Horace Grant, Michael Jordan’s former teammate with the Chicago Bulls, denounced the lies he told on “The Last Dance.”
Former winger Horace Grant, winner of three NBA titles with Michael Jordan with the Chicago Bulls, blasted the “lies” told by the basketball legend in “The Last Dance,” which he doesn’t consider a documentary, Tuesday on ESPN’s microphone.
“90% of what is told is bogus”
“I’d say it was entertaining, but we teammates who were there, that about 90% of what’s told is fake compared to reality,” Grant said. That’s not the reality, because a lot of the things (Jordan) said to some of his teammates” resulted in “answers” to him. “But it was kind of cut off from the editing of the documentary, if you want to call it a documentary,” he added.
Grant retracted Jordan’s allegation that he was a key source in the book “The Jordan Rules,” which recounted the Bulls’ 1990-91 season from the inside, focusing on Jordan’s sometimes belligerent attitude in the locker room.
“Mensonge, lie, lie, lie, ” hammered Grant. “If MJ is mad at me, let’s settle this like men. Let’s talk about it or let’s sort it out. But over and over again, he pulls out this deceitful thing by saying that I was the source.”
Although the former Bulls admitted to being “friendly” with the book’s author, journalist Sam Smith, he insisted that he had always protected the “sacred character of the locker room” and that he had never “revealed anything” about what was going on there.
The snitch is him, according to Grant
Grant, who won three titles with Jordan between 1991 and 1993, also pointed to Jordan’s irritability when challenged. He was also surprised to unpack a locker room moment in his first year as a rookie. “With Charles Barkley, they’ve been friends for over 20, 30 years,” he said. But Charles said something about Michael’s management with the Charlotte Bobcats or the Charlotte Hornets, and they haven’t spoken since. As for me, he said I was a scale, but 35 years later, he looked back on his rookie year when he walked into his teammates’ room and saw coke, grass and women. My question is: why did he want to talk about it? What does this have to do with anything? I mean, if you want to call someone a snitch, there’s one right there.”
On ESPN’s microphone, grant criticized Jordan’s conduct with young Bulls players, accusing him of physical and verbal abuse.
The punch to Steve Kerr
“The Last Dance,” co-produced by the star, recounts, among other things, the well-known episode of the punch given to Steve Kerr, now Golden State’s coach, during an altercation at training.
Grant said he refused to be intimidated by Jordan. He “thought he could dominate me, but he was wrong. Because every time he approached me, I went to meet him right away.”
“But as for Will Perdue, Steve Kerr and young Scott Burrell, it was sad to see a leader go after them like that,” Grant lamented, referring to “punches and things like that that weren’t necessary.”
