Michael Jordan in the greatest basketball player of all time, and he receives a pretty fair amount of credit for that. However, he was also known for being a legendary competitor on and off the court, and he was no stranger to a good trash talking battle.
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Of course, Jordan also appeared in a movie with the Looney Tunes characters, which showed a bit of his playful side. But on the set, he still did not shy away from unleashing barrages of trash talk to the Space Jam extras that were working alongside him, according to Bleacher Report.
Former basketball player and actor Keith Gibbs was on the set for the movie, and he opened up about what it was like to work next to His Airness.
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Gibbs was asked if Jordan talked trash to him, and here's what he had to say:
"Oh yeah, nonstop. [Laughs.]
"He didn't give a s--t who you were. When I was doing Space Jam, we played three days. I thought it was over. I had to go out of town. I get a phone call, they're like, "Why aren't you here?" I was like, "Oh, they're still playing?" I had no idea.
"I walk in, and it's Reggie Miller, Charles Barkley, Alonzo Mourning, Charles Oakley. Grant Hill shows up. Jerry Stackhouse shows up. Now, all of a sudden it's an NBA All-Star pickup game. Every night. I did that for about a month and a half, two months. Then the UCLA kids came in, and they had just won a national title - Ed O'Bannon and those guys. Just phenomenal. Best pickup games I've ever been a part of. It was unreal.
"Yeah, so Jordan ... I had to guard Reggie Miller and Michael Jordan in back-to-back games. It was so bad. I was friends with Chris Mills and Tracy Murray - we had been to some camps together. One play, I got switched onto Jordan, because Chris was like, 'Keith, you take him.' Jordan hit a 35-footer on me. I mean, it was ridiculous: leg out, tongue out, all that stuff ... hit a 35-footer on me and goes, "GET THE F--K OFF THE COURT."
That's Jordan. Always playing for keeps.
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