From the coach who cut him to the players who disrespected him, Michael Jordan never forgot a slight.
Not even on the night he was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.
Jordan’s thank you list went well beyond friends and family, including any doubters who provided him the inspiration to become a better player—perhaps the greatest one ever.
“You guys, I must say thank you very much for giving me that motivation that I definitely needed,” Jordan said. (AP photo by Kirthmon Dozier / February 7, 1987 )
Jordan recalled all of it Friday night, when he joined David Robinson and John Stockton, a pair of his 1992 Dream Team teammates, and coaches Jerry Sloan and C. Vivian Stringer in a distinguished class.
Jordan insisted during a press conference that the weekend wasn’t just about him, but he was clearly the star before a crowd that included former teammates Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman.
“He makes one big shot and everybody thinks he’s kind of cool,” Stockton joked. “I don’t get it.”
Jordan cried before beginning his acceptance speech, then entertained the crowd with memories of any slights that sent him on his way to basketball’s birthplace:
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