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‘Last Dance’ has reached the point of meeting the Bulls with the NBA’s ‘Bad Kids’ who, to ‘keep’ under control the guy who apparently referred to a man, but what he did on the floor put him in Another category was inspired and applied Jordan’s rules.
Even if he had lived through that period, he was probably 100% absorbed in his looks, his style, his posture, and the faces of Michael Jordan when he explained why he still hates the Pistons, and the reasons who did the personal battles, in and out of the quotation marks. At the heart of MJ’s goal was Aizaya Thomas. And for those who didn’t understand, he said, “I still hate them.” That is, the.
The feeling of hatred had arisen in 1985. When Air was an obese boy, who had been selected a few months earlier, ranked No. 3 in the NBA Draft and immediately became an All Star. Thomas was in his fourth year. in the league, where he entered NBA Draft No. 2 in 1981 (at No. 1, the Mavs had ‘retired’ Mark Aguirre) and NCAA champion with Indiana University. He was also named “Most Outstanding Player” in the tournament.
The 1985 “We Don’t See You” is said to have been organized by Thomas, who has always been black or white. There was no gray in his mind. It never occurred to him to be recognized as a 1.85 point guard who grew up as a black boy in West Chicago and dedicated his life to basketball, playing under Bob Knight’s guidance in college, to becoming an All Star 12 times. , 2 times champion and once final MVP. In his opinion, he was never just the leader of the Bad Boys. That was it. Not only that. He has said that “if we were all the same height, we would see who is the best.” In ‘everyone’ were Jordan, Byrd and Magic. And he never managed that complex.
“As a child, I learned that everything is a fight for survival. I never wanted to be loved. When we were poor, people gave us food. We had a difficult time, but we did not accept it, because my mother believed that we should accept the sympathy of the people. Just kindness. “Your sympathy weakens you,” he told me.
At the 1985 All Star Game in Indiana, Jordan appeared as a rookie. It hadn’t been ‘Air’ yet. He was preceded, of course, by his fame as he would grow, although at the time he gave around 7 points per game. At the gathering of the best, according to information that emerged years later, several veterans deemed MJ’s behavior arrogant.
Let me tell you for a moment who All Star was.
WEST: Adrian Dudley, Ralph Sampson, Karim Abdul Jabbar, Magic Johnson, George Gerwin, Alex Inglis, Norm Nixon, Larry Nance, Rolando Blackman, Jack Sikma, Calvin Naz Nut and Hamick.
THISJulius Irving, Larry Byrd, Moses Malone, Isaiah Thomas, Michael Jordan, Michael Ray Richardson, Robert Paris, Bernard King, Sidney Monkriff, Terry Campbells and Dennis Jones.
In our case, Thomas is said to have been outraged by the young man’s indifference to his face when he was killed at the hotel (Jordan explained that he was embarrassed “I didn’t demand respect”). Rookie’s behavior in the diving contest was the drop that overflowed the glass with the patience of the “old man”. Everyone thought he was bragging about himself and the company that dressed him (Nike). On his way he had not followed the regulations.
The protocol states that All Stars are prohibited from wearing the clothes they wore for the warm-up. MJ appeared with the Nike team and the older ones were outraged by Rookie’s audacity. Don’t forget to tell you that the competition in this competition was Dominic Wilkins. I mean, these two made it to the final. The first phase also involved Clyde Drexler, Julius Irving, Darrell Griffith, Larry Nance, Terence Stansbury, and Orlando Wolridge. Wilkins won the trophy.
On game day, what Thomas thought and what Magic Johnson and George Gervin had agreed on, first, was done. So Thomas and Johnson were friends, then they became eternal enemies. So they agreed to ridicule the young rebel. How “Let’s face off without really defending ourselves and see what Gerwin will do to Michael.Thomas and Magic were the guys who took the show from the previous All Stars. Gervin is on the list of the 50 greatest players in history. He was the league’s top scorer for three years. In the NBA, he had 26.2 points. per game, literally no sweat, no sweating The inspirer of the finger movement, who quit due to drugs, was an attacker in Jordan who was shot 2/9 times By the way, they were teammates next season.
That night, the three allegedly agreed to show the young man who the bosses were. Many insist that there was never a conspiracy, that Jordan’s nine shots were too much for a rookie, and that it was common for youngsters not to perform in All Stars. Among them was Thomas, who had stated “this rumor may have influenced a possible friendship between Michael and meJordan added that “It was my first All Star. I didn’t want to steal the show. It was enough for me to be there. So I don’t think there was a conspiracy“
George Andrews, then an agent for Thomas and Magic, said one of the same things, explaining that at the time, Thomas and Byrd couldn’t agree on anything. Chances are if Thomas said something would happen, Byrd would do the exact opposite.
Note: Two years later, after the final in the East, Thomas said the memory thief “Byrd turned out to be MVP because he is white.” Another who disagreed with Thomas’s alleged plot was Dr. J ‘because he was the compass of morale in the league, ‘as George Andrew, then Thomas and Magic’s agent, said. Also, Magic and Byrd, who dropped out of college, didn’t find him at the time.‘.
The party ended, everyone went home and Jordan had nothing to say. The first game after the All Star Game was with the Pistons. In Chicago he finished with 49 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals. The Bulls prevailed in overtime. It was the game that started the legend. The first time MJ got rid of the politically correct and reported that from now on anyone who betrays him will pay for it, possibly for life.
Although there are no confessions from the protagonists of the Jordan freeze in 1985, it could be said that there was a feeling that ‘karma is a bitch’ was true when Thomas was left out of the Dream Team, in his first NBA appearance in the Olympic Games. 1992. Those rumors wanted MJ to say “I won’t play if Thomas plays“Air” has denied this. Magic again wrote in his book “When the Game Was Ours” that the players, including himself and Jordan, worked together to keep Thomas out of the Dream Team, whom MJ thanked when he entered the Hall. To be precise, he said in his speech that “I thank Thomas and the others who gave me the motivation I needed to appear competitive in the NBA.” It is clearly not forgotten.
‘It was an asshole’
Today, the attack that is circulating everywhere on the Internet was “you can show me what you want”. There is no way to convince myself that he is not an imbecile “, for the exit of the ‘Pistons’ without exchanging handshakes with the winners, after the ‘cleaning’. Thomas did everything possible to convince them that this was the spirit of the time and the team that went down in history as Bad Boys. Let’s remember what he said.
“As for how we felt at the time as champions, we were on the decline and Jordan was on the rise. You have certain emotions on the rise. So on the descent. And I’ve said it many times: looking back, if we had a chance to relive it, I think our decision would be different. Now, personally, I have paid a high price for the consequences of this decision.“By that I mean the exclusion from the Dream Team, something that has been said many times that it hurt a lot.”
“I understand that this is the world of sports and everything else, but at the same time if I look back and think about how we feel at that moment, our feelings and the way out of the stadium, we actually gave the world the opportunity to see us. ” in a way that we never wanted. He did not represent us. What happened is unfortunate, but that was the reality. ”
Jordan did not ‘buy’ when the producers of his production said to watch the relevant video, saying ‘I know that everything is m … What he says now, I know that they do not correspond to his real actions, then. He had enough time to think about what happened or the reaction of the audience and to change his perspective.‘. When he finally stepped on the play, his entire being showed that he was correct in his evaluation, as Thomas listened to what he said, which gave him the impression that something had not happened and that they did not greet his opponents, similar to the reaction of the Celtics. , when they were excluded from Detroit. Jordan was content to point out what he had done during the years when the ‘Bad Kids’ were kicked out of the playoffs, admitting that “There is a certain respect in this sport and we show it. This is a sports ideal. As much as it hurts. And believe me, it hurts c …”
ESPN (which has produced Last Dance) contacted Thomas to comment on the ‘jerk’. First he said that the documentary had stayed with him. “It’s interesting to watch it and see what happens in the background.” Because you don’t know how the other teams work. See the relationships and how they treated Jerry Krause. I found it interesting. How Jack McCloskey was adored by us, how Red Auerbach was adored by the Celtics. See even Jerry West’s relationship with the Lakers and how Chicago and Jerry Krause had their own relationship. “.
There was obviously a hint and a pass to tell more truths, from the moment the Aeolus bag was opened. “ORI confess that I was surprised. We have been to the same place many times since then, but have never received such a reaction. We went to dinner a couple of times. And it was nice. Always good with my children. With my son The competition we lost in the field I thought he stayed there. “
They asked him if he liked Jordan. “He just caught our eye then. I have nothing to blame him for. I admire him as a player and in our contacts he has never been rude.”
When told the Jordan Rules, he said At that time there was no player who ate more wood than me. I was going to the basket and then there were no current regulations. All the highs could hit you. When I entered the league, the dominants were Dr. and the Sixers, Boston by Byrd and McHale, and the Lakers by Magic and Karim. And then we Pistons were added. They were all physical. No one was soft. They insist on talking about the Pistons, but they all did the same. When we beat Jordan, Barclay and Horace Grant beat me up..
“If you look at Jordan and his team in the 1980s, they were unsuccessful.” They had all won. What sets him apart from all of us is that he became the first to hold three mobs. But he didn’t do it against Magic, Byrd and Dr. J. “
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