Everytime Michael Jordan "Took It Personal"

game's just about to start and michael walks over to lacey and he points to says we took care of you and he looks at kent and he says we took care of you and he looks at me and we take care of you today the inbounds pass comes into jordan here's michael [Applause] the damn look that everybody was giving us even i asked you in the locker room to ask everybody you know what was the feeling back in chicago did they write us off yet and you said some of them have written us off i

said well tell those guys to stay home get the [ __ ] out of here get go [ __ ] anywhere but you're outta here whoever's not with us all you [ __ ] go to hell infamous jordan rolls the pistons defensive tactics designed to contain their namesake are enforced whenever michael is on the floor as soon as he steps in the paint this is a jordan room every time you go to the [ __ ] basket put them on the ground how bad do you want it are you willing to be injured to score

a basket i don't know how you came out of the line we tried to physically hurt marshall jordan had no place to go slobber how legitimate was the hatred between those bulls teams and those pistols oh i hated him and yeah he carries even to this day they made it personal applied to glide says we're the two best in the game but i'm not getting into a war of words with mike clyde was a threat you know i'm not saying he wasn't a threat but me being compared to him i took offense to that so

he hit that first three and then here come the second the third field [Applause] record 35 points in the half i'm killing this dude do you know the bradford smith story has anybody told you that this was back in 93. the bullets were terrible the bradford smith was their draft pick but this is what i always say you never know it could be your night you never know this night is the bradford smiths night bradford smith left wing drains bradford smith came off the screen from 16. wow baseline smith has hit everything else the bradford

smith had a game i mean he had a game of games inside jordan posted up against smith and for whatever reason michael couldn't make a basket [Applause] michael hits him on the body and he nails it smith he has really got that touch going now we're not talking about that guy we're talking about the bradford spin in chicago the bradford smith scores 37 points against michael jordan he said that the bradford smith walking out of the gym had said nice game mike and you knew that this wasn't gonna go down well the next night they

play in washington we played him on a back to back i never forget it so we're flying to washington he said tomorrow in the first half i'm gonna have what this kid had in the game i never seen a man go after another player the way he did [Applause] jordan scores 36 in the first half he's concentrating almost solely on the bradford he took such umbrage and a guy saying nice game mike that he torched and humiliated him i was a little bit upset that i didn't get the mvp that he and they gave to

charles barkley but with that said okay fine you can have that i'm gonna get this [Applause] i knew that jerry krause loved dan martin and just because krause liked him was enough for me you think he's a great defensive player okay fine i'm assuring you that he's not spends away admiredly he'll take it all the way to the basket and drops it in i put it in my mindset that if i don't do this then they're gonna consider him on the same level as me and that motivated me to attack [Music] [Applause] jordan there's the

penetration five seconds to shoot three two count it [Applause] that sounded like a countdown for a launch michael beats him on the dribble we have another tie game who do you think is going to take this shot michael jordan [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that was one of michael's lowest points when they came back and they didn't win he hated the fact that the horse was on the other team when they beat him that's what he took to heart after the season usually there's a time period where michael takes some time off the night they lost

to orlando i said michael you know i'm about to get out of here let me know when you want me to see you because i'll see you tomorrow if you know mj as i do very well only thing he was doing during the summer having orlando magic on his mind that's all we didn't have a chance [Applause] [Music] [Applause] jordan finishes with 45 points the bulls do it 106-101 during the finals we go to dinner one night george calls over on the other side having dinner hey there's george carl over there and george carl does

not come over and speak to him he walked right past me man look at my billy oh so that's how you're gonna play it you know he just kind of went by and i went uh-oh should have never done that i said it's a crocker [ __ ] you know we went to carolina we know dean smith i see him in the summer we play god you gonna do this okay fine that's all i needed that's all i needed for him to do that and it it became personal with me [Applause] unable to take care

of business now he can make up a lot with his athletic ability but nobody's going to catch that what's the biggest motivating factor going into that series for you come along at mvp congratulations carl malone 1996. nba most valuable player paul malone was the most valuable player that year so here was added motivation for michael right he thought he should have been the mvp so we knew immediately where this was going i'm not saying he wasn't deserving of it all i'm saying is that that fueled the fire into me and said okay you think he's

gonna be confined no problem [Applause] here is michael four on the shot clock against russell michael hangs fired [Applause] how many times against armstrong armstrong backs up to the sideline works off a d-bot screen to the right-wing pull-up confidence [Applause] bj kind of forgot you know what drives us you know he woke us up if we were in the sleep and uh we've been able to capitalize on that which shot the bulls 78 to 76 in chicago to even that best of seven series at one and it was a former bull bj armstrong who's jumper

with 18 ticks left sealed the win for charlotte after the reaction [Music] let's see if all that trash talking starts when it's zero zero instead of five six point lead that's where it started bj hitting that shot and staring the whole bench down and whatnot it it it just didn't sit well with michael and we knew we have woke michael jordan up an armstrong at the top shadowed by michael gives up his dribble pressured by michael he came after me in the in the rest of the series especially that next game armstrong top of the

circle michael all over him armstrong nowhere to go jordan with a turnaround over armstrong he knew he had him so the hornets take armstrong off of jordan momentarily b.j armstrong tonight only two points on one of seven shooting if i had to pick a team that gave us the toughest time in the east you know indiana was probably the toughest outside of detroit they were tough every time i go in that [ __ ] game and come out i got a new scratch it became personal with me for michael jordan in this his 36th playoff

series it's just his third game seven but mj offers assurances that the dynasty will not end here tonight we're gonna win game seven reggie running off screens but it's smith's with a quick turnaround and miss dale davis can't hit the tip lonely has it protects the ball and on to the finals for the sixth time in eight years for the chicago bulls yeah brian wilson when i was playing baseball utah is in town to play the bulls they're practicing at the facility i go over say hello to john and carl and this kid brian russell

comes up to me and said man why you quit why you quit man you knew i could guard your ass i couldn't you you had to quit i said carl you need to talk to this dude man he's just a young rookie but from that point on he's been on my list 17 seconds from championship number six what about the last shot you ever took as a member of the chicago bulls the last shot what was that shot game six unbelievable 13 seconds left jordan left side i practice as if i'm playing the game so

when the moment comes in the game it's not new to me that's the beauty of the game of basketball that's the reason why you practice that's the effort so when you get to that moment you don't have to think instinctively things happen georgia