Focus On SportThe year is 2020. Michael Jordan has been retired for over a decade and a half. We've seen three presidents, a couple of wars, the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the birth and death, at least culturally speaking, of something called Facebook since MJ hung up the AJs. The world has changed, but one thing hasn't: Everyone, at least in the wake of 'The Last Dance', still wants to “Be Like Mike.” The question, though, in today's day and age, knowing all we know, hindsight being 20/20 and all, is should we?
Well, if this story from longtime NBA writer and Jordan insider Sam Smith about how #23 used to treat teammates, namely Horace Grant, after bad games is true, the answer is almost definitely not. Here's what Smith told the Tolbert, Krueger and Brooks Podcast this week:
Players would come to me over the years and said, ‘You know what he
did? He took Horace [Grant’s] food away on the plane because Horace
had a bad game,’” Smith told the ho..