Before The Last Dance debuted on ESPN, Michael Jordan said he thought the series would make people think he’s “a horrible guy.” If that’s the case, then he’s lucky this anecdote didn’t make the documentary because it would only strengthen that impression.
Sam Smith, the longtime Bulls reporter who wrote the illuminating MJ book The Jordan Rules, appeared on KNBR’s Tolbert, Krueger and Brooks Podcast and told a story in which Jordan is way more cruel than we’ve seen in the documentary.
Jordan, Smith says, wouldn’t let Horace Grant eat on the team plane if Grant had a lousy game.