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22-year-old Hornets’ forward Miles Bridges wants a piece of 57-year-old Michael Jordan.
On Saturday an old 2015 interview of Jordan saying that he could beat Hornets players one-on-one today went viral.
Michael Jordan on if he could beat his Hornets Players 1-on-1: “I’m pretty sure I can, but I don’t want to do that and demolish their confidence, so I stay away from them.”https://t.co/xyljIThuyi pic.twitter.com/lZxEBJypc8
— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) May 16, 2020
Do you think you can play against some of your guys right now? Do you sometimes do that or not? Could you win on one-on-ones against them?
Jordan: I’m pretty sure I can, so I don’t want to do that and demolish their confidence. So I stay away from them, I let them think they’re good…but I’m too old to do that anyway.
Bridges saw Jordan’s quote as some sort of challenge and called out the Hornet’s owner.
Let’s get it then https://t.co/7MbAOAFhSL
— Miles Bridges (@MilesBridges) May 17, 2020
NBA Twitter had a bit of fun with Bridges’ challenge.
No offense Miles.. A 50something MJ would smoke you off the floor
— Keith (@KCoulter729) May 17, 2020
He would win 21-0 against mj today
— Karl Malone STAN (@stan_karl) May 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/Zames231/status/1261897357010092032
I love you MB but don’t get embarrassed by an old man
— Nick (@esca411) May 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/FIEFA_22/status/1261921797181788162
57 year old Michael Jordan vs 22 year old @MilesBridges! Who wins in a 1v1? No disrespect to Bridges you can never count out the 🐐. pic.twitter.com/8vAAXSocqO
— HQE (@thehqenba) May 17, 2020