jordan saying he was planning on retiring before his dad died
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 May 2020 04:17 (three years ago) link
omg, the payton video is just so violentdid i see r kelly guarding dennis on the space jam pickup court?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 05:10 (three years ago) link
mj cldnt hit the breaking ball had to go back to hoop very sad
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
the basketball rarely curves
based on hundreds of hanes commercials, i feel comfortable saying michael is a terrible actor which makes the moment where he tears up about being considered a bad teammate kinda wow
"Way to go Craig"
MJs personal life except for his dad appears to be completely off limits. I think his kids have shown up three times? the only mention of him being married is when a team employee asks if he wants to call his wife after winning a championship and he seems kinda like "oh yeah, i guess i have to do that"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
he seems to cry quite easily these days
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
the only mention of him being married is when a team employee asks if he wants to call his wife after winning a championship and he seems kinda like "oh yeah, i guess i have to do that"
yeah, i was like... what??
you know what else seems to be off-limits? any breakdown of his actual skills whatsoever! i would love to understand more. for instance, moves like 'the smitty' are almost invisible to the naked eye when performed in real time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpJ3RARZrzE - i would have loved to hear defenders talk about what made MJ so hard to beat.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
he really does seem to have always just finished up a real intense sob sesh
Like a thousand people have asked me about Jordan’s eyes. He’s not jaundiced. He has racial melanosis of the conjunctiva. Benign, flat patches of pigment around the edge of the cornea. Extremely common in darkly pigmented individuals, more prominent with age #TheLastDance pic.twitter.com/nQjGLZNW83— Dr. Glaucomflecken (@DGlaucomflecken) May 11, 2020
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
you know what else seems to be off-limits? any breakdown of his actual skills whatsoever!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, May 11, 2020 10:26 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah wld be cool for sure, does not seem to be this doc tho
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
Dr. Glaucomflecken
c'mon now
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
i did google the condition and its a real thing fwiw
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 May 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
also someone can be an eye doctor and a joker too!
Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomfleckenOphthalmologist. Comedian. Speaker. Problematic.
Tobias Fünke style !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 11 May 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
That cry came 45 mins into his 1st interview
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 11 May 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
after the "winning comes at a price" etc answer? it did seem odd to get choked up there idk
― johnny crunch, Monday, 11 May 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
I'm hearing reports that Jordan is increasingly isolated
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 11 May 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
― johnny crunch, Monday, May 11, 2020 bookmarkflaglink
thought the same thing
― Spottie, Monday, 11 May 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
my wife commented on it too
― Spottie, Monday, 11 May 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
yeah same
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
"Break."
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
The whole conspiracy theory about MJ’s dad’s murder and MJ’s gambling was so fucked up - then Andrea Kremer sitting there on camera giving it more air! girl, bye
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
Also the whole time I’ve been watching this, I kept thinking how MJ reminds me of Shere Khan from the Jungle Book This scene was PURE king of the jungle shit
The best part of the Doc is watching MJ laugh at Gary Payton #LastDance pic.twitter.com/vAFo90Aken— Vendetta Media (@media_vendetta) May 11, 2020
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
anyone who believes Stern forced him out understands nothing about how things work. "let's get read of the league's meal ticket, because word that he's a gambling addict mayyyyy come out. But after 1.5 seasons he can come back". Conspiracy theories are a mental disease.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
Who here believes that it was MJ's "style" as a teammate that got the Bulls their championships vs it was just his talent that pushed them over the top?
Is there an example of someone as competitive as Jordan who wasn't an asshole to his teammates? Is his competitiveness the reason he was the best of all time? He kinda seems to think so.
― DJI, Monday, 11 May 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
xpost Yeah it’s that whole thing of avoiding processing the tragedy as an act of chaos - it’s funny how the need to put concrete reasons behind the murder and have it ~make sense~ ironically allows for ideas that have little to no connection w reality
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
Kobe was not known for being easy to get along with...
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
Is there an example of someone as competitive as Jordan who wasn't an asshole to his teammates?
Giannis ??
― frogbs, Monday, 11 May 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
i feel like duncan is a good example of a player with that same drive to win, same passion, different skillset and different mindset
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
sidebar I Loved this moment too <3
Favorite moment of the week #lastdance Pippen calling Jordan back 😬 pic.twitter.com/FkFXMZLzxM— Saymyname (@iamabhiramhari) May 11, 2020
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
i only watched him at the VERY end of his career but I believe Kareem was ultra-competitive and a good teammate
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
the playoff game that Pippen sat out the last play on was ultra-painful to relive. I can totally see Cartwright crying about it in the locker room.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
good call on Duncan
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 11 May 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
He was a dick and it was unnecessary. There's ways to "hold your teammates to your own high standards" without being a dick, I'm sure of it.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 11 May 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
VG, that was my favorite moment too.
scottie is super cool.
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Monday, 11 May 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
man i forgot about keith van horn
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
Scottie is super cool**except when punking out on his own team by sulking over who gets to throw the buzzer beating shot. CMON SCOTTIE
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
i don't fully subscribe to the jay kang 'scottie was right' theory, but...
Scottie was right. Are you kidding me. He put aside everything for 3 chips, got underpaid and they want him to inbound the ball to some rookie who doesn’t play defense?— kang👎 (@jaycaspiankang) May 11, 2020
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
rmdepetty-ass gradeschool bullshit
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
Shouldn’t you be inbounding to guys who are good at offense
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 11 May 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
THANK YOU
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB64fvG5zdw
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
yeah lol, i agree that it was a punk move on scottie's part, but i kinda resent the fact that this one thing is apparently the career-defining moment for him, not the decades' worth of deference and selfless play.
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
the huge fight in the second quarter from that clip is shrugged off as no big deal; if that happened in 2019/2020 it would've been a GARGANTUAN storyi miss scrappy ball, ron artest has a lot to answer for
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
good on dick versace for offering his head as butterfly cocoon
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 11 May 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
i wanted so badly to draw droopy ears and a black nose on him like a dog
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 May 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link
Kukoc's game winner was an incredible shot, kinda sad it was so overshadowed
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
dude gets the shaft so often! i feel bad for him.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
yeah he comes across really well in those interviews, very sensible attitude about all the crazy experiences he had
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
It's weird how he was never really beloved in Chicago. Liked, sure. I'm guessing because he was foreign when that was a pretty novel thing in American sports.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link