Back by Popular Demand: Michael Jordan Bashing Teammates

Bucs80 · Post #1 » by **Bucs80** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 4:21 am

These are so funny, so I had to repost them on realgm. Classic Quotes of Jordan being a Douche to the Organization and to teammates.

........................"We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs...Can Pip keep it up?"

"I hate being out there with those garbagemen. They don't get you the ball."

"They've got no idea what it's all about. The white guys, they work hard, but they don't have the talent. And the rest of them? Who knows what to expect? They're not good for much of anything."

"I know what's gonna happen. We'll wait until the last minute and then they'll say something like they couldn't get a deal done because of the cap or somebody pulled out at the last minute. It happens here all the time. I don't know why I'm surprised every year."

"He can't do anything with the ball. Don't give it to him." - Michael yelling at Paxson who passed the ball to Perdue

"You ever hear of a guy, six-eleven maybe and two hundred sixty pounds, a guy big and fat like that and he can't get but two rebounds, if that many, running all over the damn court and he gets two rebounds? Big guy like that and he gets one rebound. Can't even stick his ass into people and get more than that...Big, fat, fat guy. One rebound in three games. Power forward. Maybe they should call it powerless forward." - Michael ripping Stacey King a new one

"He was scared in there and panicking. He just lost it when Stockton scored." - Michael on B.J. Armstrong's mental fragility

I'll let them stand up and take responsibility for themselves."

"We have to do some things. We need to make some changes."

"...I call them 'the Looney Tunes.' Physically, they were the best. Mentally, they weren't even close."

"He's scared. He's got no heart...Nobody told me that. If I had spoken up, he wouldn't have been here."

"I know I can recognize what to do, but I'm not sure they can."

"It's a hell of a lot easier to make Earl Monroe look good than it is Brad Sellers."

"I hope there's a jumpshot in there." - Michael to Stacey King who was walking into the locker room with a box

"They don't need a ticket to watch you sitting on the bench. They can go to your house for that." - Michael to Charles Davis who was sorting through his tickets for his family and friends

"Give me the fu*king ball." - Michael to Doug Collins who drew up a play for Dave Corzine

"I hate when I have to read that in the papers the next day, that I couldn't do something. It wasn't my fault."

"You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you." - Michael to Horace Grant

"If you [pass the ball to Bill Cartwright], you'll never get the ball from me."

"We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams."

"Headache tonight, Scottie?" - Michael asks Scottie, while showing him his 2-for-16 line

"It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up." - Michael on a ten-day contract teammate

"Five more years and I'm out of here. I'm marking these days on a calendar, like I'm in jail. I'm tired of being used by this organization, by the league, by the writers, by everyone."

"They're not interested in winning. They just want to sell tickets, which they can do because of me. They won't make any deals to make us better. And this Kukoc thing. I hate that. They're spending all their time chasing this guy."

"If I were a general manager, we'd be a better team."

"Will Vanderbilt. He doesn't deserve to be named after a Big Ten school." - Michael on Will Perdue - AWESOME!

"I want to prove the critics wrong...I want to see some serious moves from management, which I really haven't seen that much of yet, and I want to see more serious attitudes from my teammates this year when it comes to the playoffs. In the past, it's been more or less a joking thing, sort of a 'Well, we're here, so let's have a good time.'"..........

"I'm sure everything will be fine if we win, but if we start losing, I'm shooting."

"I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is."

"Your boy doesn't want to play. I'm tired of bailing his ass out." - Michael yelling at Jim Cleamons about Dennis Hopson

"I don't know about trading a 24 year-old guy for a 34 year-old guy." - Michael questioning the Oakley trade

"He's causing me too many turnovers." - Michael on Cartwright's inability to catch

"Why the hell don't you ever set a pick like that in a game?" - Michael yelling at Perdue after also hitting Perdue upside his head (led to the institution of the private curtain for practices)

HoopsGuru25 · Post #2 » by **HoopsGuru25** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 4:27 am

"If I were a general manager, we'd be a better team."

LOL- good luck with that.

ljp24 · Post #3 » by **ljp24** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 4:27 am

Jordan/Bird are the GOAT douchebags and their legacies would be different if 24/7 news media was around.

Agenda42 · Post #4 » by **Agenda42** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 4:27 am

MJ wrote:"I hope there's a jumpshot in there." - Michael to Stacey King who was walking into the locker room with a box

Michael is hilarious!

ImmortalD24 · Post #5 » by **ImmortalD24** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 4:28 am

"Headache tonight, Scottie?" - Michael asks Scottie, while showing him his 2-for-16 line

goat!!

magicfan4life05 · Post #6 » by **magicfan4life05** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 4:30 am

"He can't do anything with the ball. Don't give it to him." - Michael yelling at Paxson who passed the ball to Perdue

hahahaha

SirHuey · Post #7 » by **SirHuey** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 4:31 am

"They don't need a ticket to watch you sitting on the bench. They can go to your house for that." - Michael to Charles Davis who was sorting through his tickets for his family and friends

mattyBoi · Post #8 » by **mattyBoi** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 4:47 am

I admire Jordan for the majority of those quotes. The dude was a leader and kept it real, he didn't except any bull and got **** done. A lot of the things he said are the same kind of things many of us say on RealGM about our own teams, he just had the balls to say it to their face.

Sofa King · Post #9 » by **Sofa King** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 5:20 am

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

There is no "i" in team but there is in win.
Michael Jordan

Good interview with Jordan. :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQPGc7956ik

hourockman · Post #10 » by **hourockman** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 5:50 am

ljp24 wrote:Jordan/Bird are the GOAT douchebags and their legacies would be different if 24/7 news media was around.

Media and reporters aren't new things. Meet The Press has been on TV since 1947.

Bird wasn't a douchebag. He was sarcastic, but I'm sure he had the respect of everyone in that rat-infested Gahden. If LARRY F BIRD was a douchebag, then I weep for today's NBA. More than half of today's league act like boys instead of grown men.

I'll take a superstar being a prick as long as it flows towards winning a title. I'll take Isiah Thomas over John Stockton any day. Stockton said he was satisfied w/ the race and never viewed championships as the definition of success. Isiah Thomas was one of the biggest sore losers in history...and an a-hole...and fostered a lockeroom full of a-holes. Isiah, 2. Stockton, 0.

Cthulhu · Post #11 » by **Cthulhu** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 5:52 am

How can you "admire" some of those quotes? Ripping a guy in front of his family? Perdue wasn't a bad player, MJ seems to have been really dick to him. MJ is a grade A d-bag.

hourockman · Post #12 » by **hourockman** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 5:52 am

Cthulhu wrote:How can you "admire" some of those quotes? Ripping a guy in front of his family? Perdue wasn't a bad player, MJ seems to have been really dick to him. MJ is a grade A d-bag.

Will Perdue wasn't a bad player.......

triplet1984 · Post #13 » by **triplet1984** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 5:54 am

What a lot of those quotes leave out is that a lot of times the players would talk trash right back to michael, to his face, if i remember 'The Jordan Rules' correctly. There was lots of ball-breaking give and take. That was a great book though, and i think most quotes probably came from there.

Prolific Scorer · Post #14 » by **Prolific Scorer** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 5:56 am

"...I call them 'the Looney Tunes.' Physically, they were the best. Mentally, they weren't even close."

"I'm sure everything will be fine if we win, but if we start losing, I'm shooting."

"It's a hell of a lot easier to make Earl Monroe look good than it is Brad Sellers."

:lol:

The Shiv · Post #15 » by **The Shiv** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 5:57 am

hourockman wrote:
ljp24 wrote:Jordan/Bird are the GOAT douchebags and their legacies would be different if 24/7 news media was around.

Media and reporters aren't new things. Meet The Press has been on TV since 1947.

Bird wasn't a douchebag. He was sarcastic, but I'm sure he had the respect of everyone in that rat-infested Gahden. If LARRY F BIRD was a douchebag, then I weep for today's NBA. More than half of today's league act like boys instead of grown men.

I'll take a superstar being a prick as long as it flows towards winning a title. I'll take Isiah Thomas over John Stockton any day. Stockton said he was satisfied w/ the race and never viewed championships as the definition of success. Isiah Thomas was one of the biggest sore losers in history...and an a-hole...and fostered a lockeroom full of a-holes. Isiah, 2. Stockton, 0.

stockton was one of the most clutch players in nba history. zeke was just lucky his team was good before jordan hit his prime.

RamonSessions7 · Post #16 » by **RamonSessions7** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 5:57 am

If Kobe/LeBron/Dwight/Wade were to say that now, people would be ripping them apart. Unless they were saying it about Stacey King. Everyone knew he sucked.

durden_tyler · Post #17 » by **durden_tyler** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 5:58 am

Great quotes! (Again)

Only from the GOAT!

hourockman · Post #18 » by **hourockman** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 6:02 am

The Shiv wrote:
stockton was one of the most clutch players in nba history. zeke was just lucky his team was good before jordan hit his prime.

Hm hm. What a joke. The Detroit Pistons were rubbish before Isiah arrived. There's no luck in leading players like that (Dumars is the only other one who could be labeled a legit all-around star, imo) to 3 straight Finals appearances and 2 titles.

Then you characterize Jordan's failures as "not being in his prime".

Isiah and the Pistons earned everything they got.

Jordan was one of the most clutch players in league history. That's why you saw him beating the Jazz at the buzzer in the Finals and why you didn't see Stockton beating Chicago at the buzzer in the Finals. Most clutch players in league history have a title or more under their belt. An actual title. Not RS games, not stats, not conf finals appearances. Championship.

Post #19 » by **BrooklynBulls** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 6:05 am

Cthulhu wrote:How can you "admire" some of those quotes? Ripping a guy in front of his family? Perdue wasn't a bad player, MJ seems to have been really dick to him. MJ is a grade A d-bag.

Perdue was a 5 and 5 player. Yeesh.

Shaqsquatch · Post #20 » by **Shaqsquatch** » Thu Mar 4, 2010 6:07 am

mattyBoi wrote:I admire Jordan for the majority of those quotes. The dude was a leader and kept it real, he didn't except any bull and got **** done. A lot of the things he said are the same kind of things many of us say on RealGM about our own teams, he just had the balls to say it to their face.

But when Shaq or Garnett gets on a teamate like that..they are team cancers?
The MJ butt shining is in full service on this thread. I dont have a problem getting on a teamate but damn he got personal. Damn you know that guy who was getting tickets ready for his family when MJ dissed him was thinking youre lucky I make so damn much being your whipping post or else I'd whip your ass right here right now. :evil: