NBA Players Who CAN'T STAND Michael Jordan..

NBA Players Who CAN'T STAND Michael Jordan..

Welcome back to Sporting Echo, today on the channel we are going to check out the Players who couldn’t stand Michael Jordan + other related news. Just about everybody was a Michael Jordan fan in the '80s and '90s. He elevated basketball like no one else, soaring through the air, hitting impossible jumpers, and leading his Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships. That's to say nothing of his 14 All-Star selections, 10 scoring titles, and five Most Valuable Player awards, among his myriad other accomplishments. Even people who weren't huge basketball fans liked Air Jordan because he was just so dang charismatic in his many off-the-court appearances, showing up in commercials for Nike shoes, sports drinks, and hot dogs, as well as the 1996 cinematic classic Space Jam. (Go Tune Squad!) Millions truly wanted to, as the ad said, "be like Mike," probably the greatest basketball player of all time and certainly the most famous one. But the carefully crafted public image of Michael Jordan was not necessarily the "real" Michael Jordan. In the years since he left his playing days behind, stories have emerged of a man prone to a toxic competitive streak and trash-talking, name-calling, and general nastiness toward other players — both opponents and teammates. Here are some players who are decidedly not riding the Jordan train.

CLYDE THE GLIDE COULDN'T LET IT SLIDE WITH MICHAEL JORDAN. The appropriately nicknamed Dream Team cakewalked to a gold medal in basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Its roster was stacked with so much talent — Karl Malone, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan, to name a few — that Hall of Famers like Chris Mullin and Scottie Pippen wound up as benchwarmers. Not every NBA star of the early '90s could make it onto the Dream Team, of course, but there was one particularly conspicuous absence: Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons star and key member of the Bad Boys teams that brought back-to-back titles to the Motor City. He was kept off the team by Michael Jordan, who possessed both the clout and sour grapes (over the Bulls frequent playoff losses to the Pistons) to do so. BILL CARTWRIGHT? MORE LIKE BILL CART-WRONGED-BY-MICHAEL JORDAN. As much of a jerk as it sounds like Michael Jordan could be, he was at least loyal to those who managed to please him. Charles Oakley became one of Jordan's closest friends and allies in the NBA after both players joined the Bulls in the mid-1980s. In the end, Jordan and Oakley didn't get to be BBFFs (that's "basketball best friends forever"), playing together for only three seasons before the Bulls traded Oakley to the New York Knicks for center Bill Cartwright. Stay tuned for more Players who couldn’t stand Michael Jordan + other related news.

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