Best Trash-Talking Moments From Michael Jordan

We were playing the Chicago Bulls, and this is Michael Jordan’s third of fourth year in, and we were playing an exhibition game in some obscure place. And most veterans do not like playing exhibition games — they want to get to the real thing.

I’m a wide-eyed energetic rookie, and we’re playing this exhibition game and Michael’s going through the motion, and Chuck Person who is on my team, who is a trash talker as well, is like ‘Can you believe Michael Jordan, the guy everyone’s talking about, who’s supposed to be able to walk on water, you’re out here killin’ him Reg,” this was in the first half, ‘You should be talking to him!”

I was like, ‘you know what, you’re right, Michael, who do you think you are? The great Michael Jordan? That’s right, there’s a new kid on town.”

Right? He kind of looks at me, starts shaking his head.

So at half, I have 10 and he has 4 points, right, and I’m doing all this talking, and he’s like ‘okay.’

The end of the game, it’s second half, he ended up with 44, and I ended up with 12.