Michael Trash Talking Lebron

Look at what Michael Jordan response to Lebron James "What Should I do Commercial"




That is some sweet trash talking isn't it!


Sadly, it's not really Micheal Trash talking. This is an edit of Lebron's commercial and a Micheal commercial from 2008.



I still think it's awesome though.

I'm Just Going...

...to leave this here. Please enjoy. And thanks to Simmons for mentioning it in his most recent:

"I would wager on Tiger coming back in severe Eff You Mode, like a seething MJ in Game 1 of the 1992 Finals. The greatest ones have a way of channeling negativity and fueling it toward whatever makes them great. Jordan made a habit of it. So did Ali. But they were also larger-than-life personalities, whereas Tiger was always just someone who was freakishly good at golf and that's it."

[Edit: How did I miss this? "Regardless, I probably shouldn't do chats anymore -- not because I screwed up but because it's dumb to waste points better served in a larger format such as this column." So, Noffke, you made it into Sports Guy's last chat. Nice.]

Chicago Quick Hits

Jordan


Micheal Jordan's 47th birthday came and went the other day.Mike and Mike had an intresting debate on which day has the best birthdays for sports atheletes. Thanks to Jordan and Jim Brown being born on the same day, it's tough to get a better day to be born on then that.

White Sox in Talks with Damon

I'm not sure how I feel about getting him. He's still productive, but don't we have enough old outfielders now? I think the goal for the White Sox this offseason was to get the 2003 All-Star team. Visquel, Jones, Pierre and Damaon were all fantastic back in the day, but aren't they getting a little old?

Number 23 Enters Hall of Fame Today

Joined by also-rans David Robinson, John Stockton, Jerry Sloan, and C. Vivian Stringer, Michael Jordan will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts today. It just might be the greatest HOF class ever.

ESPN has had extensive coverage over the last week, which we have linked to here, but I thought I'd say a few things.

Michael Jordan shaped my childhood. Growing up in the Chicagoland area, many of my fondest memories are of watching Jordan, Pippen, and company battle all the other great teams of the era (Pistons, Lakers, Jazz, and so many others). I remember running through the streets celebrating after titles, watching Grant Park championship parties... I collected basketball cards like a fiend. Cubs? Sox? Hell, even the Bears took a backseat to MJ's Bulls during the nineties. It's hard to remember now, but back then when you said "Chicago" the first thing that came to most people's minds was "Bulls."

When I was in Italy a few summers ago, playing basketball with some random kids outside a high school, they asked me where I was from. After I told them Chicago, their first response was "OH! Michael Jordan!" That's how deep his impact has been. Guess why I root for UNC today? That's right.

(By the way, in attendance today at the ceremony are Dean Smith, Tim Duncan, Scottie "Please give me a JOB!" Pippen, and others. No Jerry Krause.)

I've never watched the Basketball HOF Induction Ceremony before, but I'm watching every minute of this one. And, health care be damned, I bet Barack is in the Oval Office doing the same thing right now.

Side note: Below is my favorite Air Jordan commercial ever. This one even gets me a little misty.

Emergency QB? & ESPN on Jordan

A few quick thoughts for Tuesday morning. If we look at the Bears Depth Chart take a look at the Bears QB spot and you will find as expected Jay Cutler is the starter. Behind him is Caleb Hanie and, and, and? No and, that’s it. Just two Bears QBs on the roster. So what if the worst happens? What if Both Jay and Caleb go down in one game? Who comes in at QB? The Bears no longer have Marty Booker, who has filled the emergency QB roll for the team in the past. So who takes over?

Well if the worst happens I think the Bears will run a mix of the “’Cane,” their version of the wildcat, with Hester or they will have Forte take over as QB. If Forte played QB, he showed enough awareness to throw the ball away on a half back pass this preseason, I think he would be competent enough to make the defense respect the fact he might throw, compared to run every play. I can’t think of any other WR’s or TE or anybody who the Bears would hand over the offense to if the worst would happen. Let me know what you think.

Jordan

A fantastic piece by ESPN/ESPN Chicago about Jordan.

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mj/

The Jordan Countdown

MJ's going in to the Hall of Fame this year. About time.

ESPN has finally done something to earn their money, too, by creating "Jordan's Top 23 Moments" complete with commentary from the people he beat and Flash videos of each huge moment.

Awesome to watch... right now moments 23-20 are up there and I'm very excited for the rest.

MJ Turns 46

In honor of His Airness' 46th birthday (also, Jim Brown is seventy-something today), ESPN gives us this video, which includes three of the five times Jordan dropped 46 on opponents. The picture is from Sports Illustrated, and shows Our Hero down at Chapel Hill, playin' Mrs. Pac-Man. Happy Birthday, Mr. Managing Partner of the Charlotte Bobcats! Many happy returns.

In other news, NU is firmly (13-10) entrenched in NIT territory these days after two heartbreaking losses to Illinois and Michigan (in OT), and IU is debating which of its current scholarship players will have to go next year in order to make room for the six incoming stud freshman (including Capobianco, Jordan Hulls). My vote? Verdell Jones or Matt Roth. Ideally, we'd merge the defense of the former with the shooting of the latter to form one super-soph, then take their weaker halves and send them to Purdue.

Also, it's startin' to sound like Yogi's March Madness might just take place again this year! Mark your calendars, ladies and gentlemen! Last weekend of spring break. Let's rock and roll.

UPDATE: Just wanted to link to this New York Times article, "The No-Stats All-Star" which talks about Shane Battier and the difficulties inherent in tracking the quality of basketball players by the current stats measurement. Really in-depth, intense article. John Hollinger, eat your heart out.