like no other player that I ever played against certain guys I can get to mentally but him I could never get to mentally and believe me I tried my best but you know he was that special player that you couldn't break his will you know if anything you just taking them to another level I can remember you know doing this is doing when he retired and Scottie Piffin had a all-star benefit game in Chicago and he was having a hard time selling tickets this is in 95 the summer of 95 and he talked Michael into playing and soon as he announced Michael was playing the ticket sold out in our Michael had a game high 52 points and leading his team to a 187 to 150 victory the fans not only welcome Jordan back they also got their first chance to see him go one-on-one with tipping he found himself matched up against Scottie Piffin which I saw today with he and I it's been going practice every day you know when I was playing against him it was kind of tough because I didn't want him to embarrass me on the court but you know Michael's one of the greatest players ever played the game and it's tough to shut him down and I can remember I'm on Michael's team which I was thankful for that I'm playing on his team and Scottie called himself stacking the team against him and he said before he went out just give me the ball and move out the way so who is on the court and everybody gave him the ball and him Scottie went one-on-one for the majority of the whole game and he lit Scottie up from like 55 points he had dropped in 52 points I hadn't played all summer so I've been working out for the last three or four days just trying to get my win back and get some of my touch back you know anytime that I want to pick up a basketball and go back out and play I can do that and if there's any doubt that Michael's come back at the top of the game well his performance put all of those doubts to rest it was one of the most incredible things that I've ever seen in my life a guy could not play basketball for that long practiced three days and didn't have 52 points Jordan's appearance guaranteed a packed house for Pippin's charity event but it meant a lot to him personally as well I really didn't have an opportunity to play my last game in Chicago Stadium I played in Phoenix what I did at the end of the game in terms of kissing the floor goodbye was truly what that was it was an opportunity to say goodbye to the stadium as well as some opportunities of playing on the stadium it meant a lot to me it's given me a lot and it's a mutual love and mutual understanding and you know it's just time to move on you know he's been playing baseball he stepped out on he told Scottie don't you ever you blame the stack of team against me again but that's you know you get to you get the width is great and that's what made them great when you playing against them you know you just in the mix and and you concentrating on trying to beat them but the one spot that I really enjoyed when he was talking about him and you know and he had to take a break yeah I'm not sure if I remember that he had to take a break tearing up emotional yep it is way that's how I played the game that was common tell a don't want to play that way don't play yeah you got emotional about it because to me I'm looking at it and and I'm saying to myself okay he feel like people he was misunderstood as a player now you really understand what made them such a great player and his passion for the game is level of of competitiveness that he had during this time he's always thinking ahead and you could just see and his man is always working you know what I mean and I will say this he probably was the best fundamentally sound superstar that I didn't play against you know from the standpoint of he didn't do a lot he just got the spots on the court you know what I mean it's just like a surgeon he just get over here I want to get a shot there I'm pump fake you take one or two drills I'm get to that spot right you know what I mean and so you never see him hardly see him take a bad bad shot right you know always on balance he was just fundamentally sound that's I think that's why the game was so easy to and I hope you guys enjoy the video if you did please help me out by hitting that like button let's aim for 5000 likes for the next video here are two new episodes that I think you will also enjoy so be sure to check them out and I'll catch you guys in the next episode tomorrow take care