How the 91 Lakers lost to the Bulls

[Sofa King]

One man's trash is another man's championship!

“So the Bulls are playing the Lakers in the ’91 Finals. Bulls lose Game 1 at home. They win Game 2 [which featured this nifty little move by MJ] and they go out to L.A. and the Forum isn’t available for practice. They go to this high school gym to practice. The Lakers are using the floor, too. He goes, ‘The Lakers come out, the Bulls go in. I go over to spit in the garbage can and I look, and there’s [Lakers’ coach] Mike Dunleavy’s practice plan.’ He goes, ‘It’s torn in pieces. There is snot, there is tobacco, there is half-drank soda pop. Chewing gum, everything’s in there.’ He goes, ‘I take the plastic bag out, I bring it back to my hotel room.’ He gets rubber gloves. He goes, ‘And I stay up all night and I put this together like a jigsaw puzzle. I call Phil [Jackson] and I go, we got ’em!’ And the Bulls never lost another game in that series.”

http://uproxx.com/dimemag/johnny-bach-found-lakers-practice-plan-in-trash/

[Sedition]

Interesting story... The germaphobe in me can't even imagine a championship being worth sorting through snot covered garbage, haha

[Dr Aki]

lol why u gotta dig up old wounds for

[Slava]

So Phil pulled a Belichek on us? I somehow think Phil has a ton of integrity to not go down that route.

[gts1]

So Phil pulled a Belichek on us? I somehow think Phil has a ton of integrity to not go down that route.

Integrity and Phil Jackson used in the same sentence? Funny how fans see things, this is exactly the type of thing I'd expect Phil Jackson to do... I myself have never considered him a man of integrity

edit: I'll add I think he's the greatest coach ever or at least in that conversation and have a ton of respect for what he's accomplished but still, see above...lol