After a Lakers game the year following Jordan’s second retirement in 1999, Jackson asked his former superstar in Chicago to talk to his new talisman in Los Angeles a little bit.
“Let’s meet in the chairman’s room after the game, I want you to talk to Kobe a little,” Jackson recalled asking Jordan. “I think if you convince him to just wait, just be patient allow the game to come to him … because the team kind of loses their offensive direction.”
Jackson led Jordan into the meeting room where Kobe was waiting.
“The first thing Kobe says is, ‘I could kick your ass one-on-one,’” Jackson said.
Keep in mind: Jordan was the player Kobe grew up idolizing. Amazing.
[H/T: FTW]
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