Two episodes into ESPN's highly-anticipated “The Last Dance” miniseries and some of the most controversial moments in Chicago Bulls history has already been revealed. Perhaps one of the most shocking ones involved Bulls players indulging in illegal drugs during the season. Michael Jordan himself narrated the story from his own perspective, as he once unknowingly walked into a hotel room that spelled trouble.
“I had one event, preseason, I think we were in Peoria. It was in the hotel, so I’m trying to find my teammates,” Jordan recalls in the documentary, via NBC Sports Chicago. “I started knocking on doors. I get to this one door, and I knock on the door and I can hear someone says, ‘Shhhh… someone’s outside.' And then you hear this deep voice say, ‘Who is it?' I say, ‘MJ.' And then they all say, ‘Aw f**k, he’s just a rookie, don’t worry about it.'
“They open up the door, I walk in and practically the whole team was in there. And it was like, things I’ve never seen in my life as a young kid. You got your lines over here, your weed smokers over here, you’ve got your women over here.”
Jordan was appalled. Instead of succumbing to peer pressure from the Bulls veterans and joining in on the action, a then 21-year-old MJ opted to take the high road — and rightfully so.
“The first thing I said, ‘Look, man, I’m out,'” Jordan explained. “Cause all I can about think is, if they come and raid this place right about now, I am just as guilty as everyone else that’s in this room. And from that point on, I was more or less on my own.”
Drug use in the NBA during the 1980's was a poorly kept secret, but there's no denying that Jordan's revelation here still delivers quite a shock especially for Bulls fans.
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