Michael Jordan often created a rivalry with an opponent like LaBradford Smith over a perceived slight to help fuel a desire to dominate on the court.
The story of Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan sharing the court the last time on March 28, 2003, when the kid scored 55 points and the G.O.A.T. had 23.Jerry Krause’s love for Toni Kukoc led to Jordan and Scottie Pippen trying to humiliate Kukoc, a future teammate, during the 1992 Olympics. We know comparisons to Clyde Drexler led to Jordan’s famous shrug in the NBA Finals.
And for one sort-of-meaningless game in late March 27 years ago, it was LaBradford Smith, a story that perfectly illustrates Jordan’s ability to motivate himself.Smith has been recording “The Last Dance” episodes as they air at his Cincinnati-area home. He likes to skip through the commercials. Through three weeks, his story with Jordan hadn’t come up. But then his nephew got ahold of the eighth episode.
“He was like, ‘Unc, you know you’re in “The Last Dance?”’ And I was like, holy [expletive],” Smith said. “I thought I was gonna just ease by, they were just gonna talk about the championship stuff and all that.The legend goes that after Smith scored 37 against the Bulls he told Jordan, “Mike, good game.” And this incensed Jordan.Smith says the reality is he didn’t seek Jordan out after the game. He ran off the court and tried to get into the showers at the Chicago Stadium as quickly as he could.
“The shots were just falling for me. … It happens like that sometimes,” Smith told the Washington Post. “Hopefully, it’ll happen like that more often. I don’t say nothing to [Jordan]. Leave him alone. In the first couple of quarters he was helping out a lot and I was getting a more wide-open shot.”
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