Chapter 28 He's Jordan, not God
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"I have already obtained everything I can get in NBA, and I have no regrets anymore."
On October 6, 1993, on the day when the Chicago Bulls training camp started, as the NBA's leading player, Jordan chose to leave NBA after throwing such a sentence. Jordan said it very firmly. For him, just like he said, he had nothing left in NBA, with three consecutive championships, dynasty, mvp, scoring champion, everything, as long as he wanted, he had already won it all.
So, it seems that it is true. Jordan no longer needs to stay in the NBA. He no longer pursues the goal. However, if such a sentence comes from a 36-year-old player, perhaps everyone can accept it. But it is obvious that Jordan naturally cannot be a 36-year-old veteran. He is only 30 years old this year. For NBA and basketball, this age is still at its peak and has not even reached the downhill. Is such a player really unforgettable?
Obviously, this is impossible. It can be seen from Jordan's reluctance and pain expression at the press conference. Perhaps his expression was sad for his father who died two months ago. This is absolutely possessed, but more of it is probably helplessness for his decision and helplessness at this time.
Jordan is the NBA's current signature, and one of the top brands in the American sports world, and even one of the top brands in the world. As such a player, the pressure he faces is definitely unbelievable to others. He has gained a lot because of his reputation, and the harvest is definitely not just money, but also a slightest bit of abuse than money.
In 1992, that year, the focus of basketball fans all over the world was on the American basketball dream team, and even the focus of sports in the world was on this. Perhaps because of the dazzling and arrogant charm of Dream Team, everyone was a little forgotten. 1992 was also the year when Jordan faced the most doubts and abuses.
Jordan is a god on the basketball court. Everyone had such a consensus at a long time. After Jordan defeated the Magician and won the NBA championship, he was already called the God of Basketball by many people. At that time, everyone in the United States was using one word, that is, 'like Jordan'.
What is like Jordan? Children who are learning to play basketball are becoming more and more willing to be like Jordan. Players who are already playing basketball are imitating themselves to be like Jordan. Even if they have entered the NBA superstar, when others criticize this NBA superstar, they will say why you can't be "like Jordan".
At that time, Jordan was a god, media, fans, and everyone. Whenever he mentioned basketball, he would think that like Jordan, he was the only standard in the basketball world and the NBA. Everyone hoped to meet his standard. At that time, perhaps Jordan did not want this, but the whole nation had participated in the God-making movement initiated by this league. In the end, Jordan really became a god.
NBA is a place of sensuality, especially at this time NBA. Some media and journalists even have a consensus that few of the players in NBA are clean, pornography, gambling, and drugs, and these things will always be affected by a little. Especially when magicians who have always been elegant are infected with AIDS, who can believe that there are real "high-end" players in NBA?
Of course, no one in the NBA wanted to believe that there was a high-end player in the league, but this did not prevent everyone from expecting the arrival of such a player. Naturally, the only protagonist of such a player role can only be played by Jordan, who has been successfully created. Everyone said that he is the God of Basketball, so he is the God, not so, but Jordan is really not a high-end basketball god.
He is just an ordinary person who plays better in basketball than everyone else. He has a bad temper, his personality is also flawed, and his private life is not sunny enough. If all this is before Jordan becomes a god, everyone will not care about it, because NBA players are like this, but after Jordan becomes a god, then everyone will definitely not allow Jordan to do this.
This directly caused all the pressure on Jordan after winning the championship. Everyone hoped that he could become a perfect god, but he couldn't do it. That was why there was a turbulent 1992. Jordan's check was found in a house of a abnormally dead man. At that time, the whole country was in an uproar. I found Jordan's check at the house of a man who was in trouble. What was Jordan doing? As long as anyone with IQ was suspected that Jordan was sucking.
But the final result was that Jordan did not suck, but gambling. This du dealer was just his gambling friend. Jordan has always been a card lover and a gambling person. Many players in the league know that many rookies will be dragged to play cards with him as soon as they enter the league. This is an open secret. No one would have said Jordan was wrong before, but after Jordan was awarded the title of god, this was a big problem.
After this incident, Jordan was attacked by the whole United States for a while, and the fans of the Chicago Bulls couldn't stand it. During the Bulls' home game, they played a sign with a very short sentence on it: Michael is not a god!
Even so, Jordan was not let go. If it weren't for the 1992 Dream Team's championship, everyone's focus was changed, Jordan would probably not be the pressure. It's just that with Jordan's personality, even if people from all over the world were putting pressure on him, he wouldn't care, because he didn't think he was wrong, because he himself had never thought of becoming a perfect person or a perfect god.
The final result is that after Jordan led the Bulls to win the second championship, according to regulations, Jordan needs to be received by the US president when he goes to Washington after the start of the new season. When the US president met the Bulls, all the others of the Bulls arrived, but Jordan was missing because Jordan was gambling with people at this time.
Of course, it is naturally impossible to avoid media exposure such a thing. When this incident was exposed, Jordan wanted to explain it, but in the end he saw that the evidence was conclusive, it seemed like a broken can. According to Jordan's meaning, it seemed that I was my freedom anyway, and you don't care.
The final result was that in the 1993 playoff Eastern Conference Finals, the match between the Chicago Bulls and the New York Knicks, the Bulls fell behind 0-2 from the beginning. At this point, Jordan still appeared in the casino. The final result was that the basketball god was completely removed from the altar by all media and fans in the United States.
The very famous saying "Like Jordan" was eventually spoofed by media and fans across the United States as "Like Jordan gambling". Especially at this time, a Jordan card friend, the owner of a small casino, said that Jordan also signed more than 1 million US dollars, which made Jordan's image basically ruined for a while.
Although he still won his third championship in the face of such pressure, at this time, the American media no longer congratulated Jordan as he used to. Instead, he used the day of the NBA draft to advocate another perfect player, Anthony Hardaway, and Grant Hill, a gentleman player who is about to enter the NBA, and what Jordan cannot do. These people hope that Hardaway and Hill can do it.
What these reporters and fans did not expect was that Jordan's father was kidnapped and shot, and in the end this incident became the last straw that crushed Jordan. The first basketball player who was reluctant to leave the NBA finally chose to leave the NBA and leave this place of right and wrong as the new season approached.
This also made it unbelievable and unacceptable to major media in the United States and fans around the world. They created a god, and they also completely destroyed the god they created with their own hands.
Of course, Jordan's departure was so big that it could affect the Jazz team where Lin Han is now. At least although the Jazz were already training at this time, neither the team's head coach nor the players were concerned about training because everyone knew what Jordan's departure meant.
The new NBA next season will be the real NBA for the competition. No one is willing to miss such an opportunity. The NBA next season will be the most tragic NBA.
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Chapter completed!