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Before I begin with the general point of this thread - Even though I'm in my 30's now as a Pacers and Nuggets fan, Chicago is still my closest NBA city. I had practically grown up with those 90's championship tapes. Not many know those 90's Bulls teams as much as I do. At that age, I pretty much had to be a Bulls fan simply because of my surroundings.
In other words - Anyone who claims that I've never experience the feeling of an NBA championship team doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground and never has. I became a Pacers fan once it came to a point where I was old enough to choose my own favorite teams. While I still rooted for the Bulls in the ensuing five years or so after Jordan left, my home-state Pacers became my #1 team when they reached the finals for the first and only time.
While there have been times in the last 20 years where I would wish to "disown" the Pacers (if you will), I still have remained true to that team and will continue to do so.
To the real topic:
The Jordan/Kerr incident did not come to light until Kerr's coaching days, and the naive ones (@bksballer89 ) would consistently use this as leverage for their argument for Jordan being a terrible guy and a bad teammate.
'The Last Dance': Steve Kerr says getting punched by Michael Jordan was a good thing for him
If one were to make the proclamation that it was not Jordan's finest moment, you certainly weren't wrong.
In his defense, though, it was 1995 and he was mere months removed from his first retirement. He and Kerr barely knew each other at the time and if anything, he probably remembered Kerr from his days in Cleveland when they were rivals. It was a matter of two former rivals chirping at one another and the competitive prick in Jordan unleashed himself at an inopportune time. As good teammates do, the two teammates were able to patch things up and teamed up and won 72 and 69 games in back-to-back years. The two even shared a couple of laughs publicly during the 1997 championship party at Grant Park.
You can surely understand why neither side opened up to the media on this incident for over two decades. And if you're Jordan and in the age of social media, could you really blame him if he were never to comment on the matter ever again?
It isn't so much "hiding from the media" as much as it is taking responsibility to not let a team's dirty laundry reach the public, as professional athletes are supposed to do.
In other words - Anyone who claims that I've never experience the feeling of an NBA championship team doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground and never has. I became a Pacers fan once it came to a point where I was old enough to choose my own favorite teams. While I still rooted for the Bulls in the ensuing five years or so after Jordan left, my home-state Pacers became my #1 team when they reached the finals for the first and only time.
While there have been times in the last 20 years where I would wish to "disown" the Pacers (if you will), I still have remained true to that team and will continue to do so.
To the real topic:
The Jordan/Kerr incident did not come to light until Kerr's coaching days, and the naive ones (@bksballer89 ) would consistently use this as leverage for their argument for Jordan being a terrible guy and a bad teammate.
'The Last Dance': Steve Kerr says getting punched by Michael Jordan was a good thing for him
If one were to make the proclamation that it was not Jordan's finest moment, you certainly weren't wrong.
In his defense, though, it was 1995 and he was mere months removed from his first retirement. He and Kerr barely knew each other at the time and if anything, he probably remembered Kerr from his days in Cleveland when they were rivals. It was a matter of two former rivals chirping at one another and the competitive prick in Jordan unleashed himself at an inopportune time. As good teammates do, the two teammates were able to patch things up and teamed up and won 72 and 69 games in back-to-back years. The two even shared a couple of laughs publicly during the 1997 championship party at Grant Park.
You can surely understand why neither side opened up to the media on this incident for over two decades. And if you're Jordan and in the age of social media, could you really blame him if he were never to comment on the matter ever again?
It isn't so much "hiding from the media" as much as it is taking responsibility to not let a team's dirty laundry reach the public, as professional athletes are supposed to do.
