Boston Celtics legend Kevin McHale has chimed in on the whole issue surrounding Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls and their beef with the Detroit Pistons' “Bad Boys” from the late-1980's/early-1990's. ESPN's acclaimed series “The Last Dance” delved into how Jordan and the Bulls formed an apparent dislike towards the Pistons, who were one of their biggest adversaries at that time.
McHale, who himself faced off against both the Pistons and the Bulls, commented that in his mind, Chicago was a bit out of line.
“First of all, you can see why the Pistons didn’t like the Bulls,” McHale told Steve Bulpett of the Boston Herald. “The Bulls complained all the time. That’s one thing that came across (in the documentary). Like, ‘This is not basketball. This is thuggery.’ All that stuff. I thought the Bulls really disrespected what the Pistons were able to do.
“But, hey, when you kill the king, you can talk (expletive).”
I guess you now know which side McHale is taking in this debate.
The Hall of Famer also shared his thoughts on the whole walk out fiasco. According to McHale, what the Pistons did after losing to Jordan and the Bulls in the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals was nothing new in those days.
“I’m going to tell you this: of all the series that I played in all through the ’80s, after a close-out game, unless you were walking with somebody you knew, you almost never said anything. You might congratulate them if you saw them later, but there wasn’t a lot of talk, I mean, congratulatory or (expletive)-talking or anything,” McHale said. “You just kind of went in the locker room. Ninety percent of the series we won, I didn’t talk to anybody. They didn’t come up to me, and I didn’t think they should.”
It is clear that McHale's message here is that Jordan and the Bulls are making a whole lot of noise about something that McHale does not consider to be a big deal.
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