Michael Jordan Says “The Last Dance” Will Make People Think He’s A “Horrible Guy”

In the way Jordan thinks, if a player joined the Chicago Bulls, he immediately set a certain standard for them to live up to, and if that standard was not met, it was his job to step in and change some things, as he explained during the seventh episode of the documentary.

“Look, winning has a price,” Jordan said in the documentary.

“And leadership has a price. So I pulled people along when they didn’t want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didn’t want to be challenged. And I earned that right because my teammates who came after me didn’t endure all the things that I endured.

Once you joined the team, you lived at a certain standard that I played the game. And I wasn’t going to take any less. Now, if that means I had to go in there and get in your ass a little bit, then I did that. You ask all my teammates. The one thing about Michael Jordan was he never asked me to do something that he didn’t f–king do. 

When people see this they are going say, ‘Well he wasn’t really a nice guy. He may have been a tyrant.’ Well, that’s you. Because you never won anything. I wanted to win, but I wanted them to win to be a part of that as well. Look, I don’t have to do this. I am only doing it because it is who I am.

That’s how I played the game. That was my mentality. If you don’t want to play that way, don’t play that way.”