Byron Scott Reveals The BEST Trash Talk He Heard From Michael Jordan & Larry Bird

Every game I played against mj, first of all I thought man I'm happy it's only twice a year you're right in the west because I'm happier twice a year and it wasn't like that. I was afraid. It was like I know this guy is a killer, I said, but I have to get out here and show up. Yes, sure, I'm going to challenge his ass as much as he can, but I also had to understand that you already know how much he plays on his weakness. and at that time it was his jump shot, I'm like, man, I'm going to shame him into taking jump shots and they were games where I guarded him, he was six for 26 and then there was a game where he scored the biggest amount.

I was 39. Okay, you know, that's a lot and that's a lot, you know, he had an average of 31. So you know, but the six for 26, I thought that was okay, it did my job, yeah, you know, I had 39. Yes, but I would take. He's got 30 shots to get it, you know what I'm saying, so I'm going to make it harder, that's a hard 30. I'm going to make it very difficult, right? Yeah, it's not that, you know? I'm going to respect, I respect you, but you're going to work for this guy to get an easy 35, then you try, but it's funny because we played against them on the forum and it was my 10th year on it. league, so it was my last year with the Lakers at that time we had drafted a guy, Anthony Peeler, yeah, from Missouri, left-handed, left-handed exactly, so I hurt my ankle, so the coach said, I don't know if you can play tonight. and I said, well, we'll see, you know, let's wait until game time, so the Chicago bus is getting off and I'm getting out.

MJ gets off and he said B Scott what's up? I said man what's up he said I

heard

you're not playing tonight I said yeah I don't know yet mm-hmm he said well if you don't play who he'll take me, I said Anthony Peter, said the rookie 50. that's what a guy is, hey and like that. without hesitation without hesitation so I go home I go back to the game I put on my suit you know the players go out to warm up and then Anthony comes to the bench and I tell him Anthony listen listen uh he said he's going for 50 tonight and what What's not You want to do is make him angry, right?

Yes, yes, I said this, how do you protect mj. I said don't be so physical and try to body him up because he'll surround you, man, yeah, I say back off, give him space. Damn him shooting jump shots challenge him he does it he does it he does it good I got it I got it good every time mj scored he looked at me on the bench I told you 54. ooh what a 54. and mr. dunn missed a dunk that hit

larry

bird

's back For me it was very fun to play against him because he speaks for my good, what do you do, what do you hit, did you do, what, what, it's something simple, he hit you, he hit you with you, you jump high, but no?

Don't jump so high, you can't understand this, he hit you, listen guys, no, don't worry about the play, I'm going to come over here, get him and shoot whatever damn thing you can in the face. do it and he did it and he did it, you know, so I remember the 30, the 30 for 30, we were

talk

ing about, you know, the Lakers rivalry and I remember

talk

ing about yeah, he talked a lot about, but I guess that. I'm not talking about if you back that up, yeah, he was just backing that up, hey, Brian, you know that right, and that was one of the biggest things I loved about him and the fact that history says that when he played against Denver. they had a guy named john hansley, do you remember john hansley not 6-7 notre dame notre dame white guy really good defender okay, okay, they put him on

larry

and larry was heavy on his ass and larry ran to the bench and told doug Moe?

Who is the coach? Yeah, get it over with. That's disrespectful. No. That's disrespectful. Yes. What is disrespectful? Yes. It's disrespectful for all of you to call me a white man. Yes, I love wearing a black man. That's why he gives so much to Coop and still says. To this day, Coop is the

best

defender he's ever played against. Wow, really, but he said, "You should disrespect me by putting the white guy on top. I feel you, but that's Larry because when he played in the past, he only played against brothers." right, so he said, "Don't give me any white man, that's disrespectful, but that was Larry Bird."