Former Chicago Bulls legendary shooting guard Michael Jordan had an equally legendary competitive drive, but maybe this motivating strategy to former teammate power forward Horace Grant was a tad too far.

Per Jake Montero on KNBR:

“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,'” [sportswriter Sam] Smith said. “[Michael] told the stewardesses ‘Don’t feed him, he doesn’t deserve to eat.’

“They would tell me stuff like that and they they’d say ‘Why don’t you write this?’ And I would say ‘Well I can’t write it unless you say it.’ I don’t do ‘league sources.’ You can’t do that kind of stuff on these kind of things. ‘If you want to be quoted I’ve got no problem with that.’ ‘No, no, no we can’t say that about Michael Jordan.'”

Grant, who won three NBA championships alongside Jordan and the Bulls from 1991 to 1993, later became the “GOAT”s foe as a member of the Orlando Magic, defeating Chicago in the 1995 Eastern Conference Finals to advance to the NBA Finals, losing to the Houston Rockets.

Grant was a force in the frontcourt next to center Bill Cartwright, doing the dirty work for Jordan during the first threepeat for the Bulls. Jordan, though, did not like to lose—especially following the first taste at a championship for Chicago when MJ and crew had to defend their crown year after year.

Grant was one of the many NBA legends and high-profiled individuals interviewed in ESPN's The Last Dance, the ongoing 10-part docu-series airing two episodes every Sunday and chronicling Jordan and the Bulls' pursuit for a sixth championship in eight years during the 1997-98 season.