[FULL] Dennis Rodman compares MJ & LeBron, talks Bulls vs. Warriors & Draymond Green | Fir

He's just getting started, but LeBron's not done yet, so let me ask you how he

compares

to your former teammate Michael Jordan, let's see what that's for a big debate for a while, no questions asked, I say if you look at Michael, the body. the work he's done over the years, a look at LeBron, the body, well, he's gone over the years, I mean, now you're 17, now you're going to be 18, Mike, he's the best player that you have ever met, as if he had been injured once, he never asked not to participate. He never asked me anything, just yes, with respect and money and people who realize that Michael Jones plays.

I think the first eight and nine years they barely make three million dollars compared to these guys, forty million. Nobody knew about it and then when he asked for it as you know, Bodie made us play in Chicago for the first championship. I mean, that's the fourth championship. He got those 35 the second year, I guess not the 45. I think he wanted 50 the next year, no chance of four, but a lot. Things continued, but as far as LeBron and Michael, if he could play in this era, yeah, he had 50, they have 50 points. LeBron is a great, um, without a doubt, if I wanted the three best players to ever play with Kobe, magic and Kareem, but with microsuede. there, I don't know why they discussed it, goat, why they were upset between Michael and anyone else, they really have the conversation, let's be honest, Stephen, well, let's say that I, Dennis, would ask you this question, do you see these guys particularly In today's culture, you see the money that is made with these guys, what are your thoughts, what are your thoughts on how the guys manage themselves, manage their body so they can be ready for the postseason, skip the games during the regular season, etc.?

What are your thoughts on that? I just don't get it Steven. I just do not get it. I mean, today's Generation X has really taken over the world, especially the United States and today's kids think they are. They think they have to have certain things to live like some things the way they want to live life today, but you, when you're filthy, especially in 1921, and you're going to hire, you worked a hundred and sixty. million dollars kid, I think you add up like the kids in the '80s, probably a hundred guys didn't make a hundred million dollars combined and these kids made 160 million dollars in five years.

Wow, I mean, the mentality of these kids has changed so much. Last night I watched the draft just apparently and I was watching it not because they were drafted, I was just watching the culture of the kids and what they were together in my mind was the sexy dress and what they were wearing, it was like my god. he has some wine diamond Rolexes, they were like they had no clothes on, they left, this is, it was wow, this is saying, hey, they came to wait to get into the MBA because it's money driven, now it's getting with the impulse of money.

I think that before the massacre in the NBA there is none. Now I hate that, I hate that you were a shooting guy. I think you're arguably the best defender the Pistons have ever had. I remember a quote from years ago where you said that when I was on the Pistons I grabbed seventeen boards. one game won championships won eight hundred thousand a year now I'm on the Bulls I dyed my hair pink, you know, I got nose rings and everything and the same seventeen boards, the same championship now eight million dollars a year, right, but what I always took was that it meant that at that point in your career you were more comfortable being yourself out loud, where maybe you were and I realized that today you were stars.

Kevin Durant seems more and more comfortable with himself and as he begins to say more what he thinks. who seems to be a better player as a result, what do you think about the fact that these NBA stars today are more themselves in public than before? Well, that happens when you have money and help or after money and owners. I have no reason to sit there and doubt these players because they are making all the money for the owners and I think when you have the ability to back it up like Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, LeBron James and all these blessed ones today, I think where you have the right to say something that could be positive or negative either way when it is known for a longer time that it is going in a direction that will help and benefit the team say what the hell do you mean you know no, he hasn't hurt anyone you can Say everything you can you mean, it belongs to you, back it up and these guys can back it up when I was doing it in the past, it was more like people don't know what I deal with, what are you saying?

He raises his hands to leave. You know, when I was getting my hair dyed in Davis there was no day, sir. David Stern, safe warning, do you know what happens if you try one more time? Do you get one more tattoo? We'll kick you out of leadership, not two floors, actually, one more tattoo, more piercings will kick you out. I said wow, okay, great. I just kept doing it but I wasn't trying to show it legal back then I was doing things where I expressed myself because I was mostly bored. I was born when I was with San Antonio.

Once you have the boats, I knew how to stay aligned. my stuff like that and when I got the Senate Tony it was more me coming out as a human being, but it was more behind the scenes with Isaiah Joe Dumars with the person because I grew up in those in an era with the Pistons. I became a man and once I became a man I saw that I think on my own now and I'm sitting I start to follow my own rhythm and I see that with the stars now I see that with the stars now you know what Dennis?

We've talked about Kauai potentially leaving Toronto for the Clippers. We've talked about Kevin Durant potentially leaving for the state to go somewhere else. Kyrie could leave Boston probably leave Boston to go somewhere else. What do you think about the player movement? Nowadays, unlike guys who stick with a team, that's close, although it's a bit sad, Stephen. I think you know that because you know you've been in this game for so long, 25 or 30 years, so how long have you been at it? game, you've been around companies for a long time, man, and it's amazing when you see Ivan Iverson, you look more like Malone, you see all these guys in the '80s, those guys didn't even think about trying to go to another team, they didn't even They thought about going. to another city, I win a championship and I'll be a legacy in that era and on their teams, but now the players have seen the fact that they want to join their friends, their friends, they hang out in the summer and stuff like that and they think that that will happen. to be great on the court, it's not always like that, you have to understand, you know, if you're going to go to a team like, say, Chicago, I'm going to play with Chicago, they had all the pieces that he needed.

I was more of a piece and I came in fitting well in 1/72, I'm aiming for a year now all they wanted was a rebound a defender is a tough guy who doesn't fit well with today's players I don't have that mentality I understand that you have two stars a team in which your function is to fit. I'm glad you mention that because my argument is this. I'm saying it right now, since LeBron wasn't in the playoffs, we don't know, we can see it the next time he's in the playoffs. To remind us, Kawhi Leonard is the best player in the world.

I think he just defeated the Greek monster. He just won the chip and part of that is because it's a finished product that was sent to a real team in Toronto. They had all the other pieces. I'm saying if he goes to the Clippers, I know the Lakers put together the superstars, but the Clippers are already a team, if you leave Kawhi Leonard, they will win the chip, what do you think about Kawhi Leonard, where does he stand in the league? and what the future holds, koala is a great time, I don't want to say he reminds me of me, but my score you could score, he'll ask basketball, but if he goes to the Clippers, you know, Stevie helped me on this one.

If he goes to the Clippers she will fit in perfectly, but the dillos now the Clippers have built something that is very special now you can bring him and you need talent now you are bringing in riotous talent and that's all. he's going to send linens to Kauai, you know everyone who has to sit around changing the game oh hey Steve, yeah, the only one who reads, the only musical dentist. He would tell you that he works for the Clippers because of everything the Clippers have done in the last two. or three years is to set the stage for Kauai, so just like you came in and fit perfectly with the Bulls, Kauai fits perfectly with what the Clippers are trying to do, that's the only thing I wouldn't agree with with you, but let me tell you.

I told you this when you talked about the plans and I asked you about player movement or whatever and you talked about how they wanted to play with their friends. I vlog like you said. I have been covered only for 25 years. I'm old school. No I don't care what other people say and I would never accuse players that I'm not playing hard, I don't want to win or anything, but I think there's a high level of incentive when you really don't like it or I tell you to despise people. your opponent, I think. There is something extra that comes out of you when you don't like the opponent, the adversary, do you agree with me?

Well, you have to ask that question in a short version, Steve, because you're too fast, will you play better? play better or worse when you don't like your opponent you really don't like the button well when I was playing I never dislike anyone I just don't like the fact that we lost you know our opinion so regarding using one of our books I said: you know I don't need you to like my employees, I just need to wait for my employee, you know, and not a player, to understand that you don't have to like your employee, you don't like the people you play with, but As long as you win, that is.

The main goal is to win, win, win, that's it, you know what it's like, you know what it's like if you go on a date with a girl, right Steven, have you ever done it before, go on a date with a girl and hate her? to death, but she is Excel? If I see you satisfy in a way I satisfied you in a way, but everything is fine, but either way, what do you mean by that? Oh, I won't come, but anyway, but just to know, I want to know your opinion on this because there's another old debate like the debate about the goats that we asked you before are your

bulls

of the 90s versus the

warriors

of today, how do they Would your squad go against this squad of

warriors

?

Hi Steven I have a question for you to visit this application I may answer you there Steven remember back to the late 80's and 90's I have a better question for you Natalie okay copies how are the warriors of the late 80s, early 1990s, could the Warriors beat the Warriors today? Every day they won 120 points per game with two pointers, also that question and that team there. can I beat this team today after seeing yes I don't know I'll say yes I say yes

bulls

consider this the topic of all time. I've won 72 games with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, you Ron Harper defenders, everywhere you look, the best scorer. of all the races of the times with KD they won, you know, I think the best tandem still today, I thought with your book, do morrison, I said, tell me, I think Michael joins Scottie Pippen Scottie Pippen got someone six feet nine, good guard, anyone late, the link is Kevin.

Durant, you have a hard time with Scottie Pippen and I know who guard Michael Jordan was on the Warriors, literally, who I mean, literally, who are the three guys that they support and protect, it's our control. I have no problem, that

green

guy didn't hit me in our dream. o no dream thinks he's the best defender and i'm not a dream about keeping your teeth straight honey listen to your mom okay you know this is dr. D Ross called him right now baby, yours a recipe, come and ask me, you know, he just started a rap battle against Bagley, the third against Dennis, you respect Draymond as a defender, now he is definitely the journeyman who is a great defender ?

You know my hands, but I dream unless I've taken a page from my book in the past, yes absolutely, but the defense reminds me of you, he's a great two-way player, although just before we let you go, thirty and four thirty, what can we expect all these years? I'm getting thirty four thirty and all these years, yeah right, I can believe he did enough to get it right, you know what Steven is against, that's why the SA says it, it's the longest 30, the authority He says they've been doing this for two hours, oh. two hours and they just voted for me at the Toronto Film Festival when and I take away a small voice with this song, yes, what, and thanks to all the people, I will take it to my friend, I think my mother and my song , he just got a 72 or Washington State he's a baseball player, so DJ see you in the future baby, good luck there, he plays defense, he plays defense, he can actually score six foot nine, It's good, very, good stuff, so we can't wait for the thirty.

Half past four coming out in September absolutely Apple Watch, okay Steve, too soon, thanks for coming and I love it, thanks for watching ESPN on YouTube to stream live sports and premium content,Subscribe to ESPN Plus.