 Welcome to a new episode in the 23 collection of Michael Jordan stories in 23 days. This is a new collection over December So if you've missed any of the other episodes within this December series There's a playlist in the description box down below and on the top right of your screen right now today We are reliving the times that Michael Jordan was a savage and asked his defenders to take his Jordan shoes off These are the two stories They're hilarious funny and crazy and I hope you guys enjoyed the video the one thing that I'd love for you to do These videos take a long time to make and we are doing 23 over the course of December The one thing I love is that if you could please hit that like button It really does support the channel. Let's aim for 5000 likes for the next episode tomorrow Subscribe if you are new and hit that notification button so you're up to date when a new video releases all the video footage Using this video is located down below in the description box as well and on the screen right now So you can take a full look at all the interviews podcast and clips using this video in their full entirety and I hope you guys enjoy But what happened that first time you took the floor and you have to guard Jordan Here's a funny story about the shoe. I've had some battles with Mike But I'm fortunate for me and I kind of look at like when I came into the league because I had a hold out I didn't play give some my rookie year. Well, unfortunately my rookie year. I wasn't there because I held out So I missed him before he retired remember that. Oh, okay. That's right the next year He retired my third year At the end of the 94 95 season when he came back Okay, yeah hurt that year So when I finally got a chance to for Michael to come back that was at 95 season my fifth year I finally got a chance to play against them I'm playing for the net. This is 96 97 years. I mean when I was in Jersey, we were playing the The Bulls here. I was with the New Jersey Nets at the time My great friend Jimmy Jackson who's a great player big 10 player the year two time all American Was giving Michael Jordan the business Nets try to catch the Bulls napping Jackson knocks down another Jimmy Jackson is just giving it to Michael and Scotty. He just you know Just killing them, right? In the meantime, Jimmy continues to talk mess to Superman that you can't do that This is Jordan. He's been quiet until now We beat him in Jersey Sam Cassel talking crazy hit Sam at 28. I had like 25 Sam Cassel and I had a really good game Jim Jackson across the bees hit sit back Cassel steps in and strokes it He hits another So Mike and I are going back and forth just talking you can't guard me I can't guard you blah blah blah. We're going back. So we go to Chicago to play Some people told us sort of they didn't tell it right So we go back to Chicago and play him they had the team from the start mj fade away jumper goes in No, that's a better start than he had So we're playing They want to get back because we beat him Harp in the corner very high arching free mj with a tip put it in very fine player Okay, fair enough. That's a good point mj Spins in the lane and Hicks and Hicks trying to pull away here. Bill Whittington in the ball game mj hits from the left side Coupe coach Bob's baseline mj high archer rattles home for Michael Back to Michael And So jimmy jackson starts talking crap and everything Mike, you know, he got into his Early on he may say something it depends on how the game is going But then he'll nudge you along especially He may say some things sort of rep about you, but he's talking about you About you can't guard with something like that. So he's talking i'm talking you guard me. I can't you can't guard me Well, you can't guard me Whatever, I know that's mike bro. I mean come on mike might have had 28 maybe You know, we're cocky We're talking me and mike going back and forth and throughout the game and we end up losing We lose the game. I had 33 I had 33 though. Did you really? Yeah So we're going through the the the line to shake hands at the word But the funny thing about it after the game There's a guy named joe cline who was on our team who had played with mike before in chicago what was the the spark that Though the the things that he had in him do you do you think that helped propel him to Always competitive Oh, it just I mean he wanted to win if if he lost I mean just his competitive nature was off the chart. I mean we were all super competitive Right, he was He never took you per diem on some card games. Did he I stayed far away And joe cline that played for the bulls before pulls mike to the side says mike Let me my man jay jay. Hello my young buddy mike said no jay jay is my god We're real cool, but tell him that's why he's wearing my shoes. You're talking a lot of crap to have my shoes on He's talking about the ultimate shutdown man jay jimmy. Look daddy did have his shoes on he had the jump man's It is weird to play against a guy. You're wearing his shoes jim Hella hella trash right, but The jump man don't I said I'm gonna continue to wear him too. So what so but that's that's my jordan's story on the shoes Because that right there was beat come back. Come on. This is why I'm wearing my shoes Yeah Yes, ultimate and I say yep, you're right now. I'm not taking them off either That's where you just you're staying there you and you see him look at him and then he looks down his shoes like We're done here. Yeah, you can't so you can't say anything after that You know, I love that so much. Mike what I found dan is this Mike along like wakobi and other guys like that They respect guys who go back at them and don't back down now. You may not Get them or be as good as them. Don't get me wrong But as long as you show that you are competitive and you compete Those kind of got those guys respect you, you know, but that I was I'm so glad I got a chance to play in that area Yeah, that right there was beat come back. Come on. This is why I'm wearing my shoes Is there a better trash talk moment that you remember than jordan saying remember you're wearing my shoes. Oh, no, no, I mean that was That was classy I wasn't a trash talker So a lot of people didn't talk a lot of trash to me as well, but when I was a rookie My first very first game playing against michael jordan in the bulls. Oh first game So you gotta think right Six months prior to that. I'm in the dorm room at cu With jordan posters and all kind of you know all my favorite players are in my room Fast forward. I'm playing against this dude. My first game, you know um That was crazy, you know, I was in awe. That was very surreal Call the blocking foul he gets the call he gets the call and gets the basket It was crazy. It was it was really it was really wild, man. Um I'm 21 years old, you know So it was it was it was wild man And we had a guy named greg minor guarding him by this time mike's come back into the league Tell me about your first experience playing against Michael jordan In a boston-saltz uniform the best ever played the game in my opinion. Um So it was it was a great experience, but I couldn't I wasn't nervous. I wasn't afraid And you know, it was a little dust up. Greg's playing hard. He's playing Of course you got to play as hard as you can as mj. Right. It's open at night My mom at home watching the kids watching everybody watching So they got in the little scuffle It was like, okay, I got mike and they y'all leaving leave it alone Let me focus on what I need to do that kind of deal. So I'm back there just taking everything and okay This is who's gonna do what and uh mj he's going to the free throw line And he looks at greg and he says I should make you take my shoes off I looked down. I didn't even realize it. I looked down and he got the jordan's on so I said, uh, man, this is my first game ever I said, this is this is what I got to look for it too. You learned a valuable lesson though, right? Well, obviously I didn't say much to mj to rest of the night Trapping sometimes coming with the guy off the out of bounds pass or them running out of that Michael jordan with a basket A lot of trash talking to a bad boy Probably so probably so More than Michael jordan does in this game Jordan with a fall away hits in the foul as well Foul by d brown and jordan now I don't want to be on that reel. So that was my welcome to the league Trash talking even though it wasn't too many thank goodness And I hope you guys enjoyed the video. 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