5 Times Michael Jordan Sought REVENGE!

You should have left them on the street where you found them, get off of me man, it's true, you took him down, won't you try to take me down now? Tommy Gun only fights in the ring. My ring is outside. Yes, let's do it. There is nothing like a good thing. Old Revenge leaves you with a satisfying feeling like you're on top of the world and Michael Jordan has certainly had his fair share of that experience. When you annoy him or provoke him in any way, he becomes psychotic once you push the bear. too late you better believe he's coming for you you'll be playing basketball in Pelican Bay when he's done with you I'm the man in this piece King Kong doesn't have me on him so sit back and relax as we go through some of Michael's best

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, contrary to popular belief,

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has the ability to get along with his opponents, he didn't feel like being intense all the time, playing golf was his off-course activity and he doesn't mind if a player wanted to tag along but that Wasn't hospitality fooling Jeff and Gundy?

Van Gundy said that MJ would befriend his opponents by making them think he was a good guy just to gain a competitive advantage. His way is to befriend them to soften them up. he makes them feel like he cares about them and then goes out and tries to destroy him physically and if Van Gundy thought he could get away with it without any consequences, he was wrong, he made those comments the day before his New York Knicks . They were about to play the Chicago Bulls and the next morning his quotes were all over the Chicago papers and that's when Jordan saw what he said and that just gave him extra motivation to go out and destroy.

It was January 21, 1997. Nix visited Chicago once the ball was thrown into the air it was time for sweet

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had a personal vendetta for van gundy they shot under 40 jordan gets his first of the night i think he felt that they pushed him a little

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jordan with the assist and then he looked towards the new york bench in jeff van gundy fourth quarter 110 to go jordan to the post omar houston jordan joined jeff van gundy jordan was cursing jeff and gundy the entire game jordan 49 jordan is now 51 and he is yelling at jeff van gundy mj finished the game with 51 points doing exactly what he planned to do he was unstoppable but he wasn't done yet it was said that immediately after the game he ran to find jeff and gundy once more and continued cursing Lo came out in the tunnel and then Van Gundy tried to walk back what he said during a postgame interview.

What's that? I couldn't regret saying some of the things over the course of the week about Michael Jordan. I didn't say anything this week. About him, what did you say to him after that last basket? Some options, give us a clean version. Now you'd think George Carl would learn from Van Gundy's mistake, considering this matchup was only a week after that Knicks game, you know, a few weeks. A while back, a coach of Nick's, Jeff Van Gundy, actually called Michael Jordan a scammer. He reacted well with a 51 point game this week, as you saw in the pregame, George Carl said that Michael Jordan was playing like he didn't want to get hurt.

I asked Michael about that and he said George Carl is just playing mind games, as you just heard earlier that week while George Carl's Jetsons were preparing to take on the bulls. He said Michael Jordan basically became a jump shooter to avoid getting hurt. As he drove to the hoop and went on to say that Jordan changed his game because he could no longer fly to the basket for dunks and that he was holding back to protect himself in the later stages of his career, the heir came out. of Jordan's game and Michael did not hesitate to respond quickly: "I'm not afraid to go anywhere on the court when the teams give me the jump shot, I will do it if they take away my lines, I will go for the jump shot and ron harper had some advice for carl if i was coach carl i would stay quiet to say anything about michael's game it's ridiculous even though michael conveyed his point of view verbally you know i wasn't done with george carl yet, It was February 1, 1997, about eight months after the Bulls beat Seattle in the '96 finals and walked out the door instead of falling for it and driving to the basket like Coach Carr wanted, Jordan did exactly that. same thing Carl was talking about, shooting multiple jump shots that MJ was on even shooting a half court shot right in front of george carl across half court michael jordan from half court to. such an incredible distance, i think george carr would have rather seen him drive to the basket than take that jump shot jordan continued to dominate with his jump shot all night making coach carl feel stupid always opening his mouth carl had made the comments that michael jordan might be becoming too much of a jump shooter, well here's a jump shot, a little hesitation, move on hersey hawkins and just a little look toward the bench. and going back to say there's your jump shot, eventually it was getting ridiculous, jordan couldn't be stopped as he finally finished the game with 45 points, michael now george carl's statements saying you're playing trying not to get hurt was that motivation for You know today, I think what Carl is saying is you know more or less trying to lead me into the hole.

I'm going to fire up my jump shot defense to give myself the jump shot. I will do it if you want. Let me go to the hole, open the lane. I'll go to Hope after the game. Ron Harper commented again saying I'm surprised coaches don't learn every time they say something about Michael. He hurts his team a lot. This next coach, John. Calipari actually learned to keep quiet, he saw what happened to the last two coaches and he didn't want any of it. We all know that mj and the 98 Bulls were determined to complete their second triplet and their first opponent in the 98 playoffs was the New Jersey Nets with John Calipari as their head coach, the first two games of the series were close, but Chicago found a way to get both wins and only needed to win one more game to sweep the nets as this was when the first round was played.

New Jersey's best-of-five came into game three believing they had a great chance of winning this one considering they were so close to winning the other two games, but when you're up against a guy who literally makes up scenarios in his head to simply find something that fuels him, you're probably in trouble, you see, Coach Calipari didn't necessarily do anything wrong in this particular case, he didn't say a single word to Jordan or about Jordan, but he didn't have to. just the way he coached that bothered jordan michael said he found it very annoying that john calipari was always yelling at his players at the top of his lungs running up and down the court, he thought he was going overboard with his antics on the sideline and he said he doesn't know how the Nets players treat him well, it seemed like Jordan found his reason to go ahead and burn them, he kept going and never looked back and here's Jordan open for the three and he's got it, Michael Jordan.

He has been a driving weapon for the Bulls against the nets this year. George, working against Kittles, kills in the air and Jordan hits Michael Jade with four fouls. Jordan comes around a rocket screen and hits Michael Jordan now with 36 points that he barely missed on the field. great attacking distance here and as we say, they play in peaks and valleys michael jordan very typical michael finished the nets with 38 points and later after the game john calipari said this about jordan's dead stare quote i didn't look back at him there was one thing I would never do as a coach, I would say nothing to Michael Jordan, not a word if he wants to look at me, I'm not going to say anything to him, man, no matter what you do, you'll never really be sure, but this next player was literally.

I asked, it was 1994, during Michael Jordan's baseball days, Brian Russell, who was a member of the Utah Jazz, was getting ready to play in Chicago in an upcoming game, so the night before he went to work out and that's when saw Michael Jordan with his baseball. coach and thought it was the perfect opportunity to introduce himself, so he approached MJ and told him why did you quit, why did you retire, I really wanted to have the opportunity to guard you and defend you because I know I can stop you and Jordan. he just laughed and acted like it didn't even bother him, but we all know Michael made sure to remember what he said now, fast forward to 1996, Jordan was back in the league and when he played in Utah, he knew damn well that Russell would be over there. and right before the jump he turned to Russell and said, remember back in '94, you're about to get your chance, oh, what a great move, what a show, and they love it here in Utah, what's Michael's movie ?

What is this scream? Where? Gone, oh man, poor Brian Russell, who broke his ankles and since Brian Russell had a huge target on his back while mj made an effort to chase him every time they played with each other, now he's moving fast again, a couple of Years later, Jordan could. he's practically savoring his sixth championship as he would have a chance to take the lead after taking the ball away by himself and if you look at it, Michael couldn't ask for a better guy to guard him. Russell claimed that Jordan obviously pushed him, but in the end. of the day there was nothing he could do about it, many years later at the end of mj's hall of fame speech he talked a little about brian russell and said this, believe me, i enjoyed that point and from this day on, if I ever do it.

Look at him in shorts. I approached him and Russell took it as a challenge. Yes, how are you doing? Okay, okay, just making sure I stay in some shape and getting ready to call Michael and you and Michael on this part. him, six games, seven, who wins on this side, that's it, no doubts, okay, the last one, when mj arrived on the scene, it was like nothing we've ever seen before, it had stardom written all over it and effortlessly made the all-star team as a rookie. but what was supposed to be a special night for the young man was ruined by what is now known as the infamous freeze.

It has been said that Isaiah Thomas supposedly came up with a plan to purposely not pass the ball to Jordan and convinced all the other players to do the same, which seemed to have worked considering Jordan only scored 7 points all night. Some people say that everyone was jealous of all the attention mj was getting and found him very arrogant and others say it was because mj was more loved in the city of chicago than isaiah who is a chicago native anyway, they didn't want him Jordan was the star of the All-Star game and it seemed like Jordan took it personally because just two nights later, Chicago.

The Bulls' first opponent after the All-Star break was the Detroit Pistons and Michael absolutely walked away scoring 49 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists and from then on Michael played possessed every time he faced Detroit forming a rivalry, but Jordan and the Bulls kept coming. They fell short in the playoffs, they just couldn't seem to get past the Pistons until they finally swept them in 1991, causing Isaiah and the rest of the team to leave without shaking his hand and MJ took it like a slap in the face. face and a few months later, isaiah would learn to regret that decision in the summer of 1991, the members of the USA basketball committee took note and remembered the unsportsmanlike move that isaiah made and decided to leave him off the 1992 olympic team, now known at first as the dream team.

They were confused about that decision, but then it all started to make sense because it was rumored that Michael orchestrated the whole thing by saying that he would only play on the team if Isaiah wasn't on the team and would get sweet revenge with his own little freeze. Okay guys, I know there are several more Michael Jordan revenge stories, but this is where I'll end the video, so be sure to comment below which one was his favorite and don't forget to like and subscribe, thanks for watching.