 Welcome to another Michael Jordan episode. We are doing 23 Michael Jordan videos in 23 days today We have a great story. You probably have heard of the 63-point game against the Boston Celtics That is very well known, but I don't think you've ever heard it quite like this today We have many players involved on that day including Larry Bird Kevin McHale from the Boston Celtics But also many players from the Chicago Bulls they include Dave Corzine George Gervin Michael Jordan himself Charles Oakley Kyle Macy and many other players that played in this day are involved in this video and tell their own Version on the story, so I hope you guys do enjoy it This video really did take a long time to edit so I'd greatly appreciate if you guys could hit that like button It really does support the channel. Let's aim for 5,000 likes for the next episode Subscribe if you are new there is a playlist link in the description and on the top right of your screen if you Click on that playlist you'll find all the Jordan episodes we've done so far and also here are the credits that we use in this video Be sure to check out them in their entirety and I hope you guys enjoy the video How do you describe Danny what it was like? You know the guy that comes into the garden and did what he did the 63-point games Yes, you guys threw everybody at him MJ drops 63 in the playoffs. We get 63 Michael had 63 first to Celtics What was that game like just talking about it was crazy because you could tell in 1986 that he was gonna be Unbelievable player the best player in the league potentially going forward So I don't think that that surprised anybody, but it's just amazing how Michael just became who he was they traded in for George Gerbitt who was the highest-paid bull on that team at $800,000 you were playing with the ice man. So you played with Jordan as a first two years. It's second year second year So hard man Do you remember practicing against Mike? Oh, yes Definitely, there's I've never seen he was like a machine, you know, he would come in he would never cross the line Before practice he would stand at the lines true gum True as gum and talk, but once he crossed that line He was he was a maniac bullshead coach Kevin Lockery knew the team had a star in the making that the NBA It's gonna be a lot of fast-paced games. So I think I'm I'm pretty prepared when he was at practice He played practice like it was the last He's a type of player that when he goes into practice, he gives it his all he works hard and The games become easy for you He is a type of guy that's very very competitive. He doesn't like to lose anything He was just a rookie coming in ready to to learn and earn his position in the league He didn't come in with an attitude or feel that he was better than anybody else I get the impression that people are getting a negative view of Michael in terms of his Don't want to be a good teammate or how we act as a teammate. I think that's far from the truth I think Michael was competitive He was one of the greatest players the greatest player in the history of the game He wanted to win championships We knock on Michael when he got into the league his first few years there was he was just a scorer Were you on the bench for the 63 point game? Yeah. Yeah. So that's when Gerbin didn't play that much Yeah, I don't know how I stayed on the bench that long. That's crazy. George Gerbin was on the bench. Yeah, and MJ in 63 Nobody I didn't know that. Yeah, he was on the bench. I mean, you know, he's gonna get 63, but let me You know passing the ball a couple times, right, you know So did you know? Yeah, because you know I was old on my way out and Michael was coming in and you know really trying to show His presence and you know, he probably looked at me a little different. You know, he always called me My old man You know, Michael came in it was different because he was a scorer in a scoring mentality And as he got better they started getting better players around him, but I go making this kid play they keep talking about how good he is it was 1986 this was the year that Jordan had broken his foot missed 64 games. That was the second year in the league Highlighting NBA news the Chicago Bulls in an unfamiliar spot. Their star Michael Jordan was injured early in the game But it was a 111 to 105 victory as they beat Golden State They're three and all on the young season last year's rookie of the year Michael Jordan out with a broken left foot and only played 15 games and here you were on a Bulls team and You were a rookie. Do you remember the night that Jordan broke his foot in against the Warriors? Does that ring a bell? It was the third game of the season in the second season I was playing Golden State. I go up for a lob And when I landed I landed flat footed. I can remember him Breaking it. In fact, I think Myself and Charles Oakley carried him off the court. Couldn't walk so you had you were carrying his legs Wow, I gotta go look at the picture that that's that's one thing I missed in the researcher that you and you and oak carried him up when it did the cats came It was a clear break and I was done I was devastated because it never got hurt. I'm in the cast. I couldn't do anything. I was anxious I'm pretty sure I was irritable to a lot of people the Chicago Bulls brass one in Michael Jordan to set out the remainder of the season So they could secure a hot lottery pick within a 1986 NBA draft. I was itching to do something so Talk the bulls into let me go back to college He threatened the bulls to spend most of his spring playing pickup basketball in North Carolina with fellow Tar Hill's the Unfamiliar role of bystander had Michael at wit's end and he needed to find a way to lessen the pain It was crazy because that was when I think he came back from surgery It was in this gym where the rehabilitation process would begin. I just started Going to the gym shooting And then I started playing one-on-one then I saw playing two-on-two then I saw playing three-on-three Next, you know, I was playing five-on-five and the Bulls never knew I was doing it when I got back with the Bulls my calf muscles and my injured calf was stronger than my Uninjured calf. So the first thing they said wouldn't hell you've been doing blah blah After my heart dropped out. You know, I just dropped out. Oh my god I gradually worked my way up to a point where I'm playing five-on-five in a game And I got the confidence that the foot is completely healed and I can and I can play on it And you had the Bulls trying to hold Jordan back and Michael is being pulled out of games Bulls had a minutes restriction on him and they didn't want him to play. They wanted my restriction And it's just I'm a ball player. I'm playing. I'm on the court. I want to play my 35 37 minutes Everybody told me you're fool for playing you should go home and relax and Come back next season see what happens Now we start winning and we start getting into the playoff picture As you guys are trying to make the playoffs and stands fighting with management Jerry Reinser and Jerry Krauss are thinking long term Michael wants to play He helped lead the Chicago Bulls to the 1986 postseason. It was just amazing. He was just he was fresh I mean, you know, he ain't played about 20 games. I don't play the 82 So the Bulls made a late-season rush into a playoff birth Which ironically cost them a chance at one of the first seven choices in next year's drag Essentially wills his team with a losing record into the playoffs and what is their reward? Well, they get to play the almighty Boston Celtics. You guys ended up going to the playoffs and and play in the Boston Celtics we won 67 games a 133 games Michael's coming off a pretty serious injury We didn't know what to expect and this night they had lifted the minute restriction You can say the games came a long way because Back then I used to open the wonders in the ring. That's to keep the floor from sweating Yeah, that's the ice, you know, I'm saying not I ain't got to do the video I don't know if you remember back then that used to be to walk in the gym Yeah, and it's both So much freezing in there and the flow just slip me all over the place I always been cold. I mean, it's cold outside. He ain't got ice on the bottom I mean, it's a screen of all the teams I've been on. There's no question. That was the best team It's hard to imagine that six weeks ago. You were sitting on the bench. Yes This is the opportunity play against Larry bird and the Boston Celtics, and this is show time Michael Jordan is back and are no limits to his playing time. He's really ready to cut loose And we're about ready to go on the Boston carton. They took all the limitations off and it was like unleashing a wild dog Our whole thing was just do what we can do to hold Michael down, but you don't hold the great ones down I remember game two I'd played golf with Michael the day before Danny Ainge said that between games one and two you guys played golf and you warned him to tell Dennis Johnson to get ready for a beat down the next game. Did that happen? I played with him and Kevin McHale Was Michael Danny and Michael and Danny are giving it to each other back and forth Mm-hmm and they were trash talkers So, you know, we're gonna go off course they talk a lot of trashing, you know, obviously DJ was an all-star He was known for his defense, which for me that was a great challenge Right. So as they were joking about sweeping us and kicking our butts and blah blah blah That was always a blast because you know, it's always fun playing golf with rich guys who think they're unbeatable I took a few bucks off Michael that day and we're talking trash to each other that might have been a mistake We get them we get in the car we dropped Danny off first and And Michael says hey tell your boy DJ I got something for him tomorrow You know, I can only say you better tell the DJ that you know, it's gonna be a hard day for him the next day You were there for one of the most iconic games in the history of the NBA playoffs I mean still the still the leading scorer in in playoff history Jordan was 63 in the garden and I Jokedly told everybody yeah, we combined for 70 points Michael had 63 and at 7 the first came a guy scores 49 But I don't think he was expected going in the next team what was gonna happen We're underway here the Celtics and white the bulls in red as Boston control I'll wake up to a little bit of drool on my pillow feel like it's gonna be a bad day Yeah, I'm tired of shit and the coffee ain't hit yet. Damn ain't that great? I don't want to go work I need to change My job cash, I'm going on a trip and I don't plan it busy I'm gonna stay there till I feel I'm winning. Oh He was scoring at will dunks bankers. He'd get in the middle and shoot over guys. We got double Man, I'm telling you right now this dude is unreal. We double get them every time you touch it You guys you had it like we just started our whole defense to get the ball out of his hand Second game But he was in another world, you know the old to be lost, but he was he put a show on It was it was a joy playing against him and even back then it was Something you really wanted to look forward to because you knew you were getting the best every night We all took our cracks out of that day. It wasn't one guy DJ was our best defensive player and He picked up for fouls early in the third quarter I was on him for a while Danny was on him DJ was on him a lot I remember laughing in the middle of the game because Walton was cursing me out because he had to guard Jordan on a few cases Walk with five Walton fouled out ice-cold game Fortunately for us. We had the last shot fortunate to win that game, but Michael put on a show Number of my my game, but I'm really Unlike I was in Boston. I don't think it's too many people. It's not me. I don't think it's anybody We end up winning the series, but it was an incredible incredible playoff performance I've never seen it before and I had never seen it after I didn't win the game I much rather score less and win the game than lose a game in school six three four Larry Bird talks about that game like it was the new coming of Jesus or something He paid me the highest compliment and you know, I think that was very gratifying that I earned Larry Bird's respect Stop what Larry say tonight. I think I witnessed Jesus on the basketball That was a Michael Jordan out there was God disguised as Michael Jordan Rephrased out me to cut you off God in the basketball uniform after the game Larry Bird would say I didn't think anyone was capable of doing what Michael has done to us. Nobody like him point blank. I never seen them. I play like he plays and I mean you can include all of them. It's like it was like they did everything they could But you know they have a van is in there. So you already got a van You got bird Kevin kill up here. It's in DJ like what most you got read all back looking down so It's hard to believe a guy square how many baskets and And they lose but I know we started Denon Johnson out on him and then we went with Danny ain's myself Which it was really easy then when I started guarding Then Bill Walton and we was trying to run him to help all the time But he had his outside shot going so well that he really didn't need to penetrate that much It was crazy, but it was the fan, you know the fans back then like they not They was like, you know, they they saw good basketball The the teams that you don't see that Consistency and and what they do on a night base, you know one night it looked about 30 when about 20 It's crazy, you know, you know playing against Michael was also a dream come true He was the greatest player of all time in my opinion But I'll tell you what after that I went like what this guy is gonna be something else and of course was I'm with you He's probably the best player that I've Competed against and watch play and a lot of it was just that that dude had a tenacity about it He had no quit that's one thing but you I've never saw Michael Jordan quit in any game After that game Michael Jordan was transcendent to being arguably the greatest player to ever hit the NBA And if you did enjoy the video help me up by hitting that like button Let's aim for five thousand likes for the next episode tomorrow. 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