Why Everyone Was Afraid Of Michael Jordan

Throughout the 75-year history of the NBA there have been a little over 4,700 players who have come and gone, some of them have had a reputation for being very nice, some of them have had a reputation for being very crazy and then there are those who have had the reputation of being feared when it comes to the particular category of being feared, some players who fit into this category are Kobe Bryant Allan Iverson Charles Barkley Shaquille O'Neal, so in today's NBA there would be Steph Curry above all, but above all. The most feared players the NBA has ever known are one man and that man's name is Michael Jeffrey Jordan, what makes some of the strongest athletes in the world fear him?

I mean, I'm sure he's a lot bigger than the average man, but in the NBA when size-wise, he's average, so it begs the question again: what exactly was it about MJ that made people cringe? NBA players? Today we are going to delve into this topic and look at it from all angles to find out once and for all. Why was

everyone

afraid

of Michael Jordan? There are many different types of leadership styles in the league today, but there are two polarizing styles that are shared among the goats of the game. These different methodologies really affect player perception and I think Rich Paul is one of the best player agents in the game today hit the nail on the head when he said Mike and Kobe were them, they didn't care if you were their friend or not.

In fact, they don't care to be your friends, they don't want to. to talk to you period, but what does it do that makes you want to be friends with him even more? LJ is all-inclusive, true, all-inclusive, but familiarity breathes disrespect. Now there's nothing wrong with LeBron's leadership style, heck, it led him to four championships and the leading scorer in NBA history, but that kind of no-nonsense leadership that MJ had was just one of the factors that made him NBA players would tremble when he was around and forget only about the players on the opposing team, even in practice his teammates were

afraid

that people would be afraid of him.

We were his teammates and we were afraid of him and there was only fear. Now this is not the end. Beall, when it comes to MJ being feared, this is actually just the first layer, let's dig a little deeper. Have you ever seen this commercial? Yes, I'll have a vodka martini, how many would you like? 81 oh guys, oh, you know this is common sense. All NBA players take pride in their craft and the last thing they would want is for someone to drop 40 50 60 or even 81 points on their head, so it makes sense that they would be a little afraid against a player who was capable of that and, uh, Gilbert Arenus really hit it on the spot when he said this on his podcast, the fear comes from what that person's ability is right as an offensive player, the ability of what Jordan is going to do if you're not in the period, that's where the fear arose, then Michael Jordan was feared, Allan Iverson was feared, Kobe was feared, guys who have the ability to score 30 to Damn 70 points, they are feared, right, it's not Faith as if I'm not afraid of a guy who's going to give me 2999.

I'm afraid of a guy who's going to give me 60 if I'm not careful, well, when it comes to players who could lose 30 to 70 points a night, Michael is in the top of that list. I mean, if we just take the average points per game, Michael Jordan is number one, even above players like Wilt. Chamberlain, so this was just another layer of why the players were afraid of MJ. The players definitely didn't want to get on his bad side, otherwise Mike was going to increase the pressure on them and Shaq actually reiterated this point in a recent podcast.

Also, was there anyone you avoided speaking ill to because if you did, the Spirit got bigger and they wanted to beat you or Michael Jordan, you don't want to mess with God, you have to stay away from Mike, leave that man alone, go away? that man alone and this brings me to my next point, welcome to SP Jam, you know when I was a kid I loved Space Jam, it was one of my favorite movies at the time, but that was how I represented Michael, what was your game like? ? I don't want to Hey, although I love this movie and have probably seen it 100 times growing up, I think it's fair to say that it didn't show Michael's true personality because well, he was a kind and compassionate man in this movie, but in life real at least from what we see on the court and here in the tabloids he was anything but that and this is another reason why Michael was feared because it didn't matter if you left him alone or not, he was bad and he would come after you of all ways I mean, does

everyone

know who Rodney McCrae is, if not, these are his final grades, 6'7, 3rd overall pick in 1983, 3 two time defensive player and when he was an NCAA college champion anyway?

The story is in 1992, Rodney, a 9 year NBA veteran who at that time joined the Chicago Bulls, was a great addition to the team as he could score and defend and, coming off the bench, could provide minutes quality. He was excited. at the time I mean the Bulls were coming off a championship and now he was teammates with the best basketball player in the world and this was his best chance to win a championship, well I didn't know his quest to win a ring was It's going to be a nightmare, you'll see according to Bulls teammates at the time when the two players are on opposite teams in practice games.

Jordan is in Rodney's face screaming you're a loser. You've always been a loser. Rodney can hardly stand a jumper now the statistics also back him up before that year when he was in Dallas Rodney attempted 85 three point shots but after Jordan caught him after Jordan got away with it during that season with the Bulls, he only attempted five three-pointers. Throughout the year, Michael wasn't nice to him at all and it wasn't just Rodney either. I mean, Steve Kerr got punched in the face and Quame Brown was tormented. It was clear that Michael was far from the good man portrayed in Space Jam. and the players knew it and as he continued to dominate in the NBA, his reputation got bigger and bigger and then he started to precede him.

I mean, people around the league thought if he punched his teammates in the face in practice, what would he do? Do us good to your opponents, this leads directly to the next point. If there was something else about Mike that gave him that aura of being feared, it was his confidence. I mean, no other player's self-confidence comes close, like, what player do you do? I know that in today's NBA I would walk into an opposing team's locker room during the playoffs lighting a cigarette and asking who is going to check me out tonight. Well, according to Chris Weber, that happened when he was a member of the Bullets in 1997, and guess what the Bulls won?

That game with MJ scoring a high of 28 points and uh, the Wizards were eliminated. She wasn't just that incident. NBA Hall of Famer Dominic Wilkins also said the same thing about MJ, so we're in Chicago. Michael enters our locker room. suit and tie, I wonder: what is this son of a bitch walking into our locker room? I'm thinking he goes to the training room or something. He walks past me, he walks past Kevin Willis, he reaches Randy Whitman and touches him. him on the leg and said, "tie him up, it's going to be a long night." Well, Jordan ended up scoring 61 points that night.

Are you seeing why everyone was afraid of Mike, ladies and gentlemen? Michael Jordan literally had everything it took to be feared because of his behavior. his ability to throw buckets and completely embarrass you, his intimidating personality, and on top of that he had the utmost confidence in all of it, as it was rinsed and repeated year after year, his reputation got to the point where people like Reggie Miller they called him Black. Jesus and uh, it wasn't just the players that his Aura hit, not even the referees were under his Dominion ever, but he didn't touch you with both hands, that's what you think, so Michael 55 strikes two to come Michael , I didn't see two. hands on him Michael but I believe you but I believe you but I believe you