Isiah Thomas has boldly called out NBA legend Michael Jordan for lying about the origin of their beef. The calling out happened on Twitter with Isiah letting everyone know that whatever MJ said about their beef wasn’t factual or accurate.
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Michael Jordan clearly still lives in his head, and Zeke is not doing a very good job of blocking out the NBA legend. Thomas responded to a post on Twitter from The Inquisitr supposedly detailing the origins of Jordan’s rivalry with the Detroit Pistons legend:
The story contained in the article doesn’t use any new quotes or information from Jordan. The story is centered around Jordan’s 1992 comments to Playboy magazine in which he claimed Thomas froze him out of the 1985 All-Star Game.
“If you go back and look at the film, you can see that Isiah was actually doing that,” Jordan said. “Once it started getting around that he was freezing me out, that’s when the ill feelings started to grow between us.”
The rivalry between Thomas and Jordan came back into the spotlight when Jordan’s doc The Last Dance aired during the beginning of the pandemic. Thomas said during one episode that Bill Laimbeer directed the Pistons not to shake the Bulls’ hands after Chicago swept them during the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals.
“As we’re coming out of the game, Laimbeer said: ‘We’re not shaking their hands.’ … Knowing what we know now, in the aftermath of what took place, I think all of us would’ve stopped and said congratulations like they do now. But in that period of time, that’s just not how it was passed. When you lost you left the floor. That was it,” Thomas said via CBS Sports.
Jordan, who watched Thomas’ comments on an iPad, responded by calling Thomas’ comments “bulls–t.”
“Whatever [Isiah] says now, you know it wasn’t his true actions then,” Jordan said. “[He’s had] time enough to think about it, or the reaction of the public that’s changed his perspective. … You can show me anything you want. There’s no way you can convince me he wasn’t an a–hole.”
The funny thing about this is the quote from Jordan is from 1992. This is a 30-year-old quote that Zeke thought Jordan said today. That is hilarious.
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