Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan is not only the greatest basketball player of all time, he is also the most confident, arrogant man to ever set foot on the hardwood.
And you know what? That's part of what made him so great.
The crazy thing is that Jordan's unbridled hubris was evident long before the Bulls great began winning NBA championships.
For example, former Atlanta Hawks superstar Dominique Wilkins told a tale of something Jordan did all the way back in 1987, when he informed the Hawks' locker room that the club was about to get scorched.
“He was something else, something else, man,” Wilkins said of the former Bulls superstar, according to Joe Vardon of The Athletic. “I remember him walking into our locker room in Chicago (April 1987) and he walked right by me. And I’m like, what the hell is he coming in our locker room for? And he walked by me, walked by Kevin (Willis), and he tapped Randy Wittman on the leg and he said, ‘Lace ‘em up, it’s gonna be a long f—–g night.’ And he walked out. He had 60 that night.”
Michael Jordan actually had 61, which was a career high for His Airness at that time.
That was only Jordan's third season in the NBA, four years before he even won his first title with the Bulls in 1991. During that 1986-87 campaign, MJ averaged a ho-hum 37.1 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.6 assists, 2.9 steals and 1.5 blocks over 40 minutes per game while shooting 48.2 percent from the floor and 85.7 percent from the free-throw line.
Amazingly enough, Jordan was still just a neophyte that season. A neophyte that dropped almost 40 points a night.
Sheesh.
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