Team-owner miangal sab ni Jordan
(Sumpay sa kagahapon)
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Iasked (coach) Phil to come back. Phil said no. Michael said I won’t play for anybody other than Phil,” dugang ni Jerry Reinsdorf, chairman sa Chicago Bulls. “I met with Michael on the 3rd of July of that year and I said to him, ‘We’re in a lockout. Who knows when we’re going to play? Why don’t you wait until the lockout is over and maybe I can talk Phil into coming back?’ And he agreed.”
Apan nahuman na lang ang lockout, wa gyud magka-istorya og balik si Phil Jackson ug Reinsdorf.
Sa katapusang episode sa "Last Dance," giingon ni Jordan nga andam unta siya nga mobalik alang sa ilang ikaupat nga sunodsunod nga titulo ug iyang gipasalig nga makuha og balik si Scottie Pippen kinsa taodtoad na nga nagtinguha nga mobalhin sa laing team, apan na free-agent na niadtong higayona.
“OK, let’s take that hypothetical. Scottie had Houston offering him a multi-year contract,” matod ni Reinsdorf kinsa mitug-an nga si Pippen adunay lima ka tuig nga offer sa Rockets nga mokantidad og $67.2 million. “You think he would’ve turned that down to come back for one year? I don’t think so.”
Gitug-an usab sa 84-anyos nga Reinsdorf nga ang ubang mga edaran na nga Bulls mangretiro na usab. Iyang gitumbok sila si Dennis Rodman ug Luc Longley nga anaa na sa saktong pangidaron.
“Dennis Rodman had gone beyond the pale. As it turned out, he played 35 games after that,” ingon ni Reinsdorf. “Luc Longley was on his last legs. If we had brought that team back, they were gassed. Michael had been carrying that team.”
Hinuon, bisan pa man tuod sa iyang kasagmuyo tungod sa kakuwang sa detalyi nga giladlad ni Jordan, alang kang Reinsdorf nga si Jordan maoy tinud-anay nga greatest player of all–time.
“This is history. It makes for fascinating stuff,” ni Reinsdorf pa. “And ‘The Last Dance’ obviously should establish in the mind of any person with normal eyesight that Michael was beyond a doubt the greatest of alltime. In my mind, anytime anybody wants to talk to me about comparing Michael to LeBron ( James), I’m going to tell them to please don’t waste my time.”
Matod niya nga layo ra gani kaayo si LeBron James ug nga posibling wala nay laing makapakita pa og abilidad nga sama kang Michael Jordan.
“I’m really pleased it showed how great Michael was to people who hadn’t seen him play. I’m truly tired of people trying to compare LeBron to Michael when it’s not even close. They should try to compare LeBron with Oscar Robertson or Magic Johnson. Michael was so headand-shoulders over everybody, and that really came out in this documentary. He was a phenomenon. We may never see another like him.”
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